First Day of Camp: 7/19 Update

The 2009 Howard Summer Weather Camp began on Sunday, July 19th under spectacular Washington, DC weather. After a pizza lunch in which campers and families devoured 9 medium sized pizza, the 12 new campers introduced their neighbor to the rest of the campers and participated in an impromptu “table topics” session (in which they had to talk extemporaneously for between 30 and 60 seconds). A “pre-test” followed in which campers had to answer 26 weather-based questions. Campers also went outside to better visualize how their senses doubled as meteorological instruments. The session closed with a talk about clouds that showcased Luke Howard’s efforts at arriving at a globally-recognized cloud-naming system.

Kim Smith, the Program Manager for NCAS and Mike Mogil, Camp Director, also discussed various administrative details of the camp.

And every camper received the following campware: tee-shirt, backback, water bottle and a jump drive.

Impromptu table topics session.


Filling out the weather pre-test.