Summer robotics camps! 

Summer camp is a fun week filled with FIRST fundamentals and robots!  We are offering several different camps this year.  If your child is interested in attending both sessions we are offering an option to stay over for lunch. 

FIRST participation is not mandatory for the summer camp.  Even if you are not on a team, you will enjoy working with the robots at camp.  Our camps are open to students from anywhere!  You do not have to be a Bedford Public Schools student to attend them. 

Each full week  camper will receive a summer camp t-shirt to wear on Friday.  

Parents are invited to attend a presentation and award ceremony during the last hour on Friday.   

All summer camps are led by Bedford Express Students and held at the Bedford Robotics Center at 1135 Smith Road, Temperance, MI 48182.  This is the former Smith Road Elementary School Gym.  The center is not air-conditioned, so students should dress appropriately for warm weather.  

SATURDAY CAMPS - More Information COMING SOON: 

Sumo Robotics (FLL Coaches and Mentors):   Sumo Robotics campers will be broken into age brackets to work on building Sumobots which will be used to wrestle with other sumobots during camp.  This competition will involve two robots in a circular ring, with the goal being to push your opponent out of the ring or otherwise disabling them within the time limit. While pushing your opponent out of the ring is the most common way to win a round, disabling your opponent (flipping, lifting, etc.) is strongly encouraged.  The intent is not to damage your opponent's robot.  This camp is exclusively for BPS FLL Coaches and Mentors.

• Session 1:    TBD

Sumo Robotics (4th - 12th graders):   Sumo Robotics campers will be broken into age brackets to work on building Sumobots which will be used to wrestle with other sumobots during camp.  This competition will involve two robots in a circular ring, with the goal being to push your opponent out of the ring or otherwise disabling them within the time limit. While pushing your opponent out of the ring is the most common way to win a round, disabling your opponent (flipping, lifting, etc.) is strongly encouraged.  The intent is not to damage your opponent's robot.  This camp requires the use of your own Lego Mindstorms Kit, or signing up to borrow one (limited supply).

• Session 1:    TBD

Programming (6th - 8th graders):  This camp will spend a week digging deeper into java programming to solve more complicated tasks.   Students interested in being a programmer on a FTC team would benefit from this camp.  

• Session 1:    TBD

Bots and Girls  (K- 12th graders):  This camp is for ladies only!  Girls will be introduced and work with the big robots, parts and tools used to create robots, and basic robot  and STEAM (Science, Technology. Engineering, Art, Mathematics) skills.     

• Session 1:    TBD