On our 19th meeting, campers reviewed each other’s interview scripts. Grammar, punctuation, spelling, sentence structure, syntax, all were examined with intense scrutiny. Ashante was particularly ruthless–like the guy who replaces Robin Williams in “Dead Poets Society” levels of ruthlessness. Then, with our perfected scripts, we went outside and play some Four Square.

On our eighteenth day, campers worked some more on their interview scripts and got a refresher on what an open ended question is. They also found out which Summer Dreamers activity their interview subjects would be from. We then headed outside to Mr. Andy’s “Thunderdome” of Four Square to end the day. He’s like Tina Turner and Master Blaster combined in that pseudo-athletic arena!

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.