KCC’s Bruin Bots robotics team seeking members

Bruin Bots summer camp participants work during camp in 2013.

Kellogg Community College invites sixth- through ninth-graders from Calhoun County to join the Bruin Bots, a team that will build and program a competition robot as part of KCC’s Regional Manufacturing Technology Center (RMTC) programming. The team, which begins practicing… Continue Reading

KCC’s Bruin Bots robotics team receives $11,000 grant from BCCF

The Bruin Bots logo.

Kellogg Community College has received an $11,000 grant from the Battle Creek Community Foundation to help support the college’s expanding Bruin Bots youth robotics program. The Bruin Bots began at KCC last fall as a youth robotics competition team involving sixth… Continue Reading

KCC to offer engineering, robotics summer camps in July

Kellogg Community College’s Lifelong Learning Department will continue its expanding youth robotics initiative this summer with a series of four STEM Summer Camps in July. The camps are designed to teach fifth through 10th graders basic to advanced STEM skills –… Continue Reading

Credit union awards $3,424 grant to support KCC youth robotics

Kellogg Community College’s Lifelong Learning Department has been awarded a $3,424 grant from the United Educational Credit Union’s Bright Ideas Partnership Program to purchase additional robotics materials and supplies for the college’s growing Bruin Bots robotics program for youth. Scott… Continue Reading

Free after-school robotics club kicks off KCC robotics initiative

Kellogg Community College kicked off a year of expanding youth robotics programming last month with the start of the free Bruin Bots After-School Club. The club is open to area students in sixth through eighth grades and will meet from 3:45… Continue Reading

KCC’s Bruin-Bots robotics team advances to state finals

After finishing fifth in a qualifying regional event earlier this month, Kellogg Community College’s FIRST robotics competition team, the Bruin-Bots, will compete in the West Michigan Championship state finals tournament in Holland on Saturday, Dec. 15. The event will be held… Continue Reading

KCC forms Bruin-Bots, a robotics competition team for youth

Kellogg Community College invites sixth- through ninth-graders from across the area to join the Bruin-Bots, a team that will build and program a competition robot as part of KCC’s Lifelong Learning Program. The team, which begins practicing Oct. 23, will be… Continue Reading