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Finger Lakes Council Selects Top Facilitators For Science & Technology Camp
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The Finger Lakes Council, Boy Scouts of America, has selected four experts in the fields of engineering, environment and aerospace to facilitate its first annual Science & Technology camp. The camp will be held July 30-August 4 at Camp Babcock-Hovey on Seneca Lake in Ovid. Science & Technology camp is for young men and women age 14 and older, regardless of whether they are Scouts.?
Campers can choose from three tracks. Each track is designed to provide campers with field trips, hands-on experience and the facilitators? knowledge and experience about specialized areas of technology.
According to council camping chairman John Conley, Nancy & Peter Torpey will facilitate the engineering and energy track. This track includes programs in electronics as well as engineering and energy. Both are retired Xerox physicists.?
Art Agnello will be one of the environmental track facilitators. This program includes plant science, weather, insect study and environmental science. Dr. Agnello is a professor of entomology (the study of insects) at the New York State Agricultural Experiment Station in Geneva. His specialty is making recommendations to fruit farmers on managing insects that attack fruit trees.?
Ed Currier will facilitate the aerospace track. This program includes space exploration, aviation and astronomy. After retiring from a 37 year career as a science teacher and department head at Wayne Central School, Currier joined the faculty at St. John Fisher College as assistant visiting professor of graduate math, science and technology.
The new program will fit with the traditional summer offerings at Camp Babcock-Hovey, and participants will also have time to swim, sail, and hike, if desired.?
For registration details, contact the Finger Lakes Council Service Center at?3415-789-1166, e-mail mrobbins@fingerlakescouncil.org; or visit the website at www.fingerlakescouncil.org
Finger Lakes Council, BSA is a participating agency of the United Ways?of Seneca, Ontario, Wayne and Yates counties.?
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