So now I have been here at camp for over a week and am now going into my second week. I am very happy working with everyone and its a real pleasure to be working with these teens.  We took them all to San Francisco yesterday to see Pier 39, a real tourist trap, but fun.  The food was great there!  Then, we took them downtown where we split up and some went to the Metreon, a large arcade, and some went to Chinatown, and I took a group to the Virgin Megastore.  Below you will find some pictures and hopefully I can continue to post them here.  Most of the pictures are from our excursion to San Fran, but there are a couple that show the tower, the art museum and the main quad here at Stanford.  The lab was cramped, so we have moved things around and split our one lab into two.  I will grab some pictures and post those later.

So, I have been instructing at a summer camp this week. Its not like summer camps that I went to long ago. This camp is very educational as well as being fun and a great place to meet new friends. It is a tech camp. Here I have been teaching Maya and next week will do the same. These teens are really soaking up all of the information that the instructors have been showing them. I am truly impressed with their progress and cannot wait to see their finished projects. Along with the instructing, we also have large LAN games. At night we’ve been having Battlefield 2142 and Quake tournaments here in the lab. Also, a lot of people have been playing on the Wii in the other room. I was able to play all three for the first time last night and man was it fun, especially Battlefield 2142 – there were so many people playing together, it was a blast. We went to the fireworks display here at Stanford University on the Fourth of July as well and that turned out to be a nice escape from the lab for just a little bit. Yesterday, we taught the teens how to model a character’s body at very low poly counts and some of them figured it out right away and took off with it, creating characters for their game, which they will make on the third and final week. Today, we teach the teens how to model a head and I can’t wait to see what they come up with for the heads of their characters. I have tried to take some pictures. I have more with the teens in the pictures, but I will probably not post pictures with the teens in them, so for now, people will have to be ok with some scenery shots and just quick snaps of our lab. The first three shots are from the San Francisco Airport. That is the first thing I saw when I came off the plane. According to the woman sitting next to me on the plane, the fog in the mountains is what cools down San Fransisco every couple of days. The third photo is a view of the San Francisco Bay. The final two are obviously of our lab.