Project Sustainability Energy and Ecology (SEE)
The 2025 Summer Camp Season was tied to two main initiatives. The first was officially launching the MenTern program at Mezzacello Urban Farm. The second was Project SEE which manifested as STEM Farming camps focused on sustainability, energy, and ecology.
Summer Camp 2025 Wrap Up
The Summer 2025 Camp Season has ended and there were 10 camps that stood out! 10 camps ranging from farming to ecology, power to engineering. Farm animals, biology, recycling and sustainability. We covered it all. Here is a quick review of the camps and their successes.
Ecology Connections Camp Blog
Welcome to the Ecology Connections Camp Blog. In this blog campers will be submitting research and documentation of the work they have done and the STEM concepts they have learned and mastered at this weeks' camp. Each day will have a heading and this will be entirely compiled by campers.
A Fresh Take on Summer Camps: One-Day Workshops & Mentorship in Action
At Mezzacello Urban Farm, I’ve always taught summer camps using a mix of the design cycle, systems thinking, and mentorship. But this year, a small shift sparked a big idea: what if one-day workshops could deepen and extend the impact of our week-long camps?
The Pond at Mezzacello
This is a quick video that one of my summer camp “menterns” took with the biotechnology team last summer. It’s really solid work and they write up on the aquatic ecology that the kids did was pretty solid too.
Portable Power and a Mobile Coop
This portable coop comes equipped with automatic feeder, a waterer, manure detection feature, wheels, a suspension and onboard power for everything powered by the sun, a solar panel and batteries.
The Age of Steel - Part 3
As Mezzacello matures and becomes more active with camps and content, we are finding time and again that steel makes the most sense in terms of infrastructure.
An Engineered and Mobile Ecology
Last week the kids in my Biomechanics summer camp created a very innovative mobile, sustainable animal cage from scratch! Learn how they did it here.
Multiple Career Hats at Mezzacello
At Mezzacello Urban Farms kids wear different hats every day! What careers do you think they might be interested in?!
How Kids Can Monitor and Protect Their Environment
At a Mezzacello Urban Farm Summer Camp for Middle School Students, a team of kids tested, monitored, diagnosed a parasite, and treated a 7000kl pond and the vet approves!
Metro High School 2024 Intern
This is my Metro Intern for 2024. Their capstone was to design a series of three design challenges that focus on ecology, quantume effects, and biomechancs. They rocked it.
The Golden Ticket Presentation
The YouTube video of the talk I gave at the October 2023 Global innovation Field Trip on what i created Mezzacello to be.
Summer Camp Infrastructure and TheoDoor
A blogpost about making fine engineers with the help of Columbus City Parks and Recreation.
BioEngineering From The Eyes of a Child
This was a surprise gift fro one of my bioengineering summer camp kids. It made me very proud of my impact this summer.
BioRenewables Lesson Plans
BioEngineering Camp 2023 five day lesson plans with lesson, activity, challenge and presentation data. For teacher use at Mezzacello
BioEngineering Lesson Plans
BioEngineering Camp 2023 five day lesson plans with lesson, activity, challenge and presentation data. For teacher use at Mezzacello
Project BioEngineering Arts and Crafts
The arts and crafts students will be exploring in the BioEngineering Arts and Crafts section of the 2023 summer camp.
Project Renewables Arts and Craft
The proposed Project Renewables Arts and Crafts projects. Subject to change, guaranteed to be recycled and electric fun!
Chicken TV, Coop Tech, and Safety
Poultry monitoring using remote cameras and advanced tracking software and sensors. You know a futuristic chicken coop
Mezzacello and the Urban Ag Tech Camps
In the summer of 2021 Mezzacello was a fantastic series of summer camps designed to expose students to diverse careers in ag.