I want your suggestions

[descapa]

So I have been on this really big kick to find out how to improve camp. I want your help, ideas, comments and opinions.

0) What didn't go great @ camp?

1) For those of you who lived in the dorms, what would you like us to do on the weekends? Did you like the whole schedule? I mean if you don't have suggestions it will just be the same. What can we do?

2) What can we do in the afternoon besides just gaming or hang out in the dorms? What activies would you like to see?

3) Anything else?

I think most of you thought camp was awesome and I know personally I love it! I love living with you all and watching you all have fun and learn. I just want to know what we can do better...now we can't do anything but if you have a suggestion please post it!

Thanks! (can you tell I am excited about camp this year!)

[-God Of Chairs-]

The rope thing was fun. so was the bowling. the food wasn't fun. The LAN gaming was fun. The adv prog class was fun. Not learning how to be a '1337 h4x0r' (<----That is so dumb) was not fun. Why don't we add a new japanime class. It'll be fun and cool.
I thought gaming in the lab was the funnest. you should encouarge people not to bring their own computers because it's not fun that way because people who bring their own computers always cheat in the games. is the DDR arcade still there?

[ImEric12]

I seriously loved everything, and can't wait to go back this summer!

[Nebula]

0. It wasn't longer.
1. Weekends were fun. Keep them how they were. But...for us lazies who wanted to stay in the dorm...have someone start up a copy of HLDS so we aren't completely bored ;)
2. CTF!!!!! http://campcaen.engin.umich.edu/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/biggrin.gif
3. Nope.

w00t. Now I just gotta wait for CS:CZ to come out. Let's just hope they don't keep pushing the release date for it back again.

wait a minute...what am I talking about?? CS is cool... but... oh well.

/me walks off with his First to Die trophy

[-D12-_LMN8R]

Don't forget laser tag http://campcaen.engin.umich.edu/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/tounge.gif Everyone LUUVVVSS laser tag

[Nebula]

hehe, laser tag http://campcaen.engin.umich.edu/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/biggrin.gif

actually...did we do Laser Tag in Session2 last year?? My mind is completely numb right now (I'm working on English, go figure).

[GPeszek]

The Lazer Tag place requires cash up front, for 45+ kids and staff, it can get to be quite a large sum. Not going to Lazer Tag was a logistics decision more than anything.

For the ropes course, we haven't had a pleasant experience dealing with the people who run it in the past.

Perhaps with enough feedback the positive camper response will outweigh the downsides of conducting business with those two places ;)

[Cyram]

0) Hmm, not too much went bad that I know of. I just wish it was year-round so I could keep working there. ;-) It's one of the few places where it's as fun to be a camper as it was to be staff. Camp rocks. I miss it. *grins*

1) The ropes course was only good for the high ropes course. I loved that. Everything else, plus the relations with the ropes course staff...not so great. I say don't do it. CTF was the best, Whirly ball was great. I missed lazer tag, but totally understand why it was MIA last summer.

2) I dunno. Especially since it's so hard to get anyone out of the labs. Especially the first week.

3) How about a coding competition? After the first week of classes, group interested people into skill level groups, and have them do a project. Winner gets...um...something. This would work maybe more with the intro classes best.

Heck, maybe have the advanced web class help design next year's camp CAEN website. If it's good enough, then use it. Or part of it. At the very least there'll be some very cool ideas.

Umm...that's it for now.

[Kows]

0) Everything in my experience was great.
1) Err... whirley ball is fun. Gaming is fun. Out-door sports (i.e. Ultimate Frisbee) = awesome.
2) I would say UF. :-D I liked the mini-sessions too, and it would be great if many different and diversified mini sessions were offered.
3) I can't think of anything. Camp r0x.

[-D12-_LMN8R]

Yea, Laser tag sure is expensive around here, I can imagine the problems with that.

Ultimate Frisbee competition would be cool, and if people are still as interested in Counter-Strike as they were last year (why? who knows...), a good CS comp is always fun.

[Stanley]

i'm hoping people are tired of CS, myself. I no longer have any desire to even watch people play.

[Kows]

</span>Quote[/b] (Stanley @ Jan. 25 2003,18:42)]i'm hoping people are tired of CS, myself. I no longer have any desire to even watch people play.<span =''>
ditto http://campcaen.engin.umich.edu/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/laugh.gif http://campcaen.engin.umich.edu/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/mad.gif

[-D12-_LMN8R]

But Adam, you know that if people are playing, we'll still have to completely own them like last year http://campcaen.engin.umich.edu/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/tounge.gif

I haven't played it since camp I think, lol

[Ops]

1) A nice leather-bound camper book with everyones contact info in it would be really great. (yeah, right). But maybe just a cheapo one would be cool too.

2) !Organized Tournaments! Half-Life, CS, Rogue Spear, Unreal Tournament, Ultimate Frisbee, Paintball, Magic Cards, Hacking, wutever...but organized tournaments for any game are really cool!

3) Those people who crew the cafeteria got on my nerves. Especially when I lost my MCard and had to sneak in the back every day. Can we fix them? Just Kidding.

4) Have a take-home kit of cool Camp CAEN stuff. like software and hats and tee shits and guest book and other cool things.

5) Mk, a biggie: CD BURNER! why? because a 52x burner would help so much for taking all our projects home. Burning at 455MB per minute would be so much better than taking 4 hours to email it all to myself over 3 days.

6) Paintball?

7) let our MCards and server space last all summer so commuter kids can continue their learning on their own if they dont have to $995 software they can still do related work.

[-D12-_LMN8R]

Over the three years I've been at camp, I remember that liability forms have been a big problem for the ropes course.

With Paintball, there's not only that same form that would most likely need to be signed, but there's the fact that it's very very expensive also. I've never played paintball :-o and I really want to, I just don't think it would work out well for camp.