[Ohio-talk] I talked to this young person who attended the 2017 NFB Youth Slam so read this.

[Barbara Shaidnagle]

do you have the email of this person?

On Thu, Nov 9, 2017 at 3:12 AM, rchpay7--- via Ohio-Talk <
ohio-talk at nfbnet.org> wrote:

> I am Camryn Gattuso, and I am 15 years old, a sophomore at Tuslaw High
> School in Massilon, Ohio. This is what I did at the 2017 NFB Youth Slam.
>  My parents and I drove to Baltimore, Maryland. We then went to the Towson
> University, my parents left, and me and the sixty other students started
> our week at Youth Slam. We followed marshalls to the Suskohana Dining Hall
> and the food was really good. After dinner, we had an activity that was
> supposed to get us acquainted with the other people. The object was to blow
> up a balloon by holding it and seeing whose would pop  first.  Then, a man
> told us the rules for the week and what would happen if we didn’t follow
> them. Next  I went to my room and met my roomMate, her name was Marley,
> from Utah.   The next day, I got up, went to the  Dining Hall, ate, then
> went to Installation Art class. A woman named Anne told us that we would be
> working all week to make an exhibit. We would be going to White Marsh
> wetlands the next day to collect random things that we would use in our
> project. During the first day we spent over two hours learning where all
> the tools and the other necessary items for our project were. I figured I
> would use a motor in my project and  was shown the three types of motors
> they had. One I was particularly fascinated by was the 180 motor, which
> when connected to a controller box, would move up and down, similar to the
> way a bird flaps its wings.     After we were dismissed for the day from
> Installation Art, we had some free time and the evening program was
> Karaoke.  At this session I sang two Disney songs, “Beauty And The Beast”
> and “Let It Go”. Then we went back to the Dorms, I was fascinated at the
> Cosmo robot that my roommate brought with her.   The next day, I continued
> with my project in Installation Art. My class boarded  a bus  to White
> Marsh wetlands. We were supposed to listen and tell the people in charge
> how many different bird calls we heard, which was really fun. We were then
> given a project  to identify by feel whether the plants in that area were
> living or dead. Then we put on rubber boots and went into the water and
> tried to catch random aquatic life forms with a net.  We then met the
> Forest Ranger there and went on a nature walk along the wooden boardwalk
> where we were told about different plants native to the area. We then
> returned to the University for the afternoon session,  For me that day it
> was The Chemistry Of Cooking, where we learned how to prepare food. After
> supper, we had the Jam Session.  I played songs on the piano and listened
> to others as they did there talents.    The next day I continued
> Installation Art, and I came up with the brilliant plan of turning the 180
> motor into a bird with flapping wings by attaching gears and shafts to the
> motor. I learned how to use the hot-glue gun in creating my project. I made
> the head out of foam, and the beak out of a triangular-shaped piece of
> paper. After making sure everybody’s projects worked, we set up our
> exhibits to display to everybody at the end of the week. We used a
> five-button switch board,  which would activate different sounds and music
> which would be programmed into it.  Later that day, I went to a session
> called “Hot Stuff”, where I learned how to solder  wires together. That
> night there was an outside Carnival set up for us, and we ate hot dogs and
> cotton candy. The funniest thing that happened that night was when I was
> sitting on the concrete outside, and this kid walks up to me, and asks
> “what is this?” I raised my head and yelled, “You know full well what it
> is. It’s a person!” Surprised that he didn’t know that I was the person
> sitting there.    The next day, I did Installation Art, and finished my
> project, a bird with flapping wings. The afternoon session that day was 3D
> Printing The Stars, where we all got to feel 3D models of stars and other
> things. That day’s session in the evening was Yoga. We got to make
> essential oils, and then we learned different positions in yoga. There was
> relaxing music in the background, which sounded good.    The next day was
> the day that everyone got to see what their peers had learned to
> make.Everyone was fascinated by my bird project, and I was fascinated  by
> the Computer Science project where the kids made audio games. I required a
> knowledge of Jaws to play the games. In the afternoon, we went to the NFB
> Jernigan Institute, where I listened to presentations on the  college
> application process. Then we had a Block Party in the garage at the
> Jernigan. We got to dance and eat. T
>
> --
>
> Camryn Gattuso
>
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