 In a never-ending pursuit of science, the skilled and passionate teachers at Sacramento Starbase have developed a week-long advanced robotics course for local school children. The ultimate goal of the program this week is to just really, you know, the kids. It's been a tough year for everyone and, you know, we wanted to have a really fun program for the kids where they're kind of in charge, they're taking the wheel, so we really have opened it up for the kids to try a lot of different things. Robots can go through different types of mazes so it's very open-ended and we want the kids to feel confident in taking risks with their programming, with their building, and just really feel inspired. With the right mix of science, kids, and robots, the program success is easy to observe. My favorite part was when they were hitting each other because that made it a lot more exciting. We were learning about robotics and programming robots, so like moving around, turning, reverse, all that kind of stuff. We were supposed to try and get to the middle after turning, hitting their sides, which is like the color sensor and the touch sensor. I would definitely do robotics, like go into that. I think there's no doubt like the kids are always going to remember building a robot that got to bump and battle with other robots. So hopefully it just feel really inspired and, you know, end their school year on a really high note. For the California National Guard Public Affairs, this is David Lefler.