Elgin Academy, 360 Park Street
9:20 - 12:00
Tuition: $365

Click HERE for general program details.

*Full-day hours at Elgin Academy, as early as 7:00 and as late as 6:00 (www.elginacademy.org)

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Course Descriptions:

World Class Explorers: Discover wonders on every continent! Climb a volcano, stare down a kangaroo, build an igloo, and join a safari. Design, invent, and dramatize through hands- on activities. Grades PreK-K

Harry Potter-Ology: Enter a wizarding world. Be sorted into a house, create your own wand, formulate spells, and play quiddich. Try butter- beer and wizard candy, and participate in our End of Term Feast! Grades 3-8

Princesses, Knights, and Dragons: Discover your favorite princesses and bravest knights. Follow their adventures with dreadful dragons. Create your own stories and fairy tales. Grades 1-2

Medieval Mania: Immerse yourself in medieval history and legend. Walk into the age of knights and wizards. What kind of castle would you envision and design? Create your own coat-of- arms. Celebrate with a medieval feast! Grades 3-5

Poetry and Art: Do you love to paint pictures with words? Express your original ideas through free verse poetry and haiku. Use watercolor and colored pencils to create fresh, new images that complement your poems. Grades 3-8

Art Studio: Create multi-dimensional master- pieces of mixed media, methods, and muses, such as collage, printmaking, sculpture, drawing, pastels, and watercolor. Enjoy seeing the results of your own imagination and original ideas!
Grades 1-8

Snap! Crackle! Pop! Mix, swish, and create chemical concoctions that tend to pop, fizz, and sometimes explode as you explore chemistry via hands-on experiments. Grades 1-3

Lego Mindstorms Robotics I: Create an auto- nomous robot using motors, gears, and sensors. Program it to complete tasks of increasing complexity, then observe the results. Do your commands direct your robot as you intended? ($10 lab fee) Grades 3-8

Lego Mindstorms Robotics II: Work with other advanced students to strategize solutions for challenging tasks as you employ creative problem solving to construct and program your robots. ($10 lab fee) Grades 5-8

Lego WeDo Robotics: Build robots, such as an alligator, with Legos, motors, gears, and sensors. Program your robots using a computer. ($10 lab fee) Grades 1-4

You Oughta Be in Pictures! Create an original story and bring it to life. Be an actor, scriptwriter, camera person, and/or computer editor as you delve into the world of digital storytelling and short films. Grades 3-8

Eclectic Science Lab: Explore various fields of science! Investigate biology, physics, chemistry, astronomy, and the natural environment through hands-on experiments and challenging activities. Grades 3-8 Creating Games from Scratch: Learn how to program computer games in Scratch, developed at MIT and used to create a wide variety of games, from simple to complex. Grades 3-8

Advanced Scratch: Extend your knowledge of programming in Scratch. Advance your skills and create more sophisticated games. Grades 5-8

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Additional Worlds of Wisdom and Wonder Locations for Summer 2013:

Burr Ridge | Chicago - Lakeview East | Chicago - Lakeview West | Chicago - Lincoln Park | Chicago - Portage Park

Elmhurst | Glenview | Grayslake/Prairie Crossing | Naperville - North | Naperville - South | Oak Forest | Skokie