B-STEAM SUMMER CAMP 2023 – ADVENTURES OF THE SEA

SUMMER B-STEAM CAMP 2023 with the theme ADVENTURES OF THE SEA is a program to help children “Create experiences – Create the future” – a journey to awaken learning potential through experience and create leadership capacity based on empathy.

B-STEAM CAMP SCHEDULE 2023 – ADVENTURES OF THE SEA

• Explore the world of the sea through the lens of a young scientist and businessman.

• Apply and integrate the knowledge and skills of Science, Technology, Engineering, Fine Arts, Math and Business to explain scientific knowledge related to traditional professions in Ba Ria – Vung Tau , from which advertising ideas are developed. Promote unique local products to international friends.

• Visit Long Son boating village, discover important professions and scientific applications in aquaculture techniques in Ba Ria – Vung Tau.

• Visit salt fields – learn and experience salt making, fish sauce making and drying.

• Explore experiments on the evaporation of sea water and methods for separating substances.

PROGRAM INFORMATION

• Time: May 31, 2023 – June 2, 2023
• Students from 9 – 14 years old
• Language: Bilingual English – Vietnamese
• Location: Ba Ria – Vung Tau

DAY 0: GET READY AND WORKSHOP 1

DAY 0 helps children introduce themselves, divide into groups – Get acquainted with teammates who will accompany them in the next 3 days and finally, children will receive exercises and discuss to come up with initial ideas for the future products.

DAY 1: TEAM COMMUNICATION (DISCUSS AND DISCOVER IDEAS FOR MAKING ADVERTISING VIDEOS)

On the first day of their journey to experience Long Son, the children met the Speaker – Ms. Hoai Thu to learn about interesting things in Long Son:

• Local economic sectors in Ba Ria – Vung Tau province in general and Long Son commune area in particular

• History of economic development of Long Son boating craft village

• Natural conditions help Long Son develop industry

• Apply science and technology to fishing and aquaculture

• Record images and videos for media products.

Not just an extracurricular program, activities at B-STEAM SUMMER CAMP focus on developing children’s skills and general knowledge. You all listen attentively and ask questions to satisfy children’s curiosity about the world around them.

In the evening, the students have the whole afternoon to unleash their creativity, come up with script ideas and upload what they filmed in the morning to video editing software. Under the guidance of the instructor, the students had materials to advertise local products (Basic advertising video about local products).

DAY 2: LEARN THE HISTORY OF LOCAL SALT MAKING AND SALT MAKING TECHNIQUES

Students start their day with morning exercise. They woke up very early to prepare for today’s long journey.

In the first activity, Uncle Ba Em – salt worker in Long Son commune shared about the process of making granulated salt. Salt growers here produce salt mainly based on three main processes: salt making process on the ground, salt production process on sand layer and salt production process on plastic tarpaulin.

Listen to the salt workers share and go to the salt fields to understand the difficulties of the workers to love the salt and be grateful for the hard work of the farmers who have 1 sun and 2 dew. Your sharing about life and family has helped the children learn to love workers more!

DAY 2: WORKSHOP – EXPERIMENT ON SEA WATER EVAPORATION – METHOD OF SUBSTANCE SEPARATION

On the second day, after visiting Long Son and learning about the local economy, the children experimented with the evaporation of sea water. Salt cannot be used immediately after harvesting in the field because it contains impurities. Children learn how to separate substances to turn dirty salt into clean salt.

One of the interesting activities of this trip is that the children will complete the challenge of taking photos and filming to preserve the moments requested by the organizers. You were all excited to explore the experiment and carefully took notes on each information, then synthesized them to complete a separate communication video for each group.

DAY 3: EXPERIENCE HO MAY PARK AND AWARD CERTIFICATE OF COMPLETION