Robotics Camp: day 1

Rough start for Jack on the Robotics Camp this morning when, after the sessions had already been postponed for a day due to intense snowfall, we showed up at the Ivory Grove Water Buffalo Lodge to discover that the pipes had frozen during the night, and that the Camp couldn’t use the building.  The teachers, while blameless, had no power to relocate the class without the direction of the administrators;  the administrators, while also blameless, had no back-up plan.  We stood around in the cold for a half-hour, until finally they arranged for us to relocate to East Side Church, up the road, only a stone’s throw from where our house used to be when Jack was a baby.  I hadn’t seen the Church in years, since around the time when they began to rebuild it, after much of it was destroyed in a fire.  It’s now a massive, sprawling church complex, with classrooms and hallways and courtyards and elevators, beautiful and terrible.  The students were settling down, perching themselves on blue plastic chairs in front of clean formica tables when I left.

Jack was very excited about this when we started.  I hope, for all our sakes, it turns out to be more than just another Build A Kit class.