The Education to Employment (E2E) lab at Kearny High School held an Innoventors Summer Camp for students in grades 3-12. The three to four day camps focused on computer science and electrical engineering. Elementary students built circuits and programmed littleBits to create several games and a guitar. They applied their innovation, knowledge and skills to design, build and code their own invention for a final project such as a hand waving machine and an automated bedroom using servos, LED matrix, sensors and buttons. Middle and high school students developed mobile apps and Arduino circuits during the three day camp. After developing games and a drawing app, they learned how to connect and code LEDs, servos, proximity sensors and more to an Arduino. The students’ final projects ranged from their own inventive mobile app games based on Pokemon and Endgame to Arduino devices engineered to communicate in Morse Code with lights to one controlled by a mobile app. All students recorded demos and presented their final projects the class.
