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Hello, my name is Sarah Maas
and I am the director of the

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STEPS Camp from Grand Valley
State University. Steps stands

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for the Science, Technology,
Engineering Preview Summer and

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it's basically just an
introduction to engineering for

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rising seventh graders because
this is kind of a pivotal time

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for them to be making decisions
about what they want to do for

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their future and more
immediately what they want to

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take for classes as they are
entering middle school and high

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school. Everything that we do
here at STEPS Camp is revolved

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around airplanes so they get to
build airplanes, they get to

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make paper airplanes and test
them and they also get to learn

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about lots of forces and
aerodynamics and it's basically

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just very hands on, very
applied, hoping to peak

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their interest and keep them
engaged in STEM and along the

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way have a lot of fun.

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Hi, my name is Cathy Baisden. I'm
a lead teacher with STEPS. Last

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year was the first year that we
brought

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the camp to Battle Creek Public
Schools. I think it's a

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wonderful opportunity for our
students to get to see what

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STEM  is like and actually do
hands-on materials and they

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really enjoy it.

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I'm Evan Yu. I'm currently
going into my sophomore year at

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Grand Valley and I am a
computer science major working

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here this summer as a STEPS
camp counselor and I think this

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camp is just really a really
cool program to be a part of

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because I spent almost my
entire scoring career being

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that kid in class that wouldn't
pay attention, that just thought

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everything was a waste of time.
Senior year of high school, I

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took AP Computer Science and
for the first time in my entire

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life, those sparks finally flew
where I was interested in

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learning. It wasn't just I have
to learn. I was doing it because I

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wanted to and so I wish that
you know I was in seventh grade

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or middle school or anything
like that. Even early in high

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school that somebody would show
me something that might be a

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little bit more practical, a
little bit more different because

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stuff like coding and stuff
like technology really is the

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future and to have these kids
be exposed so early, it

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really gives them an idea of
what they can possibly do. So I

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think it's really cool that
these kids get exposed and get

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that chance to learn to love to
learn.