Science Camp....it was definitely Scientific!

We've had a busy few weeks since the last post...then we had some bloggy home improvement going on, thanks to the techy guy I married so I have a minor version of "catch up" on the horizon...it promises to be riveting subject matter people....root beer floats, tomato sandwiches and a big ole Cousin Reunion happening here on Marshside.

Okay so back to the Science....


Winston went to his first camp...EVER! He spent a week at Camp Invention - we chose the session that was held at his school so it was an easy 5 minute walk each day and he learned alot, interacted with some great teachers and met some new peeps. They had several different modules each day....they built Viking Ships, made their own super heroes and took apart an "appliance" they brought in from home and used the parts to create a whole new invention. He had bad hair day, wacky dress day, daily water balloon battles and lots of other neat stuff going on.
He built a superhero and named him Super Jake. He has a body made of clay and hair made of toothpicks. His special powers are his "Super Sniffer" nose and his supersonic hearing abilities. While Winston didn't write about this in his comic book, I dare say Jake had some power with that hairdo Winston gave him!

His favorite part of camp was the reinvention project. He took an old boom box in and began to take it apart the first day. It proved to be quite a challenge -- he and one of the camp instructors, Mrs Ingram bonded the whole week trying to get the screws out so he could get inside of it. Once they got into it, Winston found all sorts of cool stuff to use for his new invention and with major amounts of handy dandy duct tape, he managed to build a robot that now sits proudly in our bedroom. Mrs Ingram said she had a special place in her heart for his creation after all the work they did together!


The camp held an Inventor's Showcase the last day of camp; Joe, Lilly and I got to attend and see all the cool stuff he'd been up to all week. Winston is made so much like his Daddy that all the sciencey, techy stuff just came naturally to him. A few teachers stopped me and said they were looking forward to hopefully having Winston in their classrooms someday - I figure this can't be a bad thing!

So I'd say our first experience with camp was good....and very, very Scientific!