Maker Camp is a four-day camp hosted by University Libraries for
students age 10-14. The mission of the camp is to get young students
engaged in hands-on, creative collaboration. Campers receive hands-on experience and use library resources to build arcade games out of recyclable materials, 3-D printed material, and computer parts.
Maker Camp is a four day camp for middle schoolers where they come and learn design thinking, coding, circuitry, prototyping, digital prototyping. Then work together as a group to build an arcade game out of cardboard and up-cycled parts. So the first day of camp is all activities and workshops to learn the kinds of skills they’ll be using in camp. Then they start ideating and building as teams. Our goals in order are safety, fun, and then learning. But I would say that the goal that is most important to me is that they learn to work as a team, to do…