—— A foodie's dream comes true

When I entered our camp classroom, I saw piles of crafting supplies stacked on the back table and bright posters hung on the walls. What a lively classroom ! I really deserved a break from neatly rowed desks and dull blackboards !

In this very place, I spent five days with my teammates. I was really happy about that because working with them was quite interesting.

Making Ice-cream

At first, when I heard that we would make ice cream, I thought it would be very easy. You just had to mix the ingredients together and put them into the freezer. Those thoughts could have come from a naive 3-year-old. Making ice-cream was much harder than I thought! The first time I made ice cream, I used fruit juice as base. Sadly, the juice did not freeze. The second time, I used cream as base. It was a huge success! Everyone loved it ! The last batch I made wasn't successful, but it tasted good enough. To enhance our flavor we dumped a fair quantity of Oreo crumbs onto it. Oreos and plain vanilla ice-cream taste superb together.

The marshmallow tower

Building a tower that is steady, tall and able to balance a marshmallow with Spaghetti was tricky.  My teammates and I had barely known each other for two hours. But we went to work right away. We had very different ideas, but we managed to piece our thoughts together. We used all our tape and 17 of our spaghetti sticks. However, our tower did not stand, but we weren't discouraged at all. Who hasn’t failed before? I have learned a lot about crafting, and I had fun. At school, I was horrible at doing that, sometimes when we had hand crafts to do, I would cross my fingers for a good teammate. Now, I think my crafting skills are improving because I had a lot of chances to practice.

Reflecting

Two days before writing this, I went and bought an ice-cream coming from Haagen-Dazs. It was creamy, fragrant and buttery. Our ice-cream seemed plainand simple compared to theirs. That leads me to think how long the founders of Haagen-Dazs have used the engineering process to perfect their ice-cream. Theymust have experimented a thousand times in order to create one single flavor. This explains to me if you want to create something, you’ll need to work very hard.

Finally, I’m really grateful for the help I got from my teacher Miss Ali, my groupmates, every other teacher and volunteers at camp.

短短的5天STEM体验营已过，但还是常常回想起下课后Cici向我们喜悦的分享，喋喋不休的小Cici向我们详细讲解了她的所学、所思和所做。很感谢老师推荐Cici参加静安区教育合作交流中心举办的STEM课程体验营活动，也很感谢举办单位、各位老师和助教给孩子提供了一个别开生面的美食魔法夏天！几天里孩子们从科学（S）、技术（T）、工程（E）和数学（M）这几方面亲历了如何制作冰激凌、如何设计包装冰激凌、甚至到推广上市和广告宣传的全过程。在各位老师的带领下，孩子们不仅学到了科学知识，还让孩子们学习了如何解决问题，特别是有创造性和创新性的解决问题，有逻辑性的思考，以及更好的合作及团队精神。无论孩子们在体验营中做了什么产品，掌握宝贵的技能和思维习惯是最重要的，这将使他们受益无穷。我想这也是静安区教育合作交流中心举办这些亮点活动的用心所在。感谢你们为孩子们策划了一系列极有意义的体验营活动。

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