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).