Enrichment
For Grades K–12
Bakery Haiti
Kiah Johnson Mounsey
Learn to bake traditional Haitian and Creole delights from pralines and beignets to pain patate. Mix, pour, stir, and bake some fantastic treats while learning about the Haitian culture. Write letters to some Haitian children and brainstorm ways to help rebuild this devastated country. A portion of the instructor's salary will be donated to the Hatian relief effort and students will hold a bake sale on Friday afternoon with all proceeds go
ing to Haiti.
July 12–16 • 1:00–4:00
Grades 1–5 • Cost: $200
Beads Galore!
Kiah Johnson Mounsey
Beads, beads, beads galore; Bracelets, chains and so much more. Key chains, frames, perhaps a ring; Beads for almost everything. Join this group of friends and fun; Beading in the summer sun. When the summer's come and gone; Beaded gifts for everyone.
July 12–16 • 9:00–12:00
Grades 2–5 • Cost: $200
Beginning Sewing
Juidi Alongi Sorry - this camp is full! Call to be placed on waitlist.
Stuffed animals, tooth fairy pillows, and mini-patchwork quilts are a few of the projects that will be offered in this class. Learn how to thread a needle, do basic hand and embroidery stitches, make a simple pattern, and pin and cut fabric. Use a sewing machine to practice your new knowledge, and take home your many new creations.
July 6-9 • 1:00–4:00
Grades 2–5 • Cost: $160
Build Your Own Musical Instruments
Peter Musselman
Make your own instruments! The instruments that we know today are modern versions of simple instruments that ancient people built from scratch. We will be turning scrap wood, plastic pipes, and other common recyclable materials into simple banjos, maracas, panpipes, rain sticks, cuicas, mbiras, dulcimers, and perhaps a gut-bucket bass. Finish each day by learning a song that can be played by our growing band of instruments.
Session A: Grades 1–4 • 1:00-4:00 - Session A cancelled
Session B: Grades 5–8 • 9:00–12:00
July 19-23 • Cost: $175
Construction Zone - CANCELLED
Doug Whitmore
Grab your hard hats! It’s time to design and build a condominium complex. Learn about series and parallel circuits as you wire your house. Plumbing comes next. We want it to be cool, so you must install air conditioning. In the final days students will work on interior and exterior features, as well as decorating. Take home your own condominium.
July 6–16 • 9:00–12:00
Grades 3–5 • Cost: $295
Costume Design
Torie Van Horne
Have you ever thought about costume design for the stage and screen? Create several hands-on design projects. Each student will have a beginning design portfolio as well as their finished wearable piece at the end of the class.
July 12-16 • 1:00–4:00
Grades 9–12 • Cost: $200
Counselor in Training
Want to be a counselor or teacher someday? This is the class for you! After training time, you will get to experience different classrooms throughout the day, observing professionals in action. Feedback and guidance will be provided. Get a certificate upon completion. Pick any one week of our summer dates and register for the week you want to come.
June 28–August 13 (any one week)
9:00–3:30
Grades 7–9 • Cost: $150
Create With Clay - CANCELLED
Amy Steele
Extraordinary people and incredible animals—what do these have in common? They can be created from clay as you learn a variety of hand-building techniques in this fun class. Create pots and learn how to sculpt animals. Let your imagination be your guide .
August 2–13 • 1:00–4:00
Grades 1–4 • Cost: $295
Creative Baking
Chelsea Reed
Love the smell of fresh baked bread wafting from the oven? Bake your favorite desserts and bread. Measure ingredients, read recipes, and create your own edible concoctions. Use your creativity as you decorate cookies and cakes!
June 28–July 2 • 1:00–4:00
Grades 2–4 • Cost: $200
Crime Scene Detective Squad
Kiah Johnson Mounsey
When a crime is committed on the OES campus, the community calls on the OES Crime Scene Detective Squad. Do you have what it takes to follow the evidence and solve mysteries? Seeking individuals who want to learn crime-solving skills such as dirt and fiber analysis, chromatography, fingerprinting, coding, and other CSI techniques. With this knowledge, you will join our elite squad of case-cracking sleuths and strike fear in the minds of would-be wrongdoers.
Session A: July 19–23 • 9:00–12:00 Sorry - this camp is full! Call to be placed on waitlist.
Session B: July 19–23 • 1:00–4:00- B has openings!
