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

Thu Nov 9 11:58:25 UTC 2017

maybe a phone number.  I would like to meet this person.  Male or female?

On Thu, Nov 9, 2017 at 6:14 AM, Barbara Shaidnagle <bshaid at gmail.com> wrote:

> do you have the email of this person?
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> On Thu, Nov 9, 2017 at 3:12 AM, rchpay7--- via Ohio-Talk <
> ohio-talk at nfbnet.org> wrote:
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>> 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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