Geoscience campers roleplay a volcano disaster response

So the geosciences camp at BT was a vision Dr. Julia Cisneros came up with to basically provide a camp for middle schoolers, rising 6th through 8th graders, to just get to experience hands-on geoscience activities and expose them to awesome, fun science. The activity I planned is basically a Dungeons and Dragons-style tabletop role-playing game where the campers got to take on different scientist roles and basically decide decisions in face of a volcanic threat. And so they each got different data that they had to then share with their team and come up on the best actions to save the four communities around the volcano. A big thing I wanted to include were dice rolls. So basically they would make a decision and then had to roll to see how the public responded to that decision. The other was expert insight so they could ask questions about their data and role to see if they unlocked their expert card, which basically just explained very explicitly what their data was showing so they could understand it a little easier. And then the third part was the volcano. So they had to roll as a team to see what the volcano actually did. They didn't know, but I knew, and then I could give them, you know, targeted data based on that scenario. The overall activity while it was happening was so fun. Being able to see each camper come to life and just love learning about the different types of geoscience roles there are and really just learn to collaborate together. They each seem to respect each other and listen to each other, and I just loved seeing that all play out. It was really fun.