Camp Staff

Ugonna Emuka Sarah Quinn Rick Wandji

Aerospace Engineer Applied Mathematics Mechanical Engineer
2021 2022 2021
Final Group Presentation
VPERCH 2020
Participants

● 8 Students
○ 7 males and 1 female
○ 7 public school and 1 private
○ 5 rising 9th graders and 3 rising 8th graders
Objective & Goals
● Goals for staff
○ Celebrate and encourage
campers to build upon their best
qualities
○ Be good engineering role
models
○ Positively represent CMSE at
the University of Maryland
College Park
● Camp Objectives
○ To inspire and motivate
middle/high school students to
consider a STEM career field, by
exposing them to STEM hand-on
activities
○ To assist students in their ongoing
development of creativity and
problem solving skills.
○ To build a virtual ROV in a
collaborative setting
Final Schedules
Monday Tuesday-Friday
July 7-July 10, 2020
Day 1 - July 6th,2020
Zoom
Zoom Overview for the Day
Welcome Presentation/Icebreaker Icebreaker

Overview of Zoom Rules Reminder of Zoom Rules

Engineering Concept lesson
Overview for the Day
Hands-on Activity
Types of Engineering Presentation
Zoom Break
Engineering Concept Lesson-CAD
VPerch Default Build
Hands-on Activity CAD Drawings Zoom Break
Zoom Break

Introduction to VPerch
Individual VPerch Build
Zoom Break

VPerch

Wrap Up & Journaling Wrap up & Journaling

Milestones
Week 1
● Selected hands-on activities for
each engineering topic
● Create camp/zoom rules
● Drafted overview of camp
schedule
Week 2
● Created hands-on activity
worksheet for CAD
● Completed Welcome presentation
● Started parent presentation
● Create hands-on activity worksheet
for electricity/propulsions lecture
● Test ice breakers
Milestones

Week 3 Week 4 & Week 5

● Continued to flush out hands-on ● Made final adjustment to Individual

activity
● Continued to flush out individual
lectures
● Gained more information about
Vperch through Robonation
meeting
● Had a parent orientation
Lectures
● Finalized changes to CAD
Presentation
● Made More adjustments to
hand-on activity
● Pre-Tech Check with students via
zoom
● Finalized daily schedules
Things Learned:
1. Sarah Quinn- I learned that I can take big picture ideas and turn them into tangible,
real world ideas and activities.
2. Ugonna Emuka- I learned how to make changes as I go. Things change even when they
are planned. Also think the ability to think of ways to turn technical lecture into
interesting and fun activities helped expand my creative muscles.
3. Rick Wandji- I learn how to go with the flow and how to adapt to new situations.
Having to think of how to build connections and instruct a topic that was more so
meant to be taught in person.
Outcomes
● Overall,the camp went pretty well. Had little to no issues
● Student feedback showed students enjoyed the camp and various activities we had
planned. The VPerch software had some glitches but we were able to troubleshoot
these for the most part. Online environment made it difficult to keep students
engaged, but students were attentive everyday.
Changes For The Future
Add Take-Away

● More hands-on activities ● Surface level complexity of VPerch

○ Increase difficulty ○ No electricity

● Increase student participation ○ No depth about propulsion and

○ Difficult online buoyancy

○ Should change with program
redesign
● Find a new way to test ROVs
○ Tournament was long