Diaz, of Riverview, will be a sixth-grader at Ferrell Girls Preparatory Academy this fall. She is one of 18 who attended the all-girls robotics camp at Hillsborough Community College last week.
In teams of two, the girls’ final project was to program their Lego Mindstorm EV3 robots to quickly traverse an obstacle course of about 50 water bottles. The robots need to make five turns, pick up a small Lego piece and then get back into the finish line. Every move is calculated in advance and the teams lose points for each water bottle knocked over.
