Sumo Autobots Push Biotech to a Close

Our last day of Biotech and I can't say it is bittersweet.  Maybe a little salty from our afternoon popcorn, but all in all our youth cheered to the very last moment.  that might have had a whole lot to do with the sumo autobot matches that were taking place rather then the end of the camp.  All we know is they all left with smiles on their faces.
  Our day started in Robeson County.  Bladen and Hoke made the journey to Lumberton where everyone was happy to be reunited.  After a brief reminder of our activities on Monday our youth completed their post test from their time at the greenhouse and making their own hydroponic gardens.  Once the business was out of the way it was time to get down to some serious fun.
  Mr Mario, a middle school teacher in Hoke county made the trip to give our youth the opportunitiy to build their own mind storm Lego bots and learn more about coding.  Our morning was spent building the bots and learning how to download the code to their systems.  The youth learned about timing, turning, and more advance code so that they can race.
  After lunch our time was about adapting our autobots for sumo wrestling.  Sumo wrestling is a Japanese form of wrestling where two people work to gain leverage and push the other out of a drawn ring.  In this case round table tops were used that had tape on the edge to create the ring and the autobots pushed at another autobot opponent to get them out of the ring.  The first and last match were head to head and the second match was back to back.  Mr. Mario set up heats and there were brackets showing the matches and winners.  In the end the final match took more than two minutes to before a Robeson County team's bot was deemed the winner.
Before we knew it we were eating our final snack together before heading back to everyone's counties.  Needless to say we had to play the silent game, after all it wouldn't be a Robeson County 4-H Day Camp without the silent game.  When it was said and done we hope our youth had fun, learned something new, thought about something they never thought before, and will think about coming back to experience what we do year round in 4-H and get the whole 4-H experience.