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WEEK 4 (7/26 - 8/1) 👨💻👩💻
FR1DAY (7/26)
We presented our first adventure games! Although all the adventure games were spectacular, Monkey’s Mushroom Journey by Nick and Sophie won the faculty choice award! Slime Quest also won the student choice award while Gina and James won the student choice! After lunch, we split up into our final project groups, coding the rest of the day away to prepare for next week’s final presentation.
At night, we had a whole-camp movie night where we watched Inside Out 2 (not the second 😭)! We enjoyed watching [REDACTED] and [REDACTED] experience the thrills of [REDACTED] while [REDACTED]! Oh, and we all collectively clapped when the movie buffered for the umpteenth time. Fun!
FR1DAY 0UTS1DE ACT1VIT1ES
Movie Night: Inside Out
yippeee!!!
SATURDAY (7/27)
Nothing much happened during the day. Just a well-deserved break from the upcoming stress of the next week.
Our nightly activity, however, was much more exciting: a carnival featuring classic carnival and tabletop games! Much like previous activities, each game could give you a certain amount of tickets which could be entered into another raffle drawing! Enjoy our pictures :D
SATURDAY 0UTS1DE ACT1VIT1ES
CARNIVAL!!
Darts
Can Toss
Cone* Ring Toss
Water Guns
Pin The Tail
Giant Jenga
ACTUAL Giant Connect Four
Ladder Toss
SUNDAY (7/28)
Another chill day, until...
THE UNDER THE SEA DANCE! 💃
While we expected it to be a more "traditional" dance, it very quickly evolved into a hardcore rave featuring ring lights and one of our own cluster RAs as a DJ! Trust us, it was SUPER energetic and can't really be described unless you were there...
Toward the end, dance royalty was announced per cluster! And who better to represent Cluster 13 than our very own newsletter staff Kathleen Li and Justin Wong!!! We're so proud of them 😇
SUNDAY 0UTS1DE ACT1VIT1ES
DANCE!
we rockin 🔥
M0NDAY (7/29)
Throughout the day, we worked tirelessly to get our final projects rolling. Groups were mostly working on their GUIs (Graphical User Interface) and creating the terrain for their games. Each group came up with their own creative final game to work on for the rest of the week. Stay tuned for the final projects!
At night, we were treated with yet another full-camp activity: the talent show! An opportunity to show COSMOS our unique talents. There were a few acts involving Cluster 13 members, including a guitar song by James and a comedy routine by Justin Wong. WOOOOOO
M0NDAY 0UTS1DE ACT1VIT1ES
TALENT SHOW!!!
TUESDAY (7/30)
Another day of working on our final projects! We continued with designing and debugging our games with the help of our wonderful and amazing CAs. Many of the groups have moved on and started on programming the game mechanics! #workinghard
Can't believe it's going to be over soon...
TUESDAY 0UTS1DE ACT1VIT1ES
Switch Night
Tea & Meditation
Mini Painting
Shaved Ice & Bingsoo
WEDNESDAY (7/31)
Today, Leo gave us 2 fascinating lectures on computer hardware and computer science education. He dissected topics such as imposter syndrome in CS major students, successful study habits, and other professors chipped in with their own stories of being in college and interactions with students they’ve had. The overall advice was to stay on top of schoolwork and ask for help so we don’t fall behind (a familiar reminder, but still a good one).
After that, we continued working on finishing up our games, as they were due at the end of class...
WEDNESDAY 0UTS1DE ACT1VIT1ES
Sewing & Embroidery
Line Dancing
Bedazzling
Cereal Bar Lofi Cafe
THURSDAY (8/1)
This morning we worked on making the presentations that our families will be seeing tomorrow. As this was the last full day of COSMOS, the TA’s coordinated making a groupchat for all of us to stay in touch. We spent the afternoon doing run throughs of our presentations. We can’t wait for all of you to see our games!
(also, it started raining. bittersweet.)
THURSDAY 0UTS1DE ACT1VIT1ES
Summer Book Signing
AND THAT'S A WRAP!!!
Thank you all so much for following/reading the 2024 Cluster 13 newsletter! We wish you all a great rest of the summer and hope that you/your child can join the COSMOS family in the future!
And of course, always remember to SAVE YOUR PROJECTS!!!
- The Cluster 13 Newsletter team
FINAL WORDS FROM THE TEAM!!!
"Ask your TAs for help. They will help you faster than Unity saves your projects (very fast). Also, remember to touch grass if you can!"
- Sophie Choi (Classroom writer)
"Thank you to our teachers and our TAs for their wisdom."
- Katie Li (Classroom writer)
"It feels like the first day of COSMOS was just yesterday and yet so far away at the same time. I’m glad I got to share with everyone the highlights of class time!"
- Mira Tian (Classroom writer)
"If you ever get in, remember that it's not just an academic experience. Enjoy the moment."
- Sebastian Castro (Res Life writer)
"Looking left because Kiichi is always right"
- Kathleen Li (Res Life photographer)
"Make sure to constantly push your social and intellectual limits. Just make sure not to push your physical ones."
- Justin Wong (Classroom photographer)
(there's more than this, but they didn't want to do it 🙄)
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