Explosives Camp Lets Students Explore Booming Career Path

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Rolla, Missouri (AP)-Ahhh, summer camp. Lazy days frolicking at the pool. Meeting new friends and swapping stories around the camp-fire. Slicing steel I-beams and concrete pillars and blowing them apart with C4 high explosives. What? A group of teenagers learned to do that and more recently at the second annual University of Missouri-Rolla Explosives Camp. The 21 teens detonated sticks of dynamite, cut steel with shaped charges and designed their own fireworks during the five-day course. Nearly all of the teens are looking ahead to well-paying careers in mining, demolition or fireworks industries. "Getting paid to blow up stuff would be great," said Warrensburg native Margaret Howard, 18, who will be a freshman at UMR's Mining Engineering School this fall.