Having a Great Monday at Chatham!

Week 2 is off to a great start at Chatham! We have some new campers as well as some familiar faces from last week! During morning break, we played name games and each camper got to share interesting facts about themselves!

We are looking forward to having a great second week! Students will take part in classes such as Shark Tank, Minecraft, Robotics, Machinework, Chess, as well as many more exciting classes! Stay tuned for more blog posts and pictures from all of us over in Chatham!

What I Like the Most About Robotics

What I like most about robotics is the building process - one step at a time, piece by piece and focus.  It takes patience and control and at the end it is done and ends up nice and good!  

The End

 

By:  R.Z. (Chatham)

Short Hills: End of Week 3 Student Blogs

"This camp is so fun! I take Robotics and Minecraft. The teachers are so nice here! This camp is the best place ever." -J.P.

"I really enjoy this camp because of several things. The teachers are really nice, during breaks and activities we do a lot of active things. There's also a day to get wet, it's called Wet Day! If you like legos, then you should really checkout the Robotics class. Also, you can meet a lot of new friends here!" -S.B. 

"This camp is really fun. We get to build cool stuff. In the morning I'm in Robotics class and in the afternoon, I'm in Minecraft. My most favorite creation that I built in Robotics class was the Explorer robot. In Minecraft, my favorite part was building and creating my house. So far, I've had a good time at camp!" -R.A.

"In Video Game Creation class, you create your own video games using special commands to program the objects to do things. But before you can create the objects for the game, you first need to create spirits. Otherwise, your objects won't have any faces. You can customize and upload pictures for the spirits. Currently, this is my favorite class!" -A.B.

"This week has been amazing so far! I am taking Video Game Creation and Brain Training at International Ivy. The camp is really great! The counselors are so kind and generous. I hope we can come here for another week. International Ivy ROCKS!" -S.N.

"I am doing an incredible and fun video game in my Video Game Creation class. You get to make your own video games and play them. The Video Game Creation class teaches you how to make your own game. I took Video Game Creation 1, and I'm currently taking Video Game Creation 2. Video Game Creation 2 is much harder than 1, but 2 is more fun than 1. This video game class is awesome ! I recommend this class for people who want to have fun and like being creative." -E.H.

"Future Engineers and Inventors is an awesome class. Yesterday we made these really cool bouncy balls. We had to wait for the bouncy balls to dry but at home I got to bounce it all I wanted to. One time we made catapults! We had a competition to see who could launch Sour Patch Kids in a bucket and I won! I love this class and its my favorite!" -N.P.

"Video Game Creation 2 was fun. I liked how I was able to learn to make games that I play at home sometimes. Although my class was class, I felt like I got more individual attention. Overall, I had a good experience and I would recommend this class to others." -N.W.

"Future Engineers and Inventors was my favorite class. On the first day of my class the teacher talked about so many people who invented stuff." - N.R.

"International Ivy is a great place to be. I'm learning so much from my teacher Nicole. With the help of the Future Engineers and Inventors class I can become an inventor when I grow up. I like this class and I love International Ivy summer camp. - E.P.

"In Minecraft you can build, hunt, fly, and blow things up. My favorite part is building. Once, I blew up part of a TNT wall and I replaced it with iron ore, gold ore, coal ore, and solid gold. - B.C.

"I did the Video Game Creation class. On the first day we made a game called Catch the Clown. On day two we made Evil Clutches. On day three we made Galactic Mail. On days four and five we got to make out own games! I really enjoyed this class!! - M.S.

Chatham Robotics Life Forms

My favorite class is the Robotics Life Forms.  I did robotics with my friend before but he didn't teach me much.  In this class, we had fun and created all sorts of robots that were fun to watch as they rolled around the room.  I enjoyed making the robots and programming them.  I learned a lot in this class and it was more fun than any other class I took.  ~B.W.

Chatham Robotics

I am in Robotic life forms.  I love it because we build the most exciting things!  The best thing I thought we did was build a claw striker.  We got to make a claw striker!  Awesome!  S.L.

NXT Robotics Lifeforms - Chatham

I am in the NXT Robotics Lifeforms class.  It is fun building and programming robots that act and look like real animals or lifeforms.  My favorite robot was the clawstriker because it was cool how the claw could find a target and attack it all on its own.  This is a very fun class and there are many cool activities.  Every day we build cool robots and learn many new things.  - A.S.

Chatham Week 2 - Robotics

"My favorite robot is the 5 minute bot. I favor it because it can detect colors with its color sensor.  I programmed mine to follow the trail of a black line when the sensor detected it  Even when the line twisted and turned it still followed.  Then, a track of lines was assembled and the goal was to stay on the floor parts of the course  I programmed it to do that and it worked!" - KLT

Chatham Week 2 - Robotics

"My favorite thing to do in my class robotics is to build.  I like the building part because you get to create and recreate. You an make it big, small, tall, short, strong ,weak or stylable.  To make your robot perfect, you will have to follow each direction carefully. If you are not careful you will have a disaster or maybe a good robot. The rules are to listen, behave and HAVE FUN!!!" - S.B.

Chatham Week 1 Youtube Link

You can see a wonderful video made by our counselor, Chloe, about all of the wonderful classes from Week 1.  You can click on the Youtube link here.


Keep checking back for more videos and pictures!

Week 5 Robotics Class

My favorite thing about this class is making the robot do things.  I like to make it cry and talk a I like the styles it moves.  This is one of the best camps I've ever been to! 


By: A.H. 

Camp

This camp is awesome!! :)  The tribots are so cool!  There are also claws of doom so you can fight!! :)


**S.S. 

Robotics Class - 7/18/2012

Just now in Robotics, I learned how to use the switch with the light sensor.  When you program your robot with a light switch and put it in a black rung it will not escape as long as you programmed it right.  It is so cool.             -R.G.

Today in Lego Robotics A, I built and added claws to my tribot.  We learned how to program it to multitask.  It is awesome. 


-R.G.