I learned of a wonderful organization called Camp Rainbow Gold. It's a summer camp geared towards kids who are fighting cancer. It was started by an oncology doctor, when one of the kids he was treating wished he could attend summer camp. The doctor realized that, with the right precautions and portable medical equipment, a summer camp for kids fighting cancer was possible. So, he made it happen. My daughter got to attend that camp. They are all amazing people there.
That sounds awesome. Reminded me of a camp with a similar mission, The Hole in the Wall Gang Camp. It was started by Paul Newman for kids with life threatening/terminal illnesses or other conditions. It’s free of charge and has several locations across the world now. I volunteered at the CT camp (which I think is the original location) for a few summer sessions and really want to do it again. It really is the most incredibly rewarding thing I’ve ever done, such a cool place.
@@connoriovinelli That is very cool. Yeah, Camp Rainbow Gold is free for the kids and family too. They put on huge fundraisers to pay for it. They also run another camp for the siblings of the kids fighting cancer, which is also free. In many families, the child fighting cancer gets a lot of extra attention (and rightfully so), but it often results in the siblings feeling left out or not as important. CRG recognized that, and thus started the sibling camp. I was blown away at how caring they were.
Speaking of STEM kids, nerf guns, and zombies, that's exactly what 2 weeks of my freshman year in college was like. Hundreds of STEM freshmen in the dorms all got nerf guns with the main objective being to "survive" until a "cure" could be discovered. One guy was secretly designated the patient zero zombie from the start. Thus began the most lengthy, epic, and sophisticated game of tag I've ever seen. Great memories!
@@nmgg6928 it really was! made getting to class a little challenging though. many of us started to travel in packs, so lecture attendance actually increased 🤣
We did that at Purdue there we called it Humans vs Zombies. Best couple of weeks during college. While I was a zombie I was always voted the most creepy because i could do a fair imitation of a hyena cackle. Imagine that in the dark from a woodlot.
I remember a story about a school trip in the USA where the kids were taken to an old Plantation ... they were put in 2 groups.. One, the White Students.. the other the Black.. Then were told that one group would "Play" the Slave Owners and the other The Slaves.. You can guess who was who..
@@ninabriesch4184 I live in the uk and in about the early 1990s when I was about 7 I went on a school trip to a victorian house where we had to dress up as victorian children the white kids dress up in school clothes and went to school and me as the only black kid was told to clean until a teacher stepped in and gave them what for.
As a Native American, I would like to share a perspective that has been passed down through generations in my community. Throughout history, various Native American tribes have engaged in conflicts and territorial disputes, resulting in the acquisition and loss of land among different groups. It is important to acknowledge that these actions were not solely committed by non-Native individuals but also occurred within our own communities. Recognizing our shared humanity, we should strive to learn from the past and work towards fostering unity and understanding among all people.
It's kinda crazy that you have to make this comment but thank you all the same. Some people like to act like Indegenous people are an oversimplified monolith always and everywhere.
Please come to Canada and say this exact same thing. I have literally been to a seminar that started with a Truth and Reconciliation speech where a woman berated the audience for benefiting from genocide... and she wasn't even Native... however the next speaker was and just stared at her and had no idea how to respond to this. I get it. Our government fucked up. *BADLY*. But that isn't even my ancestors. They came from Germany just before the First World War. Maybe I should feel responsible for THAT too?
@@Matze-c1jit's not that you should feel responsible, dick, it's that you should recognize the historical as they elucidate the current issues plaguing the community today. With the context we can better move forward to improving the specific and measurable more impactful issues still existent today.
I was a camp counselor at a Kiwanis camp at Mt Hood where kids and adults with disabilities/health conditions can attend a regular summer camp and we adapt each activity to accommodate the camper so they are never excluded. We had campers with cerebral palsy, quadriplegic, autism, Down syndrome etc. Activities include zip line, swimming, hiking, climbing a rock wall, horseback riding, crafts, drama, cooking, talent show 🎤 They all have a gift to shine ✨
I went to Space Camp with school! The spinny thing Kevin is talking about isn't a centrifuge, it's a real piece of NASA equipment meant to simulate a tumble dive (if the capsule loses control during re-entry and starts rolling), and the idea is you can learn how to work the controls while that's happening, though for the kids it was just meant to be a fun ride.
