‘Bil - Weduesday, August 12, 1981 - North Shore News

EAST HADDAM, Conn.
(UPI) - Most kids go to
summer camp to swim, hike
and ride horses, but the
young guests at Computer
Camp East learn computers
are tools to be mastered, not
“creepy” super-brains to be
feared.

Pre-teens and teens in
groups of 35 or so have their
share of conventional
recreation, but 65 percent of
their two-week stint is
devoted to laying bare the
computer mystique. It’s
almost like Dorothy un-
masking the Wizard of Oz.
When she got up closer, the
wizard was a pushover.

Harry Sverdlove,
Larchmont, N.Y., for
example, wants to be a
scientist, and was making a
computer terminal (0
electric acrobatics on the
screen.

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“You work the computer,”
Harry said, “It doesn't work
you.” That's the key.

“We think kids should
Jearn to control these

machines and make them do
what they want them to do.
Rather than have the
machines teach the child, so
to speak, the child teaches
the machine,” said William
L. Gibson, director of in-
struction.

At $400 a week, the camp
is almost booked solid this
season, its first summer of
operation.

The kids do various things
with the computers. Adding
a camera, they take a
photographic image of
someone's face off a
television screen or
whatever, transfer it to
paper, and using a specially
inked ribbon, they put it into
a hot press at 275 degrees.
Presto! The image is tran-
sferred to a T-shirt.

They play something
called “Robot Football,” a
remote control game. They
also take melodies from
sheet music or compose
their own and put it into the
computer.

out on a synthesizer. “Going

Silent night
by chorus

MUNICH, West Germany
(UPI) - The chorus of the
Bavarian State Opera chose
a umique way to go on stnke,
mouthing the words of the
songs without emitting
sounds during a per-
formance of Richard
Wagner's “Die Merster-
singer.”

The unhappy members of
the chorus chose the last
performance of the annual
Munich Opera
Tuesday = night

Festival
for their

Rhapsody

action.

The chorus sang the first
two acts of the opera, but
went on. strike lip
movement but no sounds - in
the third act to back a
demand for Ingher pay im a
protest that could be called a
“mouth-in.”

As expected, the audience
reaction was most un-
fnendly, said a spokesman at
the Munich National

Theatre

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out of my head” was one
kid’s choice.

Michael Uman  0of
Stamford gets around
computers like Grappelli on
the violin. He's the camp’s
resident trouble-shooter and
at 16, is a computer con-
sultant to Citibank. “I was
really into electronics,”
Michael! said, “but I moved
more into digitals.”

Director Gibson said the

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purpose of the training is to
give the kids a handle on
computers he believes will
be everywhere in perhaps 20

years or so, “totally
ubiquitious,” as he put it -
particularly so in the
workplace.

He said the training now

will overcome the fear and
anxiety some have of
computers. “They will not
be intimidated by it whereas
I find adults have a hard time
approaching them
sometimes.

Dr. Arthur Michals of
Vernon, one of the three

Originators of Computes
Camp East, and a specialiss
in education for the
disabled, said a_ child's
working knowledge of
computers will be a sub
stantial asset regardless off
what he or she chooses to do
in life.

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