Urban League Summer Camp: Day 5

Today was my last day of involvement with the Urban League Summer Camp! *tear!

We started the session by watching the video I made last night and going through the powerpoint slides I was asked to prepare. The groups then took a half hour or so to finalize their parts of the presentations. Team Thursday actually had prepared slides that they brought on a thumb drive and added in to the presentation, so they were able to kick their feet up and relax. I was really proud to see that they had taken initiative like that. Meanwhile, Team Tuesday had done a bunch of research and collected imagery, they just had to put it into the slides, so that was impressive too. 

Putting on the final touches.

Team Wednesday did a dry run of the 3-D demo, and it all went swimmingly. Team Monday kind of cruised and figured they were ready, but their lack of preparation and organization compared to the other groups would become apparent in the presentation (but it still wasn't BAD, by any means). 

1:45 came around, and it was time to present. I was hoping a larger crowd would have gathered to watch, but the kids took it seriously nonetheless and put on a great show:

Jordin emceed.

Captivated audience

Watching the video

Presenting on 3-D head scans. They even went into detail about colors and wavelengths and how you could integrate IR as well.

I tried to capture video of the presentation, but we had a number of technical difficulties, not to mention that room is way too dark (with no illumination on the speaker) to be able to capture anything that actually looks decent. Oh well.

Overall, the campers did a FANTASTIC job. They totally exceeded my expectations and definitely showcased themselves and how much they learned. It was clear to me as well as the visitors who came for the presentation that the kids had a really great time and really learned a lot - what more can you ask for? At the end of the presentations when it was time to go, the kids told me they were going to miss me and a few of them even gave me hugs! I gave them all lenticular postcards with my e-mail address on them; I hope they keep in touch, because I'm going to miss them too.