Camp Base Solon! What a Troop!

This week has been awesome. Today is the last day for this camp, so we’ll get to see the final presentations of what kind of kinetic sculptures the kids have created in their groups. We have almost 30 kids in this camp, it is the biggest camp we have had so far — we have a total of 6 groups and 6 kinetic sculptures! It’s interesting to see what portions of the camp the kids are more intrigued to learn more about in each week’s camp base. Last week, they were more into wood working, and this week I would say that their sketches were more elaborate and students kept going back to their drawing boards while they were working and building away.

It’s also great to think about how more and more organized we are getting with each week of camp and how natural things are feeling as time progresses. Everything has become progressively smoother, which is a very good thing. Especially with the group this week, we changed some things up with some of our hand-building tutorials and Scratch demos, which saved us a lot of time that the kids used to brainstorm and work on their projects the first couple of days. I can’t wait to see the final sculptures, it’s going to be so good. One group brought their own Lego cars that they can attach the Lego WeDo motors to move in order to trigger a motion sensor, and somewhere in between another car is sent off with a fan using a DIY sail made of toilet paper and rods. Pretty neat! Stay tuned!