Students in the Zero Robotics workshop, which was offered to St. Helens Middle School students over the summer, work on laptops during the workshop where students learned to write computer programming and coding to maneuver a space tool called a SPHERE.
Students in the Zero Robotics workshop show their parents, grandparents and other visitors, what they've been working on during an open house event on Thursday, Aug. 8.
Katelyn Leonard, center, shows her mom, Teresa Leonard, the computer program she learned how to use during the Zero Robotics summer workshop. Around the room, other students show parents and other family members some of the projects they completed during the program and discussed what they learned.
Kendra Monahan gets ready to launch a rocket made out of a plastic bottle as a demonstration during one of the last days of the summer Zero Robotics workshop. The students took turns launching their rockets as friends and family members watched from the fenceline.
Another student gets ready to launch a rocket made out of a plastic bottle as a demonstration during one of the last days of the summer Zero Robotics workshop.
Another student gets ready to launch a rocket made out of a plastic bottle as a demonstration during one of the last days of the summer Zero Robotics workshop.
Students in the Zero Robotics workshop offered to St. Helens Middle School students over the summer visited OMSI on Friday, Aug. 9. The students watched a video-feed of astronauts on the International Space Station enter student-created code into a SPHERE robot to perform tasks.