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RoboThink STEM Camps

RoboThink offers a turnkey, hands-on STEM experience with a globally tested curriculum and all materials provided, focusing on real-world engineering and coding challenges.

🔥 Elementary 🕒 1-week Day Camp In-person All skill levels 💰 $45/session
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About this camp

RoboThink STEM Camps offer engaging, hands-on experiences where children aged 7-11 delve into the exciting worlds of robotics, coding, and engineering. Campers build a different Arduino-based robot each day using bricks, gears, axles, motors, sensors, and controllers, exploring themes like electronics, mechanical engineering, and competitive robotics. Beyond building, students program physical robots like Codey Rocky, Dash, and mBot using block-based languages such as Scratch, mBlock, and Dash Blocky, bringing their code to life. The curriculum also includes designing and building video games from scratch using MIT's Scratch platform, where they learn fundamental programming concepts like loops, variables, and conditionals. These activities foster critical thinking, problem-solving, and creativity, aligning with NGSS, K12-CS, ISTE, and Common Core standards.

RoboThink's programs are designed to be completely hands-on, with no lectures or passive screen time, ensuring kids are actively engaged with real robots and code. The camps aim to nurture problem-solving, critical thinking, spatial awareness, and self-confidence. With a globally tested curriculum used in 22 countries, students benefit from a rich and refined learning experience. All necessary materials, including robotics kits, coding robots, laptops, and tablets, are provided.

What a typical day looks like

A typical day involves hands-on robotics building in the morning, followed by coding robots or designing video games, with a lunch break.

Best suited for

This camp is ideal for children aged 7-11 who enjoy building, tinkering, and want to explore robotics, coding, and engineering in a fun, interactive environment.

What you'll learn

Robotics Building Robotics Coding Video Game Design Computational Thinking Engineering Concepts Scratch Programming Arduino Electronics

Location

Multiple Locations

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