Day 2 | 1st activity - GIS
Learn basic coding to create interactive web maps! Working with an interactive computational notebook, camp participants will learn the basics of Python coding towards designing their own web maps. Campers will be able to add their own placemarks, shapes, images, and text to a HTML based interactive map.

Map
Photo credit: Rebecca (Becky) Vandewalle

 

Day 2 | 2nd activity - Weather Observations
Experience what it's like to participate in a real-world weather experiment! We'll be launching a weather balloon and discussing how this data improves our weather forecasts. Then we'll explore how the buildings and parking lots around us impact the temperature in our city.  

Weather balloon
Photo credit: Eddie Wolff & Melinda Berman

 

Day 2 | 3rd activity - Smog-in-a-Jar and Sensing Air Pollution
Air is one of Earth's most precious resources. In this session we develop an understanding of visible and invisible air pollutants: What are they, where do they come from, and how can they be reduced? We will create our own “smog-in-a-jar”, demonstrating the effects of incomplete combustion, and we will measure the levels of air pollution indoors and outdoors with a low-cost sensor that detects several air pollutants. Click here for smog-in-a-jar video demo!

Smog-in-a-jar
Photo credit: Tessa Clarizio

 

Day 2 | 4th activity - Poster Presentations
An important part of being a scientist is telling others about the science you do. Campers will bring out their artistic skills to create and present a research poster that talks about one of the camp activities they participated in. At the poster presentations, campers will get to talk with science professors, graduate and undergraduate students, and other SESE community members.

Poster Presentation
Photo credit: GoScienceGirls.com