Welcome back to Sarah's Science Summer Scrapbook.
This week in Oakland and Berkeley, This Land is Your Land wound down with our second to last week of the summer: "Build It!" In this fun filled week of creative homemade projects, we constructed a Bow-String Generator. This project used alternative energy (human power) to spin a motor which, in turn, generated electricity to power LEDs.
We also built and decorated our own Mini-Basketball Catapult game that converts potential energy into kinetic energy, the energy of motion. By the end of the day, many campers were ready to head off to Beijing to compete in the Basketball Catapult Olympics!
Other projects included a Battery Cell Lightning Bug (complete with habitat), a Magnetic Mixer (perfect for mixing up individual size portions of Tang), a Conductivity Crab (great for testing which objects are conductive), and a Camshaft Car (why buy one when you can make one?!).
During Fun in the Sun, we had a blast on the play structure...
And a great time building forts and gnome homes in Joaquin Miller.
When the fog burned off in the afternoons, we went for a dip in the pool.
And we also enjoyed healthy snacks prepared by our CITs. For more information about our CIT leadership program, please see here.
Thanks for looking. Come back next week to see what happened during the final week! Also, we invite you to fill out a brief online feedback survey. It's a great opportunity to give us any feedback or suggestions. You can find it here.
