We’re cruising right along this week. The students really have gotten into a nice groove already! They’ve really done well with teamwork and have conducted some great investigations already!

Today the blue and red groups ventured all the way across campus to discover things about their nervous system, look at the human organs in the medical science education center, and conduct some investigations around introreceptors, contracting muscles and other fun stuff!

The yellow and green groups took their turn with the UK engineering complex. Along with the different labs, they got to build some motors and use the engineering design process to investigate surface area and mass.

In robotics, both groups dove right into programming today! They started with some of our maze challenges and many jumped into the sensors and using the sensors. Tomorrow we have some more unique challenges up our sleeves! The students are paired up for the robotics and they have truly done a fabulous job of working together already! We always emphasize collaboration, taking turns, and talking through problem solving together; it’s really nice to see such great teamwork in action on Day 2 already!

In their words…

• I learned you can create electricity with your arm
• I learned that your fingers are more sensitive than your arm.
• you have the ability to sense PH
• Our muscles create electricity.
• I really liked doing the crafrish activity because it gave a good understaing of sensitiveity + senses
• I liked the tour becuase it explained alot about Engineering at UK.
• most boats don’t sink because they have a large amount of volume
• I liked going the the sound canceling room and the 3-D Printing room.

Conversation Starters

Red/Blue Groups

• How do muscles in your arm move? What is the path of the signals?
• How do you create electricity with your arm?
• What was the most interesting thing you learned about the human organs today?
• What did you want your robot to do today? How did you get your robot to do what you wanted it to do?

Yellow/Green Groups

• Tell me about your plan for your boat you assembled today? What did you take into consideration? Did you change your plan at all?
• What was your favorite part of the engineering tour? What did you learn about engineers today that you did not know before?
• What did you want your robot to do today? How did you get your robot to do what you wanted it to do?

Photo of the Day…

Click the picture and it will take you to the weekly photo album. Please note that we try to capture pictures of all the campers, but we cannot guarantee that we will get every single one. We try our very best to though! Also we are STEM teachers and not full time photographers, so our pictures are not perfect and we leave them unedited, so if you love to edit photos…feel free! If there is a photo you wish to have removed, please email me and we’ll take it down!