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Re: Robotics camps
My Team does this thing called a tech camp. Our team focuses a lot on STEM activities and this is a big one we help with. It's a week long, for about three hours a day, and is based around Legos, and focused around the elementary school afe. We have a bunch of the lego kits that come with instructions, not the stationary ones, but the ones that are programmable, either with the older model bases or the newer NXT's the kids can go at their own pace, working alone or with partners, depending on the project. We, as mentors, encourage them, and help them when they need it. At the end of the week we hold an "extravaganza" at which the kids can show off what they made to their parents, and to their other campers.
We've found this to be very successful, having at least 40 kids in attendance at each of camps, which we offer 5-6 times during the summer, which for our small rural community is a lot.
This is especially helpful in the eyes of our team because it acts as a feeder program into all of the other FIRST programs in our community, as well as being a team fundraiser, though we keep very little. Most of the cost of the camp goes toward sustaining and bettering the camp for things like snacks for the kids and better legos.
Hope this can help!
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