The
first day of camp was very kind of... slow, although it was only half a
day. Steps is a engineering type science camp. We stay over
night in stout college and we all are paired with a roomate. The dorms
we stayed in were smaller then I thought they would be. We took a lot
of classes like physics, chemistry,packaging,computer classes,
math,plastics, and other classes. In plastics we made a lot of
things, everything plastic of course. We made a clock which was shaped
like a clock tower, key chains, we got to take the excess plastic that
was shaped weird and make that into key chains too. With plastic
molders we made a plastic plaque that was about stout college. but, our
main project through the whole 5 days was to create an airplane that is
controlled by remote control. It took about three days to make the
whole thing. Steps was divided into 4 different colored groups. And
thats who you where roomed with, your color. As u can tell by my
picture I was on the Red team. While we were on the red team we came up
with another name and were all decided to call each other the red
cherries. We made up a cheer for our team also. The other teams were
Blue. yellow, and green. I met a lot of new people here. It was a good
experience that everyone should try (going to camp) one in their life.
Monica>>> was of the people I met. Along with a lot of new
people from the other teams... It was a fun week.
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Camp
When I first arrived at camp I received my two red STEPS shirts.
My roommate was very welcoming and made me feel more confident about
camp. I learned a lot and made a lot of friends. The dorms
we stayed in at Stout were really hot because it was so humid and the
air conditioning wasn't on. I could tell I was not the only one
nervous. But through the week I noticed everyone was getting
along. We did classes such as Physics, Chemistry, Packaging,
Computer classes, Plastics, Math, CAD, Foundry, We made our airplanes,
and more. We did activities such as going to Dairy Queen, the
public pool, to a factory that was 150º at the hottest,
having a karaoke party, a historic house, and climbed a rock wall, went
bowling and went to a Menomonie Band. I learned a lot of Science
and Technology stuff that I didn't know of before. I had a lot of
fun at this camp. We also made a lot of stuff here, such as a
clock tower and holder, a plastic logo, key chains, a packaging box and
decorated it, a paper weight, and more. I had a great time and
will have lots of memories of how I made people laugh by doing funny
things.
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