Innovative opportunities to challenge curious minds! The Center for Gifted ~ Midwest Torrance Center for Creativity Worlds of Wisdom and Wonder 2016 M i d w e s t T o r r a n c e C e n t e r f o r C r e a t i v i t y a Northern Illinois University partner The Center for Gifted is a not-for-profit organization under IRC Section 501(c)(3) Joan Franklin Smutny, Founder and Director www.centerforgifted.org 847.901.0173 [email protected]30 summer 2016 programs at 14 locations in 10 cities! Barrington | Buffalo Grove | Chicago | Crete | Darien | Elmhurst | Glenview | Naperville | Skokie | Wheaton Cass Junior High 8502 Bailey Rd. July 25-August 5 Darien Hawaiian Adventure (PreK-K) Science Wonders (PreK-K) Art Unlimited (K-5) Chemical Cacophony (3-8) Chess Club (K-8) Create Lego Movies! (1-3) Creative Writing (1-8) Digital Photography (3-8) Economics, the Stock Market, and You! (3-8) Geometric Design and Construction (3-8) Lego Mindstorms Robotics I (3-6) Lego Mindstorms Robotics II (4-8) Lego WeDo Robotics I (K-3) Lego WeDo Robotics II (2-5) Math and Science of Building (K-4) Microbiology (3-8) Mix, Swish, and Brew (K-2) Mysteries in History (3-8) Sculpture Studio (3-8) Sleuthhounds of Science (K-2) STEM: Motors, Mechanics, Engineering (4-8) Theater Club (K-8) AM, PM, and Full Day Options! EARLY Drop-Off Available! Daily, 8:00-8:50 am 9:00-11:40 a.m. $395 12:30-3:00 p.m. $380 9:00 a.m.-3:00 p.m. $695 PreK-Grade 8 Early Drop Off: 8:00-8:50 a.m. $8/day prepaid or $9/day onsite Please note: All courses are offered both mornings and afternoons, and some courses require additional lab or technology fees. https://thriva.activenetwork.com/Reg4/Form.aspx?IDTD=2807716&RF=11609949 https://thriva.activenetwork.com/Reg4/Form.aspx?IDTD=2807716&RF=11609949
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Innovative opportunities to challenge curious minds!
The Center for Gifted ~ Midwest Torrance Center for Creativity
Worlds of Wisdom and Wonder2 0 1 6
Mid
west
Torrance Center for Creativity
a Northern Illinois University partner
The Center for Gifted is a not-for-profit organization under IRC Section 501(c)(3)
30 summer 2016 programs at 14 locations in 10 cities! Barrington | Buffalo Grove | Chicago | Crete | Darien | Elmhurst | Glenview | Naperville | Skokie | Wheaton
Cass Junior High8502 Bailey Rd.
July 25-August 5
Darien
Hawaiian Adventure (PreK-K)Science Wonders (PreK-K)Art Unlimited (K-5)Chemical Cacophony (3-8)Chess Club (K-8)Create Lego Movies! (1-3)Creative Writing (1-8)Digital Photography (3-8)Economics, the Stock Market, and You! (3-8)Geometric Design and Construction (3-8)Lego Mindstorms Robotics I (3-6)Lego Mindstorms Robotics II (4-8)Lego WeDo Robotics I (K-3)Lego WeDo Robotics II (2-5)Math and Science of Building (K-4)Microbiology (3-8)Mix, Swish, and Brew (K-2)Mysteries in History (3-8)Sculpture Studio (3-8)Sleuthhounds of Science (K-2)STEM: Motors, Mechanics, Engineering (4-8)Theater Club (K-8)
AM, PM,and Full Day
Options!
EARLYDrop-Off
Available!Daily,
8:00-8:50 am
9:00-11:40 a.m. $395 12:30-3:00 p.m. $3809:00 a.m.-3:00 p.m. $695PreK-Grade 8Early Drop Off: 8:00-8:50 a.m.$8/day prepaid or $9/day onsite
Please note: All courses are offered both mornings and afternoons, and some courses require additional lab or technology fees.
