These will be combination of summer camps for adventure and hands on science.

Group sizes will be 12 students per week. If we get enough registrations in for a specific week we will open up a second session and move to 2 groups of 10.

Quest at Bloomsburg University Summer 2009 Camps

This year we see the return of our extremely popular summer Adventure Camps. In addition we will be offering several themed hands-on science and education based camps. Space is limited to 12 students per camp but we may offer multiple sessions if the need arises. These camps are all led by the staff of the Quest program at Bloomsburg University. More about Quest can be found here: www.buquest.org.

After many requests over the years, we will also offer our first ever weekend based Adult Summer Camp. More about this is below.

Cost for a week of camp is $180 . The cost does not include lunches or snacks with the exception of Friday when we will provide a cook-out. You may still bring your own food if you wish. If there is more than one child from the same immediate family attending the same camp there will be a $10 discount per child. If a single child is attending more than one week of camp there will be a $10 discount after the first week, for each additional week of camp.

The camps will be based at the Quest climbing tower on the upper campus of Bloomsburg University. Each camp will have some field trip components utilizing human power or using local bus company to get there. Camp times will be from 9am-4pm each day and all camps run Monday through Friday.


Adventure Camp - Ages 10-14

Our Adventure Camp is well suited to the active child who is excited to try lots of new things. During the course of the week they will have a chance to try many of the activities that Quest offers. Some of the trips planned from this week range from the 50' climbing tower, to scavenger hunts, to 200' zip lines, to rafts on the Susquehanna.

(Choose One Session)
June 15-19 - Ages 10-14

June 29-July 3 - Ages 14-17 (This session will be for an older crowd and staff will provide more time teaching about the leadership skills involved. In addition the group will travel to the Lehigh River for an exciting day of whitewater fun).

July 27-31 - Ages 10-14

August 17-21 - Ages 10-14

Hands-On Science Camps
While all of the science camps will incorporate some adventure pieces, such as our climbing tower, the focus will be on the hands-on science aspects of each theme. Each week will contain a wide range of activities to keep everyone actively involved.

July 6-10 - "Earth Matters" - Ages 8-12
"Earth Matters" will focus on the environment and our place in it. Time will be spent exploring and learning more about the natural world around us. Students will also have a chance to participate in activities which will get them thinking about how to improve our ecosystem.

July 20-24 - "Momentum" - Ages 8-12
"Momentum" will utilize the outdoor activities and areas that Quest operates in to explore machines, physics and engineering in a whole new way.

August 10-14 - "Core" - Ages 8-12
"Core" refers to the core of the body. This camp will be about bodies in motion, fitness and the science behind sport. Students will learn more about living a healthy lifestyle and develop an appreciation for being outdoors and staying physically active. This camp will seek to promote lifelong fitness for happiness.

Other Camps:

June 27-28 - Adult Summer Camp Weekend -or Camp Wannabehere. (18 or over for this camp) This camp has finally arrived after numerous requests for a program like this. This will be 2 days of fun activities for the novice but enthusiastic outdoor adventurer. We'll start in Bloomsburg on Saturday morning and after a brief introduction be on our way for the next 32 hours (not non-stop of course). We'll start with the day rafting and/or kayaking on the Lehigh River's fun rapids. That night we'll enjoy a campfire and sleep out under the stars (or in a tent if you're so inclined) at a local state park. Sunday we'll wake up and head to a local climbing area for a day of introductory climbing and skills development. This weekend will offer somethiing for everyone.

Cost - $100 per person with all equipment, instruction, and transportation provided.


July 15-16 Working with BU Math & Science Camp
Adventure Camp Outline (Ages 10-14)

Monday: 9 – 12:30 Teambuilding
12:30 – 1 Lunch
1-3 Low Ropes Activities
Tuesday: 9 – 11 Climbing Wall
11-12 Lunch
12-3 Ground School and High Ropes
Wednesday: 9-12:30 Kayaking in pool
12:30 – 1 Lunch
1-3 TBA
Thursday: 9-10 Orienteering Basics
10-1 Orienteering Course
1-3 Egg Drop
Friday: Meet at Danville for Rock Climbing
9-10 Setting up anchors, Safety Talk
Climb Until Lunch
Camp Cooking
2:30-3 Debrief

