CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas – Sixth to eighth graders can learn high-tech coding during a summer camp at Del Mar College from July 18 to July 22.
According to the organizers, registration for the free #Code_IT Camp is underway, and learning opportunities are available for 20 campers.
The code camp was made possible through a $ 14,000 grant from the Texas Workforce Commission (TWC) awarded to Del Mar College.
“We live in a world of high-tech. Fields like computer science can keep the Texas economy competitive on the global stage,” said the organizers.
“What better way to encourage young minds to consider studies and a career in that field than to offer a week of code camp to show them the opportunities that await. And it’s free,” the organizers added.
Now in its fourth year, the camp will run Monday through Friday 18-22. July from 08.30 to 16.30. at the Emergency Training Building (FEMA Dome) on the College’s Windward Campus at 4101 Old Brownsville Rd.
“The high-tech code camp includes lunch every day, and campers will also receive a T-shirt and a programmable mBot Nero robot that they can take home when the camp ends,” said the camp organizers.
Campers will spend the week learning about technology and performing practical activities.
The organizers say that the camp is designed to build participants’ problem-solving and analytical skills while building interest in informatics.
During a week’s camp, participants will receive eight hours of classroom instruction and perform 22 hours of hands-on activities with four types of robots.
This camp is designed to be a team building experience. It offers several levels of coding curriculum focused on spatial reasoning and computer programming, logic-based programming and text-based coding for drones.
“The camp also exposes campers to design logic, computational thinking and language scripting for robots,” said the organizers.
Campers work in the same group all week towards the final project on the last day, the Ultimate Team Challenge.
For more information, contact Camp Coordinator Dara Betz, Director of the DMC Workforce Programs and Corporate Services Division, at 361-698-1093 or dbetz@delmar.edu.
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