COVID-19 Announcement
Thank you for your patience while O-YA works with the Province of Ontario, the City of Ottawa, Ottawa Public Health and our Board of Directors to determine whether we will be able to offer Summer Camps in 2020, and how they will look with COVID-19 restrictions.
After many discussions, unfortunately we have to announce the cancellation of our Steampunk Robotics Tech Camp for 2020. All participants will receive a full refund of paid registration fees.
The Ontario Provincial Ministry of Health has released a set of Guidelines that all Summer Camps must follow during this time of COVID-19 restrictions. Unfortunately, many of these new requirements don’t allow O-YA to offer some of the activities for Steampunk Robotics Tech Camp. Participants in this camp needed to work too closely together and with too many shared supplies that are difficult to clean and disinfect to meet the Guidelines.
Over the summer, please keep your eyes out to O-YA’s social media and email newsletters! O-YA is in the midst of planning some really fun virtual activities for youth, and we hope there will be something offered that will capture the interest of your child(ren).
If you have any questions, please don’t hesitate to contact info@o-ya.ca.
Thank you for your patience while O-YA works with the Province of Ontario, the City of Ottawa, Ottawa Public Health and our Board of Directors to determine whether we will be able to offer Summer Camps in 2020, and how they will look with COVID-19 restrictions.
After many discussions, unfortunately we have to announce the cancellation of our Steampunk Robotics Tech Camp for 2020. All participants will receive a full refund of paid registration fees.
The Ontario Provincial Ministry of Health has released a set of Guidelines that all Summer Camps must follow during this time of COVID-19 restrictions. Unfortunately, many of these new requirements don’t allow O-YA to offer some of the activities for Steampunk Robotics Tech Camp. Participants in this camp needed to work too closely together and with too many shared supplies that are difficult to clean and disinfect to meet the Guidelines.
Over the summer, please keep your eyes out to O-YA’s social media and email newsletters! O-YA is in the midst of planning some really fun virtual activities for youth, and we hope there will be something offered that will capture the interest of your child(ren).
If you have any questions, please don’t hesitate to contact info@o-ya.ca.
Dates: Monday, July 27 - Friday, July 31, 2020
Times: 8 am - 5 pm
Grades: 5 - 9
Location: Osgoode Youth Association (O-YA); 5479 Osgoode Main Street, Osgoode Village
Join us during the week of July 27 for a combination Camp - Robotics Workshop in the morning and O-YA Camp activities in the afternoon!
Registration can be completed at: www.eventbrite.ca/e/steampunk-robotics-tech-camp-tickets-91050988959
Daily Camp Schedule:
8 am - 9 am; Drop off & Free Time
9 am - 12 pm; Robotics Workshop & Challenges
12 pm - 12:30 pm; Lunch
12:30 pm - 5 pm; O-YA Camp Activities
The goal of the workshop is to give participants the tools needed to be able to compete in robotics competitions. The workshop will focus primarily on the Ottawa Robotics Competition (http://www.orc.ieeeottawa.ca/en/) and will emulate the challenges that are part of that competition. The two main aspects of robotics (the construction of the physical robot and the programming of the robot to perform tasks) will be taught. LEGO Technic will be used to build the robot all LEGO Technic pieces will be provided by the workshop coordinators. The software used to program the robots will the drag and drop based interface developed by LEGO.
The Robotics Workshop is being taught by Gabe Braden, a Grade 12 High School student in Beckwith and owner of Steampunk Robotics, and supervised by O-YA Youth Workers.
Robotics Workshop Notes
Items to be brought by participants:
If a team is not able to compete the challenge in the tie designated to them, they will be given the choice to continue working on the challenge the next day, or move and leave the challenge uncompleted. There will be 3 campers per robot.
Times: 8 am - 5 pm
Grades: 5 - 9
Location: Osgoode Youth Association (O-YA); 5479 Osgoode Main Street, Osgoode Village
Join us during the week of July 27 for a combination Camp - Robotics Workshop in the morning and O-YA Camp activities in the afternoon!
Registration can be completed at: www.eventbrite.ca/e/steampunk-robotics-tech-camp-tickets-91050988959
Daily Camp Schedule:
8 am - 9 am; Drop off & Free Time
9 am - 12 pm; Robotics Workshop & Challenges
12 pm - 12:30 pm; Lunch
12:30 pm - 5 pm; O-YA Camp Activities
The goal of the workshop is to give participants the tools needed to be able to compete in robotics competitions. The workshop will focus primarily on the Ottawa Robotics Competition (http://www.orc.ieeeottawa.ca/en/) and will emulate the challenges that are part of that competition. The two main aspects of robotics (the construction of the physical robot and the programming of the robot to perform tasks) will be taught. LEGO Technic will be used to build the robot all LEGO Technic pieces will be provided by the workshop coordinators. The software used to program the robots will the drag and drop based interface developed by LEGO.
The Robotics Workshop is being taught by Gabe Braden, a Grade 12 High School student in Beckwith and owner of Steampunk Robotics, and supervised by O-YA Youth Workers.
Robotics Workshop Notes
Items to be brought by participants:
- Laptop (students without a laptop can be added to a group with a laptop if needed)
- Mindstorms EV3 software will need to be installed. We will walk participants or parents through this process
- Indoor shoes, a snack and lunch packed daily
If a team is not able to compete the challenge in the tie designated to them, they will be given the choice to continue working on the challenge the next day, or move and leave the challenge uncompleted. There will be 3 campers per robot.
