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STARBASE BattleBot Camps In Eastern Oregon Focus On STEM Skills (Photo) - 07/08/22

SALEM, Ore. – STARBASE Umatilla, near Hermiston, Oregon is providing a STEM camp opportunity from July 12-14 and again on August 2-4, 2022. These camps run for three days beginning at 9:00 am to 2:00 pm each day and are open to all 4th-7th grade students. 

These camps allow students to develop and enhance their programming, engineering, and design skills by completing unique challenges over the course of the 3-day camp.  All of the knowledge and experience they accumulate over the course of the camp will come together in a culminating event featuring a BattleBots bracket style tournament and a no holds barred battle royale using Lego Robots students build with their own two hands.

In small group settings students will be engaged in designing, constructing, programming, testing, and evaluating the SPIKE PRIME / EV3 LEGO® Mindstorm robots as well as Sphero® robots. 

Previously attending a traditional STARBASE academy may be helpful, but is not at all required. To sign up for these camp and others provided please visit: https://www.starbaseoregon.com/

There are four STARBASE Academies in Oregon. 

  • STARBASE Kingsley (Air National Guard Base) in Klamath Falls
  • STARBASE Portland in Portland (Air National Guard Base)
  • STARBASE Camp Rilea in Warrenton
  • STARBASE Camp Umatilla in Hermiston

The STARBASE Academies are entirely federally funded by the Department of Defense and are all located on military installations. The technology rich environment allows students to experience the first-hand “real world” application of STEM skills, offering a curriculum unavailable to them outside of the STARBASE Academies. Class size is limited so students will be registered on a first-come-first-served basis.

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Released File Photos:

210521-Z-CH590-0021: Oregon STARBASE Director Denise Kortes, along with Todd Farmer welcome local school officials and other guest to the Camp Umatilla, formally known as the Umatilla Chemical Depot, Umatilla, Oregon for a sneak peek of the new STARBASE program education building, on May 21, 2021. As the fourth STARBASE Academy in Oregon, the students are getting an early start before the formal grand opening in September when all area students return to classrooms as COVID-19 conditions improve for all local students. (National Guard photo by John Hughel, Oregon Military Department Public Affairs)

210521-Z-CH590-0040: David Stuckey, Deputy Director for the Oregon Military Department (center) observes 5th and 6th grade students from the Umatilla school district designing and testing Straw Rockets at the new STARBASE Academy at the Umatilla Chemical Depot, Umatilla, Oregon on May 21, 2021. As the fourth STARBASE Academy in Oregon, the students are getting an early start before the formal grand opening in September when all area students return to classrooms as COVID-19 conditions improve for all local students. (National Guard photo by John Hughel, Oregon Military Department)

210521-Z-CH590-0057: Umatilla 5th and 6th grade students spend the afternoon designing and testing Straw Rockets at the new STARBASE Academy at the Umatilla Chemical Depot, Umatilla, Oregon on May 21, 2021. As the fourth STARBASE Academy in Oregon, the students are getting an early start before the formal grand opening in September when all area students return to classrooms as COVID-19 conditions improve for all local students. (National Guard photo by John Hughel, Oregon Military Department Public Affairs)

210521-Z-CH590-0069: Umatilla 5th and 6th grade students spend the afternoon designing and testing Straw Rockets at the new STARBASE Academy at the Umatilla Chemical Depot, Umatilla, Oregon on May 21, 2021. As the fourth STARBASE Academy in Oregon, the students are getting an early start before the formal grand opening in September when all area students return to classrooms as COVID-19 conditions improve for all local students. (National Guard photo by John Hughel, Oregon Military Department Public Affairs)

210328-Z-NV612-1002: Fifth grade students from Ferguson Elementary School learn about chemical reactions during STARBASE at Kingsley Field in Klamath Falls, Oregon on March 29, 2021. Students were finally able to attend in person instruction at STARBASE beginning in early March. (Air National Guard photo by Senior Master Sgt. Jennifer Shirar)

210328-Z-NV612-1004: Fifth grade students from Ferguson Elementary School have the opportunity to learn about chemical reactions during STARBASE at Kingsley Field in Klamath Falls, Oregon on March 29, 2021. Students were finally able to attend in person instruction at STARBASE beginning in early March. (Air National Guard photo by Senior Master Sgt. Jennifer Shirar)

 

Attached Media Files: 210521-Z-CH590-0069, 210521-Z-CH590-0057, 210521-Z-CH590-0040, 210521-Z-CH590-0021, 210328-Z-NV612-1004, 210328-Z-NV612-1002,

STARBASE BattleBot Camps In Eastern Oregon Focus On STEM Skills (Photo) - 07/08/22

SALEM, Ore. – STARBASE Umatilla, near Hermiston, Oregon is providing a STEM camp opportunity from July 12-14 and again on August 2-4, 2022. These camps run for three days beginning at 9:00 am to 2:00 pm each day and are open to all 4th-7th grade students. 

