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Chatham Week 5

This week in Chatham, a new batch of campers have arrived. Over the weeks, we have made new friends and connected with old friends. We also have a lot of siblings this week. Making relationships is half the fun at camp. We love having fun and talking with each other!

Scotch Plains Week 5 - Robotics!

Day 2 in our robotics class has been an adventure. This afternoon was filled with creating color sensor vehicles. It has been a challenge to find all the exact pieces and get the code exactly right but once the vehicles were programmed correctly the vehicles were able to follow a line of black tape throughout the room!

Building and programming the vehicles.

Campers at New Milford play a real life version of PAC-MAN!

     

     Campers at New Milford took a break from creating their own video games to play a live version of the game "PAC-MAN!"  Campers had to spread out around the lines of the gym floor.  One camper was chosen to be the "ghost" as the tagger, and everyone else were "PAC-MAN" players.  Everyone had to stay on the lines, could not jump from line to line, and, when tagged, had to sit down to become a road block for the remaining players.  Last person standing won the game, but fun was had by all!

Caterpillar Races at Short Hills!

At Short Hills, our Robotics-Animals class started off the week by making caterpillars! We know that the only thing better than animals are robot animals! The campers learn to make their animals and then test their work by racing!

Imagination and Invention in Paramus!

This week campers are learning how to draft plans and dream big! Whether they are brainstorming their dream house or thinking up the next cool gadget, our campers are enjoying exploring their creativity.

In Pre-Architecture, our campers are working with their teacher to find patterns of building they see in their favorite cities, and also choosing what design styles they prefer. They have also drafted plans of their own house, but how they would like it to look!

Our campers in Shark Tank Entrepreneur have chosen their "big ideas" which they will work out throughout the week. Their goal is to have their products accepted by the special-guest "sharks" on Friday.

Engineering with Makey Makey uses an innovative system that allows our campers to make any objects into computer controllers. The versatility of the product, computer, and our campers imaginations makes the possibilities endless! Some results so far? A coin piano, a play dough drum set, and pencil-drawing video game controllers!

In Detective/Spy Lab our campers enter the world of detectives and spies by uncovering the science involved in evidence gathering and analysis. They will observe, detect, and investigate evidence while also building spy tools such as binoculars for data collecting. They are currently working on their secret spy safes and they will have other campers decode their work!

Interior Design is a class that helps our campers pursue interests in design. This course will show them how to transform plain living spaces into beautiful and functional rooms. They will examine the details of rooms in order to design a space from the floor to the ceiling. They are currently examining room measurements and color combinations that can be used to transform a room into a beautiful living space.

War & Peace Game Theory at Somerset

Somerset - Week 5

Do you want to have your own country? Do you want to solve problems? Do you want to have power? If you said yes, War & Peace Game Theory is a great class for you! This week, we have War & Peace Game Theory at Somerset and the students are working hard to negotiate with other countries in order to solve real-life problems without going bankrupt. We can't wait until Friday to see how this game turns out.

Our Livingston Youngsters Meet Scratch Jr.!

Our youngsters are in for a fun week here at Livingston! This week, they're learning the basics of programming with Scratch Jr.! Each youngster is working hard to create scenes that fit their interests. Some youngsters have decided to create their own music videos set to their favorite songs, one is working on an animal scene featuring a polar bear, and another is working on a scene starring Scratch the Cat himself! We can't wait to see what their scenes look like once our youngster programmers are done with them!

We love the song "How Long"! One camper prepares her version of a music video!

What is this polar bear going to do next? A programmer works hard to decide...

The fun also doesn't stop there! After some hard work with the iPad, we encourage our youngsters to get on their feet and get moving to some Go Noodle dance-along videos with songs like "How Long", "Fight Song", and "Bye, Bye, Bye"! It seems as if we not only have talented programmers, but also some talented dancers! Counselor Kelsey thinks they'd give N'Sync a run for their money!!!

Scratch the Cat is caught in the land of shapes! Watch him go!

Another camper prepares her music video by deciding which song to go with!

Inching our way towards a fun week in New Milford!

     Campers began their week in New Milford by creating inchworms in their Robotics Animals class.  Campers displayed a determination to find all the pieces to build their robots, and were taught the skill of programming them to move.  At the end of the class, the campers held a race to see whose was fastest!  No matter what place they finished, everyone felt proud of completing their robots AND everyone received IVY points!