Summer Camps

About

Each summer, Team RUSH  hosts week-long camps for students entering grades 3-6. At camp, students learned the beginning skills of LEGO robotics, building, and programming. Each student begins the week in either a Beginning or Advanced level of camp. Campers are in the Beginning level if they have minimal experience in robotics; if they have completed the camp in past years, been on a FLL team, or have any general LEGO robotics experience, they are able to move into the Advanced group. 

Schedule 

First Day of Camp: Begin with registration, where campers are checked in, parents confirm information, campers then are split into groups and assigned a Team RUSH student as a counselor (with the average student-to-counselor ratio being 2:1). 

Second & Third Days of Camp: Campers build their SPIKE Prime Lego Robots to complete challenges from the past years FLL game. As they finish challenges, they progressively get more difficult to challenge campers into creative thinking.

Fourth Day of Camp: Campers finalize their creations and code to present to their parents! Preforming tasks and challenges, their robots execute the block code created by students with ease! Kids are handed out awards and prizes as a thank you gift!

What is the difference between Beginning and Advanced? 

In Beginning groups, the students have little to no knowledge beforehand on how to build, program and test robots. They spend the first day of camp completing programming challenges using SPIKE Prime LEGO robots. Over the next few days, they begin to build and program their robots to complete the most recent FLL challenge (based on the year). In Advanced groups, students already have an understanding of basic LEGO robotics, so counselors teach campers harder concepts like sensors using SPIKE models.

About

Each summer, Team RUSH 27 hosts week-long camps for students entering grades k-2. At camp, students learned about what a robot is, how we use robots to help us, learning basic block coding, and traits such as responsibility and cooperation.

Schedule 

First Day of Camp: Begin with registration, where campers are checked in and given name tags. Parents confirm information, including their student's emergency contact and T-shirt size. Campers then are split into groups and assigned a Team RUSH student as a counselor (with the average student-to-counselor ratio being 3:1). Kids learn the basics of robots and coding to finish the day!

Second & Third Day of Camp: Campers constructed small robots to complete tasks, play team-building games, amd showed off what they learned so far in activities and challenges!

Fourth Day of Camp: Campers finish the code they learned and show off to their parents using WeDo 2.0 and other tools. They are handed out awards and gifts to be sent off with!

About

Team RUSH once again offered a CAD design summer camp during the summer of 2022. We had previously done this camp virtually in 2020, but the camp in person was even more engaging!

Schedule

First Day of Camp: Campers are introduced to what 3D modeling is and how it's useful to society! They are joined into a tinkercad class and start modeling.

Second - Fourth Day of Camp: Campers are given challenges to model and create, some are designed for the 3d world, and some are 3d printed.

What is the difference between Beginning and Advanced? 

The beginner class is more oriented towards those who haven't done any 3d modeling yet, and want to learn more! The advanced class is made for those who have taken part in 3d modeling before, especially those who have used tinkercad. Both classes are great for whoever, but be sure to find the best fit for your camper!

About

Team RUSH created this camp to get girls involved in STEM. For any girl going into 6th grade through high school, they learn things like Adobe Illustrator, tinkercad 3d modeling basics, how to use a laser cutter, and how to apply these things to real life.

Schedule

First Day of Camp: Campers are introduced to what 3D modeling is and how it's useful to society! They begin modeling basic shapes and structures, then move onto illustrator. They are taught how to make basic shapes to close the day.

Second Day of Camp: Girls use illustrator to create a custom bookmark from wood with their name and design on it, create marble run tracks, and learn more about illustrator.

Third & Fourth Day of Camp: Campers create animals in illustrator, laser cut on a glowforge, and 3d print models they made in tinkercad. Campers are handed awards for their efforts to wrap up the week.