California Science Center Hands-On Science Camp

I felt that the learning area was a very dirty and bland place. The class was actually pretty fun, but the classroom and play area felt like a jail cell. You were restricted where you go, when you sit, when you play, who to talk to, and whether you stand or sit. The interns grouped up and never really cared what the campers were doing. The room was very white and the cabinets were all orange and then classroom was awfully small and hot and then windows were barred and everywhere was fenced. Personally, it felt like I was at a rehab place or something because there were surveillance cameras everywhere you looked. In this one direction, I can spot four cameras on the same building. I understand that this is for the safety of the citizens, but it creates an uncomfortable feeling. When walking up the stairs to the classroom, they stairs were extremely small and easy to trip over and there was no lighting at all. The building with the classrooms had wires and huge metal things everywhere and it made it feel like it was not a learning environment but a prison. When we had lunch, no one had the appetite of eating their lunch because the seats were all metal and we had to face the wall and no one could have fun or be loud and afterwards we had to pick up everyone’s trash. I mean, aren’t the staff or interns supposed to do that instead of standing around? The restrooms are extremely dirty and the sinks are very low and barely any water comes out. This place is has a horrible learning environment and I do not understand why my tutor wanted me to come here at all.

I chaperoned kids all week to and from this camp. Everyday was a delight. They left dirty and with a make-​and-​take each day. Dirty means they had had a blast. They were not able to articulate how the engines worked or why the rockets blasted off, but my kids were English learners, so they just may have been a bit she to share. Very engaging! Very much worth the money! I loved that the kids were safe and supervised at all times. Even parents are unable to roam about

You get what you pay for. We were attracted to the more than reasonable costs, but disappointed with the content of the material being offered at a science center and the inexperienced, young supervisors who were essentially babysitting. We expected more from a science center. FYI, we sent our 6 year old in the summer of 2010 for a couple of weeks. Mom is an experienced elementary school teacher and knows what a good educational program looks like.

Do you remember the first time? Do you remember the first time you fell in love? Do you remember the first time? Do you remember the first time it felt new? Do you remember the first time? Do you remember the first time you felt so ashamed? Do you remember the first time it felt to belong? DO you remember?
I can only speak from my experience, of this Camp, in it’s previous iteration, from a time in the past
I felt these things and so much more the first time, I went to this summer «camp.» Back in the day, when it was the Museum of Science and Industry. When I was, but, a wee lad, a tiny morsel; when everything in the world was new. My parents set me upon this endeavor, when they dared to compare me to the privileged and the few; they dared to dream vast dreams for their tiny hope maker.
The world was really a different place back then, then, it is today. I am not really sure how my parents found and deposited me in this «program» back in the day; when no real predators roamed the streets; and I was able to commute back to my humble abode, unmolested, at a most tender of ages (since this was Elementary School estudiantes), on the conveyance known as the RTD (Rapid Transit District) via the Line along Vermont, transferring to a another line on Pico. I could remember the long chain links that I would sit upon waiting for the RTD along Vermont, just outside the lots and green bungalows, that I would later learn was USC… but, that is for another story.
Upon, my first inception into this elite throng, I felt the redness in my face as I was flush with so many things. I was thrown in with this lot, that I did not know, and was so unsure. Renascent, of my new endeavor, I persisted, I dove into the unknown abyss beforst me.
It was an endeavor, that was not like any other «Math Magic Land» and the like programs to sweep me in the Summers, yet to be, to beacon and beseech me hither, to the domains of math and science.
My love, where hast thou been, like a trickle, like a river, how shall I liken thee.
I came here, many moons ago, to a throng of progeny that shared the same love as I. Lucky was I, that something arose in the shadow of things to come, from that happy throng! A love like no other, in the times to follow!
Math and science; as innocent as babes, yet, ready for the world!
Give your child the experience that can enrich and enjoy! I can only hope that the children of today that attend this Summer camp will be enriched and enjoy the «Science» in all it’s unmitigated joy as I in blissful times past.