1. Wednesday in Geo-Quest
Tomorrow is Aloha Day!
We’re midweek into the Camp Invention program, and the
fun just keeps going! We are really beginning to put what Wear your Homemade grass skirt, inventor
we’ve learned to good use. Take a look at how we’ve friendly beach wear, and a Hawaiian shirt.
already solved a number of problems simply by using our
brains and imaginations…
don’t Forget…
Today, in the Geo-Games™ module, we
focused on creative problem solving skills Don’t miss the Inventors’ Showcase program
during the fun energetic games we played and this Friday at 2:45pm in the gymnasium. The
explored. children are eager to show off their inventions.
All family and friends are welcome and
Today in Amazing Atlas™ we journeyed to the Cave of encouraged to come.
Crystals in Mexico where we experimented with acids and
bases to find out how caves and crystals form. Next, we
discovered the true beauty of crystals as we explored Today’s question of the day is…
prisms and the unique rainbows they make. The highlight
of the day was when we recreated the complex patterns of QUESTION OF THE DAY
the crystal cave and navigated our way through the
challenging obstacle course. What is a “Black Blizzard?” Find the
answer in tomorrow’s newsletter!
Everything was shaken up in Ecoverse™ as we
encountered an earthquake on Hawai`i, discovered how
tectonic plates can move, and found out how to read the
vibrations of the Earth. We even invented our own Answer to yesterday’s Question of the Day:
seismoscope to make sure we won’t be caught off balance “What is the tallest mountain on Earth?” It
again! Our skills have been improving rapidly and today we is Mount Everest (29,029 feet) if you
earned the earth glyph, bringing us increasingly close to
measure from sea level, and Mauna Loa in
our finished petrosphere! As the day drew to a close, we
uncovered a mysterious box with the stamp of the sunken Hawaii (more than 30,000 feet) if you
ship we found yesterday. measure it from its base at the bottom of
the ocean.
It’s Day Three of the I Can Invent: Launchitude ™ module
and we've been exploring velocity! How fast can we fling
our duck? Will our duck knock down competitor duck You quack me up! A duck walks into a
territory? How can we reengineer their materials to
create the ultimate Duck Chucking Device? We tested,
store and asks for lip moisturizer. The
and retested our designs to help us think and strategize. cashier says, “Cash or charge?” and the
duck says, “Just put it on my bill.”
Today, we received another treasure-filled cache in Cache
Dash™! After finishing our global challenge solution
designs, we went on a fun-filled scavenger hunt to find the
combination to a locked cache. We opened the cache and
received a new set of global challenges – this time dealing
with extreme nature! We also received working motors to
use in our designs.