Week 4 (7/9-7/13)

Get Wired to the Web

Categories: High School Kids, Media and Communication Arts, Middle School Kids, Week 1 (6/18 - 6/22), Week 2 (6/25 - 6/29), Week 3 (7/2-7/6), Week 4 (7/9-7/13), Week 5 (7/16-7/20), Week 6 (7/23-7/27), Week 7 (7/30-8/3)

Whether you sign-up for one week or all seven… this camp teaches you how to build a professional website “Live” on the Internet. Show family and friends. Set up colors, patterns and textures. Tweak images and text. Create a Lightbox and Image Gallery. Add Photos, Blogs, Animated Images, Newsletters and more. A website is a [...]

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Color Guard / Dance Team

Categories: Dance, Defies Categories, High School Kids, Middle School Kids, Week 4 (7/9-7/13)

Emphasis will be placed on proper execution of dance (a mix of hip-hop, jazz, and modern) and color guard techniques to express dynamic, synchronized visual movements to music. Giving students the opportunity to perform, grow, learn, experiment, and develop skills, and project confidence in their abilities. Routines and choreography will be tailored to the talent [...]

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Discover Dance: The science behind the movement!

Categories: Dance, Elementary School Kids, Week 4 (7/9-7/13)

In this camp, participants will become dancing scientists!  Learners will discover not only some cool moves, but they will also investigate how to dance in a safe and injury-preventative manner.  This dance session incorporates science and discovery through kinesiology and an introduction to the bones and muscles in the body.  While learning how to move [...]

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Kalmar Nyckel – Now and Then

Categories: Defies Categories, Elementary School Kids, Week 4 (7/9-7/13)

All hands on deck! Spend a week with a member of the crew to learn about  the ship and her crew as she was sailed in 1638 and today, 2012. Monday – We will create a Captain’s Log and begin an overview of the week. Tuesday – We will be at the Kalmar Nyckel Shipyard [...]

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The Life As An Explorer

Categories: Defies Categories, Middle School Kids, Week 4 (7/9-7/13)

Camp objective: Students will put themselves in the explorers’ shoes as they learn about famous explorers, design maps, and write fictional logs of their adventures. Highlights of the week include trips to the Kalmar Nyckel Shipyard and a voyage on a replica of the Kalmar Nyckel itself! Weekly Schedule Monday: Students will look at famous [...]

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Art meets Science

Categories: Middle School Kids, Science, Visual Arts, Week 4 (7/9-7/13)

A Collage of Exploration How could sailors arrive at their destination before a GPS? In this camp, we will understand how the marvelous combination of art and science let man travel to the far reaches of the Earth. Find out how people used natural means and avoided pirates WITHOUT using electronic devices. Creative map-making and [...]

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Play with Paper Maché

Categories: Middle School Kids, Visual Arts, Week 4 (7/9-7/13)

Create Your Dragon of the Sea If you are interested in creating with paper maché you are in the right place. We will use traditional and non-traditional materials and methods to create a wonderful sculptural sea dragon hand puppet. This is not a project for the faint of heart. With a little hard work, imagination, [...]

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Building The Sounds of Adventure

Categories: High School Kids, Middle School Kids, Recording Studio, Week 4 (7/9-7/13)

Ever wonder how the sounds of movies and Television seem so life like? This camp is devoted to creative sound design through both sound recording and synthesis. We will look into how foley art works and how to operate the equipment in capturing these sounds. Students will learn how to build soundscapes and use them [...]

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Sailing into Marine Art

Categories: Elementary School Kids, Visual Arts, Week 4 (7/9-7/13)

For centuries artists, mystified by the sea, have captured the visual effects of wind, drama of the waves and those who try to navigate it.  After studying works of art by such regional artists Howard Pyle, N.C. Wyeth, and Julian O. Davidson, we will draw and learn about ships first-hand at a visit to the [...]

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Not Just For Hippies

Categories: Fashion, Middle School Kids, Week 4 (7/9-7/13)

Hemp knot tying was used heavily by sailors throughout history in both ship board uses and decorative uses such as things like bracelets, necklaces and rings.  In this camp you will learn about the art of knotting called macramé and how to make utilitarian objects. Share on Facebook

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Anchors away! Run the rigging! Sail the Seas!

Categories: Defies Categories, High School Kids, Middle School Kids, Week 4 (7/9-7/13), Wood Working

Learn about sailing as you build a model sailboat that can be sailed on a pond. Learn common terminology used on a sailing ship. Tie it up with as you learn the basic knots used in rigging and securing a sailing vessel.  Model will be made from everyday materials and will include; mast, sails, rigging [...]

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Newspaper making class

Categories: Media and Communication Arts, Middle School Kids, Visual Arts, Week 4 (7/9-7/13)

“Read all about it! If you were in charge of the newspaper, what would you want to tell the world? Be your own Writer, Editor and designer…write our own articles and learn how to do a page layout…even your own print advertising. Remember, the pen is mightier than the sword!” The Kalmar Nyckel first sailed about 100 [...]

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DIGITAL FLIP BOOKS: Photography and Animation

Categories: High School Kids, Media and Communication Arts, Middle School Kids, Week 4 (7/9-7/13)

Interested in how to make an a short animated film using any digital camera, still or video?  Like flip books? Using legos, clay, actual people, cut up pieces of paper, a pen, a paint brush… anything you can think of… we will make very short animated sequences in iMovie and Final Cut Express/Pro using green [...]

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Spatial Reasoning and Visualization for Girls Only

Categories: Defies Categories, Middle School Kids, Week 4 (7/9-7/13)

Spatial Reasoning — Incorporating the world of the Kalmar Nyckel (navigation, knot tying, building ships, engineering) to get exposure as to how all these ideas can work in the real world. Back at the school we will be using legos, building blocks/architectural model building and 3D software to develop the ability to see three dimensional [...]

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