How will you wear your bandana?

Will you be a cowboy on a horse?
A pirate on a ship?
A pilot in a plane?
A rider on a motorcycle?

Exploring the world by sea

Today the campers designed and built prototypes for a sea vessel. Some wanted one that would float and other one that would sink.

We also started exploring ways to travel by air. We conducted a science experiment with baking soda and vinegar to create gas that blew up our balloons, and then we made hot air balloons!

Transportation STREAM Camp

Today was the first day of your Transportation camp. We talked about forms of transportation on the ground, like cars, bikes, Segways, and more! Campers designed and built prototypes for their own transportation. They also played in LEGO, airport, and other centers.

Math & the arts

Physicist and saxophonist Stephon Alexander has argued in his many public lectures and his book The Jazz of Physics that Albert Einstein and John Coltrane had quite a lot in common. Alexander in particular draws our attention to the so-called “Coltrane circle,” which resembles what any musician will recognize as the “Circle of Fifths,” but incorporates Coltrane’s own innovations. Coltrane gave the drawing to saxophonist and professor Yusef Lateef in 1967, who included it in his seminal text, Repository of Scales and Melodic Patterns. Where Lateef, as he writes in his autobiography, sees Coltrane's music as a "spiritual journey" that "embraced the concerns of a rich tradition of autophysiopsychic music," Alexander sees “the same geometric principle that motivated Einstein’s" quantum theory.

Retrieved from http://www.openculture.com/2017/04/the-tone-circle-john-coltrane-drew-to-illustrate-the-theory-behind-his-most-famous-compositions-1967.html.

It’s been a busy summer. We’re working on remodeling the library and getting ready for our next STREAM camp that starts on Monday. I hope everyone has a a fun and safe 4th of July!!

For all you NASA Buffs

Watch it live!

https://newatlas.com/nasa-webcam-mars-2020-rover/60041/

Our last day

The week went by too fast! I think I had as much fun as the campers did.

We spent our last day making spray chalk (with washable paint). I told the campers that is for OUTSIDE only! We also made a special Father’s Day gift for the dads.

Hope everyone has a great summer, and I’ll be seeing some of you in the next camp!

Technology!

Today we’re incorporating lots of technology as we build original toys designed by our campers and in building our ring toss games.