Engineering with LEGO Robotics for students entering grades 6-8 in Fall 2012 June 18-22 Morning session: 8:30am-12:00pm Afternoon session: 1:00pm-4:30pm

Both sessions of the LEGO Robotics Camp for 6th-8th grades are FULL at this time. If you would like to be placed on a waiting list, please contact Jennifer Harry at jennifer.harry@wichita.edu, 316 978-6724.

This LEGO Robotics camp is a five-day, half-day camp for students who want to learn how to build, program and run LEGO robots through a series of competitions. This is an opportunity to expand

students’ understanding of robots in sensing and responding to their environment. The camp will be mostly hands-on with campers building LEGO robots and modifying the robots for different environments. There are sections for both beginner and advanced robotics students. The camp will culminate in a day of competition with actual courses from the Shocker MINDSTORMS competition. Each camper will receive a personalized LEGO name badge and bricks for each activity mastered

Camp Director: Dr. Lawrence Whitman, larry.whitman@wichita.edu

Dr. Whitman is a Professor in Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering. He previously received a grant from the National Science Foundation to develop a course entitled, "Engineering for Non-Engineers." He is returning as the director of the LEGO Robotics camp for the fourth year. This course uses LEGO MINDSTORMS as the mechanism to teach engineering concepts. Larry has also been a co-director of the WSU Shocker MINDSTORMS challenge where teams from across Kansas compete. Larry received his Bachelors and Masters of Science from Oklahoma State and his PhD from The University of Texas at Arlington in Industrial Engineering. He has been teaching at WSU since Spring of 1999.

Fee: $125 (25% discount for paid registration before May 1, 2012).