"Gavin Therriault and Ben Lasselle spent three days building their little robot and training it to navigate a maze... The steps the kids learn...run a full range of basic computer programming and problem-solving skills. They must program the robot to follow a set of instructions and to interpret sound, touch and visual data.
"Auburn's program is one of 30 similar camps offered by Maine Robotics this summer. ... Executive Director Tom Bickford said he looks at camps like the one in Auburn as development leagues for the high school competition. "If you think about it, the FIRST competitors are doing professional-level engineering," Bickford said. "But we can't wait to start working with those kids until they get to high school. If we wait, we'd miss so many students who had never thought about engineering, computer science or the whole technology component."
http://www.sunjournal.com/news/lewiston-auburn/2013/07/24/auburn-camp-hones-robot-skills/1397365
