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Students from Wallenpaupack Area and Western Wayne Middle School worked in teams in an effort to build and program their Lego NXT MARS Rover. Using NXT innovative software, students programmed the movement of the robots while collecting scientific data such as sound, light and other environmental stimuli, utilizing the latest Vernier scientific probes. The teams assembled on the second day for a collective videoconference with a NASA professional. Students then got to prove if their rover could go the distance on the final day.
The free student camp was provided by a grant from the
Wayne County Community Foundation.

Pictures courtesy of the TheWayneIndependent.com.

Western Wayne Technology teacher David Rupp responds with an answering grin as Wallenpaupack Area eighth graders Savannah Norton and Emely Giraldo do a victory flex and fist pump when all of their hard work pays off and their robot finishes the course.

Wallenpaupack Area Middle School students Dylan Miller, Kayla Boice, Katlyn Carr, and Kristian Sonsteby, talk to their technology teacher, David Rupp, at Robotics Summer Camp at Western Waynel.

Western Wayne students Adam Curtis and Sean Batzel program their robot to meet the course challenge. The robot “tries to follow a pre-set programming code, but it doesn’t always succeed,” Batzel said.

Western Wayne volunteers Josh Gershey and Keith Mattern help out at the first annual Robotics Summer Camp at Western
Wayne, Wednesday. Western
Wayne eighth graders Chris Davis and Catherine Tuman are eager to put their robot
through its paces.

Josh Miller and Zack Curtis, eighth graders at Western Wayne, work on a light-sensing robot at the Wayne County Community Foundation sponsored Robotics Summer Camp at WW Middle School. Josh said he’s amazed by robots and their capabilities after visiting a Harley Davidson Factory in York, PA, where robots assist in assembling.

Wallenpaupack Area Middle School eighth grader Kristian Sonsteby is one of 16 area students to participate in the first annual Robotics Summer Camp held at the Western Wayne.

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