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American Robotics Academy

Address: 
3880 Greenhouse Rd #208
Houston , TX , 77084
Phone: 281-599-7626
29° 49' 42.78" N, 95° 42' 8.2476" W
Contact name: 
Dan Taglia, President
Seasons / holidays: 
Ages for which our activities are most appropriate: 
What does it take to create a remote-controlled robot that can walk, drive and turn in any direction? Reach out for, grab, throw or release objects on command? Move and act as YOU design and build them to? Imagination, Technology, Teamwork, AND A WHOLE LOT OF FUN!! Working in teams, we’ll teach you how to design, build and test remote controlled miniature robots. Your robot will compete with other robots in your class in a friendly competition on the last day of camp. All necessary materials, including motors, gears, pulleys, wheels and axles, and microcomputers will be available for student use. It will be up to you and your teammates to put them all together in original ways to make your robot do what you want it to.

Our mission at American Robotics Academy® is to excite, inspire, and motivate young people about the fun, importance and impact of robotics technology in today's world. We hope to stimulate their imagination and creativity by encouraging them to explore, experience, and express themselves through our hands-on interactive robotics program. Held in a friendly, sports-like atmosphere, we focus on team-building, problem solving, creativity and fun. Students will be working with the widely known and popular plastic LEGO building blocks, including the more specialized pieces such as axles, gears, beams, wheels, motors, microcomputers, pneumatics and other parts that will enable them to safely create animated and exciting mechanical movements and other effects. The LEGO Technic System has been adopted as the standard material for robotic designers, because of their sophisticated and powerful set of mechanical design components. The fact that they can be disassembled and reconfigured as necessary is essential in testing, design, and instruction.

 

Our classes teach students to understand "how things work" through hands-on activities that demonstrate the principles of simple and motorized machines. They gain experience with design and problem solving through the use of gears, motors, wheels and axles, pulleys, and remote control devices. Working in age appropriate teams of three, students learn a variety of ways to design a robot to do the things they want it to do. They decide and build, as a team, the best design of their robot for the competition to be held at the end of each class session.

All American Robotics Academy camps are designed around a curriculum that enables students to take a full day/week program or choose to enroll in just morning or afternoon classes.

At American Robotics Academy® , we can provide the guidance and confidence to build simple working robots, as well as the inspiration for more complex robotic inventions.

Academic, Science, Mathematics, Technology/Computers