The very last day of Tech Camp, seems like longer than five days since this started. Maybe a week.
Today we get to build TREBUCHETS! Those are like catapults, for those of you who don't know. This should be a fun one.
The website for the National Cryptologic Museum is www.nsa.gov/about/cryptologic_heritage/museum.
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July 31, 2009
July 30, 2009
Tech Camp, Day 4
Pretty much all of today was a field trip. We went to the National Cryptologic Museum, which is near Ft. Meade. Interesting place, they have Enigma machines (what the Germans used in WW2) that you can actually use. They talk about American Codes and Codebreaking from the Civil War on, at least if there was an area for the Revolution I couldn't find it. They have code interception satellites, supercomputers, and voice-scrambled telephones on display. Unfortunately I didn't get to take many pictures, even though I've got a memory card now. Those will be next post.
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