Adventure Camp Outline (Ages 14-17)

Earth Matters

Momentum

Sports Science

Open from Memorial Day to Labor Day
Hours of Operation:
11:00am-1:00pm (Adult Swim)
1:00pm-7:00pm (General Admission)
NEW THIS SEASON: Early Admittance at 12:00pm for Persons with Family and/or Adult & Child Passes
Please Note: child must be accompanied by a parent/guardian during this time (shallow end of pool)
570-784-1820
Manager: Chuck LaCroix
Assistant Manager: Korin LaCroix

	Daily Admission: (All Ages) $5.00

Staff:
The goal is 5 staff working.

Fees:

$120 last year, $200 this year?

BU Sportscamps link:
https://register.camperreg.com/campereg_bloomu.nsf/contentlookupactive/Home
Baseball (one day) 45-50
Field Hockey (4 day camps), $300 commute, $400 residential,
Swimming (none in 2009), $330 commute, $350 residential, 5 days.

Summer Adventure Camp:
Dress to be outdoors for the entire day.
Wear sneakers or hiking boots (NO flip flops)
Wednesday Morning will be spent in the pool Bring a Bathing suit as well as a change of clothes

Day	Activity	Location

Notes from JB Meeting 12/11/08

Sciences

Secondary Ed (Teaching Science) – Michael Patte

Anthropology – DeeAnn Wymer

Conrad Quentin (Forensic Anthropologist)

Bob Gates – Have 1-2 faculty that teach, teaching science

Nursing –Chris Alichney

Audiology? Women, husband Wydenberner? Eric Wydenberner (Mr. Science) is at Children’s museum. Has PhD in Biology

Exercise Science – Joe Andreacci

Biology – Thom Klinger, Marianne Wood (Ecologist, has young kids, research on squirrels and habitat). Mark Tapsak (bio-diesel guy?), Clay Corbin, Judy Keip-nolt(Soil studies, manure, has 2 college age boys), husband is also Nolt.

Peter Stein – Physics (can bring physics down), Ned Greene (has daughter Olivia),

Chemistry - Toni Trumbo-Bell, Eric Heiralech? (Young, 2 little kids)

Geography/Geosciences – Karen Trifinoff (Maps), Patty Beyer (water), Dale Springer (dinosaur lady, chairperson) (Karen and Dale both do research on teaching science to young children), Michael Shepherd*** (NASA grants, has 4 kids, elementary school, can explain so anyone can understand), John Hintz (Geography, dissertation on bears and tracking, has 3 children, involved with community garden), One GIS guy that would be good also (eric?), New couple who are temporary, maybe being hired?, Cindy Venn, oceanographer (sweet and great), Brett McClaren (did WFA, wife is also scientist)

Math – Paul Loomis (Runs organic farm, as little kids, does stuff at Greenwood.) Lisa Lister – teaches for Elizabether, female mathematician. Scott Inch (Forensic computer program, has young kids), Chair of Math – Kurt Jones, has kids, runs campground by knoebels (J&D), active in theatre. Delightful guy.
Resa Newbury originally from Iran, fled (Persia then), was on Olympic soccer team for them. In 60’s, Working with US Olympic Committee, predicting times for athletes. Did research on Usain Bolt, Predicts dissters (Statistician (Applied Mathematics) Could play with balls and talk about athletics and math???

Robbie Soltz

Laurence Fritz - Bio

Do we talk to the dean of science and technology? Dean Mirande, Have various grants on teaching math/science. One is run by Elizabeth Mauch.

Ages – 8? (Forestry camp is 3rd-4th grade), 8-11 (3rd-5th grade), Bloom is 6th grade, Central is 5th grade for middle school. Central kids can look at it different). Instead of age, list complete this grade. 3rd-4th, 5th-6th,

Pay??

Call - or e-mail??

Fees? $150-$200

4 days or 5 days? 5 days because of one day childcare issues.

Multiple children discount (even $10 dollars less), siblings only for same camp.

Bloom middle school pool. Berwick Y. Central middle school, Town pool?

9-4pm is a better time frame

Classroom – ER Conf Room,

Scholarships available???


