Summer camp 2024

This week summer campers will be exposed to classical music, and will learn to recognize important classical pieces, as well as identify works of opera, and will understand basic orchestration. On Friday students will present a particular composer. At the end of the will students will play a “guess the song styled” game in order to win points!

Field Trip: Baltimore Aquarium (museum will be charged extra) Summer camp students will learn the intricacies of some of the most interesting places on earth -deep in the ocean! In addition, students will learn about ocean predators and how they function in the ocean’s complex biome.

Enjoy the holiday!

Field Trip: University of Maryland Robotics, College Park

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Back by popular demand- students will learn about the EV-3 rover (a more
complex robot than previous years), and will work with a team to design and
build a rover that can find another team’s rover and push it out of bounds! This is the ultimate in Sumo Bot competitions! Two bots enter–One bot leaves!

Campers will become miniature business moguls. They will learn the importance of budgeting and acquire essential money management skills. The campers will create their own product and develop an advertisement/commercial to endorse their product.

Field Trip: National Art Gallery

Campers will become truly creative, learning sketching and painting techniques to craft masterpiece works of art. They will visit the Smithsonian art museum, where they will sketch what they see. They will also present what they create

This week all students will get a chance to learn and work on basic block based computer programming using the MIT computer language “Scratch.” Each student will be on a team and that team will design a program that they will show to friends and family on Friday. Programs can be games, or artistic displays or educational in nature. May the best program win!

Field Trip: University of Maryland Robotics, College Park

FWU Campers will build and demonstrate their Lego Mindstorm EV-3 robot using basic design and programs classes they get during the week. The EV-3 is a more advanced robot than the past, and the teams can build rovers, or throwers, or anything that they have time to build and program. As always they will be competing against other teams on Friday for “best robot.”

Field Trip: Air and Space Museum

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Campers will learn about the latest projects that NASA and private space
companies are involved in. Emphasis will be on the Mars mission and the
history of Mars exploration.

This week campers will investigate the mysteries of flight. From the laws of motion to the understanding of an airfoil and its use as an airplane wing, campers will learn about the science of flight. The field trip for this week will be to the Aurora Flight Sciences in Manassas, VA. The final capstone event will be the construction and flight of a styrofoam glider. Who can use what they learned to fly further than the other teams? Come this week and find out!