Art Unlimited: Does art ignite creativity in you? Pursue your own unique avenues of artistic expression. Create your own master-pieces that express your muse and the fun of being an artist!
Chemical Cacophony: Explore chemical properties through hands-on experiments. Investigate molecular structure. Experiment with solutions, solvents, and reactants, but don’t blow up the lab!
Chess Club: Intrigued by the game of chess? Explore exciting strategies, sneaky openings, and skillful end games. All chess enthusiasts welcome!
Create Lego Movies! Using a digital camera, movie software, and Lego robots, create a stop-action movie. Experiment with special effects, sound, and titles. Share your movie with family and friends! ($15 lab fee)
Creative Writing: Do you like to write? Hone your skills and heighten your imagination through free verse and a variety of stories in response to posters, magazines, books, CD’s and films. See your stories and poems published in our creative writing magazine. Come and share your inspiration!
Digital Photography: Discover the art of photo-graphy. Take pictures with a digital camera then use photo-editing software to manipulate your images with an artistic slant. ($10 lab fee)
Economics, the Stock Market, and You! Do you like money? Do you know how to make your money grow? How companies make money? How the stock market works? Follow the stock market and investigate how and why businesses are successful.
Geometric Design and Construction: Create Escherian designs and kaleidoscopic visuals. Explore symmetry and transformations through folding Stealth Gliders, Raptors, and Space Rings. Develop geometric intuition through hands-on investigations.
Hawaiian Adventure: Explore Hawaii from the top of it volcanoes to its coral reefs in the ocean below. Discover its people, animals, birds, and marine life through creative, hands-on activities.
Lego Mindstorms Robotics I: Tackle engineer-ing challenges! Construct an autonomous robot from motors, wheels, gears, and a variety of different sensors. Program your robot to complete tasks of increasing complexity. ($15 lab fee)
Lego Mindstorms Robotics II: Work with other advanced students to strategize and experiment as you design, construct, and program your robots. ($15 lab fee)
Lego WeDo Robotics I: Explore principles of engineering and programming. Select from a dozen plans to build a robot such as an alligator, bird, or soccer player with Legos, motors, gears, and sensors. Connect your robot to a computer and program actions and sounds. ($15 lab fee)
Lego WeDo Robotics II: Have you built most of the robots in the four WeDo books? Are you ready for an additional challenge? Apply the experience gained in Lego WeDo classes to designing as well as building robots. Experi-ment with different configurations—the creative engineering possibilities are endless! ($15 lab fee)
Math and Science of Building: Tackle various construction projects with such materials as string, straws, toothpicks, and marshmallows. Engineer and create buildings, towers, and bridges.
Microbiology: Delve into the unseen world! Investigate microscopic life, grow bacterial gardens, and sleuth out fungi and algae. Just how disgusting are drinking fountains? Or your dirty socks?
Mix, Swish, and Brew: Create chemical con-coctions that pop and fizz, mysterious solutions with curious properties, and slimy substances as you explore chemistry via diverse hands-on experiments.
Mysteries in History: Did the Greeks build the Trojan horse, or was it just part of a story? Was King Arthur really an English king, or just a work of fiction? Explore these mysteries through activities that require fact gathering and coming up with solutions that make sense and are defensible.
Science Wonders: Bring your curiosity and your questions! Explore different areas of science through hands-on activities.
Sculpture Studio: Create, shape, mold, and model your ideas into 3-D masterpieces using such diverse media as clay, fabric, wire, paper, and wood.
Sleuthhounds of Science: Discover scientific secrets in a hands-on lab. Can spaghetti fly? How many pounds can you lift with a sheet of paper?
STEM: Motors, Mechanics, and Engineering: Explore forces, motion, and engineering through a series of rapid prototyping design challenges and building projects. All projects can be brought home for further revision and experimentation. ($30 lab fee)
Theater Club: Experience the exhilarating world of live theater! Develop characters as you play theater games and rehearse scenes, culminating in a performance for family and friends.
