Self Sustainable Team : Summer Camps.

[xitaqua]

Is there any teams that gets 100% of their funding from summer camp ?
How about 50% grant, 50% summer camp ?

What other mixes of funding sources we have out there.

Enclosed is an example of a robotics summer camp in Missouri.

Cheers,
Marcos.

[rocknthehawk]

Team 549 holds engineering and lego summer camps, raising around $10,000 a year. Hopefully someone from their team can chime in with more info.

[MattC9]

We hold vex and Lego summer camps. The middle school kids build vex robots in a week and they play the new vex game (this year sack attack).the Lego kids do the same but they do it with FLL and with last years game plus the first 2 or three days we teach them how to build and program a robot.

That's just a brief over veiw. PM if you have any questions.

[ttldomination]

Originally Posted by rocknthehawk

Team 549 holds engineering and lego summer camps, raising around $10,000 a year. Hopefully someone from their team can chime in with more info.

Hmm, that value sounds a little on the high side, but I can only guess taht a well established camp that's over its start up costs can easily pull roughly 10K. Interesting.

- Sunny G.

[Adam.garcia]

It is funny that you mention this..

This year is the first year that our team is holding a week-long Summer Robotics camp targeted at Kids who are between 3rd grade and 8th grade.

Using the LEGO mindstorm kits, we will introduce the kids to various robotic principles, while keeping the mood light and enjoyable.

If you'd like more information regarding our itinerary, we'd be glad to help out.

We expect to raise between $1,600 to $3500 (assuming $80 for the week).
Our main goal however is to spread the word about FIRST Robotics and how amazing it truly is!

[ttldomination]

Originally Posted by Adam.garcia

We expect to raise between $1,600 to $3500 (assuming $80 for the week).
Our main goal however is to spread the word about FIRST Robotics and how amazing it truly is!

This is actually interesting.

How are you structuring your camp? What's your group size? How are your "counselors" compensated? What's the challenge these kids are going to be facing? How many kits are you stocking up on?

Do you have to pay anything for facilities? Was there any special kind of license or ceritification your team needed to get? What are your hours?

- Sunny G.

[xitaqua]

Sunny,

Is your team thinking in doing a summer camp ?

Cheers,
Marcos.

[ttldomination]

Originally Posted by xitaqua

Sunny,

Is your team thinking in doing a summer camp ?

Cheers,
Marcos.

No, this topic has just piqued my curiosity.

- Sunny G.

[Adam.garcia]

Originally Posted by ttldomination

This is actually interesting.

How are you structuring your camp?

Attached is the preliminary itinerary for our week-long robotics camp:
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/49727352/Leg...20Schedule.xls

We will primarily be using the LEGO Mindstorm Kits.

Originally Posted by ttldomination

What's your group size? How are your "counselors" compensated?

We will have approximately 20 kids ranging from rising sophomores to seniors (as well as a few of us leaving off to college) running the majority of the program.

Our head robotics coaches/teachers will be supervising this whole week-long camp. However, they are not going to be running the camp: That is for us students to.

Originally Posted by ttldomination

What's the challenge these kids are going to be facing?

Download the link that I sent you. It should have a full itinerary. If you have any further questions about each of these games, I will be happy to clarify.

Originally Posted by ttldomination

How many kits are you stocking up on?

I believe we have approximately 8-10 full kits. We assume 5 kids per kit is quite manageable. Therefore, we will be able to accept at most 50 kids.

Originally Posted by ttldomination

Do you have to pay anything for facilities? Was there any special kind of license or ceritification your team needed to get? What are your hours?

Everybody running this camp (from teachers to students) will be doing this free of charge. The aim of this camp (from the financial side) is to raise money for our team while providing an interesting service to the community. Students who cannot afford to pay for this camp will be subsidized.

Most importantly, this is a great opportunity to get involved, and that is what our team strives to accomplish.

[xitaqua]

Hello Adam,

Great info. This year I am helping the faith community getting involved with robotics, I am working with a group of homeschool parents from a rural community and also a leader of temple in a urban setting to hold a robotics summer camp.

The homeschool parents are still trying to figure out a place to meet, it will probably be a church, a library or the home of one of the parents.

I agree that 5 students per kit is manageable. As we are getting started, until we have more kits, I am recommending to the learning community no more than 10 students, if we have more than 5 students we split into two groups, one focus on SW and the other on HW.

[dag0620]

While it's not quite a Summer Camp, 1071 does run an FLL based program through our town's larger Summer Studies program. I'm not quite sure if it pertains to this thread, but if someone has questions on how we run this program, let me know I'll be glad to post it in this thread or send you a PM.

[rsisk]

Adam,

Your camps are very similar to ours. We are just finishing the planning and will post as soon as they are done.

We limit to 5 kids per kit. 1 counselor per team and at least two adult counselors are at the camp. We run from 9AM-2PM with snacks for lunch. Everyday we have some sciencey fun thing planned (water day, drive the big robot day, egg drop day, poster day (day 1)). The groups form teams, come up with team names, make a poster of their team. They keep engineering notebooks (important for Boy Scouts at our camp). Everyday, the team has to present their robot for the day. On the last day, we invite all the parents to join us for a final competition. The teams show their posters, describe what they have done, then have a competition.

We try to get our team to donate most of the supplies. We have three mindstorms we use and charge $75 for the 4 day camp.

This year we are adding a third week of camp in a poor neighborhood. Our plan is to find sponsors for each kid at the camp.

[Adam.garcia]

Originally Posted by rsisk

Adam,

The groups form teams, come up with team names, make a poster of their team. They keep engineering notebooks (important for Boy Scouts at our camp). Everyday, the team has to present their robot for the day. On the last day, we invite all the parents to join us for a final competition. The teams show their posters, describe what they have done, then have a competition.

These ideas sound very promising:
1. Keeping engineering notebooks
2. Parents come to join for the final competition.

Do you have an itinerary/supporting documents so our team may reference your ideas an possibly modify our program accordingly?

[xitaqua]

Adam,

I hope to compile all the different concepts/ideas in a powerpoint presentation and I will upload to ChiefDelphi at the end of the summer.

Cheers,
Marcos.

[rsisk]

Originally Posted by Adam.garcia

These ideas sound very promising:
1. Keeping engineering notebooks
2. Parents come to join for the final competition.

Do you have an itinerary/supporting documents so our team may reference your ideas an possibly modify our program accordingly?

I'll post into CD Media shortly, busy with an FLL tournament in Carlsbad this weekend.