Robotics Camp Survival Guide: A FLATE Best Practices Guide

This best practices guide from FLATE, the Florida Advanced Technological Education Center of Excellence, is directed at those educators or STEM professionals "interested in learning how to maximize your success for creating and running a middle school summer camp about robotics—with the least amount of problems." Garnered from six years of FLATE's own experience in sponsoring summer robotic camps, this guide outline camp purposes and goals as well as such administrative tasks as funding the camps, finding a location, getting the equipment needed, and conducting communications. The appendices include helpful document templates and examples, including camp flyers, release forms, thank you letters, and follow-up surveys.