[SutherlandMatters] Summer Opportunities

[David Rogers]

Albemarle County Summer Opportunities

 

A3 Summer Opportunities ~ Authentic, Academic, Accelerated 

Registration opens on April 16 at 9 am at the County Office Building on
the third floor or by email

Registration forms will be available at www.k12albemarle.org next week
and in schools

(Please note that the Robotics program went to a wait list status within
the first 10 minutes last year, so if students are interested it may be
wise to arrive early.)  

 

 

Gear Up! - Beginning Lego Robotics 

Learn the basics of robotics and computer programming in this fun,
hands-on engineering experience.  Using the Lego RCX system, students
will build robots from scratch.  They will write programs to bring their
robots to life.  They will design their own robots and use the
engineering process to solve a variety of challenges.  The course will
conclude with a Robot Expo, an opportunity for students to showcase
their robot creations before the public. Students need no prior robotic
or computer experience-the only requirement is a desire to learn more
about the fascinating world of robots!

 

Rising 4th - 6th graders ~ 14 students  

At Jouett

June 18 - 29 ~ 8:30 am - 12 pm

Tuition $250

 

Gear Up! - Advanced Lego Robotics 

Take your knowledge of robotics to the next level.  In the Advanced
Robotics course, students already familiar with the Lego RCX system will
design and build complex robots that interact with the world around
them. Through a series of challenges, students will explore advanced
Robolab programming, robot design, and mechanical engineering concepts.
This class will also conclude with a Robot Expo, giving students a
chance to show off what they have learned and built.  

**Students must have knowledge of Robolab or RIS programming in order to
take this class.  

 

Rising 6th - 9th graders ~ 16 students

At Jouett

June 18 - 29 ~ 12:30 - 4:00 pm 

Tuition $250

 

Once Upon a Musical

Calling all future technical managers, painters, builders, singers,
actors, and dancers - a new performing arts program is here!   Join us
for our summer musical workshop and hone your skills in music, acting,
dancing, solo and ensemble singing, as well as set management and
design. Master back-stage tech skills such as working lights, sound
systems and building sets as we produce the 90 minute musical "Once Upon
A Mattress" for a live, public performance. 

 

Summer Stock is an intensive, authentic performing workshop that puts
you on and behind stage.  After auditioning for roles and jobs, students
will benefit from private voice lessons, acting coaching, music and
drama lessons, instruction in choreography and stage management.  The
curtain on our performance of "Once Upon A Mattress" opens at Albemarle
High School on July 26, 2007.  Plan to look out from the stage lights
and smile as you take those well-deserved bows!

 

Rising 7th - 9th graders ~ 30 students

At AHS

July 9 - 27 ~ 8 am - 2 pm, bring your own lunch  

Tuition $350

 

Journey through Hallowed Ground I

Students are invited to move through history this summer as they hike,
bike, canoe, and pod along the Journey Through Hallowed Ground, the
Route 15 corridor in central Virginia boasting innumerable historical
treasures.  Their mission is to unlock the stories and lessons of our
nation's history as they work with expert historians, archaeologists,
and national park guides.  Along the path, students will record the
trials and triumphs of leaders from the Revolutionary period through the
Civil War using video iPods and digital cameras to create an original
vodcast. These documentaries, which demand careful analysis of
historical information and creative expression, will then be used as an
authentic promotional tool by Journey Through Hallowed Ground
organization.   Specific sites and activities include biking along the
C&O Canal tow path and the Gettysburg battlefield, canoeing at Ball's
Bluff, hiking Antietam, sleuthing at Montpelier and digging at Ash Lawn.

 

Rising 6th - 8th graders ~ 24 students

At Henley

July 16 - 27 ~ varied schedules

Tuition $600 

 

Journey through Hallowed Ground II

Students are invited to hike, bike and canoe along the Journey Through
Hallowed Ground II.  Destinations will be different from Journey I, but
participants will continue to work with expert historians, professors,
archaeologists, and national park guides to unlock the significance of
sites along the corridor. Gettysburg will be included in this session,
as well as a canoe adventure with Professor John Phillips. Journey I is
not a prerequisite.

 

Rising 6th - 8th graders  ~ 24 students

At Henley

July 30 - August 3 ~ varied schedules

Tuition $300 

 

Ceramics I - for credit

Do you want to design and create your morning cereal bowl?  Be creative,
work with your hands, and shape clay to make just about anything you can
imagine?  In this class you will make functional and sculptural objects
with clay coils, slabs, pinch pots, and use a potter's wheel.  From
wedging a block of clay to bisque fires, glazing, and glaze firings, you
will learn the ceramic process used by artists from various cultures for
thousands of years.  

 

Rising 9th - 12th graders ~ 22 students

At AHS

June 21 - July 12, July 16 - August 3 ~ 8 am - 1:45 pm

$460

 

Summer Destination Imagination

Just when you thought it was safe to put away your duct tape...it's
Summer DI!

Take your brain to a new level this summer with a week of creative
problem-solving, Destination ImagiNation-style! Each day will include a
full range of warm-ups, team-building activities, Instant Challenges,
and construction and performance challenges. We'll explore teamwork,
improvisation, physics, costumes, and much more. Oh, and we'll have lots
of FUN! No prior experience with DI needed. Requirements for campers:
Enthusiasm for group activities, curiosity, a sense of humor, enjoyment
of problem-solving. 

 

Rising 4th - 6th graders  ~ 16 students

July 9 - 13 ~ 10 am - 2 pm, bring your own lunch

At Greer

Tuition $125

 

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