Day 3

Today we began the day with another rousing game of Zing, Pow, Boing. From there we headed back to the Physics laboratory from yesterday to revisit some of the experiments done yesterday and talk about how they could be used in the performance for the younger children. While discussing the ideas the scholars discovered the door to the darkroom; which is a tall revolving cylinder so that no light ever enters the room. It became very amusing to see anyone enter the circle, have the circular wall spin around them, and have no one or someone else there when the opening appeared again. From there everyone went back to the Chemistry lab for the same thing, revisiting the experiments and some discussion. After that it was time for theatre so we all headed to meet with Father David. As always he provided everyone with entertaining games that allowed everyone to use their imagination. One of these games was a name game where everyone got into a circle had to say their name along with a short action, the person next to them then had to do their own action and the action of everyone before them. Afterward some of the scholars were given a scenario and personality they had to act out which everyone did very well. From there it was on to lunch and then to a short Service Learning presentation. We discussed how important it was to make a big impact on the children that were going to be coming, because it could be something that we do that makes their life change and lead them to think of becoming scientists in the future. Everyone was also given a worksheet and divided into groups to discuss a community problem and some invention that could solve it. In the afternoon, we split into two groups and some went to Physics and some Chemistry to continue the things they were working on in the morning. For the last portion of the day everyone was brought to the computer lab and Adam did a presentation on how to make a web page using HTML. Many of the scholars had already had some experience with web pages and everyone jumped right in and started making very impressive pages.

Here are some of the things they said about Day 3:

“We're having a great time!”

“Today we mess around with all this cool stuff. It was so much fun.”

“Today in chemistry I learned that if you put dry ice in hot water, that it makes a lot more smoke than it would in normal water.”

“I thought it was great that we made our own web pages. I didn't know what HTML was until today.”

“I cannot wait for Friday when we get to go back to the physics lab!”

“I really enjoyed service learning today. Our guest speaker was really nice and she got us thinking about how one person can change the world.”

“I wish this camp could last forever!”

“Chem. was SOOO much fun because I got to make my own jewelry!”