HUNTSVILLE — Middle and high school students are developing valuable technological skills designing and building robots at Drake State Community and Technical College this summer. The funding comes from a 2022 Meta Community Action Grant.

The first of these camps is this weekend’s MUREP Robotics Bootcamp for high school students. Students signed up through NASA’s Minority University Research and Education Project and the camp will introduce students to the fundamentals of robotics. They will participate in a design challenge to build a basic radio-controlled robot chassis.

The second of these camps is the Meta Middle School Robotics Summer Camp. It will be  July 11-14 from 8 a.m. – noon also on the Drake State campus on Meridian Street. This weeklong camp is for 6^th-, 7^th-, and 8^th-grade students who will build and program solar robots.

Unlike a “typical” summer camp, the robotics camp at Drake State gives students the opportunity to develop critical thinking skills that could lead to careers in aerospace engineering, mobile app and software development, and cybersecurity.