Friday, June 14th

Today was the last day of STEM InCYte camp. The week was filled with so much fun and excitement that some of the students mentioned that they wanted STEM InCYte camp to be four weeks long rather than just one. Many were already asking about next year's STEM InCYte camp. We have been hosting STEM InCYte camp every summer since 2017 and plan to host it again next summer. We look forward to working with your child again next year!

Morning

This morning the red group spent time with Miss Kari. They learned about robots and how to program them. They started out by getting in partners, one programmer and one robot, where the programmer had to lead the blindfolded robot through an obstacle course by providing them specific instructions. They then moved on to real robots and built a robot using LEGO Mindstorms. Once it was built, they programmed it. For some, it was their first time building and programming a robot. Meanwhile, the gold group worked with POET, and engineering group, who did a bevy of experiments with the students. The students created Ooblek and put droplets of water on pennies which showed the students how surface tension works and varies for different materials. Then, the students created a chemical reaction in a container that they had placed a balloon on top so when the carbon dioxide was released from the reaction it inflated the balloon. This showed the campers how we can use and produce CO2 and other gases.

Afternoon

In the afternoon, both groups worked with HDR, an engineering firm, and learned about how water from lakes and aquaphors are filtered for use by the public and how different materials are able to filter water at different rates. They then discussed water usage. In their next afternoon session, the STEM InCYte camp teacher leaders made armpit fudge with the teacher leaders to learn about the different phases of matter. I am sure your child would love to share how they made it and how armpit fudge got its name. After making armpit fudge with the team leaders, the students then learned origami for an hour. They learned how to create an origami human and a camera. For the afternoon session, the red and gold group learned how to do origami and learned about the phases of matter by making fudge. It was an adventurous day.

In their words

I learned "how to make ethanol"

I would like to learn more about this topic "because it helps society"

"It was fun and educational"

"I can program a robot and belt it"

I liked that "I got to blast something"

I liked that "we got to do a lot of experiments"

I learned "how to make gublic and how the air goes throught the bottle to the balloon filled with water sugar"

"I liked the machines and how they work"

"I liked to make robots"

"It was awesome"

I learned "that you can make a fire out of ethanol"

I learned "that when you are stranded you don't have to have a batteries and a plug. Just a lighter and ethanol."

"I want to know more about ROBOTS!"

"It was fun and we made a person out of paper"

I learned "that water has to be separated a bunch of times befor you can drink it"

"ori gami is Really fun to make and desighned."

"It was fun and hard but mostly Really fun."

"I like origami"

I learned the "physics of Hydrodynamics"

I would like to learn more about this topic "to help people get clean water"

"I liked learning about the filters since they were cool"

"If you drink pond water you can get really sick"

"oragmy was fun"

Photos of the day

Each day we’ll post camp highlights. Please note that we try to capture pictures of all the campers, but we cannot guarantee that we will get every single one. We try our very best to though! Also we are STEM teachers and not full time photographers, so our pictures are not perfect and we leave them unedited, so if you love to edit photos… feel free!