Check daycare rates.
$150 around
BU (Student rate) $!25/wk.
http://www.thompsonlearningcenter.com/RateSchedule.html
$125

BTE Theatre School, $100? 5 days 2 hours, do also run full week camps.
Box of light camp.

e-mail sent 12/13/08

Hello Dr. Wood,
I was given your name by Janet Bodenman as someone who might be interested in helping with this. I had recently met with her regarding our summer camps and possibilities with them. Quest is working on developing hands on science camps this summer and are looking for faculty involvement. While I do keep saying science camps we are open to a broad interpretation of that and including as many fields as possible. I think it's only limited by our own creativity. If you have interest please keep reading, if not, thanks for your time. I apologize in advance for the length of this e-mail, there's a lot of info to absorb. If you know any other faculty who might have interest feel free to pass this on to them.

This last summer we ran 4 weeks of summer adventure camps to gauge interest in the region. We received an overwhelming response. We were also a part of the Adventures in Science summer program that happened many years ago on campus. Unfortunately that program died out many years ago. We hope to overcome this by running small groups each week (currently 12) and keeping it all on the upper campus. Classroom space was a major issue for Adventures in Science. We have a conference room on the upper campus along with numerous outdoor spaces. If there was actual lab space needed we would have to address this on a case by case basis. Ultimately the goal is to be outdoors and hands on as much as possible. We are also working with a local bus company to explore transport options. We would like to do 1-2 days off site each week.

Having programs such as this that reach out into the community provide a much needed service to this region. We would also like to expand this over time to include internships in departments such as education.

We are planning to run 8 weeks of summer camp this summer consisting of 4 adventure weeks and 4 science based weeks. The science weeks will have some adventure components such as the climbing wall. Ideally these things tie directly into the education. Our staff would be running the adventure weeks fully (unless there was interest to tie into one of these) and would be the "counselors" during the science weeks. I am looking for faculty who would be interested in helping with something like this. I would work with you (and other interested faculty, hopefully multiple per week, cross discipline) to create a fun hands-on, educational experience. My original start in this field was as an environmental educator and curriculum planner for the city of Portland (OR) and its extensive school based outdoor science program.

Each week of the science camps would be based around a theme that ties into the faculty involved. Your involvement could be as little or as much as you would like. From a 2 hour program to multiple days. By utilizing multiple faculty and our staff we should be able to cover all of this.

The age ranges of our adventure camp last summer was 10-14. We plan to expand this summer to have more of an upper teen session as well as possibly an adult summer camp over a weekend (many, many people contacted us about this oddly enough). The science camps could be designed around younger kids, possibly 3-4th grade and 5-6th grade and would be based on your interest.

BU Students working during this program would be paid as work study and possible internships for credit. Faculty involvement would be as service hours.

These camps would be Monday through Friday from 9am-4pm. The tentative weeks are below, of these 8 would be chosen.

1. 5/25-29
2. 6/1-5
3. 6/8-12
4. 6/15-19
5. 6/22-26
6. 7/6-10
7. 7/13-17
8. 7/20-24
9. 8/3-7
10. 8/10-14
11. 8/17-21

Here's a very brief example of the adventure camp agenda from last year:

Monday:
9 – 12:30 Teambuilding
12:30 – 1 Lunch
1-3 Low Ropes Activities
Tuesday:
9 – 11 Climbing Wall
11-12 Lunch
12-3 Ground School and High Ropes
Wednesday:
9-12:30 Kayaking in pool
12:30 – 1 Lunch
1-3 Afternoon team session
Thursday: 9-10 Orienteering Basics
10-1 Orienteering Course
1-3 Egg Drop
Friday:
Meet at Danville for Rock Climbing
9-10 Setting up anchors, Safety Talk
Climb Until Lunch
Camp Cooking
2:30-3 Debrief

If you would like to chat more about this in person, please let me know. I'm hoping to have this more solidified by mid-January to start promoting it.

So to sum up the responses needed:
Are you interested in learning more about this opportunity?
Ages you would prefer to work with?
Topics you would be interested in teaching/planning?
Dates/weeks/hours you would be interested in?

Thank you for your time,
Brett

Faculty in:
Beth Mauch
Joe Andreacci
Clay Corbin - very limited time to help.
Reza Noubary ???
Ned Greene???
Larry Fritz
Hawrelak, Eric???

