#stem camp

So, I know you’ve all been waiting to hear an update, but STEM camp has officially been cancelled. In the end I only had 5 girls sign up and that’s just not enough to justify all the work. I have put in some time, and am now realizing that I need to notify my guest speaker/group, but I didn’t have anything planned in detail.

And I thought why not code it to play Queen

So here’s a robot playing “We Are The Champions” by Queen!

I went back and counted and this is update 8 (not counting a couple of reblogs of commentary).

Unfortunately, I still have no registrations for STEM camp. To be fair, the only advertising I’ve done is to stick it on GSUSA’s marketplace. It’s on our calendar as well, but I haven’t put it in the newsletter or advertised on Social Media. My boss thinks that we may get some registrations as councils decide to cancel camp due to COVID, although I think that a lot are stubborn like our camp directors and really, really don’t want to cancel again.

In other news, I’ve secured a group of female graduate students in biomedical engineering from my university to present a bioscience lab. Not technically badge related, but who doesn’t want to learn about the biomechanics of snot? This also means that I have 5 of 9 sessions accounted for, with tentative themes for a couple of others.

I brought up an idea my coworker had gotten from another council that I liked, of a one afternoon “camp in” for STEM. So I told my boss because I am *deeply* in need of more STEM participants. And she took it as, maybe we should make it an actual virtual summer camp session and put it on the national marketplace. She also said that our CEO would really like that.

Being autistic, I don’t always read between the lines. My coworkers, the camp directors, on the other hand, helped me interpret the subtext. While I thought this was more of a “do you want to do this?” it seems it is actually more of a “how do we do this?”