Kickball Mania at Lincroft

This week at Lincroft, a few enthusiastic returning campers have been requesting Lincroft's all-time favorite pastime: KICKBALL!

Kickball is a game that brings together campers of all ages and talents. As we prepare for rain later in the week, we have been enjoying the fresh air as much as we can!

Campers Bryce and Ian debrief after a particularly controversial play.

Counselor Melissa eyes the plate before throwing a great pitch.

A tense moment as campers Ian and Karan race for first base.

With counselor Melissa as automatic pitcher and instructor Ryan as ghost runner, we make up for our tiny teams with a lot of enthusiasm. There may only be nine of us here at Lincroft, but we play hard!

Scotch Plains Week 7 - The Beginning of the End :(

Campers are really cherishing their fun and educational classes here this week.  Can you believe this is our last week for the summer?!  It went by too fast but thankfully we have many memories to look back on.

Youngster WeDo Robotics is back again this week!! New campers are working hard to build unique creations like helicopters and alligators!

Campers in Java Programming-Minecraft Mods Class are combining their two favorite things this week!  Minecraft and Programming!

The Chemical Engineering class made their own bouncy balls today using biodegradable materials!  After they finished, campers bounced them off of a catapult to see who's would go the furthest!

Thankfully we still have three days left this week!  It's not over, till it's over!!

Caldwell Minute-long Minute to Win It Video

These campers are super speedy!  Click the video to view today's minute to win it video!

Lights, Camera, Action

Week 7 Chatham

 Film Making is under way at Chatham! The campers have been working on scripts and learning all about how to create a film. They were introduced to the parts of the camera and showed how to use the reflectors to create light on the "actors." They are very excited to contine there cinematic journey!

Did Someone Say 3D? Somerset-Week 7

After waiting all summer long, Somerset finally has 3D Printing this week!! The students in this class are learning to use the 3D Printer using a program called Tinker Cad to design and sketch any object they want. Each day students go home with a new creation. They are having a great time in class!

Showing Our Olympic Spirit

Chatham Week 7

Week 7 in Chatham is my full "swing." This week with the Olympics on everyone's mind, we are featuring Golf. The kids are learning how to putt and aim properly. They are playing different games and going through skills in order to get better at the sport. Maybe some of them have Olympic dreams too!

Scotch Plains Week 6 - WeDo Robotics

Renowned poet, author, and motivational speaker, William Arthur Ward, once said, "Curiosity is the wick of the candle of learning". Despite being only 5-7 years old, the WeDo Robotics students in Scotch Plains put on their thinking caps and made some amazing creations! They made airplanes, dancing birds, spinning tops, boats, and crocodiles. A little curiosity and a lot of Legos was all they needed to learn a thing or two about robotics and programming all while having a blast!

This student showcases his robotic foot!

Dancing birds were no match for this creative thinker!

 

 

Putting our way through week 6 over at Livingston!

 

This week we had coach John with us to turn our campers into golf experts! From practicing their putts to their drives, the campers cannot wait to get on that green and make some hole-in-ones.

 

Some of our campers even brought in their own golf clubs and have been very excited to break out all the different clubs!

 

"This class helped me a lot and actually got me more into golfing," says a camper.

 

 

We are sad to see this week end and are even sadder that next week will be our last week at Livingston! The campers are very excited though about our cooking class with Miss Carrie!

Ivy Olympic's closing ceremony!

To celebrate the end of our Ivy Olympics week, the baking class made an olympic cake! In the morning the blue team took home the gold but in the afternoon red team won a bonus scavenger hunt question and they were victorious! 

We are sad that our color wars/olympic games are over but are excited for the fun games and activities planned for our last too weeks! 

Spy Kids at Lincroft Week 6

This week at Lincroft, our campers have been on the case in Detective/Spy Lab! After a week of Mad Science challenges, they are less like a class of campers and more like a team of undercover secret agents. We interrogated them about their favorite missions this week, and here is what they said (but sssh, it's a secret!):

Nick confessed that his favorite lab was blood spatter analysis. 

Connor shows off after his favorite lab -- fingerprinting!

It was hard for Special Agent Leo to choose his favorite mission, but he decided that anything with balloons was the best! 

Chris felt like Sherlock Holmes when he constructed and investigated his own crime scene. Elementary, my dear Watson!

In true spy fashion, Ryan said he couldn't choose his favorite lab and kept it confidential.

We are sorry to say that after Week 6, the case is closed. We will miss you, junior detectives!