Science Camp
Pikeville College
Week 1
July 15 to 19, 2002
This year at camp the kids
programmed a
virtual buddy, studied
encryption
and learned about Shockwave and Flash in the computer class.
In
biology
they looked into logic, ESP, and the common cold then dissected a squid
and starfish. Chemistry included making slime, investigating
the
chemistry of photography, and making and testing toothpaste.
Sundials,
Area 51 and stomp rockets were the subjects of the astronomy
classes.
In physics they looked at the properties of light and some other
photons.
Then they built a pinhole camera from a shoe box and on Wednesday used
it to take a picture that they developed.
Here are the class pictures
in 3D.
To properly see them you
will
need to look through a red filter over your left eye and a blue filter
over your right. The Kids made their viewers by using a thin
piece
of plastic that they colored with broad tip markers. To get
each
3D picture we needed two separate pictures, one showing what the left
eye
would see and one showing the right eye's view. These were
then
combined
to make the picture that you see here. When you look through
the
filters each eye sees only one of the views and your brain combines
them
into one 3D image.
Building the box cameras.
Programming the computers.
Astronomy projects.
Starfish dissection.
Getting the cameras ready to load the
film. Ready to
make
the exposure. Be sure to hold the camera steady.
Two of the resulting pictures. As you can see they
are
negatives.
Physics Olympics
Contests this year included aeronautics, straw strongarm, toothpick
and marshmallow tower, stomp rockets and the naked egg drop.
In
the
egg drop contest the students built catching systems which they hoped
would
allow an egg dropped from the gym ceiling (about 7.5 meters high) to
survive.
There were many imaginative solutions. A box covered with
duct
tape
(sticky side up), one filled with grass clippings, and one that had
vermiculite
insulation all did very well.
Another important event -- lunch.
Contest winners
Trip to the Zoo
It was a great day at the zoo. Eating, drinking, and
buying
souvenirs
were primary goals for the day. They weren't sure how to
react to
the case full of giant cockroaches crawling about.
Robert Arts, the program director.
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