SUMMER LEARNING CAMPS ON ROBOTICS FOR MIDDLE AND HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS
Harinath Doppalapudi · 2010 GSW Proceedings · 2022
Robotics, virtual reality and rapid prototyping allow teachers to facilitate learning that their students get to "own".The summer camp projected by the proposal will allow students to feel comfortable with new and sometimes complicated Robotics concepts.They must also learn effective communication, teamwork and problem solving.They get to learn by making mistakes.In fact, mistakes are essential to their learning.As a part of this paper we discuss some of the important technical aspects of robotics and the results of the implementation of robotics subject as a summer camp to the middle and high school children.This paper will also give a perspective of the technical field trips intended to expose the middle and high school students to the real time environment of the industries.The students will also get to learn the art of robot building, as well as its uses within the industry.These summer camps will also expose students to the experience of living and learning in a university setting.The students will get a good exposure to the technical aspects of Robotics while also enticing them to aim for an undergraduate education in engineering, education or related fields.This will lay a strong foundation to their future undergraduate and graduate education.It will give a strong understanding related to the career prospective of the fields of technology and engineering.This paper will also discuss the results of these summer camps.