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Oak Ridge Robotics Academy teaches robotics engineering in week-long camp

Posted at 11:19 am July 20, 2015
By Oak Ridge Today Staff Leave a Comment

Josie Fellers and Olivia Jones

Josie Fellers and teammate Olivia Jones assemble their robot’s arm at the ORAU Oak Ridge Robotics Academy. (Photo courtesy ORAU)

 

More than two dozen students from across East Tennessee recently spent a week designing, building, and programming robots during the Oak Ridge Robotics Academy.

Held at ORAU’s Center for Science Education, the week-long, free camp was led by Instructors Tad Douce and Ed Goodwin, both co-directors of the National Robotics Challenge, with help from Kayla Canario, the 2011 Extreme Classroom Makeover contest runner-up and the technology coordinator for Bearden Middle School.

The 6th annual ORAU Oak Ridge Robotics Academy included 26 students in seventh, eighth, and ninth grades.

Students were randomly placed into teams and faced daily engineering challenges such as programming their robots to solve a maze without being controlled or designing an arm to pick up a tennis ball.

“We call it a robotics academy, but it’s really an engineering academy,” Douce said. “Our main goal is to get the students to work with others, think logically and solve problems.” [Read more…]

Filed Under: Education, Front Page News, K-12, Oak Ridge Associated Universities, Top Stories, U.S. Department of Energy Tagged With: Bearded Middle School, Center for Science Educaiton, East Tennessee, Ed Goodwin, engineering, Extreme Classroom Makeover, Josie Fellers, Kayla Canario, National Robotics Challenge, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge Robotics Academy, ORAU, ORNL, Robertsville Middle School, robotics, robotics engineering, Tad Douce

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