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Re: Robotics in Afterschool Programs?
Freddy, if you need any inspiration, come by the Mount Olive High school during summer. We offer a robotics program for ages 5-13(i think 13) and it runs really well. Mr. McGowan (our founder and mentor) comes up with a very simple game for the kids and they come in for a few hours every day for I think 2 weeks. A lot of the kids who are 5-9 work with the old RCX systems and the older kids got to work with the NXT. My friend and I volunteered for the summer to help and we took some of the more advanced students and had them make work cells for a simple candy moving project.
I know you keep mentioning about how the building and design works, but truly, the kids only need an hour or two a day for a couple days to build and program. If you have any more questions feel freet o PM so I can give you some in depth suggestions. Ernie DiCicco is also a mentor for Team 11 and has been running the NJ FLL Championships for a couple years now at Mt. Olive HS and I'm sure he would be glad to help you out as well.
All the best-
Akash
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