RoboContenders - Summer Robotics Camps for Kids and Teens - Robotics Camp

RoboContenders

The Scoop - Overview
Featured Software
Skill Level, Ages & Tuition
Our Recommendations
Where Offered?
What's New?
How We Teach

The Scoop - Overview

Working in small teams, students in this summer robotics camp will use the VEX® Robotics Design System to compete in fun real-world challenges like robo-soccer, obstacle courses, capture-the-flag, tag, sumo wrestling, maze solving and much more! Each day will bring a new challenge, and your team's robot will have to morph to better adapt and compete. Advanced students will have the opportunity to learn about building complex robotic sensors, advanced robot arms, drive trains and programming "smarter" robots.

This season we have new kits and a more advanced parts inventory, including treads, sensors and accessories to help you take your skills to the next level. Robotics is the main portion of this summer camp, but each student will be given a brief introduction to the Easy C™ programming language. Finally, students will take home and upload video of the week's battles, competitions and collaborative teambuilding events. Welcome to iD! Click to the left for more details, and scroll down for promotions and multi-week packages.

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Featured Software

Students in this summer robotics camp for kids will use the VEX^TM Robotics Design System, a system that is both user-friendly and powerful. This is the same system used in major regional and national robotics competitions. Vex is also often found in high school and university-level classes. You will build awesome robots, calculate gear ratios and program robots to move on their own!

Click to find out more about the cutting edge products used at our summer camps.

Skill Level, Ages & Tuition

Designed for beginner to advanced learners ages 10-15. Curriculum is customizable and tailored to the student's level.

Note: Depending on enrollment and experience, teen students may be grouped with younger students 10-12.

There is a $100 Lab Fee for this course.

For details on tuition and special promotions, click here.

Our Recommendations

Do you like the mechanics and engineering of making things work and the thought of designing robots? Enjoy competition and like to work in a collaborative team environment? Are you a "hands-on" learner? This robotic engineering summer camp may be perfect for you. You will build and compete in fun and challenging robotics missions. This robotics camp for kids and teens is perfect for students with mechanical minds interested in computer engineering, math, and general problem-solving.

Where Offered?

RoboContenders is offered at: Wake Forest University, College of William & Mary, Macalester College, UC Davis, Southern Methodist University, UC San Diego, Carnegie Mellon University, Lake Forest College, University of Miami, University of Michigan, UC Berkeley, University of Denver, UT Austin, UC Irvine, Villanova University, Sacred Heart University, Emory University, Rider University, University of Washington, Stanford University, UCLA, Northwestern University, MIT, Purdue University, Ohio State University, and University of Kansas

What's New?

New Curriculum! Each season we overhaul our challenges. We've also made an investment in brand new kits with additional parts, including treads. Roll up your sleeves and get your hands dirty building your own robots at our summer robotics camps.

How We Teach

iD Tech Camps students receive the highest caliber technology education any summer camp has to offer! Students in this summer camp for kids and teens receive our gold standard 1-on-1 instruction (average 6 students per staff). Using the latest in hardware and software, our adult staff work hands-on with each student from project theory to completion (you won’t find counselors-in-training at iD). It’s time to unleash your internalDrive--Welcome to iD! Find out more about how we teach.

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iD Green Light Specials. Save $100 off Summer Camps. Select Locations. Updated Every Friday!

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Ready to Robo-Charge your Summer? It’s your World!

Our summer robotics camps for kids and teens are all about the bots. At this robotics camp kids work in a collaborative team setting, learning the skills to build and compete at iD Tech Camps. If you’re looking for popular boys camps (while not strictly a summer camp for boys), this is an excellent summer camp for kids! You’ll be given fun daily challenges and gain invaluable problem-solving and interpersonal skills. Prepare to have a blast!

Gain more skills and save on each additional week!

Save $50 off each additional week with these suggested multi-week packages. Either register for the SAME course over multiple weeks, gaining advanced skills, or register for distinct courses over multiple weeks for a broad perspective.

Create Your Own Package - Customize your world!	Engineering Package - Build robots and learn programming languages that make them work.	Sampler Package - Learn many different skill sets.
Combine courses to suit your individual interests and style!	RoboContenders	RoboContenders
Enroll in two, three, four or more weeks!	Programming in C++ or Java	Web Design & Flash® Animation
You’ll save an additional $50 per week!	Programming v2.0	Programming in C++ or Java
You’ll gain a deeper skill set with each additional week!	iD Programming Academy	Game Modding - Warcraft® lll
		Graphic Arts
NOTE: Some courses have age, location and skill restrictions. Click the specific course for details. Can’t decide which courses to take? Consult our course grid or phone us at 1-888-709-TECH (8324).

Gaming Activities: Gaming Tournaments, Ultimate Gaming Weekends

General gameplay is a fun aspect of our summer camps, but does not infringe on instructional time. This season will feature Gaming Tournaments and Ultimate Gaming Weekends showcasing the industry’s best. We use NVIDIA GeForce® gaming cards for peak gaming performance. Students will play BIG titles from Epic Games®, Activision®, Blizzard® Entertainment, THQ®, Microsoft® GameStudios™ and more. In order to offer the most cutting edge experience for our campers, we have adopted the policy of allowing the use of some select games with ESRB ratings of “E” for Everyone, “T” for Teen and “M” for Mature to be used as part of our curriculum in a supervised environment. We take our corporate responsibility and iD family values very seriously, but cannot guarantee that younger students will avoid complete contact with these games. Please know that we make every effort to minimize exposure to any games not appropriate for these age groups.

Note 1: Gaming does NOT infringe on instructional time.
Note 2: Games with ESRB Ratings of E, T and M are used at our camps.

Attention Teens:

Check out the iD Programming Academy, a two-week intensive teen-only programming academy. Also, make sure to check out the Teen Scene at our teen camps as well as our other courses at iD Tech Camps.

Do Something Big!

Read success stories of how iD students have gone on to do something big after attending iD Tech Camps. Improved grades. Higher self esteem and confidence. Cool projects. Fledgling careers in tech. Read more.

Cool Summer Camp Activities

Balance is the key to every week at iD. While we are in the labs a majority of the day, we certainly take time out for fun summer camp activities. Students may participate in ultimate frisbee, capture-the-flag, fun outdoor teambuilding games, soccer, etc. If sports are not your thing, no worries! We've got awesome gaming tournaments, Guitar Hero III, social time and more! Details.