2018 Camp Staff

Meet our 2018 Camp Staff!

Administration:

Kristen Coleman, Executive Director:

Kristen Coleman started as a DaVinci Experience camper many years ago. She attended both the Falmouth and the Cousins Island camps. She went to college and majored in business and finance. Last summer, Kristen interned at DaVinci Experience and fell in love with camp all over again. She enjoys working with children and is the education administrator at a local Falmouth church. DaVinci Experience Summer Camp is excited to have her at the helm with her excellent management skills and her love of working with children. She brings a lot of energy and enthusiasm to the position.

Lydia MacDonald, Camp Director:

This is Lydia’s third year with DaVinci Experience Summer Camps, and she is absolutely thrilled to be back. Lydia has nearly a decade's experience working in summer camps. Before joining the DaVinci team, Lydia spent seven years working at a children’s theater Brunswick, where she organized and implemented many of their summer programs. She has also created and taught a Fairy Tale Theater curriculum in Yarmouth. Lydia has a passion for teaching and has experience in grades PreKindergarten-Fourth.

Teachers:

Suzanne Winchester, Senior Teacher:

Suzanne has taught at Falmouth DaVinci Experience Camps for 8 years. She is an experienced art teacher, having taught art K-8 at St. Brigid’s School in Portland for over 20 years. Currently, she works with the Falmouth Community Programs aftercare. Suzanne will be the Junior teacher for the duration of the summer.

Zoe Eiber, Junior and Intermediate Teacher:

Zoe is a Bowdoin College graduate and has taught at Hall-Dale Middle School for the past 4 years. Before that, she was a long-term substitute teacher at Greely Middle School in Cumberland. She has also been a mentor and co-leader for Fostering Female Leadership in Youth in Brunswick. Zoe is the Junior teacher for Castles and Knights and is the Intermediate teacher for Emergency Vet.

Christina Kouros, Junior Teacher:

Christina is a graduate from the University of Maine Farmington. This fall, she will be student teaching in a first-grade class at Riverton Elementary School in Portland. Christina has also had previous teaching experiences with the first and third grades and has also been working in summer camps for several years. She will be the Junior teacher for Emergency Vet; Zookeeper Vet; Eyeballs and Goo; Lighting, Lava, and Landslides; Sea Pirates; and Picasso to Pop Art.

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Zoo Vet—Falmouth 2024

Monday On Monday, the campers got a chance to design their own zoos and use costumes and tools for Zoo Vet dramatic play. Tuesday Messes bring on the magic in our world. Campers made shaving cream zoo animal art and even got to view a National Geographic educational video on the Jungle. Wednesday Safari day!!! Campers got to meet Crocodile Kristen who took them on a jaunt around campus like never before, learning about Zoo animals as they went. Thursday Field trip day!!! We got to go to the Maine Wildlife Park and stop for ice cream on the way back. Stay tuned for pictures of some of the junior campers' very first bus ride! Friday The kids finished off a great week with a presentation by Sparks Ark with all his exotic and local animals. Juniors on the Bus Here are the sweet, sleepy zoologists on their (for some first ever) bus ride!

eARTh - Falmouth

Monday Today was all about learning how to be a resourceful artist. We learned that we can use household items around us to make different art mediums. Today we used eye shadow, Caribic powder, and a textile medium base to create shimmery eye shadow paint. Late on we learned that we can use our own body as art utensils in our group foot and finger painting project. We ended with the concept of using our body as the canvas, with some awesome face painting! Tuesday What a special treat today. The founder of DaVinci Experience, Judy Crosby, came in to do painting demos for the children and talk about earth pigments and homemade paints. Judy holds an art degree from the University of Southern Maine and loves to share her vast knowledge in painting with the children. Later on, the kids got to try their own hand in earth paint, collecting soils and items from the woods to make paints and paint brushes. We learned about why different soils are different colors and got creative with our ...

Dr. DaVinci Falmouth

Monday To start the week, the junior campers had a drawing brainstorming session of what they knew about doctors. Seniors campers spoke to their knowledge and made doctor bags/briefcases out of recycled materials. Both groups created body models with which they could incorporate various systems and organs including the brain and nervous system—which the "big kids" dove into further. = Tuesday For our doctors, the heart and circulatory system was the focus of Tuesday. They built their own stethoscopes and played heart rate game. This involved doing low intensity versus high intensity activities and then comparing their heart rates/pulses. Wednesday On Wednesday, campers learned about the lungs and the respiratory system. Both seniors and juniors created lung models (of different complexities). Then after talking about how the lungs fill up in a way similar to balloons, we held a balloon party—many campers were able to blow them up with their impressive lung capacities! Thurs...

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