Take a Walk on The Marshside: Duct Tape + Plastic + Awesome Teachers = FUN

Winston returned to Camp Invention a few weeks ago. This was his second year as a camper at this Science and Inventor's Camp held at his school. This is a national camp and we so fortunate to have such a great educational camp literally in our backyard - BHES is one of the host schools.

We were fortunate enough to be the BHES Camp Parents this year - this required some work throughout the school year plus help with registration and clean up but in exchange - FREE CAMP TUITION!! This camp is not cheap so we were happy to accept the job.

Winston spent the week creating a new mechanical pet, building a home for his pet and creating his own avatar. He loved spending the week with friends and learning a whole bunch. He also loves hanging out with the 4th and 5th grade Science Teachers who lead the campers -- he loves to talk about how one day he'll be in their classrooms!!

We were invited to the Inventor's Showcase the Friday afternoon of his camp and this was a great opportunity to see what he'd been working on. The Bell Inventors (Winston's group, named after Alexander Graham Bell) made drums during the week and they began the showcase with a drum concert....a LOUD drum concert. Winston chose a recycled wii box for his drum - perfect choice!

We visited each camp station and Winston showed us his inventions for the week. His pet had quite the digs - the house was solar powered (i.e. red saran wrap in the picture at the top) with a flat screen and a couch for all the sports-watching his pet would enjoy! His avatar was a baseball player and he made an awesome baseball field!

There really are no limits to one's imagination coupled with an unlimited supply of duct tape and cardboard!!

How lucky we are to have this gem of a teacher - Ms Wilde, 4th grade GATE teacher - DD2 Teacher of the Year 2009 - they don't get any better than this one!!