And the Theme for Ci 5.0 Is…

And it’s the moment you’ve been waiting for! We’re excited to announce the theme for Ci 5.0. But first—a little background. Every year we choose a new theme to structure our various STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) activities around. This theme has to meet four criterion:

Involve all four areas of STEM to show how different fields come together to solve a common problem,
Have a biblical apologetics focus,
Be relevant to the 21^st century,
And have a broad interest.

We debated back and forth for quite a while last fall, trying to decide which of our proposed themes met these four criterion the best and would work well for this year. And, finally, after much deliberation we settled upon the theme. But before I tell you (that would be too easy!) I’ll give you some clues and maybe you can guess it. Here are some of the questions we’ll be seeking to answer:

Plastic (and the overuse of it) is a big problem in today’s world. How are some ways we can reduce our reliance on plastics?
What does it mean to have “dominion over the earth” (Genesis 1:28)?
What is stewardship?
We hear an awful lot about climate change. How should we view this in a biblical worldview?
Is clean energy the way of the future?
Do people or the environment come first in policy making?
Stephen Hawking thinks we need to colonize another planet in the next century, or we will go extinct. Is this the best method to deal with the problems facing us?

If you haven’t guessed it already, our theme this year is…earth science! Last year took us to outer space, but this year we’re going to stay a little more “down to earth” as we look at some of the big problems your generation must face and how STEM—and a biblical understanding of the world around us and our place in it—can help us solve those problems.

We’re excited and we hope you are too! Have suggestions for what questions we should try and answer? Go on Facebook and let us know! We’d love to hear from you!

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Featured Authors

Jason Goff

Jason is the social media manager for Camp Infinity. He loves helping us tell the stories of Ci through the digital mediums of Facebook, Twitter and Instagram.

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Bryan Malik

Bryan Malik is the President of the Board of Advisors for Camp Infinity

Jeremy Ervin

Dr. Jeremy Ervin is the Inaugural Dean of the School of Education at Cedarville University. With his experience in providing professional learning for K-12 teachers and his time teaching pedagogy in higher education, he recognizes how the 21st Century classroom needs to center on the engagement of the learner with enduring understandings.

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Max Lorentz

Max Lorentz has loved science (and astronomy in particular) since childhood. He enjoys sharing it with others, especially with young people. He studied mathematics as an undergraduate and is currently completing a Ph.D. in astronomy.

Robert Ring

RJ is a blog writer for Camp Infinity and a student at Bob Jones University majoring in engineering. He loves considering the science and technology claims of science fiction stories. He also loves reading. Throughout his life he has been a dreamer, imagining a never ending series of what ifs and maybes. From a young age, God gave him a passion for learning all he could about the world around him.