Middle Years Courses

Polish your math skills and get a leg up on the year through math centered projects and puzzles. In a low stress environment, you’ll build your skills in fractions, algebraic manipulations and variables, number sense, error analysis, and beyond. For students pre-Integrated 1 or Algebra 1. 

Dates: July 20-31, 2020
Times: 9:00 a.m. - 10:15 a.m.
Instructor: Kelly Mauger
Tuition: $250.00

Whether you love to write or whether you find it boring and tedious, you’ll improve your writing skills and have fun doing it in this low pressure course! Improve writing fundamentals through weird and creative prompts and exercises.

Dates: July 20-31, 2020
Times: 10:45 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
Instructors: Andrew Holbrook and Sharon Phelan
Tuition: $250.00

Take first steps into the world of programming with an introduction to Scratch, a programming language from the MIT Media Lab designed to encourage playful, creative, and collaborative reasoning and problem-solving. Working with the Scratch app downloaded on laptops and iOS devices, you will approach problems, trouble-shoot as a team, and strengthen your coding skills.

Dates: July 20-31, 2020
Times: 12:30 p.m. - 1:30 p.m.
Instructor: Jen Larson
Tuition: $250.00

Writing and performing a monologue is a wonderful way for aspiring writers, actors, directors, or anyone interested in creative self-expression, to develop a voice, imagine the world from another person's perspective, and understand what it means to invent a character and bring them to life. Over the course, we will write, workshop, and rehearse a variety of monologues, culminating in a live reading with invited guests.

Dates: July 20-31, 2020
Times: 2:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m.
Instructor: Jen Larson
Tuition: $250.00

Multiplayer board games are entertaining, immersive, and highly rational. Playing them, you are forced to make choices based on risk, long-term objectives, and awareness of what your opponents might try to do next. They require, in other words, lots of strategic thinking. In this class, you will learn what strategy is and how to think more strategically by playing through one of the most popular and innovative multiplayer board games!

Dates: July 20-24, 2020
Times: 3:30 p.m. - 4:30 p.m.
Instructor: Ryan Tamburrino
Tuition: $200.00