We all thought we would be lonely, have a hard time making friends. It was easier than we thought to make friends and we all have made a lot of friends. The Heathers, being in the same dorm group, decided that one is a time traveler from an apocalyptic future and is here to warn the other Heather not to get into a bathroom teleporter. Everyone got along great, and now we are going to be so sad when we have to leave.
The food is very good and sometimes very okay-ish. The college food was way better than expected, or at least better than elementary school lunches. The options are salad, pastas, and the entree of the moment. The food takes a big part in our moods, so far we have had good conversations.
Tonight we went bowling at the rec center and it was super fun. We had thew hole alley to ourselves. 76 girls in one alley was craaaazy. There were so many gutter balls, but it was really enjoyable. The whole night was amazing, even th walk back to the dorms was fun. We're so glad we got to go.
Wednesday, June 19, 2013
Tuesday, June 18, 2013
Monday
Canoeing isn't as easy as it seems. During the activity, it wasn't as clean as we expected. It was very exciting for all the campers overall. At the university, other students were attending two different labs. One of them included programming with computers. It was difficult at first, but once you understood the basics, it was fun. The second lab was geopanes. The geopanes lab involved using basic materials, like clay and toothpicks, to make elaborate shapes. The outcome of the experiments were amazing and the campers enjoyed it. Overall, we had a great time today.
The core class of robotics was so much fun! We first got an intro from our awesome teacher, Kirsten. Then we started to build our Lego robot. Another core class we had was chemistry. In chemistry we had an intro, safety runs, then did activities. The first activity was interviewing another member in the class. We then watched the teacher light a piece of tissue paper on fire and once it almost burned out, the tissue paper flew up in the air and she caught it with her hand. Last, we did match missiles, which was really fun. There are other core classes, but those will be talked about later.
Career night was six different people talking about their jobs in STEM fields. For mathematics, Alane was talking about she used orgami to use in math. She also talked about how oragami was important to us today. She showed us how to make an oragami heart, which she used to show us the different shapes in math. Alane taught some of our teachers today what they know about math.
The lady who talked about technology told us how she was studying law enforcement because she wanted to be an FBI agent, but they weren't letting girls be that. She didn't want to keep studying law because she didn't want to be a lawyer, so she became a tech. She also mentioned that technology isn't going to be the same in 10 years.
Another presenter was a women who is a GST engineer. She started to talk about how we don't realize we use gas everday, and that new gas never has an odor; it's odorless. She also mentioned that to become a professional engineer, you have to take two tests. One of them lasts for eight hours and the other one lasts for 24 hours. I thought it was pretty interesting to find new information on these careers.
(Sorry still no pictures, but I'll try to have some up by lunch time tomorrow).
The core class of robotics was so much fun! We first got an intro from our awesome teacher, Kirsten. Then we started to build our Lego robot. Another core class we had was chemistry. In chemistry we had an intro, safety runs, then did activities. The first activity was interviewing another member in the class. We then watched the teacher light a piece of tissue paper on fire and once it almost burned out, the tissue paper flew up in the air and she caught it with her hand. Last, we did match missiles, which was really fun. There are other core classes, but those will be talked about later.
Career night was six different people talking about their jobs in STEM fields. For mathematics, Alane was talking about she used orgami to use in math. She also talked about how oragami was important to us today. She showed us how to make an oragami heart, which she used to show us the different shapes in math. Alane taught some of our teachers today what they know about math.
The lady who talked about technology told us how she was studying law enforcement because she wanted to be an FBI agent, but they weren't letting girls be that. She didn't want to keep studying law because she didn't want to be a lawyer, so she became a tech. She also mentioned that technology isn't going to be the same in 10 years.
Another presenter was a women who is a GST engineer. She started to talk about how we don't realize we use gas everday, and that new gas never has an odor; it's odorless. She also mentioned that to become a professional engineer, you have to take two tests. One of them lasts for eight hours and the other one lasts for 24 hours. I thought it was pretty interesting to find new information on these careers.
(Sorry still no pictures, but I'll try to have some up by lunch time tomorrow).
Monday, June 17, 2013
Sunday
Sorry about the late blog. As you can guess, things get a bit busy here, so hopefully starting tonight I'll get it written in the evening.
When we arrive, we find out rooms and we see that they are college dorm rooms. We make beds, unpack, and are friendly with out roommates. After the meeting, we meet our new mothers and counselors for the week. We learned new things about each other, said goodbye to our parents, and took a group picture. We came back to our rooms then ate. Dinner was very amazing, interesting, and exciting. Cookies, spaghetti, potatoes, cake, salad, soup, lasagna, and the chicken were some of the favorites of the girls. We met even more people while eating.
Games were very interesting. We got to mingle, mingle, mingle - meeting new people. There were a lot of dancing and screaming; charades was fun and made you break out of your shell. We also played a game learning new things about our moms and counselors. When we played the water game - dixie cups were what we used - making it harder to move the water, so we had to use teamwork.
Posters were very creative and exciting. They were to be used for names. The names were very unique... such as "The cray-cray bru hahas from the twilight zone." The day ends with blogging and sleep.
(Sorry no pictures yet, but I'll get a few up tonight).
When we arrive, we find out rooms and we see that they are college dorm rooms. We make beds, unpack, and are friendly with out roommates. After the meeting, we meet our new mothers and counselors for the week. We learned new things about each other, said goodbye to our parents, and took a group picture. We came back to our rooms then ate. Dinner was very amazing, interesting, and exciting. Cookies, spaghetti, potatoes, cake, salad, soup, lasagna, and the chicken were some of the favorites of the girls. We met even more people while eating.
Games were very interesting. We got to mingle, mingle, mingle - meeting new people. There were a lot of dancing and screaming; charades was fun and made you break out of your shell. We also played a game learning new things about our moms and counselors. When we played the water game - dixie cups were what we used - making it harder to move the water, so we had to use teamwork.
Posters were very creative and exciting. They were to be used for names. The names were very unique... such as "The cray-cray bru hahas from the twilight zone." The day ends with blogging and sleep.
(Sorry no pictures yet, but I'll get a few up tonight).
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