
What better way to celebrate the launch ofย Maker Camp than by taking on our Feather Glue Gun Boa Challenge (FGGBC)?!
To participate in theย FGGBC, take your favorite tool or material that youโll use at camp this summer, modify it in some creative way, and then take a fun picture or short video of it and post to ourย Maker Camp Google+ community page.ย Useย the #MakerCamp hashtag to introduce your team and show your camp spirit!
We devised the challenge for Maker Camp affiliate leaders, but anyone can take part. To get inspired,ย check out ourย silly FGGBC song, introduced this May at Maker Faire Bay Area, and lustily performed by Maker Camp director Bridget Rigby,ย Start Making!ย co-author Danielle Martin, Bay Area Discovery Museum associate director Lisa Regalla, and Nation of Makers executive director Dorothy Jones-Davis:

See what theyย did with theirย favorite new tool, now both functional and fashionable, to represent the creative, positive, solution-based Maker mindset needed to jump in and glue anything back together, turning any challenge into cool new camp innovations.
Behind all of thisย feather-glue-gun-silliness is a message about the deeper goal of developing a maker mindset while learning through failure. Here are the lyrics, set to the tune of Justin Timberlake’s “Can’t Stop the Feeling!”:
I got this feeling, inside my gun
It goes electric, gluey when I turn it on
All through the summer, and through our camp
Weโre building circuits and solar-powered lampsI got that glue gun in my pocket
Got that vision in my head
I feel that failure in my body when it flops โ oooh
Then I pull out my fave glue gun, moving so phenomenally
Glue on top and then the bottom, ouch โ itโs hot!And as the camp goes, and everything flows
We work together and everyone knows
When me make, well, our awesomeness grows
So just imagine, just imagine, just imagineNothing I can see but you when you make, make, make
Itโs a feeling way too good to be true
So just make, make, make, come on
All those things that campers do
When they make, make, make
And ainโt no campers leaving soon
So keep makingI canโt stop the gluing
So just make, make, make
I canโt stop the gluing
So just make, make, make
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