You could choose one of three tracks: Physical Science, Science and Technology, and Biological and Chemical Sciences. You indicated your preferences and got entered into a lottery and, if you were lucky, you got put into the track you wanted along with all of your nerdy friends. I went both years, although I can't remember which programs I was in. I'm guessing I was in Physical Science one year and Science and Technology the other.
Things that I do remember, though mostly a little vaguely:
- learning AutoCAD, mostly using the keyboard / command line
- creating slideshows in AutoCAD using some very basic scripting
- doing some very, very primitive 3D rendering, also in AutoCAD
- being taught the importance of grounding yourself when working on computers
- attempting to memorize all the equations for conic sections
- being shown a disgusting black smoker lung (quite enough reason to be a non-smoker for life)
- going to the NOAA Chesapeake Bay headquarters and learning how to read weather maps
- measuring water depth and creating topographic maps of the river/bay bed
- testing water and netting sea life on a boat
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How telling is it that I fuzzily remember the details you've listed about the Saturday Enrichment Program, but VIVIDLY remember SNACKTIME!!! As a middle schooler armed with quarters, vending machines within in arms reach, and no rain-on-parade parents to prevent me from reaching sugar highs of staggering proportion, one can imagine the unbridled junk-gluttony that ensued...
ReplyDeleteSNACKTIME!!!!! I can't believe I forgot that! Vending machines + no parents = glory.
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