Friday, July 1, 2022
Campers love their workshops!! It’s where their knowledge expands, it’s where they are given a platform to express themselves, and it’s a place where they can find a connection to their interests, to Judaism, and to others who share the same passions.
What exactly happens in these two and a half hours each day? What makes them so exciting? Why are they camper favorites? Here’s how our wonderful workshop instructors shape meaningful and enjoyable experiences for our campers each and every day.
Lahycxuxph – or shall we say Cryptology
In the Cryptology workshop, it’s all about secrets. Everything is hidden behind an intellectually locked door waiting to be decoded. There’s deception, or sometimes a clue to unlocking the next clue and then the next. The science of cryptology is a clever power that can be easy to harness but difficult for others to solve, making it influential in modern informational technology.
When instructor Noah Horowitz unveiled Sci-Tech’s giant Caesar Cipher wheel on Thursday, campers were amazed to see how obfuscated language became when “kua-lwuz ak xmf” was unreadable. But once it was shifted 18 letters back, it was clear that camp is fun!
print(“Programming & Coding”)
Monty Python may have been a silly show, but it inspired a programming language that our campers are very serious about.
Today in the Programming & Coding workshop, campers interactively learned binary data structures using Oreo cookies. An opened cookie with crème represented 1, a cookie without crème represented 0, and binary strings were made to build a table portraying decimal digits.
Cantor Marc, the workshop’s instructor, has been teaching computer science concepts and the Python language to campers for them to develop their own computer program to showcase at the end of the week.
Lights… Camera… Digital Film Production!
Movies are fun to watch, but have you ever made one? Campers are becoming film writers, producers, and technicians in the Digital Film Production workshop.
“A Perfectly Innocent Film In Which No Murder Happens” is the title of one production group’s comedy. With the help of instructor Adam Boehm, they spent the past few days writing the script, expect to begin filming around campus this weekend, and editing will begin soon after.
In the workshop’s advanced tech track, campers learn skills and techniques that expand their creativity and mastery of film production. Animating logos of mainstream businesses was today’s project, and video effects are on the schedule for next week.