ELLSWORTH, Maine (WABI) -- There were a lot of frustrated sighs and grunts from kids participating in a LEGO Robotics Camp. <\/p>\n
Billy Wall, Ellsworth, the camp director said, \"What the kids are learning mostly is how to fail repeatedly, so we give them a chance to fail over and over and over again and have fun.\" <\/p>\n
Dawson Peterson, a camper, said, \"We're building robots and we're trying to put them through different sets of obstacles.\" <\/p>\n
Max Harmon, another camper, said, \"At the moment we're doing a maze, which is kind of irritating.\" <\/p>\n
But according to camp staff, that's all part of learning. <\/p>\n
Wall said, \"We're asking them to learn to combine programming and some structural mechanical stuff and a whole lot of persistence which is mostly what the camp is about. We want kids to try something different within some guidelines and some support from us.\" <\/p>\n
During the week-long camp, kids worked with LEGO MindStorms robotics kits . They built and programmed the robots to perform tasks using a laptop. <\/p>\n
The camp is meant to teach kids skills linked to engineering and computer programming, as well as team work and logic. All of these experiences prepare them for the future. <\/p>\n
Wall said, \"It's unlikely that any of them will have any kind of a career that does not involve some sort of telling a machine what to do. Whether that's a desk top computer or a piece of sensory automation on a building or they become an engineer or a scientist. If they just put together plumbing, they're going to be interfacing with electronic instrumentation, so they get a taste of all of that.\" <\/p>\n
And while there are many failures in learning, there are also many triumphs. <\/p>\n
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