We have a great start of the camp today. I hope you have enjoyed our first day program. I and the entire instruction team (Calvin, Jay, and Larry) look forward to work with you in the remaining eight days of the program. We have 34 students and 7 teachers showed today, which is over the planned max number, but we are able to handle this size. On the first day, we started with team building games and an engineering project. In the afternoon, we introduced ALICE programming environment to the students. The exercises we cover today includes: Introduction to ALICE Simple Animation Using ALICE Sound and motion coordination The students will continue working with ALICE on Tuesday and Wednesday learning how to create their own 3D movies and some simple games. We will also cover Internet and Web services programming on Wednesday afternoon. We will move to robotics programming on Thursday. A handbook is given to each student, which has the complete schedule and the exercises students need to do in the class. Students are encourage to read the handbook, if they do not understand certain parts of the lectures. During the day, the participants are grouped into teams in three leagues: American (grade 10 and under), National (grades 11 and 12), and US leagues (teachers). Each team has three members (except two teams have two members). The groups are made rough based on the ages (grades), but cross-grade teams are allowed. On the final competition day (July 3), the teams in the same league will compete against each other and a prize will be given to each member of the first place team. If time permit, we will also have a Playoff / World Series competition, which consists of the playoff teams in each league. We will issue certificate for the winners of the World Series competition, but we will not give prizes, because of the fact that different leagues have different ages and grades. Furthermore, we have put all our prize budget into the inner league competition. T-Shirts. I have placed the order and ordered extra shirts for each size. Even if you did not send me the shirt size, you will have a shirt of your size! Each shirt actually costs $12 (designed shirt). I will put the extra shirt on sale. I will add the money to the prizes, so that more teams can win the prizes. The images are the Shirts we have ordered.

Thank you for your participation.

Yinong