RangerACE 2019 Construction Camp

 
 
 
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2019 DAY 1: Camp Intro, Safety, and Design
2019 DAY 1: Camp Intro, Safety, and Design

All of the staff at RangerACE were incredibly excited to welcome campers to their first day at camp and introduce them to this year’s project. Each group of campers across the two weeks would be building half of a basketball court for Voigt Elementary, a local school in Round Rock. To prepare for working on the jobsite, campers learned about safety, created their own construction companies, and modeled the basketball court on CAD.

2019 DAY 2: Surveying, Cost Estimating, and Site Excavation
2019 DAY 2: Surveying, Cost Estimating, and Site Excavation

After completing the first day, campers were prepared to begin the construction of the basketball court. Throughout the day they would learn about the exciting job of surveying, estimate costs and assemble a mock “bid” for the court, and help prepare the court for the next step, concrete.

2019 DAY 3: Concrete and Heavy Equipment
2019 DAY 3: Concrete and Heavy Equipment

For the third day, campers were able to get hands-on experience with the diverse professions involved in concrete and heavy equipment. Before assisting in pouring and smoothing concrete for the basketball court, RangerACE Pros Hamilton McRae and Ryan Davis arrived to introduce campers to the engineering side of concrete.

2019 DAY 4: Quarry Field Trip
2019 DAY 4: Quarry Field Trip

Having learned about the aggregates used to make concrete on the third day, campers would spend the fourth day learning more about these and many more aggregates. Such product is mined and sold out of quarries, and thus for the fourth day campers would load up on buses in the morning for a field trip to the CC Aggregates Quarry, just 30 minutes outside of Round Rock!

2019 DAY 5: Striping, Landscaping, and Finished Court
2019 DAY 5: Striping, Landscaping, and Finished Court

The last day of camp focused on rewarding campers on their hard work throughout the week while also introducing them to two more fun and engaging professions in construction: striping and landscaping. Campers also got an opportunity to ask any unanswered questions to a panel of returning RangerACE Pros at lunch.