Robotic Artists: Nature & Wildlife Edition

Congratulations, you’ve been elected the new mayor of NORY Zootopia, a magical city where nature, animals, and creativity all come together! From sunny deserts to icy lands and leafy forests, you’ll design a vibrant city filled with different climates, artistic structures, and imaginative spaces for creatures from all over the world. As mayor, you won’t just build habitats, you’ll design epic art-filled environments, crafting colorful landscapes, towering sculptures, and expressive city features that bring each climate to life. Using art materials and simple robotics, you’ll create robotic animals and moving sculptures that wiggle, react, and adapt to the world you build around them. Throughout the week, your city will grow into a living, breathing masterpiece as animals, art, and motion come together. At the end of the week, we’ll open the gates of NORY Zootopia to celebrate your one-of-a-kind city, showcasing a giant collaborative robotic art mural that unites creatures and climates from around the globe.

Campers Will:

• Build their city landscapes using craft materials and simple building tools to create colorful deserts, forests, and icy environments filled with artistic detail.
  
• Explore nature and biomimicry by creating robotic animals and moving sculptures that use motion, light, and reaction to express how animals live and adapt to their environments.
  
• Celebrate their Zootopia city by collaborating on a large-scale robotic art mural that brings together animals, climates, and creative structures from around the world.

Our Goal:

Our goal is to help campers see themselves as creative leaders who can blend art, nature, and technology into meaningful experiences. As they design expressive environments and robotic wildlife, campers build confidence in using engineering as a tool for storytelling while developing empathy for how living systems adapt and connect. By the end of the week, children leave with a stronger sense of creative ownership and the understanding that imagination, structure, and care for the natural world can work together in powerful ways that feel uniquely NORY.