Students learning the basics at robotics camp
Just because school is out for summer break, that doesn’t mean learning has to stop. All week, some Oxford High School students have been attending a pilot program robotics camp.It’s done in conjunction with Robotics Technology Park. The objective is help students learn some of the basics of programming and robotics.It has been a small number of students have been participating. However, that’s not stopping the enthusiasm of the group.”It gives you an opportunity to find a problem and solve it in a way that you can make it as easy as possible, or you can find a more complicated route that may be more efficient later on,” said rising 11th-grade student Jackson Smith.His excitement has been visible throughout the week-long camp. The skills students learn during the camp are the same skills used in manufacturing jobs. Dennis Custer is the trainer for RTP, he says as his industry continues to evolve, people will need to become more highly skilled.”Almost all the jobs in manufacturing require skilled training of some sort. Robotics is just another skill in your toolbox,” Custer said.”You see physics, you see math, you see the logic of computer science within the program also,” said Krista Mintz, a computer science and math teacher at OHS.
Just because school is out for summer break, that doesn’t mean learning has to stop. All week, some Oxford High School students have been attending a pilot program robotics camp.
It’s done in conjunction with Robotics Technology Park. The objective is help students learn some of the basics of programming and robotics.
It has been a small number of students have been participating. However, that’s not stopping the enthusiasm of the group.
“It gives you an opportunity to find a problem and solve it in a way that you can make it as easy as possible, or you can find a more complicated route that may be more efficient later on,” said rising 11th-grade student Jackson Smith.
His excitement has been visible throughout the week-long camp.
The skills students learn during the camp are the same skills used in manufacturing jobs. Dennis Custer is the trainer for RTP, he says as his industry continues to evolve, people will need to become more highly skilled.
“Almost all the jobs in manufacturing require skilled training of some sort. Robotics is just another skill in your toolbox,” Custer said.
“You see physics, you see math, you see the logic of computer science within the program also,” said Krista Mintz, a computer science and math teacher at OHS.
