Robo Camp 2011

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Are your kids the ones who:

  • Have to look under every hood, push every button, look behind every door?
  • Take everything from the DVD player to the bathroom doorknobs apart just to see how they work?
  • Love logic puzzles and mechanical challenges?
  • Are involved in romances with their computers that are so intense, it limits REAL human interaction?

Robo Camp will light their fire!  Better yet, you won’t have to lift a single calculator, microchip or slide rule.  We’ll do all the heavy lifting in engineering, science and math – while you sit back and watch the entertainment. 

So, bring your sons and daughters for four days of action-packed excitement.  (Yes, bring those girls!)  It will be so much fun, they won’t even know that they’re soaking up all sorts of arcane technical knowledge.  

What's On The Menu

Day One

  • Team-Building Game – Meet your teammates, have some fun and make new friends.
  • Building Strong – A lesson in structural engineering
  • Engineering Game – Putting that building lesson to work
  • Lunch – You know… you bring a sack lunch, you eat it, you refrain from throwing your bologna.  Surprise!  We provide great desserts and drinks.
  • Designing Great Robots – Tips and tricks for building a robot that actually works
  • Meet Your ‘Bots – An introduction to your robot chasses, also known as “love at first sight…”
  • Scope Out the Playing Field – See where you’ll meet soaring success or crushing defeat…not really, competition is all for fun, right? 

Day Two

  • Team-Building Game – Round Two
  • Build Some Cool Stuff – This is where you get to put your mark on the robot world – add arms, design rams, create the next modern marvel…Navigating Effectively – You won’t love your ‘bot if it plays “dead bug” on the mat; so, we’ll show you how to get it to jump tall buildings in a single leap…or, at least, go where it’s supposed to go. 
  • Lunch – Same drill.  Bring a sack lunch.  Then, have lots of sugar on us!
  • Build More Cool Stuff - This is your chance to become an inventor extraordinaire.

Day Three

  • Team-Building Game – Round Three
  • Programming 101 – A lesson in how to talk “robot”
  • Program Your ‘Bots – Putting that programming lesson to work
  • Put It All Together - Test all that cool stuff you've been building and make it work.

Day Four

  • Put It All Together - Last chance to test all that cool stuff you've been building and make it work.
  • Compete – This is where you find out what your robot’s made of!  (Parents and grandparents are welcome to come, see what the kids have done and enjoy the show!)
  • Win Cool Prizes

The Details

Get your tickets while they’re hot.  We only have space for 30 kids, and we often have as many as 200 wanna-be robot builders.  It’s first come, first served; so, register online today.  Just click here.

Date: Monday thru Thursday, June 27-30, 2011
Time:  9a to 4p
Location: UMKC, School of Engineering & Computing
Target Ages:  9 to 11 year olds
Cost: $225 for one child - Save $25 per camp if you register multiple kids or for multiple camps
Deadline: Registration will close June 20th or when we reach capacity, whichever comes first
Bonus:

If your kids love the camp and want to build robots year-round, good news! 
We give membership applications from kids who’ve attended camp first priority.