Just completed my 5th camp and had a blast!!. Every year I plan my camp around fun games that they can complete to earn points. Every team earns points for finishing, the top three teams earn extra points, and I also give points to students who show good sportsmanship (good to do since they have never worked together before). I started with 8 kids 5 years ago and now I’m up to 28! The students are ages 7-15 so I have to come up wth fun activites for a large ages group.
Every students gets a certificate, candy and a Smiley Cookie. Second and third place receive little trophies I bought at Walmart.
This years winners: Team Error 404 won the overall prize for the week. I used some discs from last years VE game “Spin up” as my gold medals.
Relay Race-Students had to use their remotes to move their robot go through the maze. If they knocked a pin over, they had to start over, and a teammate “spotter” could help reset the field. Each team took a turn with the remote, so they went back and forth through the course as a relay. The programmed their robots on a different day to go trough the maze as well.
Clue- I found a giant Clue game on Amazon. I laid out the “board” and 4 teams played against each other at a time. They had several programs that directed the robot to move certain number of squares and turn either right or left. Don’t worry the Clue game replaced the knife and gun with a rubber chicken and plunger, lol
Building Activities- I always want the kids building every day, so we do and engineering design project in the morning. This year in addition to building our robot and altering it for a challenge, we also built an egg carrying contraption they used in a relay race outside, and a car to carry “Sammy” down a ramp, The cars had to get past the bumper blocks and then were measured for distance.
Battlebots- I always end with Battlebots, they all love it. It gives me a chance to collect the sensors (they can’t have them on the bots when fighting), and they are going to tear down the robots to put them away, so I don’t care how much they alter them.
And the old game pieces as medals - so cool! 
