Kisha never fails to come dressed in her costume each year. This year, she’s decided that she’s going to come  dressed as Where’s Waldo. She let me snap this photo right before she disappeared into a crowd.

Bob has a very special costume this year. Thanks to his recent knee replacement surgery, he’ll be coming as a half-man/half-robot Cylon hybrid.  So say we all, Bob.

And Matt?  His costume won’t be such a stretch, since with his beard and his 2 kids that he carries around in baby carriers, he’ll be showing up as Zach Galifianakis.

We know you’re dying to see what we’ll look like, so scroll on below!

We know you have some sidewalk chalk sitting in a plastic container in your laundry room, back shed, or under the porch. Dust it off and start creating magical art in your own driveway! Check out some fantastic work created with chalk on city streets.

When you are actually there, there is an visual trick that plays into how you view the artwork, so you have to stand at the right angle for it to appear correctly.

For example, check out this drawing of a woman in a swimming pool when viewed from the WRONG angle.

And here is the same drawing when viewed from the correct angle…  Crazy, right?

For more sidewalk chalk artwork by artist Kurt Wenner, explore the image gallery below or explore his website at http://kurtwenner.com/

Around Christmas 2013 (yes, that’s next Christmas, but we wanted to give you enough time to save up some money to buy an awesome telescope).  According to Scientific American, “As it flares out of the distant Oort Cloud, the newly discovered comet C/2012 S1 (ISON) appears to be heading on a trajectory that could make for one of the most spectacular night-sky events in living memory.”

This comet will pass just 1.16 million miles from the Sun.  What, that’s a pretty far distance you say?  Well, consider that the Sun is pretty huge.  If the Sun were the scaled down to the size of the Earth, the comet would pass within the orbits of satellites flying around the planet!  Now, that’s pretty close!

It’s swing around the Sun will create a beautiful comet tail as the sun’s heat will melt large amounts of the comet’s ice.But don’t worry, scientists aren’t worried about this comet eventually hitting the Earth (or so they say…).   But if it does, we should probably schedule an “end of the world” party each week of AASTC 2013.  Hmmm…. we better start planning now…  just in case.

Learn more about Comet C/2012 S1 at Scientific American.  And check back to our camp website for updates on our end of the world party.

At our camp dance at George Mason in 2011, the theme was Halloween.  We had some great staff costumes and awesome camper costumes!  Hands down, one of the best we’ve ever seen was the staff Tetris costume.  It even glowed in the dark!  Check out more photos from our Halloween dance on our Flickr page.

Interested in some more summer-camp themed costumes?  Check out our friends at the blog Summer Camp Culture for more ideas.

And as always, check back at our camp website for updates on this year’s Camp Dance themes!

In an interview with CNN, he said, “The one-second everyday project was something that originally started out as a way for me to chronicle my year off from work but really quickly after I started I realized that it was helping me in many more ways. It was allowing me to realize that I could remember everyday that I’ve lived; it was allowing me to quickly reflect back on the things that I had to done, to be able to zoom out from the past month and realize, “Oh wow, I sat around a lot this month.” I instantly decided to do it for the rest of my life and realized the benefits were far greater than the amount of work I needed to put into it, which was just a quick second to remind me of that day.”

Our 16-Hour Film and Movie Madness campers can be inspired by this artist, as Cesar created this piece using mostly his iPhone video camera, showing that you don’t need sophisticated equipment to make a video that will garner a lot of attention and kudos. Our campers will be able to create similar projects about their daily lives as Kuriyama is currently working on a mobile app that will allow others to easily compile their own one-second everyday project.

You can keep up to date on Cesar’s project on his 1-Second-Everyday Facebook Page.

Plus, as a BONUS, as I was watching the video, on the day labeled May 17th, 2011, I stumbled across our former camp videographer Will Caballero, who turns out is a good friend of Cesar!  Great connection to the AASTC and confirms that despite how many billions of people there are, it truly is still a small world!  Keep up with Will’s film ventures at his website Cabal Productions

Keep checking our website All-Arts, Science & Technology Camp for upcoming camp announcements on our new camp classes!

Check our website often, All-Arts, Sciences & Technology Camp for up-to-date happenings with our camp planning!

Check our website often, All-Arts, Sciences & Technology Camp for up-to-date happenings with our camp planning!