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Top Camp Moments: Tim Shaves His Eyebrow (A Reenactment)
Beam Camp’s BeamBlog Staff chose their top three moments at camp and then shot short film re-enactments. If you want to see these and more, visit: www.beamcamp.wordpress.com
Macro/Micro Domes at RPI
 Two Domes designed by Caitlin Berrigan and created by Beamers for the Beam 07 Project were part of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute’s BioArt Initiative in November.
From Illness to Paper Ice Cream
I was eating dinner when my stomach started to hurt. I went to Delphine, the doctor, and she checked my temperature. It was 103! She gave me some medicine. I rested in bed. I had to sleep there all night. In the morning I felt better and made origami. The origami was an ice cream. First i made a cup. It was yellow. Then I made a green circle and put it inside the cup. It looked like ice cream. In two days I felt all better.
—Malia, Pulsar
Talk to us, talk to each other.
Beamers, Speak! Tell everyone what’s on your mind, comment on the new site, toss out an idea for a Domain or Project, say hello to fellow Beamers. Remember, keep it clean and keep it Beam-y.
Just click the comment link and start typing.
BeamLibs 3
Campers worked with Beam Guide Jeremy Bailey to create these mini-masterpieces of video juxtaposition. Sideways release
BeamLibs 4
Campers worked with Beam Guide Jeremy Bailey to create these mini-masterpieces of video juxtaposition.
Keeping the Bunks Clean with SSR
I interviewed the residents of the Nebula bunk, and this is what they had to say.
Eloise 10, Sophie 10, Imani 11, Mary Carol 11, Shea 12, and I are all from the cabin Nebula. Our cabin has 2 counselors, Prudence and Emily. I asked the girls what they thought of them.
Mary Carol said that Emily is really nice and caring and she also knows how to have fun. Sophie added that Prudence is a strong woman, a good counselor, and she lets us do stuff if we’re allowed.
I also aksed the Nebulas what they thought about our cabin. Eloise told me that our cabin is really clean and that everyone in it respects each other. Everyone plays cards a lot and the shower is hard to get hot water out of. She added that we keep our cabin clean to gain an S in the SSR’s.
The way I see it, SSR is a system that Brian came up with to get the campers motivated to clean. If we get all three words on one day we celebrate. The first “S” stands for Support, the second “S” stands for Sustain and the “R” stands for Reflect.
We get Support when all of the cabins clean their bunk, so we try our hardest. Shea thinks the shower is too small and is hard to clean. Shea, like Eloise thinks our cabin is very clean. Sophie also told me that at free time we laugh, read and write letters. Imani and Sophie agreed with Eloise and Shea. They thought that the cabin was very clean also. That’s pretty much all I have to say, I mean our cabin is super cool, so remember that!
—Eliana, 11, Nebula
Reading "Harry Potter" at BEAM
A lot of people have been swept away by the series by J. K. Rowling. “Harry Potter” truly is amazing, I think. I have read all of the books, some more than once. I’m sad that the series is over, and I think it kind-of changed the way I look at life. Since the seventh and final installment of “Harry Potter” came out right before camp, it was fresh in everyone’s mind. I took a survey to find out which character was the favorite at BEAM Camp. These were the results:
Fred & George: 4
Dobby: 4
Hermione: 4
Harry: 2
Grawp: (giant) 1
Tonks: 1
Ron: 0
—Sophie, 10, Nebula









