Battle Bots Camp Happening in Somerset

SOMERSET, OH – The Builder’s Club of Somerset offers their community a place to built and learn with onsite equipment and technology and this week they held a Battle Bot Camp for children.

This summer camp, led by instructor Chester Stanley, gives kids the chance to engage in engineering, robotics, and competition with a contest held at the end of the camp to see who built the best battle bot.

“It offers the kids an opportunity to, for free, to build some understanding of engineering. But I think it’s, we’re doing a lot of things. We’re building resistance and resilience. There’s a lot of failure here. They have to rebuild their parts, it doesn’t work the first time. They have to overcome that adversity and then in the end they get something that work and so it’s a good sense of accomplishment. So I think it instills a lot of qualities that we want to see in our adults as they grow in this community,” Stanley said.

This camp was made free to the participants thanks to a partnership with Perry County Jobs and Family Services as well as Hocking Athens Perry Community Action.

“These community partnerships are essential. It helps us, it helps them. Obviously, you know, they have a big focus on workforce developement and understanding that sometimes that starts a young age. So, I’m really glad that we can support each other in this and this relationship continues to grow over the years that Builders Club has been here and established. So we continue to find creative programming to develop together,” said Erik Peterson, manager at Builder’s Club of Somerset.

Visit the Builder’s Club of Somerset’s website for more information, or to register your child for the next Battle Bots Camp session.