The Martin Luther King holiday in January may have been a day off of school for most students, but for many kids and their parents who came to TechTown’s second-annual MLK Day Pop-Up camp it was a day of a different kind of learning.
By playing with battling robots, building simple electrical circuits or using TechTown’s video equipment, children and youth experienced the wonders and challenges of today’s technology.
“All of this is hands-on tech,” says TechTown CEO Chris Ramsey. “We bring all of this technology for the community to experience.”
You may remember the first time you swiped your finger across the screen of a smartphone or computer table to change what it displayed.
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