
Cedar
Point
Elementary
School
recently
hosted
15
Marsteller
Middle
School
students
for
a
Tech
Camp,
sponsored
by
Qualcomm,
a
leading
organization
in
the
technology
industry.
During
the
week-long
camp,
students
explored
their
strengths,
interests,
and
values.
Students
programmed
positional
and
continuous
servomotors.
A
positional
servomotor
can
be
programmed
to
rotate
to
any
angle
between
0
and
180
degrees,
and
a
continuous
servomotor
can
be
programmed
to
spin
continuously
clockwise
or
counterclockwise.
In
addition,
students
decorated
hats
designed
and
constructed
out
of
cardboard,
encouraging
students
to
be
creative
by
using
recycled
materials.
Students
then
used
the
coding
skills
gained
to
program
their
servomotors,
to
build
and
design
an
automated
hat,
using
light-emitting
diodes
(LED)s.
Eighth
grader,
Emlyn
Monti,
shared,
"Horses
are
a
big
part
of
my
life,
so
I'm
going
to
glue
a
small
horse
[figurine]
to
a
continuous
servomotor
so
that
it
spins
in
pirouette,
which
is
a
dressage
move."
Sixth
grade
student,
Gianna
Rodriguez,
said,
"I
liked
that
we
learned
about
coding
because
I
want
to
join
Robotics
[club],
and
this
will
help
me
be
prepared
for
when
I
join."
Rodriguez
highlighted
a
part
of
the
code
sequence
on
her
laptop
screen
stating,
"Here
it
says
void
loop,
so
the
motor
knows
to
spin
180
degrees
forever."
Rodriguez
was
using
code
to
program
her
servomotor
to
spin
continuously
so
that
she
could
adhere
a
circular
cardboard
piece
to
it
with
facts
about
herself
and
have
the
top
of
her
hat
spin.
Students
practiced
their
critical-thinking
skills
to
find
ways
to
solve
problems.
"My
favorite
part
of
Tech
Camp
has
been
the
challenges
and
thinking
about
what
we
can
do
better
or
simpler.
One
of
the
challenges
we
had
to
face
was
calculating
weights
and
see
if
the
items
we
wanted
to
put
on
our
hats
would
be
too
heavy
for
the
servo
motors
to
spin,"
shared
eighth
grader,
Madlyn
Christian.
Adair
Solomon,
innovative
technology
teacher
at
Cedar
Point,
said,
"Tech
week
is
engaging-rich
in
fun
and
learning.
The
girls
explore
the
technical
and
creative
aspects
of
circuitry,
coding,
and
engineering.
More
importantly,
they
learn
about
themselves.
By
exploring
their
individual
strengths,
interests,
and
values,
they
are
empowered
as
they
discover
that
there
are
endless
opportunities
available
to
them
as
inventors
of
the
future."