Join us for our summer camps! Learn about engineering and programming using the LEGO MindStorms Robotics Kit!
Registration and payment can either be done online.
Reminder, camps wrap up on Friday at 3:30 and campers must clean up prior to the end of the day. So don't plan on seeing much Friday afternoon. If you want to see what your camper is doing, plan on coming in after check in on any day but Monday (haven't done anything yet on Monday) or come in early any day but Friday. Some camps have a show-and-tell for parents on Wednesday or Thursday afternoon, check with your camp-leader.
Mixed: Means we are expecting both beginners and returning campers. We still need to assess how much the campers may have remembered from the previous activity. Some really have forgotten everything which makes them returning beginners. And some beginners are more advanced... so our camp staff try as quickly as possible to figure out which they are. Usually one staff member will be working primarily with the beginners and one primarily with the advanced, with the third floating as needed. See descriptions of advanced activities below. Open to ages 9 to 13, no experience needed. We expect these camps to have both beginners and advanced students.
Advanced: (not always offered) All of the campers in an advanced camp not only have been in camp or done a school robotics program, but also have retained most of that information. Never happens. But in an advanced camp, less time is spent on the basics (what do you call the parts, how do you start and run the program, use the robot controls, building a simple robot car, things like that) and we attempt to get the campers working on more complex projects. Good examples of what an experienced roboteer might work on would include a LEGO parts sorting machine, a crane with controller, a paper towel dispenser, a printer or scanner, or a more complex robot "car". Many of these projects will take a team of 2 or 3 campers 2-3 days to complete as they work to define the problem, build the contraption, test it, program it, and rebuild it because they figured out "if we had only done... it would work better". The advanced camps are also limited to fewer campers, so the ration of camper to staff is lower and the amount of equipment per camper is greater, both good things.
Remember, these are all age-appropriate, so I'm hoping anyone in there won't be asked to accomplish more than they can, and some challenges are by nature easier than others. And EVERY camp is different, by the end of this summer we will have offered 500 weeks of camp somewhere here in the State of Maine (and a couple of weeks in New Brunswick), and the campers change, the counselors change, what people find interesting changes, robots in the news change... and it all adds up to a week of fun, but unpredictable fun.
Registration and payment can either be done online.
Reminder, camps wrap up on Friday at 3:30 and campers must clean up prior to the end of the day. So don't plan on seeing much Friday afternoon. If you want to see what your camper is doing, plan on coming in after check in on any day but Monday (haven't done anything yet on Monday) or come in early any day but Friday. Some camps have a show-and-tell for parents on Wednesday or Thursday afternoon, check with your camp-leader.
Mixed: Means we are expecting both beginners and returning campers. We still need to assess how much the campers may have remembered from the previous activity. Some really have forgotten everything which makes them returning beginners. And some beginners are more advanced... so our camp staff try as quickly as possible to figure out which they are. Usually one staff member will be working primarily with the beginners and one primarily with the advanced, with the third floating as needed. See descriptions of advanced activities below. Open to ages 9 to 13, no experience needed. We expect these camps to have both beginners and advanced students.
Advanced: (not always offered) All of the campers in an advanced camp not only have been in camp or done a school robotics program, but also have retained most of that information. Never happens. But in an advanced camp, less time is spent on the basics (what do you call the parts, how do you start and run the program, use the robot controls, building a simple robot car, things like that) and we attempt to get the campers working on more complex projects. Good examples of what an experienced roboteer might work on would include a LEGO parts sorting machine, a crane with controller, a paper towel dispenser, a printer or scanner, or a more complex robot "car". Many of these projects will take a team of 2 or 3 campers 2-3 days to complete as they work to define the problem, build the contraption, test it, program it, and rebuild it because they figured out "if we had only done... it would work better". The advanced camps are also limited to fewer campers, so the ration of camper to staff is lower and the amount of equipment per camper is greater, both good things.
Remember, these are all age-appropriate, so I'm hoping anyone in there won't be asked to accomplish more than they can, and some challenges are by nature easier than others. And EVERY camp is different, by the end of this summer we will have offered 500 weeks of camp somewhere here in the State of Maine (and a couple of weeks in New Brunswick), and the campers change, the counselors change, what people find interesting changes, robots in the news change... and it all adds up to a week of fun, but unpredictable fun.
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** If we have low enrollment at Advanced camps, we reserve the right to change it to a mixed camp, with the reduced rate.
Campers must be between the following ages at the time of the camp:
AGES:
Mixed: 9* to 12 years (this camp is offered in most locations)
Advanced: 11 to 15 years (rare, but we occasionally offer this camp)
*(age at the time the week of camp starts)
Camp Day: drop off starts at 8:45 am, instruction starts at 9:00 am and camp ends at 3:30 pm unless otherwise noted.
Week: Monday through Friday (except for the week of July 4th, see schedule)
AGES:
Mixed: 9* to 12 years (this camp is offered in most locations)
Advanced: 11 to 15 years (rare, but we occasionally offer this camp)
*(age at the time the week of camp starts)
Camp Day: drop off starts at 8:45 am, instruction starts at 9:00 am and camp ends at 3:30 pm unless otherwise noted.
Week: Monday through Friday (except for the week of July 4th, see schedule)