My son and I would both go. Lol. Then again he's a HS Senior who is also in his last year of an Associate's of Science with a concentration in **computing**
My favorite childhood “camp” was when my parents hired me out (voluntarily) to my pediatrician Dr. For the summer to work (paid) on his extremely large farm outside of Dallas. I was 10 in 1965, quite the handful, fearlessness tempered with a very small dose of humm, I don’t know personified my daily existence. Lots of stitches and broken bones were my claim to fame. At this beautiful farm, I spent my days learning to drive all sorts of chugging, chomping, whirring, ripping, don’t go near that part, machinery. It was AWESOME! This was before everything that sat still or moved was air conditioned. All machinery was open air. Nothing between me and nature but a tiny, shaking, little yellow umbrella, and a bandanna covering my nose and mouth, cuz harvesting is unbelievably dusty, and well PPE equipment? HAHA! While sitting on my assigned spine shaking butt numbing machinery, I would occasionally hear a very deep and loud BOOM. One day, about three weeks in I asked Dr Norman what the noise was. He asked if I wanted to see something really neat? Sure! That was the first time I ever saw a big stump being blown. O. M. G!!! How did you do that!?!? This was when he taught me how to make, Ammonium nitrate and diesel fuel explosives. Two sizes were available. A one, or two pound coffee can, a blasting cap, (these were actually sold at the feed store) a full roll of heavy tape, and a small plunge firing box. My parents faces when I nonchalantly told them that we had been blowing stumps that week. Two dear in the headlights, they just looked at me. My father finally took a breath, excuse me? My poor parents, they had no idea that they had sent me to Anarchist Summer Camp! Yes, it’s a true story, some kids growing up in Texas were really that lucky😎
My job shoveling horse shit is literally putting me through multiple coding boot camps this year. Free room and board in exchange for cleaning stalls and training horses (in California of all places) while I learn Python, JavaScript, and MySQL
@@judakimberly6551 I pivoted over to product design a long while back, and now I moonlight as an editor here, so I rarely write anymore, but if you're going for web based tech - learn JS and learn it very well. If you know at a low level how JS works, you'll be able to pick up any of the thousands of JS frameworks quickly. Also, remember for interviews, it's not about what you know, but how you solve problems and find answers. Technical whiteboarding was a huge emphasis at our bootcamp, but they never taught us how to talk through and communicate our problem solving process. Being able to articulate what's going through your head, and how you would/are/want to approach a problem is an insanely valuable skill. Talk to that duckie, and talk to it fucking often.
I'm going to something like that this month at a clothing optional campground. All kinds of activities, arts & crafts, music, bonfires, drumming, a variety of spiritual practices, good food, and a culture of safety where people can be themselves and they protect eachother. I feel safer there buck naked in a crowd at midnight than I do fully clothed on public transit in broad daylight.
My parents would have gladly sent me to summer camp but they were also aware that I would have considered it the ultimate punishment and when I got home, I would have been SUCH an asshole, openly accusingthem of abusing me, hating me, and wanting me to be killed by spiders and snakes.
I was about to be amazed that when I opened youtube Simon had posted 17 seconds ago, but let's be honest, Simon has 100 channels soooooo yeah he's always posting.
A true whistleverse fan knows the upload timing of every channel! I'm a fake fan though; I like DtU best, so that's the only one I check at upload time. It's interesting that they differ, though. There must be some logic to it, but they're kinda scattered around noon-ish in Pacific time.
Been riding horses for close to 40 years. Never had a man bits issue, and I've ridden some absolute psychopath horses. You just need to learn how to ride a horse properly. And I was in a National Guard Explorer post when I was 14. We learned how to shoot a range of firearms, build bridges, operate giant earth movers, drive APCs, conducted combat patrol simulations with M16s loaded with blanks, MOUT exercises, tactical water crossings, etc. It was awesome.
@FancyRPGCanada I've had an interesting one, for sure. Explorers is a branch of the Boy Scouts (though it's always been coed, as far as I know) that gives young people exposure to various types of careers. The one I spent the most time in was based on the National Guard. It was all under the direct supervision of actual National Guard advisors, and we spent a fair amount of time training on actual military reservations under National Guard authorization. We got to ride in helicopters and a whole bunch of other amazing stuff. I think the first thing I did with them was rappelling off a tower at one of our local fire training facilities. But I also spent some time in a medical Explorers post, which was also really cool. Got to shadow doctors, nurses, paramedics, etc.
