February Break STEM Camp 2025
February Break STEM Camp: February 17 – 21, 2025
For Students in Grades 3-6
Immerse your child in a captivating week of hands-on exploration! Our STEM-focused February Vacation Camp goes beyond traditional learning, blending education and fun to ignite curiosity and creativity. Through engaging activities, interactive projects, and field trips, we aim to inspire a lifelong passion for science, technology, engineering, and mathematics.
Please read on for more information. Use the form at the bottom of this page to inquire for more information or to register your child. Thank you!
Monday, February 17th, 2025
MORNING
Seminar: Introduction to Robotics!
- Seminar: Introduction to Robotics!
- A Brief History of Robotics
- Types of Robots
- Fixed Location: Autonomous Mobile Robots (AMR); Automated Guided Vehicles (AGV); Humanoid Robots; Hybrids
- Stationary Location: Articulated Robots; Cobots
AFTERNOON
- Seminar: Human Fear and Fascination: Robots in Film, Literature, and Popular Culture
Tuesday, February 18th, 2025
MORNING
- Seminar: Fundamentals of Robotic Builds
- Kinematics, dynamics, manipulability, motion/force control, real-time programming, controller architecture, motion planning, navigation, and sensor integration
AFTERNOON
- Workshop: Robotic Builds: AGVs and Humanoids
Wednesday, February 19th, 2025
MORNING
- Workshop: Robotic Builds: AGV and Humanoids, Continued
AFTERNOON
- Seminar: Modern Robotics: Applications, Laws, and Ethics
- Seminar: Programming
Thursday, February 20th, 2025
MORNING
- Workshop: Block Coding
AFTERNOON
- Seminar: Readings from Asimov’s I, Robot; Asimov’s Three Laws of Robotics
Friday, February 21st, 2025
MORNING
- Workshop: Student Demonstrations: Robots as Assistants, Pets, Warriors, and Dancers!
AFTERNOON
- Field Trip and/or Webinars: Boston Dynamics