Sound and Movement
Ever wanted to create your own school of rock at home but your parents wouldn’t let you? Well, now is your chance! We’ll use kinesthetic experiences to discover what causes sound and how it relates to movement as you boogie down throughout the week.
- Discover the elements of sound and their correlation to movement.
- Experiment with rhythm, sequence, and pattern as you strengthen your math and spatial reasoning skills.
- Explore tone and pitch as you theorize about how and why sound changes based on its source and distance.
Myths and Legends
- June 25 – June 29
- July 30 – Aug 3
Unleash your imagination as you design unique fantastical creatures based on famous stories and myths using different media including recycled/reused items, natural materials, paper, clay, wire, etc.
- Learn the entire design process as you translate an idea into a two-dimensional and then three-dimensional form.
- Explore the relationships between size, scale, and proportion.
- Learn how different colors, shapes, and textures can be manipulated to create different versions of your original concept.
Marvels of the Natural World
- July 2 – July 6
- Aug 6 – Aug 10
Explore the awesome wonders Mother Nature has to offer us through the natural systems and creations around us. Develop your own theories about the natural world and articulate them through painting, drawing, collage and assemblage, and sculptural forms using wire and clay.
- Hone your skills for observation, investigation, and understanding as you lead scientific expeditions to collect specimens for further study.
- Learn to identify the building blocks of organic objects as you sort, classify, and inventory your artifacts.
- Develop theories for how these objects were formed in nature and how different environments might impact their characteristics.
Building and Engineering
- July 9 – July 13
- Aug 13 – Aug 17
Calling all architects and engineers! Design, build and test your structures as you learn to apply different construction principles. Since working with friends is not only fun but also very helpful in the creative process, you will develop construction strategies in collaboration with your peers.
- Learn the basic engineering design process as you experiment with balance, gravity, measurement, symmetry, and spatial relationships.
- Develop your divergent thinking as you prototype different three-dimensional designs in different environments.
- Play with different combinations of materials including rocks and logs, metal and magnets, and new and recycled materials as you test their impact on your structures.
Deals
THE PROJECT EMBER SCHOLARSHIP FUND
Project Ember is committed to increasing access to our summer day and overnight camps through full and partial scholarships. Our scholarship fund is comprised of internally allocated resources as well as community donated gifts. We believe that project-based education promotes curiosity, creativity, collaboration as well as self-reliance, and empathy - skills that pave the way for a life of pride and fulfillment, no matter one's personal definition of success. We are striving to build a robust and safe program within reach for all interested kids, while maintaining our commitment to competitively compensate a staff of talented professionals.
For more information please contact us.