Create Camp participants learn career skills through fun activities

The Ready for Hire program, in collaboration with the Bucyrus Public Library, concluded its summer camp, which had 15 young adults engage in a wide range of hands-on STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts and Mathematics) activities guided by four young adult camp coaches.

The Create Camp culminated in a Create Camp Olympics/Program Celebration, marking the end to two weeks of creativity and learning.

The Ready for Hire Create Camp took place weekdays June 17-28 at the Bucyrus Public Library. Teens participated in activities including digital art, coding robots, tackling VR challenges and designing projects for 3D printing. Participants could select projects using Skillshare and various STEAM resources like Procreate, Fusion 360, Blender and Photoshop. The projects will be showcased in a digital art installation at the library 6-7 p.m. July 31.

The program was supported by paid student internships, offering high school juniors and seniors from Crawford County the chance to serve as young adult program assistants. The interns began their roles June 3 and spent the first two weeks preparing by completing Skillshare courses and projects.

Ready for Hire Level Up is a career-readiness program for students in grades 9-12, but the Bucyrus Public Library has used its resources to expand the program to sixth, seventh and eighth grade students. The program aims to provide career skills such as animation, Photoshop, 3D printing, music production, digital illustration and design and more.

For more information email Crawford County site coordinator Kevin Fourman at [email protected] or BPL’s Teen Services Manager Kolter Kiess at [email protected].

This article originally appeared on Bucyrus Telegraph-Forum: Crawford County Ready for Hire touts success of its summer Create Camp