<body><div><figure><img src="https://img.particlenews.com/image.php?type=thumbnail_580x000&amp;url=26KgzZ_0uKqYwFh00" alt="https://img.particlenews.com/image.php?url=26KgzZ_0uKqYwFh00" width="650" height="488" ><figcaption>Northwestern Michigan College president Nick Nissley visited the middle school students participating in the 2024 Husky Robotics summer camp in June.&nbsp; (Submitted photo/Marc Alderman) </figcaption></figure> BENZONIA — <a href="https://www.huskyrobotics.me/" rel="nofollow"> Husky Robotics </a> partnered with <a href="https://www.nmc.edu/programs/k12-programs/index.html#:~:text=College%20for%20Kids%3A%20Providing%20enrichment,students%20entering%20grades%202%2D9." rel="nofollow"> Northwestern Michigan College </a> for the robotics team's summer camp. The camp is for middle school robotics students, according to robotics coach Marc Alderman. He said students participated in a game created for the camp called Battle Bots Freeze Tag. "Students worked collaboratively to set the rules of engagement and then build a robot with bump sensor targets to register hits and light-emitting diodes to show robot status," Alderman said. "They designed, built, and programmed the robot in just three and half days culminating in a double elimination tournament to crown the champion." The students also participated in a battle royal&nbsp;match. "This year, the camp was small but mighty with fewer campers than previous years,"Alderman said. "We were able to turn this into a positive by letting each camper build a robot on their own. This way kids that usually build are pushed into doing more programming and vice versa." Alderman said the change helped create ownership in the robots created. During camp, students also got a visit from Northwestern Michigan University's president Nick&nbsp;Nissley. "I was inspired by the sixth and eighth-graders who were designing, building, and programming robots to compete in a challenge," he <a href="https://www.facebook.com/NorthwesternMichiganCollege/posts/pfbid0MnXFKNYZLbxzogofLZM2LAYTRHDKatXXweQeM8hAphj9XihqgjFi5bjU79yXipupl" rel="nofollow"> wrote in a Facebook post. </a> "It was impressive to watch Benzie Central High School teacher Marc Alderman coach the students through problem-solving as they created their robots." Alderman said the robotics&nbsp;summer camp started in 2019. </div></body>

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Husky Robotics teams up with NMC for summer camp

\"This year, the camp was small but mighty with fewer campers than previous years. ... We were able to turn this into a positive by letting each camper build a robot on their own.\"

"This year, the camp was small but mighty with fewer campers than previous years. ... We were able to turn this into a positive by letting each camper build a robot on their own."