iD Tech Summer Camp

[Alex Cormier]

Anyone see or even hear of this summer camp?
http://www.internaldrive.com/index.htm

I stumbled upon a Robotics course for it on the Vexlabs website.
I filled out some information and got a email back already to be a instructor for the vex course. just wondering if anyone had been to any of the camps that they provide and how it was.

Here's the site for robotics:
http://www.internaldrive.com/robotics/index.htm

[ham90mack]

Oh yes, I have been there for the last two summers! It is a very good computer summer camp offered by colleges across the nation. Two years ago I was in the Programming & Robotics course (this year it has been split into two different classes), but unfortunately they didn't use VEX until last year... But it is very fun for the teens as well as the mentors (or at least, I am assuming that most of the mentors have fun). I highly suggest this camp to anybody interested in computers.
I don't know how the robotics course is now because they just split off from programming. However, when they were still joined last year when they first used VEX, I think most of the kids had fun with it. Unfortunately, they didn't have enough time to play with the robot because they were also programming...
Which site would you be going to?

[Alex Cormier]

Originally Posted by ham90mack

Oh yes, I have been there for the last two summers! It is a very good computer summer camp offered by colleges across the nation. Two years ago I was in the Programming & Robotics course (this year it has been split into two different classes), but unfortunately they didn't use VEX until last year... But it is very fun for the teens as well as the mentors (or at least, I am assuming that most of the mentors have fun). I highly suggest this camp to anybody interested in computers.
I don't know how the robotics course is now because they just split off from programming. However, when they were still joined last year when they first used VEX, I think most of the kids had fun with it. Unfortunately, they didn't have enough time to play with the robot because they were also programming...
Which site would you be going to?

cool, will there be much programming in the robotics course? I am not the most fluent person in programming for vex, so i am hoping not a whole lot for me to teach. as i will be learnging all i can learn for the programming soon.

heres my choices:
University of Michigan
Fordham University
Carnegie Mellon
Villanova
University of Miami

[ham90mack]

I believe all of the VEX programming is done using Easy C. If the name isn't a myth, then it should be easy to learn. (programming the robot was the reason it used to be paired up with the Programming course) If you don't know anything about Easy C, you move prewritten chunks of code (that are blocks) around to make the robot run.