After another somewhat rainy morning, campers began to finish up what they’ve been doing in their semilabs over the past few days. In the Unseen World of the Sea, students looked at fish under the microscope while in Surprises in Probability they learned about tree diagrams and played a counterintuitive probability game. After a break, campers headed to lectures about scientific writing, algorithms for streams, and quantum mechanics. After a filling lunch, campers went to their second semilabs and then headed to the Sigma tournament to compete in linguistics and applied science questions.
We are already halfway through the week! The day started off with a delicious breakfast and then it was time for semilabs! After semilabs, the campers went swimming, played soccer, and created art during the first break. In lectures, they learned about game theory, the history of timekeeping, and cryptography. It was grilled cheese day for lunch! After lunch, campers went to their second semilab. The tournament today was a math challenge! The campers competed in a Dutch auction to create a mathematical expression that was equal to 100.
The second full day of Sigma has now passed! Campers woke up to a rainy morning, but we didn’t let the rain spoil our fun! After breakfast, they headed to their semilabs, where they got to learn about fingerprints, strategies in game theory, and made sulfuric acid! Experiment of the day today was extra cool because it used liquid nitrogen ;). After a break of games and relaxing in the cabins, campers headed to lectures where they learned about neural engineering and entropy. Then, full after a barbeque-style lunch, campers headed to their second semilabs.
Today was the first full day of Sigma with semilabs, lectures, and workshops! Campers started the morning off with morning exercise and a delicious breakfast of pancakes and then headed to their first semilabs! While some learned about blood tests and the history of forensics, others began working with their arduinos. Then, campers had the opportunity to go swim, play board games, and visit the high ropes course. Afterwards, we got to hear fascinating lectures about entropy, relativity, sequences, foundations of computation, and ChatGPT.
Sigma 2023 has officially begun! We had a great day full of new friends and fun games. The campers got to enjoy the counselor skit and an amazing opening lecture given by one of our directors, Elena Yakubovskaya, during our opening ceremony. Also, the SigmaSpirit was released with a big boom (Sigma style)! To end the night, teams had milk and cookies during their first team time of the week.
Sigma 2023 has officially begun! We had a great day full of new friends and fun games. The campers got to enjoy the counselor skit and an amazing opening lecture given by one of our directors, Elena Yakubovskaya, during our opening ceremony. Also, the SigmaSpirit was released with a big boom (Sigma style)! To end the night, teams had milk and cookies during their first team time of the week.
The counselors and faculty have arrived at Silver Lake in preparation for Sigma 2023! To prepare for your arrival, we set up all of our labs, prepared all our cabins, and fine tuned the academic program (while having a bit of fun at the lake). Have a safe trip tomorrow, we are so excited to meet you!
Counselors, campers, and staff alike said goodbye to their friends--new and old--after a wonderful week at SigmaCamp. Thank you everyone for making SigmaCamp 2022 such a wonderful experience. We hope to see you next year!
Here are some photos: https://sigmacamp.smugmug.com/2022/August-21-2022
Today was, sadly, the last day of Sigma. Campers started off the morning with lectures before heading straight to Grand Unification--the final tournament event. After a tough competition, team Phi won the entire Sigma Tournament! Campers relaxed until lunch with a break, some of whom used this time to either prep for their SigmaTank presentations or participate in the camp-wide sponge war. After a delicious lunch, campers presented their ideal societies in the SigmaTank event to a panel of judges.
Today was SigmaCamps last academic day! Campers enjoyed going to lectures and finishing all of their semilabs. Although finishing their semilabs was sad, campers had the opportunity to raise their spirits with many events. Chessball took place today, which is a mashup of chess and soccer where campers verse faculty in both games. There was also the Game of Games, karaoke, virtual reality, tango, amongst many others. Campers went to bed gearing up for a fun-packed last day!