RICHLAND, Wash. Elementary-age children will show off their new science knowledge to parents at 10 a.m. Friday, July 23, by building and racing a giant insect motorized K’nex robot.
This is the “big event” for the Robot Factory Summer Science Camp being held this week at Washington State University Tri-Cities. This day camp investigates what makes robots tick and how they are changing the world.
Campers are doing hands-on activities such as listening to electronic ears, viewing a robot’s eye in 3-D, creating a crazy invention and preparing to compete in the Robo-Olympics at the end of the week.
This is the fifth of eight summer science camps held on the WSU Tri-Cities campus for children who will be entering kindergarten through fifth grade in Fall 2010. The day camps are led by certified local teachers using curriculum from Champions Science Adventures, a division of Knowledge Learning Corp. Other camp themes are Space and Rocketry, Go Wild! Animal Adventure, Mystery of the Pharaoh’s Treasure, Innovate: Renewable Energy & Eco-Systems, Wonder: Engineering & Art, and Create: Physics & Ecology.
For information on registering for upcoming full-day and half-day science camps, visit www.tricity.wsu.edu/summersciencecamp or call 372-7606.
Directions to Friday morning’s event: Drive north on George Washington Way, pass Hanford High School, turn right at the second sign for WSU Tri-Cities at the stoplight with University Drive. Turn right into campus then an immediate left into the Consolidated Information Center parking lot. The Robot Factory activities are downstairs in the CIC.
WSU Tri-Cities is along the Columbia River in Richland, Wash. Established in 1989 with upper division and graduate programs, WSU Tri-Cities offers 17 baccalaureate, 13 master’s and six doctoral degree programs. The campus became a full four-year public university in 2007, extending the WSU land-grant mission of providing affordable, accessible higher education.