The Genius of Camp – 2nd Session Kadima & B’Yachad
Evening folks or good morning if you’re reading this in the a.m. I assume not many keep Camp hours. Though tonights message is being posted a little earlier for reasons. So you’re not getting a novel…but I am a novelist wannabe, as you have learned.
It was a bit of a normal day here at Machaneh. The unique standout for Tochnit Boker was a combo program with Habonim (our oldest 3 week campers) and Ha’atid (our youngest). It was a perfectly planned slip-n-slide, perfect because the heat rolled back in today. It was a classic summer fun morning!
But the thing that I want to chat about tonight was a really cool Tochnit Erev. In preparation for Israel Shabbat, which is a sleep away, our Jewish Life programming team (led by the amazing Aden Barash) did a program around Israeli inventions that was so cool. (Though the Ha’atid kids did a fun Israeli Games program – led by our Israeli staff of course – in Ozo Park.)
Each program, in different locations around camp, broke into small groups and learned about a particular invention out of Israel:
Waze/mobile GPS
USB Flash Drive
Bio-engineered Cherry Tomatoes
Pill Cam
and more…
With each invention each group had to do a 30 second commercial then perform them in front of the crowd. They were hysterical!!!
But the cool takeaway was the impressive looks kids got on their faces learning that their everyday uses that they take for granted were born in Eretz Yisrael!
(By the way, if you haven’t, read The Genius of Israel by Dan Senor – his follow up to Startup Nation – and you’ll get a glimpse as to why the amazing life changing inventions succeed.)
Ok, gotta hit the bunk early tonight, 7:00 am waterski club starts tomorrow (its where we take kids who have learned to slalom ski show their skills to their pal Tommy). It’s also another SWAG opportunity! I’m a sucker for SWAG.
That’s all I got for tonight, getting excited for Israel Shabbat. I’ll talk to you Saturday night.
But for now, thank you for sending your kid to Herzl Camp.
All is well. Safely rest.
לילה טוב,
Tommy
PS – I apprehensively used -‘s tonight. ChatGPT uses double dash’s all the time, a bonafide indicator when someone uses Chat. I promise AI has no place in Ted Talk…but I like the dash and have purposely been avoiding it – using way too many commas. So here comes the -.