On our eleventh day of Radio Camp, campers were asked how they thought microphones worked; “microchips,” “electricity” and “fleas on tiny treadmills” were all pretty common explanations. After recording their imaginative reverse-engineering’s, they learned about the true inner workings of a microphone, starting with what a transducer is and does. All of this techno babel then led to each camper building their very own dynamic microphone out of household items.

On our tenth day of Radio Camp we asked our campers what they thought “Technology” was. The most frequent answers were “electronics” and “Xbox 360,” but the campers soon learned that it was pretty much everything around us. After learning some scientific definitions, they then made these recordings about not only what they think technology is, but what else they would like to know.

[dmalbum path=”/wp-content/uploads/dm-albums/SDA 2013 – Day 9/”/] On our ninth day of Radio Camp campers first made recordings about what they learned the day before (the…

Our eighth day of Radio Camp was crazy, super fun! We learned a slew of new scientific-y terms like: rhythm, tempo and dynamics, and we also learned how to play Radio Ball! The game is a combination of freeze tag and kickball, with a kernel of cleverly disguised learning at it’s core. Then, with Mr. Andy on drums, the campers danced the afternoon away, mirroring his drum beats and exemplifying the previously discussed terms with their footloose feet.

On our seventh day of Radio Camp, campers practiced interviewing some more with the H1 handheld digital recorders. But afterwards, the kids were introduced to the editing process and Adobe Audition–the software SLB staffers use in office. We had some fun rearranging previous recordings around (apparently Nikko likes to eat monkeys and his favorite animal is tacos?) and then made recordings about the qualities that make a good friend.