SWAINSBORO, Ga. (WFXG) – Emanuel County is once again bringing STEM education to students this summer with its annual “Techie Camp.”
For four days, students have learned about technology, including programming, coding and other uses.
Some of the students shared what they’ve been learning this past week.
“How to code an actual game that actually works, so that’s been really cool, and then, kind of the starting pieces of a game app is kind of what we learned,” Alli Woodward, a student who returned for her third year, said.
“We learned how to make a tracker. And we made a light sensor,” Nathan Aguilar said.
“How the radio receiver and transmitter transmissions work,” sixth-grader Jackson Hodges said.
“We worked with micro bits, like mini microchips…and you can code them to do whatever you want,” Caroline Williford, another student, said.
The camp, which is led by Emanuel County Schools in partnership with Tech Corps and the Nordson Corporation Foundation, divides the students into two groups based on age.
“We have a third through fifth [grade] group and then a sixth through eighth [grade] group,” Shanna Foskey, one of the instructors, said. “And we teach different coding skills. This year, we broke it down to the basics of everything and the students learn what coding can do for them and how you use it in different roles that they can do.”
Some of the students say this camp is something they’ve been looking forward to for a long time.
I wanted to grow up to be an engineer, and I like coding. So, tech camp was the perfect thing for me, so when I got invited to come, I jumped at the offer,” Hodges said.
“I came my first year and then I’ve come back ever since because I loved it so much. It was so much fun the first year, and it’s been fun since,” Woodward said.
“It’s like part of who I am,” Williford said. “It’s just very entertaining and if I could do it at home, I would do it every day.”