Me too! 😂😂😂 Then the line about not worrying about where his food comes from. Little plastic boxes!!! I'm still trying to get through the video. This is nuts.
Simon. Bud. I'm pretty sure Leonardo wasn't in 12 Years A Slave. He was definitely in Django Unchained, though. Sick ass movie about violent revenge against enslavers. Simon would probably love it, honestly.
I grew up in the same town as space camp, my mom and grandfather worked for NASA. Idk about the actual camp, but because we had connections I got to try out all the "fun" stuff and rides and it was mostly pretty freaking cool! 😁 If you go to the space and rocket center when the weather is good you can ride most of it too. It's like a theme park meets museum and it's definitely worth the trip ☺️
And to think, I just got to go to a totally normal summer camp specifically designed for disabled children. How dare they not let us blow things up! In all seriousness, it was Lions camp and that organization is amazing and the camp was everything a kid who doesn't get to do regular kid activities could dream of. I attended the physical disabilities week, but they also had weeks for diabetic kids, and autistic related kids. The counselors were all volunteer college students and they were some of the nicest people you could ever meet. I owe that organization gratitude for my eye surgeries as well: even though they didn't work, I'd never get the chance to try without their funding.
One of my friends has a girl that was always interested in horses. They found someone who took her in every summer and she worked the summer for them in exchange for room and board. She learned quite a bit and has a spare pair of parents. No one had to pay anyone.
As a graduate of Missouri S&T, I loved the explosives program. I didn't take any classes, but there were small fireworks shows on Fridays that you could watch from your dorm window. Very fun!
Me either.... I went through their explosives program, it was pretty cool. Graduating with an Aerospace degree first made the program pretty easy too since there is so much overlap.
Girl Scout camp in the 70s, two weeks of bliss every summer. I used to do the arts & crafts track which included a dark room. I missed getting my lifesaving card because I was sick the week we tested. 😢
I googled plantation camp and before I could finish typing Google finished it for me. Once you click the prompt it does change to farm camp but...... Yikes.
It wasn't actually a girl scout camp, it was an all girls WMCA camp. I think it was for kids like 8-12 or something, but the counselors were all teenagers like we were at the time and they were the ones who invited us over. But we told our scuba instructor we were going for a night dive like 2 hours before we finally got in the water, so by the time we swam to the other side of the lake he started ringing the "holy shit, get back to land" bell because it had been so long we should have all been out of oxygen. It was a very awkward night lol
I know of at least one camp that had "Archery, Hiking, Search & Rescue, Biking, Horseback, Training that will save you from a heart attack, Scuba diving, Miming, Keeping up with rhyming, Football, Limbo, Science, Stunting, Pre-Calc, Spaceships, Treasure hunting, Bomb defusal, No refusal, Fantasy, Circus trapeze, and Fights, and Ghosts, and Paints, and Snakes, and Knives, and Chess, and Dance, and Weights-" and OOOOH so much more... Unfortunately, the company that ran it shut down earlier this year.
This channel has done wonders for my guitar playing. Turns out i just needed someone gabbing about nothing in the background to inspire me to play. Too bad I was a burnout and not a nerd.
I actually graduated from Missouri S&T with my Explosives Engineering Master's. They use the explosives camp as a way to build interests in the program. You need to pass a background check to enroll, but it's a pretty neat program.
One of my high school assignments was to research a potential career. I asked the librarian for info on miniature pyrotechnical stuff.... She called me a "little firebug." I was honestly considering a career in special effects for the movies. :^( Changed my whole career path. -bZj
My parent's live on a 99 acre homestead near the Yavapai tribe in Arizona. It's in the high desert and 2 miles down the unpaved dirt road, there's a weekend/day summer camp for boys. They all lived in a small trailer, but last I heard they were building their own dorm. They take care of a flock of emus and they work on the land, which is pretty much crappy dirt that can't grow anything but cactus, brush and Juniper trees. I can't imagine they do more than dig and build fences, but they also help dig up the roads to make them wider and help maintain them.
5:21 The Centrifuge. Scaled up to Human size. At the Carnival, it's called The Gravitron. The ride is completely enclosed, with 48 padded panels lining the inside wall. Riders lean against these panels, which are angled back. As the ride rotates, the rider experiences a centrifugal force pointing outward from the ride's center.
