Wednesday:  Blue Skies, Smiling at Me. . . Nothin' but Blue Skies, Do I See!

Our camp photographer could not come to camp today, and I don't have pictures of activities.  If anyone can email me photos, I will upload them for all to enjoy.  Send pictures to lcruse@cox.net, please.

Robotics, again?

We started our day with some of the Wolves and Bears working on Map and Compass belt loop and pin, Webelos finishing a service project of spreading mulch on a garden, and the rest of the Wolves and Bears playing "Capture the Flag."   Afterward, it was back to Robotics.

I asked several groups of boys, "Are you bored with robots yet?"  The resounding answer was, "No!  It's just getting good, because we are having battles now and our helpers showed us how to win!" The Wolves and Bears have been paying attention to the robot wars going on in the Webelos Vex Robotics classroom, and today the younger Scouts went rogue.  They turned their Snap Circuit robots into battle bots! 

(I think we should contact a company that does product testing and invite them to come to next year's Day Camp.  Our boys could find the full extent of the durability of anything the company brought.)

Today was our big shooting sports day:  Launching dog food from slingshots!  The College has a policy of no weapons on campus, so we got to toss dog food around for the deer to eat.

Boys also made terrariums in Mason canning jars.   The Webelos learned how precious life is in the universe; they already knew that Earth is the only planet we know of that has life in existence.  They talked about the essentials for something to be able to live, and they also talked about the process of conducting an experiment to study life.

Every day right after lunch we have been watching different episodes of "Bill Nye, the Science Guy."  Today we watched "Gravity." (It's available on YouTube, Mom and Dad, if you want to watch it, too.)  Ask your Cub what Bill Nye threw off the building to test gravity!

This afternoon we had a visitor, John Johnson, from the Omaha Astronomy Club.  He covered the points in the Astronomy Belt Loops and pin. . . AND he brought a telescope that allowed the boys to look at the sun!  The boys saw an orange ring around the sun, and they saw a black spot that was a solar storm.  As they say in Bill Nye, "Whoa!"

We wrapped up the day with a bounce house and a giant sponge bomb war.  It got intense, but it didn't turn into "Lord of the Flies." 

Is your son getting tired yet?  Remind him to bring his water bottle; we are encouraging the boys to drink often, but it was warm outside today and they are doing a lot of walking.

Reminder:  Camp will be at Iowa Western on Thursday.  The last day of camp--Friday--will be at the park at the base of the Wabash Trace on Harry Langdon Blvd, at the bottom of Titan Hill Intermediate school.  We will walk to the swimming pool at Iowa School of the Deaf, so boys should bring swimming trunks and a towel.  We will have an all-camp cookout on Friday: hot dogs, buns, chips, watermelon, and ice cream or popsicles.