Kids learn robotics during week-long camp – Scottsbluff Star Herald

After last weeks Kids in the Kitchen, Ally Berggren brings kids another week of fun with WNCC and ICE Enrichments Robotics Week.

Kids, in first through seventh grade, get the chance to go "nuts and bolts" for the world of robotics during Berggrens four-day camp.

On the first day of camp, the children got to create their own robot posters and create their own designs.

Young camper, Alison Miller said, My favorite thing about camp was definitely making my poster.

As the camp progressed, the kids got the chance to learn how to build levers, pulleys and machines. Those robotics basics paved the way for the campers to build drawbridges, carnival rides and planes out of robotics kits.

Weve just been getting familiar with the (robotics) kits and it has evolved into building actual robots, Berggren said.

The third day of camp, the campers got in teams of two built their own robots and created a user guide for it. The teams then switched robots and tried to assemble the other teams robot by following the user guide they created.

While Berggren has put on other camps in the past, this is the first year for the robotics camp.

Since it is the first year, we have to play things by ear, Berggren said.

The activities for day four of the camp were dependent on how the beginning of the week went.

Berggren said there were some difficulties with having such a large age range with different learning levels, but she said the kids usually group together to help each other out.

In its first year, the camp seems to be a success and the kids seem to love it.

Its really fun, Kaylee Kinnan said, while Alison Miller chimed in. And its difficult all at the same time.

WNCC and ICE Enrichment will be putting on kids camps throughout the whole summer.

Link:

Kids learn robotics during week-long camp - Scottsbluff Star Herald