Anyone have kids that attended career camp at SW?

[disneylandlvr13]

i went to career camp at san diego and i went to the advanced camp in san antonio, but at both parks we did breakout. Breakout is when u go into the fishhouse and get all the food sometimes for the morning and sometimes for the whole day. You then go and put them in the huge steel bins and begin the thawing out process and then when its thawed enough u begin to breakout all the food depending on which animals you are breaking out for. We also did pilling in which we replaced some of the lost nutrients due to the thawing process with vitamins and minerals. In san diego we only did breakout for the killer whales and on aquarium day and penguins but at advanced we did breakout every day and especially during animal care day. Basically i came home with scales all over me, which was totally awesome.

 

[disneylandlvr13]

here are a few pics from camp!

 

[DixieDolphin]

What?! They don't do breakout at the Florida camps?! What a gyp!

Breakout was awesome... when I did Career Camp at San Antonio, we did it every morning (except the last day, I think). As described above, it was a messy, smelly process of thawing fish in huge steel sinks and hauling them out into buckets to be weighed, have pills stuffed in gill slits, and (in the case of whole salmon for the killer whales) have the entrails removed, inspected for hooks, and stuffed back into the fish.

It was /awesome/! Loved every minute. I'm disappointed to hear that the Florida camps don't offer that experience... considering so much of marine mammal care is food prep, I'm shocked they don't include it in their 'career' camps now. Foo.

 

[Freyja]

My son will probably be attending career camp next year and I have a couple of questions to those who have been before. Were there any international students? Did they all have English as their native language.
DS understands English very well and speaks it pretty well too, although his vocabulary is a bit limited. I hope he wouldn´t run into problems. I e-mailed Seaworld and they just said they had many foreign campers and that they had to speak English for security reasons (so that they could understand the instructions, etc.).

 

[sbplayer2410]

i went to Advanced career camp last year and the previous year, and yes, my first year we had a girl from london and i actually got to room with her, i had a blast, it was so much fun learning about her life in england and finding out the differences between the countries.
Also, my second year, (last year) we had a kid from puerto rico, who did understand english very well, but did ask a couple times (one of our counselors was also from puerto rico and knew spanish and english fluently)
he also made tons of friends and i even still talk to him occasionally.

your son should have no problem at all.

 

[disneylandlvr13]

i also attended career camp this past march and we had a girl from brazil and she spoke very good english but still had to ask a couple of times wat things meant and such..the counselors and trainers r very good at helping out...the only real problem she had was when we had to take notes she couldnt write as fast as we could so basically we took notes and she just copied them which was totally fine..

 

[JeannieNM]

My daughter has gone to SW camp in San Diego for the last 4 years. She is in 7th grade now. She loves it. If you have questions let me know and I will get her to answer them.