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Summer at Wooster Session Three Highlights

Session Three of Summer at Wooster came to a close last Friday, and as the temperatures rise, so do the amount of campers on campus. Last week, 144 campers filled Wooster’s campus on the playing fields and courts, around the pool, and in the classrooms. Dependent upon their swim abilities, campers initially were placed into Beginner, Intermediate, or Advanced swim lessons. Throughout the week and the summer, campers have the ability to work their way from the shallow end to the deep end of the pool. Last week, Recreation Coordinator Catherine Plummer noted that a significant amount of campers were excited to discover they had been moved to a new swim level.

Trailblazers (1st and 2nd graders) launched into space in Exploration last week where they learned about the Kennedy Space Center and the solar system. Campers then imagined they discovered their own planet and wrote and illustrated a small booklet about it. Planet names included Ringbow, Rainbow Planet, Art Planet, and Unicornacus, among other creative names. New last week to the Trailblazing program was the addition of a recreation option in the afternoon. Campers who elected to take part in this option played games like Handball and Tee Ball, and enjoyed free swim on Friday.

Four different classes either took place in or gathered inspiration from the Makerspace; Guitar Builder, Construction, Game Design, and Cardboard Inventors. In Cardboard Inventors, campers spent the first half of their block on Tuesday afternoon constructing cardboard barriers, shields, and blinds to duck, dive, and dip behind during a game of Capture the Flag with water balloons. Another highlight from the Makerspace took place Friday morning when campers in Guitar Builder plugged their newly-constructed electric diddley bows into amps and rocked out during a jam session.

Just across the way from the Makerspace, campers in a Publishing & Journalism class were hard at work composing a mixed media online publication via WINK. Roving Wooster reporters could be found around campus as they conducted interviews, wrote articles, produced small videos, and took on the roles of traffic, weather, sports, and news reporters. On Friday, other campers were excited to see familiar faces on the big screen as they came together to watch the premiere of the Publishing class’ newscast.

There is still time to enroll your camper! Summer at Wooster runs through August 12, 2016. To learn more about Summer at Wooster, please visit http://summeratwooster.org.