Legos and Robotics Summer Camps – Photo Slideshow

Two groups of youths are learning how science, technology, engineering and math impacts the lives people on a daily basis through two summer programs – Legos! Legos! Legos! for grades K-3, and the Mindstorm Robotics, both being held at DSU

For images from both camps, click on https://www.flickr.com/photos/48216028@N03/sets/72157655525667408/show

The Legos program – which is held during three different periods throughout the summer –  provides the youths with a hands-on program designed to capture their curiosity. The youths discover how science and technology impact the world around them and features a real-world challenge – to be solved by research, critical thinking and imagination.

Each week they are tackling different challenges by using Legos to build simple machines using gears, pulleys, levers, switches and cranks. The students are able to display their creativity as they work together as a team to research and build models that solve problems engineers and scientists face every day.

The Mindstorm Camp allows students with the fundamental understanding of the Mindstorm robotics kits to demonstrate their skills and knowledge by creating more advanced and challenging robots and programs. The grade 4-8 youths learn all about sensors, which are the essential component of the Mindstorm robots, and how to program robots with sensors.

Students in the Mindstorm Camp are also exploring how to create advanced programs, learning about data wires and how to process sensor values. They are also doing math on the EV3/NXT programming software and learning how to make the robot remember things with variables. They will combine all of these programming techniques to create a robot that has multiple functions.