Week 2 @ Oakland :-p

Good afternoon, and welcome back to International Ivy Oakland.  This week we had a fantastic group of boys and girls learning Robotics, Java Programming in Minecraft, and Detective/Spy Lab.  Here are some pictures and videos of all the coolness that is International Ivy Oakland.

Breaks and Special Events:
This week we had many special events going on.  Wet Day as always was on Wednesday, and Thursday was Halloween.  Here are some awesome pictures from those days and other crazy shenanigans.  Want to see more?  Check out this link to our youtube page.Breaks and Games

Here Lainey and Giorgi are getting to know each other better during one of our ice breaker games on Monday.

Robotics (Animals and Vehicles):
Below are a lot of pictures.  Want to see more, and even some videos?  Click on the youtube link here.Robots

We got to start with basics.  Brothers Evan and Sean just completed there first robot with Instructor Steve's help.

Here Billy shows up his final product.  This robot moves like a caterpillar or worm.  Who wouldn't want to build one of those?

Here Katherine is smiling as she continues building her spider robot.  And trust me, this was too cool to even think about stepping on.

 Java Programming with Minecraft:
Plenty was going on in Minecraft this week.  Below are a few highlights, and we do have more.  Click on this link to youtube to see what we mean.Java

Here Instructor Mike is going over some fundamentals with Java.  The students are absorbing all the information in so they can start designing some awesome items and game-play.  Notice below the cooperation between campers as they help troubleshoot for each other.   

Detective/ Spy Lab:

This week we had a great teacher in Mr. T showing our campers the in's and out's of Criminal Investigation 101.  Below are a few key pictures, but do not worry many more pictures and video clips can be found by clicking this youtube link.  Spy

Here our instructor Mr. T., is showing Evan different tire tracks that can be left by different cars.  This is an important skill to learn to become a detective.

Above and below our are Detectives Giorgi and Emily.  Here they walked in on a crime scene in a home.  Notice how the CAUTION tape tells us to stay back, an investigation is at hand.

Here Giorgi and Emily are trying to break open a lock.  They will eventually use this lock to protect their safes.