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From left: Dark Side Robotics mentors Matt Tucker, Ken Ross, and Amy Stewart inspect a robot prototype built by students from several area high schools. Dark Side Robotics members will be at RoboCamp July 8-12 at Discovery World on Market. (Photo provided)

PARKERSBURG — Mid-Ohio Valley RoboCamp, a week-long hands-on robotics camp, will be held July 8-12 at Discovery World on Market.

Dark Side Robotics members lead STEM-interested campers ages 11-14 on a robotics journey filled with fun activities, robot construction, and coding challenges. Participants will learn about building and coding robots using VEX IQ robotics kits, and no previous robotics experience is required.

The camp will take place daily from 4:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. from July 8-12 at Discovery World at Market, 900 Market St.

Cost is $100, plus $20 for a camp T-shirt, of which campers must bring the T-shirt money on the first day. Bringing a laptop is preferred, but not required.

Campers work in small teams to build VEX IQ robots, write code to make their robots operate autonomously, and test their building and programming skills in friendly competition with other teams and their robots.

From left, Dark Side Robotics team members Helena Teltscher, Avery Kailin and AJ Ross work on a robot between competitions during a recent robotics event at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh. Mentors and Dark Side members show campers how to build and program robots during RoboCamp, July 8-12 at Discovery World on Market. (Photo provided)

Registration is on a first-come, first-served basis on the Discovery World website www.dwonmarket.org, organizer Markus Teltscher said. There are 30 spots available for the camp, he said.