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VEXIQ BATTLE BOTS
VEXIQ BATTLE BOTS
"Dream It. Build it. Battle it." In this event students will work together in small teams and learn fundamental STEAM principles in order to build a robot of their own design that they will battle in our arena of mayhem. No prior experience needed!
DATE: JUNE 6, 2026
TIME: 2-5pm
WHO: 2nd - 9th graders **
**2nd and 3rd graders must have a family member/guardian present during the whole event.
LOCATION: The Lab, 102 E 1st Street, Mineral, VA 23117
COST: $25 per participant, or $15 per participant with adult volunteer
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GLADIATOR BOTS
GLADIATOR BOTS
In this introductory-level summer camp, students learn the basics of VexIQ mechanisms as they work together in small teams to build a battle-worthy robot to enter into our Arena of Mayhem. While robots must battle for survival, beware...the Arena of Mayhem will present new challenges that will stretch the imagination of students and push their robot to the limit.
DATE: JULY 27 - 31, 2026
TIME: 9am - 12pm
WHO: rising 4th - 9th graders
LOCATION: The Lab, 102 E 1st Street, Mineral, VA 23117
COST: $200 per participant, or $100 per participant with adult volunteer
MARVELOUS MACHINES
MARVELOUS MACHINES
In this advanced summer camp, students use their prior knowledge of VexIQ mechanisms to build marvelously complex machines that solve simple tasks. After mastering key mechanisms and principles of motion, students unleash their imaginations to design the most elaborate, multi-step inventions their minds can dream up! (Think Rube Goldberg machine)
DATE: JULY 27 - 31, 2026
TIME: 1pm - 4pm
WHO: rising 5th - 9th graders
LOCATION: The Lab, 102 E 1st Street, Mineral, VA 23117
PREREQUISITE: Students must already be familiar with basic VexIQ mechanisms (gearboxes, lifts, pneumatics, etc.) as this is an ADVANCED summer camp.
COST: $200 per participant, or $100 per participant with adult volunteer
GRAVITY GLITCH
GRAVITY GLITCH
Stop playing games and start creating them at the Gravity Glitch summer camp. Build high-performance video games from scratch using Python and AI models to mirror modern dev environments, prescribing your own laws of physics to create total realism or total chaos. Stay sharp: you’ll troubleshoot intentional "glitches" and live source-code hacks, tracing exploits the moment your gravity flips or your engine goes rogue.
DATE: TBD
TIME: TBD
WHO: TBD
LOCATION: The Lab, 102 E 1st Street, Mineral, VA 23117
COST: TBD
As a 100% volunteer-led 501(c)(3) nonprofit that tries to maintain the lowest rates possible, all registration fees are non-refundable.
In the case of cancellations, those fees will be used to further our goal of providing robotics programming that is affordable and accessible to students of all educational affiliations.
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