Out:

Conrad Quintyn
Judy Kipe-Nolt

From Reza Noubary:

Rock, Paper, Scissors

Purpose: To begin the process of helping students to understand the basic principles of probability.

Grade Level: middle, high school

Objectives: Students will be able to

1. Conduct an experiment
2. Determine if a game is “fair”
3. Collect data
4. Interpret data
5. Display data
6. Conduct analysis of game
7. State and apply the rule of probability

Materials: Overhead projector, pencils, paper

Background:
The game of Rock, Paper, Scissors (RPS) is a decision making game that is played by substitution of the actual objects with hand signals. Each player stands facing each other. The “Rock” is represented by a closed fist. The “Scissors” are represented by a closed fist with the index finger and middle finger extended towards the opponent(s). And the Paper is placing the hand parallel to the ground with all fingers pointed toward the opponent(s). Hence, all three signals are supposed to represent the objects themselves.

In order to play the actual game of RPS, a countdown is established so that each player knows when to execute their hand signal chosen. For example, if the players chose to execute on three, they would count out one, two, and perform their signal on three. They may choose any of the three hand signals. It is important that everyone executes at the exact same time in order to achieve fairness between the players. The outcomes are as follows:

Rock beats Scissors (Rock can knock out Scissors)
Scissors beats Paper (Scissors can cut Paper)
Paper beats Rock (Paper can cover Rock)

If both players choose the same hand signal, the game is considered a tie.






Procedures:

1. Introduce game of rock, paper, scissors.
2. Divide the class into pairs (A and B) and have them play the game 18 times.
3. Use the overhead projector to graph the wins of player A in blue and player B in red.
4. Help students determine range, mode, and mean for each set of data.
5. Do a tree diagram to determine possible outcomes.
6. Consider the following questions and procedures to see if the game is fair.

(a) How many outcomes does the game have? (9)
(b) Label each possible outcome on the tree diagram as to win for A
(c) Count wins for A (3)
(d) Find the probability that A will win in any round (1/3)
(e) Count wins for B (3)
(f) Find the probability that B will win in any round (1/3)
(g) Is the game fair? Do both players have an equal number of wins in any round?
7. Compare the mathematical model to what happened when the students played the game.

























Running Mathematics

Subject: Addition and Multiplication Problems.

Background: Basic skills will be reviewed prior to this activity. The answers will be reviewed the next day in class.

Objective: To try to determine when the students should apply addition, multiplication, division or subtraction.

Procedures: The problems will be based on runners. The students will be given various distances and times. They will need to figure out the best and fastest way to get the answer to the problem. The activities are in word problem format, which is also a good way to build upon their math skills.

Grade Level: Fourth or fifth

Activities:

Samantha runs 5 days out of the week. She runs 3 miles a day. How many miles does she run in a week? How many miles does she run in a month?



Anthony started running Monday through Friday. Three days a week he runs 5 miles. Two days a week he runs 7 miles. How many miles does he run in a week?


Thomas runs 9 miles in a day. Sam runs three times as many miles as Thomas. How many miles does Sam run in a day?



Sandy runs 3 miles a day for the first week. She wants to increase her distance 4 times more every week. How many miles will she run in a day in the following week?



Lindsey, Jordan and Trinity were in a local race. The race was 5 miles. Lindsey ran it in 35 minutes. Jordan ran the race in 32 minutes. Trinity ran the race in 45 minutes. What was the average time between the three runners?



If Joe ran 5 miles on Monday, 7 miles on Tuesday, and 3 miles on Wednesday, 4 miles on Thursday and 5 miles on Friday how many miles did Joe run all week?



If Jason runs three times as fast as Jim and Jim ran 3 miles in 15 minutes how many minutes would it take Jason to run 3 miles? (Remember Jason is faster so his time should be lower)



Jose can run about 5 miles a day. He runs four days a week. How many miles does he run in a month?



If you run 1 mile for the first day and you run twice as far every day how far will you run on the fifth day?


Rachael runs 27 miles in a week. She runs seven days a week (everyday). About how many miles does she run in a day? (If there is a remainder, make it into a fraction)