Metaverse, esports and medicine: Rhodes State summer camps promote STEM through play
Jun. 12—LIMA — Summer campers at Rhodes State College are designing their own virtual reality games.
The introduction to the metaverse, a new week-long summer camp, is one of the most popular offerings this year at Rhodesology, the college's week-long STEM camps for elementary and junior high students.
Students in Traci Bitler's course spent Monday learning how to navigate through the metaverse, or virtual reality — an immersive, three-dimensional virtual world visible only to those wearing a special headset.
By the end of the week, students will test each other's games and download their creations to take home.
Three hundred students descended onto the Rhodes State campus Monday for the college's annual Rhodesology summer camp, which saw record attendance.
The youngest students will spend the week programming Lego robots, building animal shelters at Johnny Appleseed Metropolitan Park or dissecting synthetic frogs, while older students will compete in esports, design bridges, analyze crime scenes or create their own games in the metaverse.
New this year are pre-college summer programs for students in eighth through tenth grades, who can learn the basics of modern agriculture, surgical technology, artificial intelligence and forensics.
Registration is closed.
