Smithtown Central School District students attending Summer Camp Opportunities Promote Education (SCOPE) summer camp recently took part in a VEX and Lego Robotics competition at Accompsett Middle School.
Eighth and ninth graders designed robots from scratch and participated in games where their robots competed against one another.
“If I can get people to get involved with robotics and love it as much as I do, that’s all I could ask for,” said Smithtown High School East senior Abigail Brennan, who helped lead this summer activity for the first time at SCOPE.
Beyond science and engineering principles, VEX Robotics solutions encourage creativity, teamwork, leadership, passion and problem-solving among groups. Younger campers designed lego robots to complete obstacle courses.