C-STEM Youth Summer Camps, 2016
The C-STEM Youth Summer Camps for elementary and middle school students are organized by C-STEM Summer Camp Affiliates on school and college campuses or on their facilities. C-STEM Youth Summer Camps emphasize logical and computational thinking with hands-on fun and exciting computing and robotics activities for campers to explore real-world applications of computer programming and mathematics. Campers gain problem solving, effective communication, and teamwork skills. These self-sustained summer camps are held on school campuses and colleges through our summer camp affiliates.
C-STEM Youth Summer Camp Sites:
UC Davis C-STEM Youth Summer Camp Site:
C-STEM Summer Camp Affiliate Director: Andee Press-Dawson, Director of Community Programs, UC Davis School of Education, Email: Apressdawson@ucdavis.edu
Date: June 13-August 15, 2016
Registration: Registration is through the UC Davis School of Education Adventures in Enrichment program. Details about the camps can be found here.
C-STEM Robotics and Digital Media
One-week camp for middle school students from grades 6 to 8.
Tentative Instructor: Carmen Wright
Date: June 13 – 17, 2016
This camp introduces campers to the working principles of computer programming, robotics, digital media, and video editing through the UC Davis C-STEM curriculum. Campers start with the basics of how a computer works and then learn computer programming through the C/C++ interpreter Ch to control a single robot and multiple robots for choreographed robotic movement. Campers explore video editing and film production by creating a script, artwork, musical score, and robotic choreography to be combined in a short video which can be submitted to the C-STEM RoboPlay Video Competition. The week ends with student teams presenting their projects and videos with robotics in the context of global problems.
C-STEM Computer Programming with STEM Applications
One-week camp for middle school students from grades 6 to 8.
Tentative Instructor: Josh Baskin
Date: June 20 – 24, 2016
Code like an engineer! This coding camp introduces campers to the working principles of computer programming through the UC Davis C-STEM Curriculum. Campers learn computer programming with a user friendly C/C++ interpreter Ch. Campers learn programming constructs, data types and declaration of variables, expressions and operators, plotting for visualization, selection statements, repetition with patterns, random numbers, and applications in math. The week ends with student teams presenting on how their comprehensive programs are developed to solve practical real-world, game, or STEM problems.
C-STEM Computer Programming with Robotics
One-week camp for middle school students from grades 6 to 8.
Tentative Instructor: Josh Baskin
Date: June 27 – July 1, 2016
This camp introduces campers to the working principles of computer programming and robotics with applications through the UC Davis C-STEM curriculum. First, campers learn the basics of programming then how to program a robot with a user friendly C/C++ interpreter Ch. Campers design, construct, and program their own robotic system with a single controller. Afterwards, campers extend the knowledge to create complex robotic systems with multiple controllers for various different applications and challenges, such as choreographed robotic movement The week ends with a mock-up C-STEM RoboPlay Challenge Competition.
C-STEM Computer Programming and Robotics
One-week camp for middle school students from grades 4 to 8.
Tentative Instructor: Carmen Wright
Date: July 18 – 22, 2016
This robotics camp explores STEM concepts through practical applications with hands-on and fun robotics activities. Campers learn how to program a robot with a user friendly C/C++ interpreter Ch. Through hands-on robotics activities, campers learn and reinforce the algebraic thinking while learning 21st Century skills. The week ends with student teams presenting on how STEM concepts are used in real-world robotics applications.
C-STEM RoboBlockly Block based Computer Programming
One-week camp for middle school students from grades 6 to 8.
Tentative Instructor: Kayce Mastrup
Date: August 1 – 5, 2016
RoboBlockly is a web-based robot simulation environment that students will use to begin learning computer programming! The RoboBlockly environment uses a simple puzzle-piece interface to program virtual Linkbot and Lego Mindstorms NXT/EV3 for beginners to learn robotics, computing, science, technology, engineering, and math (C-STEM). Campers will then be able to transfer their programs into text based code and run real robots!
