SYSTEMS ROBOTICS DESIGN CAMP
AT THE UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA
JULY 13-17, 2009

Experience Wahoo Engineering!

Do you like finding creative solutions to problems? Do you like learning how to do things such as...

• how to work with Lego's Mindstorm robots to solve real problems...
• how engineers design products and systems to meet everyday needs of people...
• how to build a robot smart enough to make it through a maze
• how researchers at UVa are creating teams of robots that work together like ants?

At the Systems Robotics Design Camp you will user your creativity and problem-solving skills to design and program robots to do amazing things. In addition, you will learn how nature can provide elegant solutions to challenges faced by humans - challenges such as delivering packages to several locations in a city in the most efficient manner or exploring new terrain as far off as Mars!

What is Systems Robotics Design Camp?

Students who join us at the Systems Robotics Design Camp will explore the amazing impacts that systems engineering has on people in the world. They will do this through designing and building robots, learning key systems concepts such as finding the shortest path through a network and seeing how researchers are using natural systems as inspiration for solving problems that we all face in our daily lives.

Participants will work in teams to build, test, and evaluate projects. University faculty will give talks and participate in various activities. Faculty, university graduate students, and undergraduate students will oversee the program.

Eligibility - The program is open to rising 6th, 7th and 8th graders (at the time of the camp).

Cost - There is a program fee of $325 for the week-long session. Participants will be asked to pay the fee after they are accepted to the program. We are interested in encouraging students for whom tuition might be a barrier to apply. Need-based scholarships are available.

How the camp operates - Students provide their own transportation to and from grounds.

For information contact: 434-924-5393 or kmitchell@virginia.edu