Oakland's Week 4 Big Ol' Blowout Hootenanny Bash

The end of each week presents an opportunity to reflect on the skills learned and the strides made in each camper's respective class. This week proves no different, as our enthusiastic learners have stepped up their game for the end of the week and worked hard to finish their writing, suture bananas, and create the most chaos on the Minecraft servers.

Minecraft Creative: The Engineer in You finished off this week by creating their own worlds and building their own biomes to inhabit and build on. The classroom was always alive with the excited shrieks of the campers and enthusiasm to build and create whatever they can imagine.

The contest of who can crash the server the fastest ended in disaster

This camper works hard to build his own environment by editing his own world

The book is called "The Guide to Minecraft."

Minecraft Advanced had campers working in teams and building circuits of redstone, designing a theme park, and teaming up to create their own unique worlds. They even do team-building activities were cooperation is king.

This camper cooperated when I took a picture of him, clearly utilizing the skills that he learned in this class

This camper was quite emotional over the state of his project. 

This team of campers works to build their own minigame!

Fan Fiction and the Writing Process focused on inserting new stories into pre-existing worlds to increase their critical thinking skills. Campers focused on learning to revise and edit their creations, as long as increasing their typing skills. Some of our finished products include, Pitbull being sucked into Pokemon Go, and a very scary (and ingeniously written) Halloween Night.

Site Director Eric works with a camper on his idea for a story.

Counselor Josh even got in on the fun.

Inspiration comes from the wildest places.

Acting for the Stage perfected their scene from The Taming of the Shrew and performed it for the whole camp. Once they were done, they got a big bravo from their fellow campers. It looks like those long days of practicing and playing charades paid off.

The word was Golden Gate Bridge. But hey, he's learning.

This teacher goes over the rules of Iambic Pentameter.

It was a frustrating game of charades.

Rehearsal, always important. 

Anatomy and Surgical Techniques operated on some sheep's brains, sutured some bananas, and learned a lot about the composition of the human body. These exercises have made them surgeons of tomorrow, and if that's the case, our future is in capable hands. 

These campers learn the parts of the brain.

Our little surgeon is being paged. 

The team works on a real brain-teaser.

Week 4 may only last 55 more minutes, but the memories and knowledge will last a lifetime. Here's to Week 5, as the summer starts to wind down.