On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 1:22 PM, Don Fanning <d
...@00100100.net> wrote:
>
http://www.wsg.washington.edu/education/events/noaa.html - NOAA Science
> Camp
> There's also all kinds of other events.. Amateur Radio Field Day is in June
> which lasts a weekend (free), hackerspaces doing their projects or hanging
> out at the MCS. Probably tho self-study is your better option unless he's
> ready to take a summer class or two at a community college.
> Certainly there are tours with local companies you can tie to the
> self-study:
> http://www.boeing.com/commercial/tours/index.html
> Tours will help give him an idea of what the job is about day to day...
> On Tue, Mar 23, 2010 at 10:10 PM, Jon Chin <j...@boogly.net> wrote:
>> Thanks for the suggestions. They look like some pretty good camps,
>> commercialized or not. Sadly, it looks like my brother will be too old for
>> those camps. Maybe I'll resort to giving him some projects myself and make
>> him self-learn. =)
>> Jon Chin
>> On Tue, Mar 23, 2010 at 8:46 AM, <amorphous.yet....@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Hello Jon,
>>> the pacific science center has loads of camps in the summer. Thing is,
>>> we've been somewhat disappointed in the quality and they might have filled
>>> up already, but check it out anyway.
>>> In factoria mall is kidsquest, and as skeptical of its quality as I
>>> originally was, it's turned out to be a VERY educational place for my 10
>>> y.o. They have geology, engineering, etc camps. I would definitely recommend
>>> that place.
>>> kidsquestmuseum.org
>>> In belleview there's a place called Mad Science. No experience with it.
>>> Looks awfully commercial (ergo watered down) to me, but maybe i'm wrong.
>>> HTH
>>> --- Original Message ---
>>> From:"Jon Chin" <j...@boogly.net>
>>> Sent:Mon 3-22-10 3:29 am
>>> To:saturdayhouse@googlegroups.com <To%3Asaturdayhouse@googlegroups.com>
>>> Subj:[saturdayhouse] summer science camps
>>> My 14 year old brother wants to get his feet wet trying out potential
>>> career
>>> options. I want him to come here during the summer and try going to a
>>> camp
>>> to try things out. Does anybody here know of some
>>> programming/engineering/science/other camps in the area (preferably on
>>> the
>>> eastside)?
>>> Jon Chin
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