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

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On Thu, Nov 9, 2017 at 8:05 AM, Wanda Sloan via Ohio-Talk <
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> 2017 NFB Youth Slam so read this.
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> Barbara Shaidnagle via Ohio-Talk
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> Subject: Re: [Ohio-talk] I talked to this young person who attended the
> 2017 NFB Youth Slam so read this.
>
> 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?
> >
> > 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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