Area elementary school students had a chance to play a more hands-on version of the popular “Angry Birds” game than the one they’re used to playing on their phones Friday morning.

Participants in last week’s robotics camp, hosted at Southwestern Michigan College, showed off of the knowledge they learned to the younger students throughout the day, culminating in a mock robotic competition that afternoon in front of the Mathews Library.

The high school students showed the children how to operate the robotic machines, using the bots to launch balls at targets, painted with the infamous green pigs featured in the mobile game.

This year was the first year the college and Lewis Cass ISD featured the weeklong robotics camp for county high school students, in order to help prepare them for the upcoming FIRST Robotics season later this year.