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David is an occasional blogger, software engineer, Nintendo fanboy, liberal, news magazine addict, voracious TiVo user, and bibliophile. He was born in St. Louis, grew up in southern Indiana, and returned to St. Louis to attend Washington University. He hasn't managed to escape yet. He's a fan of free wine tastings, too many tv shows to name, and eating out. David makes his living developing web applications used internally by his employer. He doesn't blog about work because he's heard too many stories about that causing workplace troubles. There's more on the about page. |
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11 February 2004 - 8:30 am
There is a wide variety of summer camps for kids to attend these days. Parents can still send their kids off to a traditional summer camp, but now they can also send their kids to computer camp, performing arts camp, gifted camp, fat camp, and many others. While thinking about this recently, I had a creative vision for a new type of camp. Given the popularity of television shows like CSI that attempt to feature "science" (and I use this term very loosely) as an aspect of their show, I wondered why no had yet created a forensic science camp.
This idea isn't as crazy as it sounds. Marketers have already decided that kids might be interested in forensic science. For example, this link will take you to forensics lab toy which allows kids to examine fiber and blood evidence (its basically a souped up microscope). And this link will take you to a home DNA mapping kit that is marketed to kids. So why not build a summer camp around solving some (made-up) crime. The counselors could rig up a cabin as a crime scene and kids would try to solve the crime. Just like in CSI, they could be both the police and the crime scene investigators. You could teach a skill to the kids in the morning, fingerprint lifting for example, and they could use their new-found skill in the afternoon to try to find clues to the murder that they're investigating. Throw in some swimming time and a craft hour and you're done.
Posted by on 11 February 2004 at 8:30 AM
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Where do I sign up?
Posted by jim on 12 February 2004 - 1:01 PM
We just wrapped up our third and final month of camp previews for savvyfamily (the St. Louis parenting magazine I now edit), and one of the camps that advertised with us offers a DNA research camp for the group known as 'tweens. Not as cool as the one you are suggesting, but impressive nonetheless. Also, there's so many cool Mission to Mars-type camps in St. Louis which I would have liked to gone.
I'm jealous that I only ever went to Girl Scout camp as a kid. Girl Scout camp was infamous for its putrid-smelling latrines and nutritious dinners of pork and beans cooked over a pathetic fire.
Posted by Rachel on 13 February 2004 - 11:06 AM
I want more camps like these for adults. A friend of mine went to volleyball camp some years ago and had a blast. Adults need the fun time in the summer as much as kids do.
Posted by rkc on 23 February 2004 - 6:42 AM