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Socially distanced and socially safe summer camp

Title (Dublin Core)

Socially distanced and socially safe summer camp

Description (Dublin Core)

The attached article is something that is probably not well known. In Seattle, Washington there is the Pacific Science Museum, a fun educational museum for all ages, but focused on kids. Every summer they run educational camps for K-8 graders. It was unclear if after months of distance learning (early pandemic, 2020) students would be physically or emotionally ready to do a group activity in person. PacSci’s camps were able to run while students were socially distanced and masked. This matters because there has been a lot of rhetoric about kids not being able to wear masks for a variety of reasons, but this article proves that kids were able to understand social distancing and mask-wearing so they could have a safe and fun thing to do. With these practices in place, combined with low group sizes, and the use of a lot of outdoor time, they didn’t have any transmission cases for the whole summer. Not included in the article but they had the same success the next summer, 2021, and are on track to continue again the summer of 2022. The significance is not just to a collection focused on children, but also to the service industry since this is a less formal education setting that leans more toward front-facing customer service.

Date (Dublin Core)

August 29, 2020

Creator (Dublin Core)

Lisa Stiffler

Event Identifier (Dublin Core)

HST580

Partner (Dublin Core)

Arizona State University

Type (Dublin Core)

News article

Link (Bibliographic Ontology)

https://www.geekwire.com/2020/pacific-science-center-ran-safe-successful-summer-camps-person-despite-covid-19/
https://web.archive.org/web/20220417020211/https://www.geekwire.com/2020/pacific-science-center-ran-safe-successful-summer-camps-person-despite-covid-19/

Controlled Vocabulary (Dublin Core)

English News coverage
English Health & Wellness
English Museums & Libraries
English Education--K12

Curator's Tags (Omeka Classic)

Seattle
Washington
camp
summer
safety
mask
children
guideline

Contributor's Tags (a true folksonomy) (Friend of a Friend)

PacSci
Seattle
summer camp
science
education
K-8
service industry

Collection (Dublin Core)

Children
K-12

Linked Data (Dublin Core)

HST 580 Professional Experience/Archives course

Date Submitted (Dublin Core)

04/01/2022

Date Modified (Dublin Core)

04/02/2022
04/16/2022
08/02/2022

Date Created (Dublin Core)

08/29/2020

Item sets

Covid 19
Children

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