Automate the World: Industrial Innovation and Optimization

Imagine ordering your favorite food and watching it get assembled in seconds, not minutes, as you and your machines work together in perfect sync. From fast-food kitchens to car factories, you’ll bring world-class automation right into our classrooms as you engineer your own industrial-scale production line, pushing automation to hilarious and impressive extremes as sandwiches get slapped together faster than you thought possible. We’ll break down our end product into smaller pieces and steps, deciding how each station should automatically move, sort, or assemble objects. Using conveyor belts, sensors, and programmable robotics , Masters will optimize their material flow through the classroom system, spotting bottlenecks and changing codes to increase speed and reliability. The pressure rises on Friday’s “Code Red”, when orders start pouring in and it’s up to you, your teammates, and your machines to keep the entire system running smoothly under real demand.

Campers Will:

• Design an industrial production line by breaking an assembly process into stages and engineering conveyor systems that move and assemble items efficiently.
  
• Program sensor-driven control logic that coordinates timing, detects objects, and optimizes material flow across the system.
  
• Operate their automated line during a chaotically funny Code Red, testing throughput, fixing failures, and refining the system to handle high-speed demand.