ODESSA, Texas — The Crisis Center of West Texas hosted their 8th Annual Wonder Girls Summer Camp to keep the wheels churning for kids during these summer months.
"We do stem activities, we have a career day, we've got a field trip planned as well and it's just a camp for to help empower girls," said Alejandra Ramirez, the Crisis Center Prevention Services Director.
For four days, 5th through 8th grade campers were engaging in many activities from drones to robots and from art to edible science projects.
"My favorite like activity and moment was like we had like a watermelon. We went outside for it and like we put like rubber bands like, so it could like explode," said Madelynne Carrasco, a camp participant going into the 5th grade.
This was the type of engagement that the crisis center wants young girls to have; to spark their minds for success.
Although the camp involved a lot of fun, the Crisis Center of West Texas was still able to fulfill their mission.
"We really we feel like it's a good age to help empower girls," Ramirez said. "Help them learn and just a great opportunity to in the summer you know the out of school, a great opportunity for them to keep, doing experiments, stem activities and learn stuff."
As for the campers, they enjoyed every minute of it.
"We do like fun activities," Carrasco said. "It like they feed us some good food. They give us like lessons how to dance, boxing like hip boxing and stuff."
When camp is over, Ramirez hopes that the girls will take all they've learned to one day understand they can be anything they want when they grow up.
"Whether that be if they learned about a new career at career day, I really hope that helps them to pursue that career," Ramirez said. "If they've learned stuff from our other activities like yesterday, we had a water demonstration and other girls were asking about the water at home and stuff like that. I just feel like just that they continue to use what they learn."
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