Thursday, June 13th

Another fun day at STEM InCYte camp. Each morning while the students eat breakfast, we play a slide show of the photos from the day before. The kids love seeing the pictures and have so much fun reliving the activities and seeing what the other group did the day before. It's always a great way to start the day.

Morning

This morning the gold group worked with the Bentil group experimenting with blocking and unblocking arteries using different materials including Play-doh, balloons, pipe cleaners, and more. They also learned about the effects of plaque in arteries and the effects of shock waves on the brain! They also learned about the structure and purpose of neurons, making their own neurons with pipe cleaners. While the gold group was learning about human anatomy, the red group worked with Vermeer. They got to calculate speed and distances while working with Spheros, a spherical robot that is controlled using an app. They learned to change the Sphero’s direction as well as navigate through an obstacle course! After they were done, they made some oobleck! They were able to take their creations home.

Afternoon

In the afternoon, the gold group enjoyed working with Workiva on four activities. They had the opportunity to protect a Pringle chip in a vessel of their creation. They also enjoyed building strong, tall towers with gum drops and toothpicks. They learned about binary code when designing their own binary necklaces. Lastly explored aerodynamics when putting together their own hoop gliders! To close the day. they created and tested popsicle stick catapults too. This afternoon the red group spent time with the Bentil group, just as the gold group did this morning. They learned about brains, hearts and neurons. They learned that arteries can get clogged by plague and some times to fix this, people have to get surgery and have a stent put in. They also learned that there are tiny tree like structures in our brains called neurons. To help them visualize these tiny neurons, they used pipe cleaners to build them. They also learned that shock waves can affect the brain depending on where the shock wave hits the skull. There was So much learning happening!

In their words

"I like that you have to do math to control a robot"

"You have to know how to do math to do everything"

"I got to see a brain"

"I liked learning about neurons"

"Learning in fun"

"I liked to make oobleck"

I liked that "it was challenging"

"I liked everything"

I learned "how to make a catapult"

I learned "that the heart deceas is hard to GET OUT"

I liked "making code braclets"

"I liked it because of engineering"

"I liked unclogging the artities"

I learned that "shock waves hurt the brain"

"I want to make Gliders again"

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!