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Summer 2010 Newton's Attic Presents:

"Mech-Antics"


A week long, hands on engineering summer day camp for young people 10 years and up

 

To participate, students pair up and form a team of two players.

         

At the beginning of the week, each team receives a kit of parts from which they build a robotic gripper. Students work in the

Mobile Engineering Center, a rolling machine shop that has all the tools students need to build their grippers.

 
    

Throughout the week, participants are taught the skills they need to design and build their grippers. They are also taught how to operate the Robotic Rovers, drivable, electric vehicles that have attached to them the robotic arms to which the grippers mount.

  

At the end of the week, students participate in an outdoor activity in which they attach their grippers to the arms on the robotic rovers. They drive throughout an arena in search of prizes they retrieve with their grippers. Anything they collect, they are allowed to keep.

 

Camp Details

Type: Hands on Engineering Educational Summer Camps

Name of Camps:
    1. Mech-Antics
    2. Mechanalia
    3. Camp Catapults

Dates: Weekly from June 21 to August 6

Time: 9:00 am to 5:00 pm

Address: University of Kentucky College of Engineering Courtyard

Ages: 12 and up

Registration Deadline: Mondays, 1 week prior to beginning of each weekly camp.

Cost: Varies from $195 to $495

Contact Info:
    Bill Cloyd
    Newton’s Attic, Inc.
    (859) 233-3337
    wcciv@mindspring.com
    bill@newtonsattic.com
    www.newtonsattic.com
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