LASER-TEC Summer Camps 2016
Only eight years old, Thalia Townsend codes with Arduino and experiments with electrical circuit designs. Together with 59 other campers, Thalia attended a LASER-TEC summer camp in June 2016.
A series of 4 LASER-TEC camps kicked off the summer of 2016 at Indian River State College, Tri-County Technical College, SC and Central Carolina Community College, NC. A total of 60 young campers discovered and explored lasers, LEDs, fiber optics, robotics, programming with Arduino, prototyping of circuit designs, and many other cutting-edge technologies during these week-long camps.
Two Lasers and Fiber Optics camps were focused on light, optics, lasers, fiber optics, photonics, and sensors. The Light and Optics Exploration Kit offered a plethora of explorative hands-on activities. The campers mastered their soldering skills and built their own laser-enabled museum security system with an integrated photo alarm system. A thrilling competition among the teams on the best museum security design engaged all campers, LASER-TEC staff, campers’ parents, and even siblings at the last day of the camp.
Two Photonics and Robotics with Arduino camps zoomed into algorithms, programming, communication between software and hardware, circuit prototyping and, of course, photonics and robotics. By programming multiple patterns of prime-color LEDs illumination, students learned the principles of additive color mixing and its multiple industrial applications. Student-designed laser light shows presented to the campers’ families culminated the camp.
To see additional photos from LASER-TEC camps, please visit our Facebook page.
A series of 4 LASER-TEC camps kicked off the summer of 2016 at Indian River State College, Tri-County Technical College, SC and Central Carolina Community College, NC. A total of 60 young campers discovered and explored lasers, LEDs, fiber optics, robotics, programming with Arduino, prototyping of circuit designs, and many other cutting-edge technologies during these week-long camps.
Two Lasers and Fiber Optics camps were focused on light, optics, lasers, fiber optics, photonics, and sensors. The Light and Optics Exploration Kit offered a plethora of explorative hands-on activities. The campers mastered their soldering skills and built their own laser-enabled museum security system with an integrated photo alarm system. A thrilling competition among the teams on the best museum security design engaged all campers, LASER-TEC staff, campers’ parents, and even siblings at the last day of the camp.
Two Photonics and Robotics with Arduino camps zoomed into algorithms, programming, communication between software and hardware, circuit prototyping and, of course, photonics and robotics. By programming multiple patterns of prime-color LEDs illumination, students learned the principles of additive color mixing and its multiple industrial applications. Student-designed laser light shows presented to the campers’ families culminated the camp.
To see additional photos from LASER-TEC camps, please visit our Facebook page.
