Today was the final day of the summer Oceanography program at Kingsborough. The program was definitely a success. Torwards the end, I was asking students if they'd do it again if the program was offered next semester, everyone that answered said yes, and one kid even wanted the forms for it now. If it's done again, there's a chance it will be expanded. This was a $300k grant, next time it might be as much as $900. That will probably mean more kids. If its done again, hopefully a boat can be requisitioned earlier on.
The major problems during the program were a result of lack of planning, not at the pre-camp stage, but during the actual operation of the camp. None of us were camp counselors, so we had a steep learning curve to deal with while the camp was going on. Things worked out, but this meant that there was a lot of stress going around. A meeting, at least once a week, or heck at least once, with everyone, the instructors and college assistants, would've gone a long way to preventing most of that, I believe.
