Smithtown Campers Design Robotics For Competition: Photos

Eighth and ninth graders designed robots from scratch and participated in games where their robots tried to pop balloons on the opposing robots and collected as many balls as they could. 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. Smithtown High School East senior Abigail Brennan, who is a member of the Smithtown High School robotics team, helped lead this summer activity for the first time at SCOPE. "If I can get...