Students learn about robotics during UHV summer camp

Stacy Zhang, left, controls a VEX IQ robotic while Christopher Declet and Kathryn Fitzgerald watch during the University of Houston-Victoria's High School Robotics Summer Camp on Friday. The three high school students were demonstrating a competition with another robot on the last day of the camp, which ran from June 19 to 23 at UHV University South, the university's STEM building. Stacy, a 15-year-old student at Calhoun High School, attended a previous robotics camp at UHV, while it was the first time for Christopher, 16, and Kathryn, 16, both students at Victoria West High School. During the camp, participants were introduced to basic robotics and engineering, and were able to gain more knowledge and experience with programming languages. The camp is funded by a grant from Alcoa Foundation.

The University of Houston-Victoria, located in the heart of the Coastal Bend region since 1973 in Victoria, Texas, offers courses leading to more than 50 academic programs in the schools of Arts & Sciences; Business Administration; and Education, Health Professions & Human Development. UHV provides face-to-face classes at its Victoria campus, as well as an instructional site in Katy, Texas, and online classes that students can take from anywhere. UHV supports the American Association of State Colleges and Universities Opportunities for All initiative to increase awareness about state colleges and universities and the important role they have in providing a high-quality and accessible education to an increasingly diverse student population, as well as contributing to regional and state economic development.