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TTU STEAM Camp 2025

Welcome to the TTU STEAM Camp 2025 Guide!

Activies of the Day

Schedule for Today:

Time Activity
8:30 - 9:00 Check in
9:00 - 9:30 Introductions
9:30 - 12:00 Saponification and soap making 
12:00 - 1:00 Lunch
1:00 - 3:00 Mapmaking
3:00 - 3:30 Pick up

 

 

History of Soap timeline

 

Learn about map making: HERE

Texas A&M Fantasy Map Collection: HERE

Examples of maps of imaginary places:

Marvelous Map of Oz:

Map of Hundred Acre Woods:

Library Resources

Fantasy Map Making

Have you ever struggled with map making? Spent countless hours trying to make it comply with the laws of nature?This book is a step-by-step guidebook that will teach you how to create an authentic fantasy map. You will gain all the knowledge necessary to complete a map which your audience will believe, no matter if they are readers, viewing a movie, video game players, or role-playing gamers.It contains the exact process I use when creating maps for my fantasy fiction. 

In Time

'In Time' is an innovative study of classical music that integrates contemporary theory, such as problem-solving strategies (resembling map-making) with the expressive dimension of music. This integration is suggested as a metaphor for life journeys, encompassing both external experiences and internal memories within alternative realities.

Urban Food Mapping

With cities becoming so vast, so entangled and perhaps so critically unsustainable, there is an urgent need for clarity around the subject of how we feed ourselves as an urban species. Urban food mapping becomes the tool to investigate the spatial relationships, gaps, scales and systems that underlie and generate what, where and how we eat, highlighting current and potential ways to (re)connect with our diet, ourselves and our environments. 

Here Be Dragons

First in-depth study of the use of landscape in fantasy literature Winner of the Mythopoeic Scholarship Award for Myth and Fantasy Studies (2016) Fantasy worlds are never mere backdrops. They are an integral part of the work, and refuse to remain separate from other elements. These worlds combine landscape with narrative logic by incorporating alternative rules about cause and effect or physical transformation. 

Basic Soap Making: All the Skills and Tools You Need to Get Started

Basic equipment and ingredients -- Making basic cold-process soap -- Basic four-oil soap recipe and instructions -- Equipment cleanup -- Unmolding and cutting soap into bars -- More basic soap recipes -- Soap additives -- Enhancing soap with color, fragrance, and oatmeal -- Two-tone nugget soap

The Essential Guide to Mold Making and Slip Casting

For potters, mold making is invaluable because it allows them to slip-cast identical multiples of their work--and this newly revised, full-color edition of Andrew Martin's classic is the definitive guide to the craft. No other volume has shown the processes in such how-to detail. It's overflowing with hundreds of photos, key techniques, projects, master artist profiles, and troubleshooting tips. 

Fresh Lipstick

Fresh Lipstick shakes feminist fashion down to its Birkenstocks. Linda M. Scott wants to put an end to the belief that American women have to wear a colorless, shapeless uniform to achieve liberation and equality. A pointed attack on feminism's requisite style of dress, Fresh Lipstick argues that wearing high heels and using hair curlers does not deny you the right to seek advancement, empowerment, and equality.