Kids learn how to build and operate Lego robots at summer camp
Saskatchewan has joined the FIRST Lego League
Kids aged nine to 14-years-old are training at the University of Regina. The skills they are working on? Lego and robotics.
Saskatchewan has joined the For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology (FIRST) Lego League.
Children learn to build and program robots to complete tasks.
"Helping kid be engaged in competing in other STEM subjects, science, technology, engineering and math, so they might be better engaged citizens as they grow up because these things are becoming more important in daily life," explained Daryl Hepting, an associate professor in the department of computer science at the University of Regina.
The first provincial championship will take place in December, but the 2015 TRASH TREK Challenge begins on Aug. 25. In that competition, kids are challenged to solve real-world trash problems by thinking like scientists and engineers.
"To think in new ways about the things we throw away," Hepting said. "So whether we need to throw them away, or if they can be recycled or reused or repurposed."
More than 230,000 children in over 80 countries will take part in the TRASH TREK Challenge.