[mwilbur]

Our team has been robotics summer camps for five years now. They have been highly successful. We use the Terraformers curriculum available from Carnegie-Mellon and have purchased 12 LEGO Mindstorms NXT education kits to support the effort. The camp is geared toward middle-school-aged students, and we meet about 6 hours a day for a week. We use similar techniques that have already been mentioned to get the word out -- mostly informing the middle schools in our city. Word seem to spread, though, and we always have students attend from neighboring communities. We use the money that we make to do community outreach and start additional FLL and FTC teams. Once you invest in the kits, it's pretty easy to make between $2500 and $4000 a year this way. We took about half the money that we made from the 2013 RoboCamp and built a FRC practice field at the Virginia Air & Space Center, a museum in Hampton, VA.