Grades 3–5 • Cost: $175
Digital Animation & 3D Modeling
David Gomes
Learn how to create the dazzling effects of Hollywood movies. We will be working with Maya, which has been used to create special effects and animations in movies such as Transformers and Pirates of the Caribbean. Students will work individually to create original projects, which they will present to the rest of the class and take home on CD.
August 9–20 • 1:00–4:00
Grades 6–12 • Cost: $395
Digital Filmmaking
David Gomes
Lights, Camera, Action! Learn the basics of planning, shooting, and editing digital video using DV cameras, iMovie, and iDVD. Students create their own commercial, short documentary, and scary film, as well as a final project of their own choosing. Students will work in production groups.
August 9–20 • 9:00–12:00
Grades 6–12 • Cost: $395
Fairy Houses
Kristen Haferbecker - Sorry - this camp is full! Call to be placed on waitlist.
Step into the magical world of fairies with a weeklong romp through fairyland. Create and build fantastic fairy houses in the woods, plus make one to keep for your very own fairyland at home. Design fairy costumes, a fairy feast, and fairy furniture.
July 12-16 • 9:00–12:00
Grades K-1 • Cost: $175
Food Network
Chelsea Reed
Join this kids' cooking show! Plan the recipes and cooking experiences, then film the process from start to finish. You create the show and take home the final copy. This will be the newest hit on TV!
July 19-23 • 9:00–12:00
Grades 3-6 • Cost: $200
Fort Building
Laura Harley
From palaces to castles, come create a magical space using your imagination and our supplies. Using materials like large boxes, tables and sheets, you can make your personal room. After designing the space, there is still time to decorate both inside and out!
July 26-30 • 9:00–12:00
Grades 1-2 • Cost: $175
Fun With Flavors
Andy McGee
How do our tongues taste all of the different complex flavors in our food? How does cooking change the flavor of food? Explore these questions and more while we taste, cook, and experiment. Add spices and see how they impact flavor and smell.
August 9-13 • 9:00–12:00
Grades 3-6 • Cost: $200
Fun With Yeast
Andy McGee
Do you know why bread dough gets big and puffy? Have you wondered what gives soda pop its bubbles? Come explore the properties of yeast through baking projects and by using microscopes. Examine the yeast life cycle and perform some experiments to see how it eats sugar to grow.
July 26–30 • 1:00–4:00
Grades 3–6 • Cost: $200
Funky Junk - CANCELLED
Chelsea Reed
Bring us your garage sale finds and dust off the attic relics. Turn your junk into treasures with some paint and embellishment. Big items work best, so start scouting for chairs, tables, benches, and trunks and turn it into something beautiful.
July 19–23 • 1:00–4:00
Grades 3–6 • Cost: $175
Garden Explorers
Andy McGee
Danger—bees up ahead! Notice how they are collecting pollen and pollinating other plants. Study tiny seeds and how they grow into big, beautiful plants. Grow and sprout your own seeds. Garden games, songs, exploration, and fun will fill our time together as we frolic in the garden.
August 16–20 • 9:00–12:00
Grades 1–2 • Cost: $175
Grossology - CANCELLED
Catherine Molloseau
In this awesomely disgusting camp, campers will learn how to make snot, why underarms stink, why mammals poop, and many more "gross" things that kids' bodies do. They will conduct gross scientific experiments throughout the week and be sure to have a smelly good time!
July 12–16 • 1:00–4:00
Grades 3–5 • Cost: $175
Legos Castles, Bridges and More!
Kristen Haferbecker -
Gallop back in history to the time of knights and castles, and create a whole world out of Legos! Each day will feature a new Lego building challenge, from tall towers to strong bridges. By the end of the week you will have created an entire medieval castle, complete with moats and bridges.
June 28–July 2 • 9:00–12:00 Sorry - A camp is full! Call to be placed on waitlist.
Grades 1–2 • Cost: $175
Camp B: July 12 –16 • 1:00–3:30 New Class- several openings!!!
Grades 1–2 • Cost: $150
Legos at the Zoo
Kristen Haferbecker - Sorry - this camp is full! Call to be placed on waitlist.
Lions and tigers and bears, oh my! Build an entire zoo scene made of Legos! Working from just your imagination and no kits, all the animals, cages and fun at the zoo will come to life throughout the week.
July 19–23 • 9:00–12:00
Grades K–1 • Cost: $175
Make It, Take It, & Market It
Chelsea Reed
Create items you can really use in this hands-on class. Lip balm, soap, sand art, and candles are just a few of the things you will make. Design original labels and a name for your product line. Use projects as gifts or get ready to market your product.
