Hello All,
I hope everyone's summer program is doing good.
Here in St. Louis, we have 116 students on a summer camp focused on health/gardening/robotics. The students come from 6 elementary and one middle school.
We started the summer with 6 LEGO Mind Storms, now we have added to our assets two quad-copter Parrot drones and budget to build one out of Arduino in the fall using a design developed by St. Louis University. Things are looking really great.
The plan is to have the students sell the produce from their gardens along with cookies and BBQ to take all of them to......drum roll......SIX FLAGS.
We hope by 2013 Summer we will have a quad-copter per school, and start training elementary students on how to pilot the Parrot drone : Hamilton Elementary UAV Pilot Training Academy. The plan is to fundraise the money to purchase 4 additional Parrot Drone in the fall, train all the instructors in the Spring 2013, and start the academy in the summer.
Anyone have experience in holding a summer camp with underwater robots to help on aquaculture such as Tilapia and Fresh Water Shrimp ?.
Cheers,
Marcos - BERSDT Program Manager
www.bersdtmo.org