{"id":1238,"date":"2023-08-22T15:28:43","date_gmt":"2023-08-22T22:28:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/extintern\/?p=1238"},"modified":"2023-08-22T15:28:43","modified_gmt":"2023-08-22T22:28:43","slug":"cannot-wait-to-tackle-more-projects-and-camps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/extintern\/2023\/08\/22\/cannot-wait-to-tackle-more-projects-and-camps\/","title":{"rendered":"Cannot wait to tackle more projects and camps"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Kids built solar powered cars at the renewable energy summer camp at Columbia Gorge Community College.
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Hello, my name is Theo Sandoz, and I am excited to be back for my \u00a0second year as an intern with Oregon State University Extension Service in Wasco County.\u00a0 I am a student at OSU studying nuclear engineering.\u00a0 Returning to the Wasco office feels like I never left, and the office is still as busy as ever.\u00a0 I am working alongside Keon Kiser who is also a returning intern for Wasco County.\u00a0 Our biggest project for the summer is planning and helping to facilitate S.T.E.M. day camps in Wasco County.\u00a0 There are other projects, especially those involving our county fair, that I am also very keen on doing.<\/p>\n

First and foremost, we have our summer camps.\u00a0 So far, I have helped put on many day camps, including Aerodrone Academy, Galactic Quest and Renewables.\u00a0 The Areodrone camp had our campers learning how to program and fly small drones.\u00a0 Throughout this two-day camp we challenged all the campers to fly through and around obstacles and land on specific landing pads while directly controlling the drone and while the drone moved autonomously.<\/p>\n

Another great camp that we put on is called Galactic Quest.\u00a0 The curriculum for this camp comes directly from national 4-H and was a blast.\u00a0 The campers made telescopes and cypher wheels and we played a lot of the Astro Adventure board game (Think Catan Spacefarers).<\/p>\n

The most recent camp was our Renewables camp.\u00a0 In this two-day camp we spent the first day learning all about solar energy and then everyone built a small solar car and got to take it home.\u00a0 The second day was all about wind energy.\u00a0 With a few model turbines and some box fans we were able to turn the classroom into a wind tunnel and teach kids about turbine blade design and its effect on the power that wind turbines produce.\u00a0 The camps are incredibly fulfilling to put on as many of the campers get very invested in what we are teaching and bring their wild imagination to these fun events.<\/p>\n

As August is fast approaching it is time to begin prepping for the Wasco County Fair and \u00a0Rodeo.\u00a0 The Wasco County Fair runs Aug. 17-20 this year.\u00a0 This is my first year since 2012 that I have not participated in 4-H as a member.\u00a0 I still want to be as helpful as possible for those that are in 4-H and help put on an absolutely rocking fair and continue to do so for years to come.\u00a0 Because of my position as an intern, I have unique access to planning and operating certain events at the fair.\u00a0 I am most excited to work with Leah Lowe, Wasco County Extension 4-H program coordinator, on a new Livestock and Poultry Skill-a-Thon for the 2023 Fair.\u00a0 This is something that we started hosting last year and we plan to expand on last year\u2019s vision and make the Skill-a-Thon a fully fledged event that can continue to be something 4-H members in Wasco County look forward to in years to come.<\/p>\n

For the next month there are many more projects and camps that I cannot wait to tackle!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Hello, my name is Theo Sandoz, and I am excited to be back for my \u00a0second year as an intern with Oregon State University Extension Service in Wasco County.\u00a0 I am a student at OSU studying nuclear engineering.\u00a0 Returning to the Wasco office feels like I never left, and the office is still as busy… Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10731,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,140,30],"tags":[12,128,222,129,144,31],"class_list":["post-1238","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-4-h","category-stem","category-wasco-county","tag-4-h","tag-keon-kiser","tag-leah-lowe","tag-stem","tag-theo-sandoz","tag-wasco-county"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/extintern\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1238","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/extintern\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/extintern\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/extintern\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10731"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/extintern\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1238"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/extintern\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1238\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1241,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/extintern\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1238\/revisions\/1241"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/extintern\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/extintern\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/extintern\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}