These camps allow students to develop and enhance their programming, engineering, and design skills by completing unique challenges over the course of the 3-day camp.  All of the knowledge and experience they accumulate over the course of the camp will come together in a culminating event featuring a BattleBots bracket style tournament and a no holds barred battle royale using Lego Robots students build with their own two hands.

In small group settings students will be engaged in designing, constructing, programming, testing, and evaluating the SPIKE PRIME / EV3 LEGO® Mindstorm robots as well as Sphero® robots. 

Previously attending a traditional STARBASE academy may be helpful, but is not at all required. To sign up for these camp and others provided please visit: https://www.starbaseoregon.com/

There are four STARBASE Academies in Oregon. 

  • STARBASE Kingsley (Air National Guard Base) in Klamath Falls
  • STARBASE Portland in Portland (Air National Guard Base)
  • STARBASE Camp Rilea in Warrenton
  • STARBASE Camp Umatilla in Hermiston

The STARBASE Academies are entirely federally funded by the Department of Defense and are all located on military installations. The technology rich environment allows students to experience the first-hand “real world” application of STEM skills, offering a curriculum unavailable to them outside of the STARBASE Academies. Class size is limited so students will be registered on a first-come-first-served basis.

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Released File Photos:

210521-Z-CH590-0021: Oregon STARBASE Director Denise Kortes, along with Todd Farmer welcome local school officials and other guest to the Camp Umatilla, formally known as the Umatilla Chemical Depot, Umatilla, Oregon for a sneak peek of the new STARBASE program education building, on May 21, 2021. As the fourth STARBASE Academy in Oregon, the students are getting an early start before the formal grand opening in September when all area students return to classrooms as COVID-19 conditions improve for all local students. (National Guard photo by John Hughel, Oregon Military Department Public Affairs)

210521-Z-CH590-0040: David Stuckey, Deputy Director for the Oregon Military Department (center) observes 5th and 6th grade students from the Umatilla school district designing and testing Straw Rockets at the new STARBASE Academy at the Umatilla Chemical Depot, Umatilla, Oregon on May 21, 2021. As the fourth STARBASE Academy in Oregon, the students are getting an early start before the formal grand opening in September when all area students return to classrooms as COVID-19 conditions improve for all local students. (National Guard photo by John Hughel, Oregon Military Department)

210521-Z-CH590-0057: Umatilla 5th and 6th grade students spend the afternoon designing and testing Straw Rockets at the new STARBASE Academy at the Umatilla Chemical Depot, Umatilla, Oregon on May 21, 2021. As the fourth STARBASE Academy in Oregon, the students are getting an early start before the formal grand opening in September when all area students return to classrooms as COVID-19 conditions improve for all local students. (National Guard photo by John Hughel, Oregon Military Department Public Affairs)

210521-Z-CH590-0069: Umatilla 5th and 6th grade students spend the afternoon designing and testing Straw Rockets at the new STARBASE Academy at the Umatilla Chemical Depot, Umatilla, Oregon on May 21, 2021. As the fourth STARBASE Academy in Oregon, the students are getting an early start before the formal grand opening in September when all area students return to classrooms as COVID-19 conditions improve for all local students. (National Guard photo by John Hughel, Oregon Military Department Public Affairs)

210328-Z-NV612-1002: Fifth grade students from Ferguson Elementary School learn about chemical reactions during STARBASE at Kingsley Field in Klamath Falls, Oregon on March 29, 2021. Students were finally able to attend in person instruction at STARBASE beginning in early March. (Air National Guard photo by Senior Master Sgt. Jennifer Shirar)

210328-Z-NV612-1004: Fifth grade students from Ferguson Elementary School have the opportunity to learn about chemical reactions during STARBASE at Kingsley Field in Klamath Falls, Oregon on March 29, 2021. Students were finally able to attend in person instruction at STARBASE beginning in early March. (Air National Guard photo by Senior Master Sgt. Jennifer Shirar)

 

Attached Media Files: 210521-Z-CH590-0069, 210521-Z-CH590-0057, 210521-Z-CH590-0040, 210521-Z-CH590-0021, 210328-Z-NV612-1004, 210328-Z-NV612-1002,