As a Australian the opening of the history section sounds very much like something very common here which is an Acknowledgement of Country. They are very common here they are often read out at the start of events they also super common on websites. sometimes we have a welcome to Country which is different in that an Elder of the relevant indigenous group speaks.
If the Cadet Summer Camps in the UK are like they are in Canada you have: Basic Cadet Leader Cadet Leader Instructor But you can also choose between general, marksmanship, band, drill, or adventure. And after the CLI year you could go for Staff or more specialised summer camps if you could qualify. Like if you were super fit you could do a couple of weeks of summer training with the military skydivers or (para), if you were fluent in other languages you could do a sort of exchange, or if you were really interested in military history you could try to qualify to go to Wales for the summer.
My camp has been around for over 100 years. My grandmama went when she was a kid and so did my papa. It's a very cool place! I will go in a couple weeks and i really look forward to it!
At 14, I sent my daughter to an opera arts training camp in San Francisco. They taught to be a good singer, she couldn't smoke or have sex. Worked for several years. She did learn a lot about the craft and the business. I went to the show presentation at the end and it was excellent.
My grandparents on my biological fathers side had an 80 acre cattle farm. When we got in trouble, we were sent to the farm. I pay around $650usd per day for a motel room. In the 80's, I was part of the Young Astronauts Program. I always wanted to go to Space Camp. In the desert we were so bored. One day we came across a box of roadside flares. Thinking they'd be damaged. I tested one, it lit.. I pulled the flare stuff out of another one and packed it full of gunpowder. After a few trial and errors we barred one. It blew a hole in the ground. I'm shocked I'm not dead with all the things I did.
Oh the plantation video! It was a guy telling a group of his friends about going to a plantation for a field trip. It was hilarious the way he told it, but horrific that his school thought that was OK.
YUP! i've seen that african american kid's video more than once and it is friggin HILARIOUS! as a resident and native of Alabama... you can TELL that kid is from here... his Alabama university gear he's wearing isn't 'pristine collectible but wearable' fashion items... he's had em for a lil while and they're well worn. if i had a caucasian kid and they went out to that field trip without my permission or knowledge? i would be pissed off too like his mom was. hell, i would have gone on that trip WITH my kid as a volunteer chaperone to just wander around and look at things. i've picked cotton for fun by hand now and again on acquaintances of my dad's farms and yep! it is hard work! i'm HIGHLY surprised editor Julian Vu missed the opportunity to insert some clips of that 'Bama kid's trip into the 'Farm Camp' segment!
Simon needs to realize something. All of those disgusting/back breaking chores that he doesn't think need to be done, have to be done so he can live lovely and easy city life. Perhaps someone should send Simon to Farm Camp for a month so he can learn these things.
An idea for a camp Ancient Egyptian pyramid builder camp set up in Death valley Or how about Aztec religion camp, learn how to worship like an Aztec theory and practice
I live in Vermont. Most of the farms have gone corporate. There was a boom of small boutique hipster farms that cropped up in the last decade or so. These people had a huge learning curve or failed. Perhaps plantation camp would’ve served them well!
The weirdest camp I went to when growing up in Australia in the '90s was the "Indiana Jones Camp" where we were tasked with using these primitive tools around us to get an item and escape the pursuers. It was a lot of fun lol. Some of it was a little dangerous though and I could not see it being a thing in America.
OMG Simon. Little plastic containers? I am so grateful to my parents for teaching me about the Earth, and how to grow food, and hunt when necessary. When sh*t gets really bad, I pray for you and your family Simon. You should worry about where your food comes from. Very much.
Grocery prices are spiking high, the food is getting worse, n often isn't there at all. LOTS of people are starting gardening, saving heirloom seeds, n learning survival skills. So we're not dependent on people who just care to line their own pockets. Lots of families in the US have 2 people working like slaves, n still can't pay for bare necessities! The seed companies are having a hard time, because so many people want heirloom seeds. The US just passed more laws about patented plants- that you can't save the seeds or take a cutting to grow a new plant. But you can also be sued for tens of thousands if their stupid pollen drifts thru the air or pollinators bring it to ur plants. That's a bunch of bologna, n people don't want that crap, especially after they bankrupted so many farmers because of their stupid patented pollen spreading thru the air!
