After several days of driving to work I kept spotting an advertisement for a STEM camp. I had eventually decided to take a picture of the sign and contact them to represent the IEEE and DeVry to help give some information about engineering, programing, and IEEE. I had sent an email message to the director of this event stating I would like to represent IEEE and teach some circuitry and programming with arduino unos. The director had agreed to let me teach and communicated with me on things I might need to teach this. After a month of waiting the day eventually came where I would go to the STEM camp and present my knowledge. I found on this day I would only be having sessions that would take about 30 minutes so I was a little worried about how I would be able to present everything. Several minutes before I was going to start my presentation the director walked up to me and asked me "Do you think you can build those robots sitting on that table?" I went over to the table right away and started looking at them seeing what these robots were made from. She told me they came in a kit that includes everything that is needed to build them and she grabbed one of the manuals and showed it to me. I flipped throught the pages to see what I would be dealing with. After looking around I felt confident and told her it seems really simple and I should be able to build it right away. She replied saying great and she also told me that her original robotics instructor had bailed on her at last minute and she needed someone who knew how the robots would work. She had then asked me if I wouldn't mind taking the original instructor's place and I replied I don't mind, I'd love to build one of these things. She maked sure I would be fine comming at 9:00 am until 3:00 pm and I replied that it would be better for me than the original time plan. The next day came and we began the construction of these robots. I had instructed all the kids to follow the madual and mark the 12 inch pvc pipes for cutting then bring them to my table so I can cut them to size then bring all the pvc elbows so I could drill holes in them. After all the drilling and cutting I instructed the kids to build the frame with the cut down pvc. Next I took the kids to a table where I taugh them how to solder the controls to the circuit board. On the next day we continued where we left off. We still needed to install the motors and get them wired and soldered to the cat5 cable that was used to transmit the signal to the robots motors. When all the robots were finished we set up an inflatable pool outside for the kids to test their robot in. Each robot worked with ease but there were some minor errors. When the kids finished testing their robots the director surprised me with my own kit. When the day was begining to end and the kids started going home I opened my kit and went to work. I started cutting the pvc to size and drilling the needed holes. I then assembled the body making sure I had all the pieces together. Next I went to work on distributing the wire from the cat5 cable. The original instructions say to leave th wires loose but I wanted to be a bit artistic and hid all the wires inside the pipes. On the next and final day of my story I soldered the controller and motors added the wax that protects the motors then my robot that is seen in the image above of me and the director was completed. When the director had first seen my build she said she was amazed because she had never seen such a clean build in all her time working with theses robots. On this day I had all the kids compete with their builds by having a robot fight between their robots in the pool where the challenge was to push the opponent robot to the border. The kids all had fun and thanked me for helping them build their projects and answer all their questions. When we finished cleaning up the camp the director came to me and told me she wants me to come back again because she never seen instruction like mine and that she was relieving the original instructor from his role becuase of his late notice. This marks one of the biggest weeks in my history and I got a trophy (the robot), with a value of $230 according to the director, as a thank you for transforming what was supposed to be 3 hours into 18 hours. I had fun and I know the kids had fun as well.