July 26-30 • 9:00–12:00
Grades 3–6 • Cost: $200
Making Messes
Chelsea Reed
Making messes is so much fun, why not do it all week? Make slippery slime, paint with your fingers, and experience clean mud. Make paper goop and draw with dirt. This class is designed to let you create all the messes you crave.
Session A: July 6-9 • 9:00–12:00
Session B: July 26-30 • 1:00–4:00
Grades K–1 • Session A Cost: $145 Session B Cost: $175
Paper Making, Paper Creations
Erika Johnson
Like to get mushy? This class could be your thing! Our cool projects include making basic paper and then creating marbled, stamped paper. Turn all that newly-fashioned paper into a box, a pop-out paper book, a book with Japanese-style binding, and a papier-mâché vessel.
June 21–25 • 9:00–12:00
Grades 1–4 • Cost: $200
Poetry - CANCELLED
Debby Schauffler
The ancient Greeks considered poets “athletes of the mind.” Strengthen your word skills in this intensive one-week course. We will explore different genres of poetry, learn poetic terms and forms, and write our own poems. Improve communication and vocabulary, and practice the clear expression of ideas.
June 28–July 2 • 1:00–4:00
Grades 9–12 • Cost: $175
Recycled Art
Chelsea Reed
How creative can you be with everyday items? Make bags and purses by weaving newspapers, and create fashionable jewelry from bottle caps. Design sculptures using our mountain of recycled treasures. Learn to see things in a new way as recyclables become amazing art.
June 28–July 2 • 9:00–12:00
Grades 3–5 • Cost: $175
Robotic Challenges Course
Steve Decker
Create robot designs and control programs in teams of two to solve daily challenges, using NXT robotic systems, along with Mindstorms or LabVIEW programming language. Be forewarned: These increase in difficulty each day from simple weight trials to more complex tasks involving sensor feedback and control. Basic physics and electronics concepts will be needed to solve the challenge.
August 2–6 • 9:00–3:30
Grades 6–8 • Cost: $275
Sandy Shores - CANCELLED
Dovina Israel-Greco
You may have gotten to play in the sand, but have you ever gotten to study the beach in depth? Explore and deepen your understanding of many aspects of the "sandy shore," from the grains of sands themselves to characteristic plants. Explore the animal life and more complex biological and ecological interactions.
August 2–6 • 9:00–12:00
Grades 3–5 • Cost: $175
Spanish Theater Camp: Make Your Own Puppet - CANCELLED
Kelola McCrary
Join this hands-on Spanish language camp and make your own puppet, create a biography for your Spanish-speaking alter ego—including a passport from a Spanish-speaking country—and prepare a bilingual puppet show! Everyday you will be singing, dancing, moving, and using your Spanish. On the last day, perform your play at the "Teatro de Títeres de OES" and invite special guests to see you!. This camp is recommended for all students who want to have fun while keeping their Spanish growing over summer break.
June 28–July 2 • 9:00–12:00
Grades 4–5 • Cost: $200
Tea Party Fun
Deborah Bridgnell
Sweets, treats, and lots of fun. I’m having a tea party and I hope you can come! You are cordially invited to learn about the tradition of the tea party by exploring books, practicing etiquette, dressing up, and, of course, baking tea party treats! Don’t forget to bring your finest manners!
Session A: August 2–6 • 9:00–12:00
Session B: August 9–13 • 9:00–12:00 - Session B is cancelled
Grades K–2 • Cost: $200
Woodworking - CANCELLED (both sessions)
Torie Van Horne
Projects will include a hardwood keepsake box that students can embellish with paint or lacquer, a nature shrine, a wooden Japanese lantern, and/or creative bird or bat houses. Students will learn how to use hand and power tools safely, understand basic building concepts, and use their artistic abilities in the design and decoration of each piece.
Session A: Grades 6–8 • 9:00–12:00
Session B: Grades 9–12 • 1:00–4:00
July 19–23 • Cost: $200
Write, Direct and Film Your Own Movie
Torie Van Horne
Come learn about different styles of movies (action/adventure, documentary, comedy, mystery, etc.) . Watch clips of classic movies. After viewing, begin writing, directing, filming and editing your own movie. Each student will complete two short movies over the course of the class.
July 26–30 • 1:00–4:00
Grades 6–9 • Cost: $200
