What does success look like?

Each and every person can and will succeed in this camp. We are all coming to this camp from different places with vastly different backgrounds, knowledge, experience, and skill sets. Success may look different for each person. Be mindful of this and be respectful of others.

Although this camp does not require any prior knowledge, some folks may have some experience with circuits and programming. This camp gives us the unique opportunity to teach and learn from different people outside your school. You will learn from each other as much as you learn from me.

Each and every person can and will succeed in this camp. You don’t need any prior knowledge for this camp. I will teach you everything you need to know! All you need is a growth mindset!

Growth Mindset

Failure is okay!

It’s better than okay; it’s great! You learn way more from failure than success. Failure allows you to gain a more intimate knowledge of how things work. You learn about how something works by learning how it doesn’t work. The experience also teaches you how to troubleshoot and how to handle obstacles. Through that process, you learn to grow and be more resilient. Trying and failing is strongly encouraged. Gold stars for failures!!!

Failure is progress!

Self-Advocacy

You will need to be an advocate for yourself. In this camp, we will be covering topics that are new and different from topics in your other classes. There will be a learning curve as you start to familiarize yourself with the terms and this new way of approaching problems. You need to speak up and ask questions if something doesn't make sense. If a concept didn't click for you yet, it likely hasn't clicked yet for most of your peers. Let me know! I am here for you!

If something isn't making sense, I would rather you be borderline obnoxious with questions than let it slide. If you ask questions, I will come up with different ways of explaining concepts until it makes sense for everyone. Without questions, I will assume every understood and move on. So please, please ask questions! I like learning to be a dialogue and not a monologue.