Robotics Camps For Summer Fun and Education
Here’s another report of the fun of robotic camps for kids going on this summer at Lenoir County Robotics Camp which kicks off Monday.
There are 26 campers divided into teams to create a simple robot from Legos and a small electronic box that controlled it.
Each robot will be designed and programmed to meet the day’s challenge, White said — he explained that the main focus is on design, which he said is used by engineers to solve problems.
The school system held its fourth annual GADGET (Global Activities Designed to get you Excited about Technology) Camp in June and its first annual Tech-Savvy Girlz Camp, which is designed to get more girls interested in science and technology, earlier this month. I’ve written about the importance of getting girls interested in technology before.
About half of the students at the Robotics Camp were female. – Great!!
That’s one of our big pushes right now, because there’s just as big of an interest in robotics from our girls as there is for our guys,” said Melissa Lynch, a first-grade teacher at Moss Hill Elementary School who was one of three camp staffers present Monday — Lynch also staffed the Tech-Savvy Girlz Camp.
Overall, I was disappointed by their assessment this quote:
The children could then be guided into a career with companies that emphasize engineering and technology, such as Spirit AeroSystems.
I would have hoped they would think higher than working for a yet another big company. Let’s encourage these kids to become more business-minded job creators rather than just another cog in the corporate wheel.
“You really get to see the kids think and figure out the best way to do something, and it’s awesome,” Hood said.
Indeed.
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