@@edenrose1224 Yes. The government has been trying to do this for decades. Just look at watermelons. The genetic engineering is designed so we can't harvest seeds and sustain. They throw away enough to feed the country everyday. The goal is to make it so no one but them can grow food. Then, we get it in little tiki taki boxes that deliver micro plastics.
@@edenrose1224 One of my favorite things, is going out in the morning to weed the garden. Water the garden. Love my plants, and the birds. What is the agenda? Detach from nature, is also a goal.
Ahhh I knew it was a Kevin script 😂😂😂 Went to a summer camp for gifted students back in the day and got “propositioned “ by a girl there.. I didn’t remember that being in the booklet 😅
Simon, im not certain. but it seems like you may be thinking of the boondocks episode with "freedom land" i think it was called. a camp for experiencing what slavery is like
I went to space camp in the 90s. Unfortunately, the day I was supposed to do the multi-axis trainer (the gyroscope thing) I puked my ever-loving guts out that morning and had to sit the day out , so I missed all that fun. The camp actually was pretty cool, but there were some pseudo military components of it. So like if you got caught talking after lights out the whole Barracks room had to get up and run laps around the full size space shuttle model outside. And every morning started out with some pretty intense physical fitness, for a bunch of nerds, anyway.
I'm never here this early! I just wanted to say a big hello from down in little old New Zealand 🤗 I've been watching you're videos from the start and I love them ❤
Went to Euro space camp many moons ago. One of the best memories I have. Doing all those experiments, launching test rockets, and being there on the day Pluto got reclassified will forever remain a core memory!
😆 that was the funniest intro clip so far Simon, what are you gonna do when society falls apart and your food no longer comes to your door in plastic boxes? Eat your money? Lol
Growing up in Denmark, Julemærkehjemmene was a thing where the fat kids went as far as I remember. They were funded by Christmas stamps and did the camp/in-patient setting where they would - allegedly - give the kids a new sense of self esteem and show them a better way of eating - oh and of course make them run along some boring country road to get them pounds off..
Went to a Christian Camp in Somerset.....It was brutal...A girl got hit with a boomerang, got her skull cracked open and nearly died , another kid got a broken leg and I got a broken wrist!!!
17:00 right after the Ted meem. An add for a video game set in hell played.😅 It was such a well timed transition that I think it could've worked in the actual video.
Weren't the camps that we went to in the sea and marine cadets called "Billet"? I know that's what you had to sleep in but I thought that's what the whole experience was called. That's unlocked memories from well over fifteen years ago
There’s plenty of people from small (200-1200 pop.) southern towns where the kids could use the skills. But the ones who can afford it don’t need it. Fun fact. Speaking of plantations. My uncle owns Jeff Davis , the president of the confederacy’s childhood home plantation rosemont. Right outside of my 800+ town
I endured four summers of a church-run Girl's Camp from age 12 to 17. I had to skip one year because I had mono. Having mono and staying home was way better than going to Girl's camp. Summer is the worst time for camping in the state of Texas. My 1st year, our assigned camp counselor was 75 years old and got heat exhaustion,then had to stay in our cabin with screens for windows, the rest of the time Every single meal had to be prepared over a fire, and we had to hike a mile to the commercial refrigerator at the camp to retrieve our food for the day. My 2nd year, the only place to swim was a small lake containing alligator gar, there were only two showers and the toilets were latrines. My 3rd year,all of mattresses in the barracks were infested with bed bugs. My 4th year, we were supposed to hike five miles, but the camp was too small, so they had us walk back and forth through a field of stinging nettles until we had walked five miles, after which, we had to set up tents in 100° heat, build a picnic table, dig a latrine, and cook our dinner over a fire. 😂
[9:50] MS Office 2007 is the last that is easily crackable without using a KMS. I'm not saying that's the reason. There's more: It's also the last version which is okay with you typing on a keyboard layout of your choice into a textfield spellchecked in a different language. Take me, typing with a CZ keyboard layout in ENglish. Newer office apps make this as complicated as possible. And they also shift around the buttons in the ribbon based on your usage. Which means until it settles, you can easily find the same in a different place every time.
I worked a successful summer camp that was essentially LARPing for kids. Then I moved across the company and tried to do it myself. I had everything ready to go for the rollout in March of 2020.
