Summer Classes

Students will learn everything they need to know about managing their finances, a skill that is necessary for the working world. This is a project based course where you will perform activities like completing a tax return, opening a ROTH IRA account, and completing stock market games.

Reading is a very important part of school and work, and if you don’t know how to read efficiently you will quickly fall behind others. This course offers useful information that helps you both read fast and retain the information from your reading.

Public speaking is the nightmare of many students as well as adults, and learning how to master the art of public speaking can put you far ahead in interviews and projects. This course will offer you information on how to write and perform your own speeches on any topic.

In this class, students will explore modern Chinese literature in context of the social, economic, and political evolution of China in the 20th century. They will examine Chinese culture across the Late Qing Dynasty, Republic Era, Socialist Revolution, post-Mao era, and market economy era, while developing a familiarity with prominent Chinese writers, including Chen Duxiu and Lu Xun.

Students will learn about notes, chords, and rhythms, as well as advanced skills like syncopation, scale types, and musical patterns. During the course you will have the opportunity to create your very own original music composition.

Students will learn about rhythms and syncopation with percussion instruments, as well as reading and performing music of their choosing. During the course you will have the opportunity to create your very own original music composition.

Students will learn about the history of music, the musical abilities of babies and animals, as well as delving into advanced musical concepts like pitch, frequency, dissonance, and consonance. At the end of the course you will run musical neuroscience experiments about how music effects the brain, testing yourself and/or friends/family.

Students will learn the basics of classical music.

Since the pandemic, our reality has been increasingly shaped by numbers—6 feet, 14 days, 25 million cases, 500 thousand deaths, 300 million vaccines. These numbers are constantly transformed into maps, graphs, and reports that inform policies like school shut-downs and dining restrictions.  In this course, students will learn the basics of epidemiology research in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic in their local communities. Students will learn important skills in R coding, the most common programming language among biostatisticians and related fields. Coding tutorials will include: data exploration, manipulation, regression/ANOVA analysis, and visualization. In addition, students will partake in actionable, hands-on projects where they learn by doing. By the end of the class, students will be able to produce high-quality maps and graphs for their state or county that could appear on any health website.

Students will learn about the history of health insurance in the US and the differences between the US and other countries. It will also be covering COVID-19 epidemiology, and effects on health care delivery.

Students will learn about the history of American Architecture, and its successes and failures.

Arduino and Robotics Meet Gardening.

Arduino and Robotics Meets Basketball, Soccer, and Football.

Game Building with Arduino.

Students will learn about the origin stories of successful businesses, what made them efficient, and what to improve for your one business. Students will also go over current business events and discuss how they might effect their associated companies.

The rise of Tik Tok and other social media platforms.

How Your Facebook and TikTok Feed is Affecting You.

Students will learn perform experiments such as dye extraction using food dye, DNA extraction from strawberries, and pH and color changes using red cabbage. During the course students will showcase their lab results with a slideshow, further investigate of lab techniques using other materials.

Students will perform experiments such as using c02 bubbles to bake bread and staining clothes with pomegranate and azure dye.

Making Famous Artworks into Food.

If you've ever wanted to learn how to bake sourdough bread, now's the perfect time! In this course, you will learn how to make and maintain a sourdough starter, while exploring some of the science behind fermentation and bread baking. Overcome the forbidding messiness of working with dough, learn bakers' percentages, and find out how different ingredients and ratios between ingredients affect the resulting bread! By the end of the course, you will have made your own sourdough starter from scratch, and used your starter to make delicious sourdough bread at home.

Students in this course will separate into different economic sectors and discuss asteroid mining and fuel mining on planets.

Integrating Technology into Clothes.

Why Planes Crash.

In this course, students will explore topics in classical genetics, molecular genetics, and genomics and understand how modern research in genetics is conducted. Through out explorations, they will understand fundamental benchwork techniques such as PCR and western blotting, in addition to computational tools such as IGB and MEME/Tomtom analysis that they will use to predict a model of regulation for a gene of unknown function. By the end of the course, students will have developed knowledge and research skills that are fundamental to all fields of biology!