US Tech Camps
We offer tech camps in programming, robotics and rocketry. In our programming camp, students learn how to program games and the basics of app development. Campers spend the week creating games in the Unity graphics engine, the most popular tool used by professional game designers. They also create apps for Android phones using App Inventor, a visual code editor developed at Google laboratories. They create a apps that can convert text to speech; use the built-in camera to make a simple painting and photo-editing app; and write a basic game that bounces a beach ball around the screen based on input gestures.
Our robotics campers design and build robots using the Tetrix building kit. Our campers start the week by building a basic 4-point chassis design using omnidirectional wheels. Onto this chassis, they will mount a gripping/lifting mechanism and compete each day to test their designs and driving skills against other robots. Among the topics they are exposed to include motion, forces, and energy; the principles of mechanical engineering; and gearing ratios and how they affect torque and speed.