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U of S-based science camp engages city youth

Aug 14, 2017 | 6:54 PM

Children from Meadow Lake are spending their week with dinosaurs, learning about robots, and making rockets.

Science First (SCI-FI) camp, offered by the University of Saskatchewan, is a multidisciplinary camp where campers learn about biology, chemistry, engineering, programming, and various other concepts. Bailey Dietrich is one of the four instructors leading the activities this week at Gateway School. 

“We try and bring a couple projects about each one of the topics, to broaden the areas that we talk about and pique interests,” he said.

Dietrich explained campers learned about geology by way of rocks and fossils, and were introduced to physics by creating catapults and simple machines. 

Nursing student Demi Ogunrinde is also an instructor, and said that the SCI-FI camps are a great way for youth to  spend the summer.

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“They seem to be having a lot of fun,” she said. “It exposes them to a bunch of new information that they may or not learn in school. It helps them be really creative because we bring projects into it, and we’re not just teaching and standing in front of them.”

Seven-year-old Kolby Heimbecker and his nine-year old brother Geoffrey Jr. are participating in camp this week. Dad Geoffrey Sr. appreciated the camp’s stop in Meadow Lake. 

“I like it because it’s something different for the kids in the summer in town,” he said.

kathy.gallant@jpbg.ca  

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