Category: CAMP

Day 4 of C.A.M.P. began with a flurry of activity as more campers joined the effort to complete the Mosaic and taught each other new games such as Backgammon and chess. In Computer Science, we continued on our journey to learning and mastering NetLogo. We also continued to deepen our knowledge of computers and their…

Day 3 of camp began with  race to complete the Rubik’s cube mosaic! This has been a lengthy task that will require manipulating 400 Rubik’s cubes. In Computer science, we began forming fractal images through NetLogo and utilizing the concept bifurcation from Mathematics. We managed to return the output of the function we used through…

Everyone arrived bright and early full of energy for the second day of CAMP! We began with a variety of warm-up activities to get our brains on track for more math and logic. We had teams learning to solve Rubik’s cubes, campers pairing up to play Rush Hour and other campers solving a variety of…

It’s the first day and there’s lots of excitement and nervousness as old friends connect and meet new friends over an assortment of games including rush hour, human feline puzzles and huge 10 person rounds of Set. In Computer Science, our teacher Yulia pretended to be a Robot and challenged the campers to right specific…

We are excited to offer our 6th summer of the Bard Math Circle Creative and Analytical Math Program (CAMP), a one-week non-residential academic math program for students moving up to grades 6–9 in the fall (currently in grades 5–8). The program runs August 26–30, 2019 (9:00am–3:30pm each day) on the Bard College campus in Annandale-on-Hudson,…

8/31/2018 Today was the last day of CAMP! In computer science, we wrapped up the week by learning more about the actual hardware of computers. In small groups, we each got a tower that we opened up and explored the computer guts inside. We had a small scavenger hunt for specific parts we had discussed…

8/30/2018 Today was the fourth day of CAMP! In art, students continued to expand on the fractal idea that they began to work on Wednesday. At the beginning of class, students were able to finish or improve upon their fractal paintings. After, students received clay (of either black, white or gray coloring) and kneaded them…

8/29/2018 Today was the third day of CAMP! Today in Computer Science we got to practice our skills as drivers and navigators of our programs: one student would type the code out while the other kept watch for typos and helped guide the driver in writing the program. We mainly used Python to learn how…

8/27/2018 Today was the first day of CAMP! The students started their day by collecting their t-shirts, making their name tags, and going into the auditorium for some morning activities.  Morning activities included working on a Rubik’s cube mosaic, playing cards, and juggling.  Starting with the warm-up activity, scavenger hunt, the kids hit off the…