Intro to Video Production and Film Making is just one of the exciting offerings that will be available or campers this year at River Valley Technical Center's Tech Camp. Other programs include Let's Get Cooking where they learn basic cooking skills.
In the Intro to Video Production and Film Making workshop, campers will learn basic camera and lighting techniques as well as the three steps to video production and film creation and create a short video that will be shared with fellow campers.
Learn the real-world, outdoor treasure hunting game of Geocaching using maps, compasses, and quick wit. Campers will navigate to specific coordinates and then attempt to find the geocache (container) hidden at that location. The new program promises to introduce campers to a new and exciting game that is played throughout the world.
Learn to Code: In this session campers will learn basic animation coding concepts by making different types of animation, including interactive, graffiti and more.
An exciting "CO2 Cars" session will allow campers to use their imagination to design, build, race and take their cars home with them.
Campers can also explore what it means to be an entrepreneur and learn why marketing and market research is an important part of the process. Campers can develop a business idea and create promotional materials using their imagination and creativity.
Everyone will write a short story complete with pictures and photos of their choice and take home a "Tech Camp Week Book" that includes bios and photos of all the campers.
Other programs include an exciting hands-on First Aid component, Let's Get Cooking where they learn basic cooking skills, and "Escape at RVTC" where they can work as a team to solve a variety of increasingly difficult puzzles.
All youth entering the seventh, eighth or ninth grade at any area middle school, private school or home school are eligible to attend "Tech Camp." Space is limited to the first 50 to register. Cost will be $100.
Camp is scheduled for June 18-22 at the River Valley Technical Center in Springfield, from 8:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. each day. Due to snow days, some area schools may be still in session; however, on request, some schools are allowing students to attend Tech Camp. Organizers suggest parents check with their child's school if this is the case.
For more information or to receive a brochure and sign-up forms, contact Camp Director Marie Gelineau at (802) 384-1561 or by email at mgelineau@rvtc.org, or through RVTC.org.
I think that's a wonderful idea.
ReplyDeleteWhat is "Tech" about kitchen work? Sounds like a liberal, participation trophy for kids challenged by math. Is administration aware most local, restaurant kitchens are staffed by prisoners on work release? Think these kids could set their sights a little higher.
ReplyDeleteWhat about the new restaurant opening downtown tonight? Nick was a student of the culinary program at RVTC, Claremont has a great new bakery, also owned by a local, former student of RVTC. Tech Camp allows them to explore options. How do they know what they might be able to do unless they explore?
DeleteYou are assuming the definition of "tech" is specific only to the current use of the term as it applies to technological field/devices. The definition related to "tech" or "technical schools" is different. From Merriam-Webster: "the specialized aspects of a particular field of endeavor." These schools have an emphasis on training for specific trades. For example, in my state, you can come out of a "tech" high school with a license to be an HVAC technician or even a hairdresser. Tech schools focus on giving students the opportunity to get a job right out of high school. Why so negative 5:28?
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ReplyDeleteYou sound undereducated about this! There is a lot of math and technology used in "kitchen work". I'm guessing you live a "made from a box" life
Let's see, 4 cups in a quart. Quart liquid = 32 oz. Defrost @ 165, use leftover seafood for Monday special, top off the ketchup bottles. Got it! I'm a tech wizard. Look out Bill Gates!
Delete5:28,your a fool,it's a tech camp at a tech center,they teach the kids good stuff there,maybe if you ever tried cooking you might find there is all kind of tech training used in it,but then it's just easier to be negative about thing's
ReplyDeleteor lives off a EBT card and doesn't need to worry about cooking
ReplyDeleteI have to reply, I worked in the food service industry between 15 ($1.65 per hour) and 30 years old. Washed dishes first, then line cook, then manager and ultimately a district manager for a chain of restaurants.
ReplyDeleteThe food service industry is difficult, fun, rewarding and I think it gives everyone that works in it a very good work ethic as it's not easy, and depending on your part of the industry gives you an appreciation for the others that work there when you do visit restaurants. The worst part is dealing with some very unappreciative customers from time to time. There is money to be made, and math has always been very important in making sure your profitable.
It never ceases to amaze me how many negative comments there are every time there is a story about kids learning something. ANYTHING. Maybe these posters simply believe in stupidity and ignorance. I, for one, am glad to see young people taking the initiative to get an education, or learn a skill. As Dean Vernon Wormer once said "Fat, drunk, and stupid is no way to go through life..."
ReplyDeleteI appreciate your comments about the negativity -- even in articles specific to children/learning. I have made mention of this myself in the past. I keep up with my "hometown news" on this site and I am frequently appalled by the negative comments and name-calling. There is no such thing as civil public discourse or vigorous, fact-based debates. People just seem to attack anyone with a difference of opinion or, for that matter, attack for no reason at all. Thank you for speaking up!
Delete3:38, it's the shop town mentality. The highly vaunted machine tooling co-op program which produced the world's best machinists swamped whatever educational efforts might have been made to produce a sense of civic relatedness in all Springfield children. Like the co-op students, they all learned to take orders, never wonder about the bigger picture and wait for the higher-ups to provide all the solutions. Their reward for this behavior was the freedom to gripe, moan, complain and despise the solutions that they didn't appreciate. That's what we get here from them.
ReplyDeleteAgreed 4:49.....except for 'world's best machinists' comment....far from it but don't tell them that! Shop's unions spawned a 'gimme girl' mentality which soon developed into a management position (justifiably) into "SCREW YOU!,SEE YA LATER LOSERS!"
ReplyDeleteAs Wall Street (starting with Textron in the late 40's) took over the shops, management became increasingly insensitive to the fact that the machinists were human and deserved basic respect. Within a decade, unions provided workers with the ability to push back. Edgar May always said that they were the most truculent group he'd engage with, but he was aware that it was the attitude they needed in order to stand up against Wall Street's preference for profit and disregard for what brought them that profit. The Springfield Historical Society has a doctoral dissertation on the history Precision Valley which I think you'll find very interesting in this regard.
DeleteOK jerks, what does sodium bicarbonate do, how about sodium carbonate. What does Potassium bitartrate, also known as potassium hydrogen tartrate, with formula K C₄ H₅ O₆, do in cooking. What is the difference between monounsaturated fat and polyunsaturated fat. If you don't know the answer to that last question u b going on ded. So there is a lot of chemistry in cooking. Plus knowledge of temperature. Or thermodynamics. Not just yer knowing there a four gulps in a can of bud. Speaking of bud, not everyone can make a good ipa. Another subject of cooking for advanced students of age. So make your cup of soup, but beware follow the directions. O ya and enjoy yer beef JERKY.
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