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Middle school students learn about robotics during summer camp


Mandeep Jain, left, and Robert Jones, both eighth-graders at Howell Middle School, work on their robot’s program Tuesday during the Middle School Robotics Summer Camp at the University of Houston-Victoria. During the camp, seven students from area middle schools learned how to program robots to complete tasks such as detecting colors and following a path marked out by a black line. The camp is one of several mathematics and robotics summer camps at UHV that are funded by a grant from Alcoa Foundation.

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