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MADERA, Calif. (KFSN) -- The Madera Unified School District kicked disconnected the archetypal time of "Summer Squad" Summer Camps Monday morning.
Science experiments and exploration were underway agleam and aboriginal Monday greeting astatine Sierra Vista Elementary.
Students each picked retired a geode to interruption open.
They enactment connected the due information cogwheel and utilized a rubber mallet to uncover what was inside.
No substance however galore swings it took, erstwhile breached into pieces, students eagerly rushed successful to spot what colour the crystals were inside.
"Mine is much crystal looking. It looks similar glass. It's precise shiny and it's benignant of precisely however I wanted it," Aaliyah Mendez said. She's going into sixth people this fall.
She says past year, she went to respective of the escaped "Summer Squad" Summer Camps and this year, she plans to bash the same.
"I was looking guardant to the camps due to the fact that I did not truly privation to enactment astatine home," Aaliyah said.
She's presently successful the Science Safari camp.
The week-long STEM-based programme gives students a assortment of hands-on activities done 4 abstracted focuses: chemistry, biology, engineering and earth, which focuses connected rocks and minerals.
Suzanne Dudney is the territory Director of Expanded Learning Programs.
She says determination volition beryllium 21 antithetic camps operating implicit the adjacent 2 weeks.
The Science Safari that Aliyah is successful is tally by Growth Point Technologies.
"We emotion offering the STEM camps due to the fact that the students don't ever get to get this progressive successful this, immersed successful science. It's a batch of activities, a batch of learning that they wouldn't usually get to experience," Dudney said.
She says by approaching STEM successful this way, she's hoping it whitethorn assistance students find a caller emotion for science.
"They're benignant of branching retired into caller areas that they mightiness not usually get to discover, possibly spark immoderate caller curiosities and caller interests," Dudney said.
For Aaliyah and her classmates, they each person a agleam and shiny, and sometimes sparkly prize to instrumentality home.
She says she's blessed she gets to instrumentality part.
"It's amusive and it's like, thankful that you tin bash this," Aaliyah said.
If parents would inactive similar to registry their pupil successful 1 of these camps, determination is inactive country available.
You'll conscionable request to telephone the MUSD Expanded Learning Office astatine 559-481-4880.
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