For Immediate Release: July 19, 2006 Wagner College Summer Camps Prove Learning is Fun! Wagner College’s Office of External Programs offers a variety of fun, educational summer camps to students of all ages. “It brings me great pleasure to know that these young people are truly having a wonderfully fun and engaging learning experience,” says Maureen Connolly, Dean of External and Summer Programs. “This is evidenced by the repeat registrations, the smiles and the shrill laughter heard throughout the campus!” Film Production Camp This teen filmmaking workshop immerses the student in the techniques of professional filmmaking through an intensive and progressively advanced film project. Student teams will support each other as a crew, and write a script, act, shoot, produce, direct and edit. The class works in small production groups with a rotating responsibility in order to complete the project. Students learn camera operation and lens selection, how to write a screenplay, lighting techniques, editing systems, audio and music engineering, and set design. The program culminates in a screening of the students’ film and an awards ceremony at which the students are presented a professionally packaged copy of their film and a Certificate of Participation. Film Production Camp will run from August 7-11, 2006 from 9:00a.m. – 4:30p.m. Tuition is $499 and is recommended for those students 7th grade through 12th grade for September 2006. Competitive Swim Camp Seahawk Swim Camp is geared toward competitive swimmers, those who have swum competitively for at least one year. Serious swimmers are encouraged to enroll. The focus will be on technique as well as aerobic-based training. The primary emphasis of the camp is TECHNIQUE. Our philosophy is “correct form before speed.” Groups will be divided according to ability. The Competitive Swim Camp will run from August 14 - 18, 2006 from 9:00a.m - 3:30p.m. Tuition is $279 and it is recommended for boys and girls ages 10-16 who have been a member of a competitive CYO, summer league, or USS team. Coaches will be Sean Raffile, Head Coach, Seahawks Swimming Program, and Katie Dolan, Head Coach of Men and Women's Swimming, Bryant University, Smithfield, RI. Mad Science Camp Mad Science is the leading provider of hands-on science experiences for children. We provide a unique assortment of popular hands-on programs that are as entertaining as they are educational! CRAZY Chemicals, Codes, and Crime Monday: Radical Reactions - What holds atoms and molecules together and what happens to these bonds during chemical reactions? Mad Science campers will experience reactions that give off heat (exothermic), reactions that require heat (endothermic), reactions that proceed at a very fast pace, and reactions that “go too far” and must try to return “home” (to equilibrium). Tuesday: Chemical Counting - Explore the “nuts and bolts” of chemistry, starting with the principle of “chemical counting” using the chemists unit of measure, a mole. Figure out the contents of a mystery solution using standard chemical reactions, and then analyze several different pain relief tablets for aspirin content. Campers will see what happens when electricity and chemistry meet by creating an electrical current using chemical systems (exactly as a battery does) and plating one metal onto another. Wednesday: Mad Messages - Discover how to send secret messages to your friends using special codes! Campers learn how to talk with numbers, just like computers, and create your very own code “crackers”! Then become detectives and use your Mad Science skills to discover the writer of the “Mystery Letter.” Thursday: The Organ Trail - Take a ride on the Organ Trail with "Tall Paul" the torso. We'll assemble a human body as we learn about organs in the circulatory, respiratory, digestive, skeletal, and muscular systems. Campers, you will listen to your hearts, build models of your lungs and muscles, and make your own Mad Mucus. Friday: At the Scene of the Crime - Campers will encounter a mock crime scene and must use their Mad Science skills to solve the “crime.” Mad Science detectives will use several forensic techniques to analyze the data and begin to piece together what actually happened at the scene of the crime. We'd like to tell you what happens next, but that would spoil the fun. Mad Science Camp will run from August 14 - 18, 2006 from 9:00a.m – 12p.m. Tuition is $175 and it is recommended for children entering first grade through sixth grade for September 2006. To register for any of the camps listed above, please contact Wagner College’s External Programs at 718-390-3221 or email external@wagner.edu. …more… Additionally, Wagner also offers a Musical Theatre Camp and a Video Game Design Camp which are unfortunately filled to capacity. Musical Theatre Camp For two summers, children from Staten Island, Brooklyn, Manhattan, Long Island and New Jersey have been having the time of their lives performing in The Wizard of Oz, 1776, Broadway, Here I Come, and a medley of other Broadway hits. This summer, Wagner’s Musical Theatre Camp has proven to be better than ever! While learning the dialogue, score, and dance moves from Guys and Dolls and Fiddler on the Roof, campers are learning how important body, music and voice are in putting together a great musical production. During each of the two-week programs, they are experiencing a broad range of activities, all leading up to a final musical theatre production in front of parents and friends. Computer Game Design Camp In this camp, students are learning the basics of C++ programming with a particular interest in OpenGL. OpenGL is the most widely used computer graphics toolset in the programming industry. This highly interactive hands-on class, is teaching them how to create points, lines, polygons, curves, 3D objects, color, surfaces, texture, light sources, perspective, transformations, and more. ### .
Wagner College Summer Camps Prove Learning is Fun!
August 3, 2006
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