Efland-Cheeks Elementary School is gearing up for another year of Robot Camp. This is an event Splatspace has helped out with several times.

They’re looking for volunteers to be mentors for the day of camp. A team of kids are given a box of Lego Mindstorms and are assigned a mentor. The mentor is there to guide the student by asking questions and teaching basic problem solving skills as the children try to design, build, program, and test a sumo-wrestling robot. Volunteers don’t have to have prior experience with robotics, programming, or Lego Mindstorms, and teachers are on hand to help out with the kids. Efland-Cheeks is a Title I school, and over half of their students live in poverty. Their Robot Camp program is huge, and they need volunteers to make it work. It’s not an overstatement to say that Robot Camp changes lives.

This year Robot Camp is happening twice: once on Oct 26th from 9-3, and again on February 22nd from 9-3.

If you’re interested in volunteering, email Kristin Bedell at kristin.bedell@orange.k12.nc.us. The deadline for registering to volunteer is Oct 31st, so even if you’re only interested in or able to volunteer for the Feb 22nd date, you should go ahead and register now.