On our 17th day of Radio Camp, campers formed into groups and began composing scripts for their final, culminating project–a radio feature about the Summer Dreamers Academy! We then headed outside and played some intense four square.

On our 16th day of camp, we discussed the coming school year and all of the possibilities it brings with it. All of our campers are rising sixth graders, and the move into middle school can be a tough one, but each child expressed an awesome hopefulness akin to maybe Gandhi or the Rebel Fleet.

Our 15th day of Radio Camp (15!!!!????) brought with it a new game called Quiz Ball–aka Cleverly-Disguised-Learning Ball! An odd mixture of baseball, Jeopardy and classroom-indoor-ness, Quiz Ball is played by two teams and conducted in 9 innings. Each player of a team takes turns answering a radio or social studies oriented question, if they answer the question correctly they get a chance to throw a ball at the chalkboard where upon three large and four small circles are drawn representing different hits. A player can either hit a single, double or triple, while home runs are represented by the smallest circles.

On our 14th meeting, campers, after being taught–on three separate occasions–how a microphone works, after having built their very own microphones, were asked to reflect on what they had learned. And it was a ton of stuff: what “electromagnetic induction” is, that copper wire actually qualifies as a household item, and even how to pronounce the word “diaphragm!