It's Friday, Friday!

Good morning, Campers! I hope your week has been amazing and full of fun!

I'm sure you all can't wait for the weekend and a chance to sleep in again.

This morning started with the girls writing down their blogs, which I will be adding to the other blog post.

After most of them wrote  down their blog urls, we took the girls into the Atrium to play Guess Who?. We gave the girls a card with the name of a famous woman, either fictional or real. The girls had to hold the cards to their foreheads and weren't allowed to look at their own. Then they walked around asking yes or no questions to figure out who they were. When about half of them figured out who they were, they played a game of concentration.

Once everyone figured out who they were, the girls came back into the room for open build. They have to finish their apps by the end of today, so we went around helping them with their difficult code. It was frustrating, but it was very rewarding when the app worked.

Around 11, the girls got to talk to Sam McGuinn, a veteran YWiC camper, helper, and instructor. She talked to the girls about her job at Cisco, as well as her internship there. The girls asked her the questions they had, and she was very willing to answer them. At the end of the question period, Sam gave the girls a virtual tour of the building she works for. The connection was a bit spotty at times, but overall it was really informative. Sam told the girls that, if they're not challenged, they're not growing. Great advice no matter what field you choose to go into.

After the video call, the girls moved into Java. Elisa went over conditionals before jumping into loops. The girls were given challenges and tasks to master the conditionals, since they needed them for the loops they learned about.

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Good afternoon, High School Alum!

We started the day with amazing sandwhiches. After eating the delicious subs, the girls went into the lab to start on Java. The girls went over conditionals before learning about loops. They practiced with for and while loops, and got to use Eclipse to test out their code.

After their Java lesson, the girls went on a field trip to the Barnes&Noble Bookstore. They explored the only building with an escalator in Cruces, and many of them went to the Starbucks located inside, which helped cool many of them as we walked back to the science hall.

When we got back, the girls jumped right in to their projects. We had an open build for the remainder of the camp, and their projects are turning out so awesome!

Blog Prompt: Tell me a joke. The one who gets me to laugh the hardest will get their favorite candy! (So be sure to put what your favorite candy is....within reason (nothing that requires travel, except for mazapans. I have those.))

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