The document summarizes the 2011 Ohio Writing Project Youth Writing Camp. It describes the campers working hard and having fun participating in various writing activities and games. The camp aimed to inspire creative writing in a relaxed environment outside of a traditional classroom setting. The campers enjoyed the experience and their parents were thanked for allowing their children to attend.

1. The 2011 Ohio Writing Project
Youth Writing Camp
Presentations

2. The OWP Youth
Writing Camp
philosophy is quite
simple:

3. If you feed them,
they will come…

10. … and if they come,
they will write!
(And write they did!)

18. The campers were working
so hard, people stopped by
and compared us to a shoe
manufacturing sweatshop!

22. I wonder what
gave them that
idea?

23. Does anyone know
what rhymes with
piano bacon?

24. Everyone smiled at camp!

32. Well, almost
everyone.

33. If this were school, we might have offered
extra credit if anyone properly used
Arabidopsis thaliana in a poem.

34. Poor Julie and Sarah…

35. …they had nightmares for several
nights after this activity!

36. Poetic inspiration can even be found on the labels
attached to big, rusty, out-of-place argon tanks.

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Sorry folks, ya had to be there!

39. Huh-huh. Pie.

40. Parents, your kids wrote
some awesome poetry!

41. Campers, I know you remember this
small group “Found Poem”!

42. And, um, occasionally they wrote
some not-so-great poetry…

43. Ode to a small lump of
green putty I found in my
armpit one midsummer
morning.
(Just kidding! Our poetry was so good, we had to borrow that bit
from The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams.)

44. Tee-hee!

45. Four score and seven years
ago…
Just kidding!

46. It’s not as easy as you
think to write a love
poem about zombies
and Rebecca Black.

47. Do Mi
Rae

48. HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
HAAHAHAHAHAHA
HA

49. HA.

50. Parents, we bet you didn’t
know that the Youth Writing
Camp is more than just a
writing camp. We are also a…

51. Digital Guitar Camp

52. Tidal Pool Camp

53. Walking Around Campus Like We Own It Camp

54. Water Basketball Camp

55. Digital
Keyboard
Camp

56. Falling Off
Diving Board
Camp

57. Shallow Water Synchronized
Swimming Camp

58. Playing In Traffic Camp

59. Treading Water Camp

60. Making Goofy Noises and Faces Camp

61. Fruit Roll Up Eating Camp

62. Human Battleship Camp

63. Human Battleship Camp

64. DESKS FOR WRITING?
WE DON’T NEED NO
STINKING DESKS!

70. Have you ever tried to herd squirrels?

71. If so, then you know what it’s like
getting 31 swimmers to spell Y-W-C!

72. If so, then you know what it’s like
getting 31 swimmers to spell Y-W-C!

73. If so, then you know what it’s like
getting 31 swimmers to spell Y-W-C!

74. Are you taking a
picture of me?
Of course not. I’m
taking a picture of the
ant crawling on
Alyssa’s arm.

75. Writing camp rocks!

76. And Eva isn’t the only
one who thinks so!

78. WRITING CAMP ROCKS!

79. Campers, thanks for allowing us to
write alongside you this week. You
inspired us in new ways each day.
Parents, we really did enjoy your kids
this week… but you can have them
back now!
: )
Enjoy the rest of your summer!
- Julie, Melissa, Roxanne, Matt, & Liz

80. A special thanks to Beth
Rimer, Cassandra Thompson,
Monica Fisher, and the other
OWP staff that guide and
support this great camp
each year.
Without you this would not
be possible.