The Center for Gifted ~ Midwest Torrance Center for Creativity
STEM
Science
Technology
Engineering
Math
Innovative opportunities to challenge scientific minds!
Grades PreK - 12
AM, PM, and Full Day Options!
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Fourteen Chicago and suburban locations!
Joan Franklin Smutny, Founder and Director
30 summer 2016 programs at 14 locations in 10 cities!
Barrington | Buffalo Grove | Chicago | Crete | Darien | Elmhurst | Glenview | Naperville | Skokie | Wheaton
a Northern Illinois University partner
Summer Wonders
Worlds of Wisdom and Wonder
About the Center...
The Center for Gifted offers an innovative and unique approach
to education, providing enriching opportunities for motivated
students to explore diverse subjects in a challenging, creative
environment free from the pressures of tests and grades. At
The Center for Gifted, programs are designed specifically to
meet the unique educational needs of advanced learners in
an environment that is supportive and nurturing of their
individual gifts and talents.
Founded in 1983, the Center for Gifted serves children who
express capacity for high performance in diverse areas of
intelligence. Through creative teaching strategies, materials,
and curricula, the Center's programs offer unique, hands-on
activities and inventive modes of participation.
Our faculty comprise outstanding professionals - experts in
their respective fields - who communicate effectively with
children and reflect a genuine sensitivity and commitment to
learning. Differentiation and creative critical thinking are the
cornerstones of our programs.
The Center for Gifted / Midwest Torrance Center for Creativity
offers diverse and challenging programs fall, winter break,
winter, spring, and summer. Programs range from Wondrous
Workshops of Saturday or Sunday, Worlds of Wisdom and
Wonder in the Winter, four or five Sunday afternoons each,
to a summer of many exciting one, two, and three week
programs, half day and all day, June, July, and beginning
August.
Programs reflect courses in science, math, humanities, the
arts, computers, robotics, all designed to advance the thinking,
creating, and producing talents and abilities of participants.
Courses challenge students to think more perceptively,
creatively, deeply, and expansively.
STEM-Focused Opportunities
Worlds of Wisdom and Wonder, Summer Wonders, and Project
2016 programs are offered throughout the Chicago area, providing
advanced learners dynamic opportunities to explore diverse subjects
in a challenging, creative environment.
STEM has become an area of heightened interest in education among
teachers, families, and children. Our programs offer STEM courses
and activities focusing on science, technology, engineering, and math
with emphasis on problem solving, discovery, inquiry, investigation,
research, and hands-on experimentation.
To apply, visit www.centerforgifted.org and select the location where
your chosen courses are being offered. All locations offer morning,
afternoon, and full day options. Before and after care are available
at Buffalo Grove and Glenview locations.
Project 2016
Sample Course Offerings.....
Artbotics with Lego Mindstorms: Merge robotics with art! Design, build,
and program Lego Mindstorms robots to move artistically and create crazy
kinetic sculptures.
Biology of Life: Investigate the natural world from a hands-on perspective.
Dissect owl pellets; grow bacterial colonies and fungal gardens; extract
DNA, construct eco-columns with live plants and tiny organisms.
Breaking Laws of Physics: Defy gravity! Investigate phenomena that
venture beyond so-called physical limits
Bridge Design and Construction: What constitutes a sound design? How
much weight will your bridge hold? Tackle STEM challenges with hands-on
design and building projects as you engineer, construct, and test different
types of bridges, like arch, suspension, and cantilever.
Create Stop-Motion Movies! Discover all that goes into making a stopmotion movie! Begin with storyboarding, creating characters, and designing backgrounds and props. Using a digital camera and movie software,
turn photographs into your own unique movie, complete
with sound and special effects!
Chemistry Lab: Delve into an in-depth investigation of chemistry through
hands-on experiments. Explore principles of solutions, solvents, Ph
products, reactants, states of matter, atoms, and molecules. Create
chemical reactions, but be careful not to blow up the lab!
Electronics and Robotics Lab: Construct various robots and electronic
projects from photophobic micro-bugs to water alarms. Work with electronic components and learn basic circuitry. Decipher technical instruction,
read schematic diagrams, and solder circuit boards to create fun projects
that blink or beep, hop or roll. Note: Soldering is required.
Intro to Science Competitions: Flex your science muscles! Taught by
an experienced science team coach, study various science disciplines
like chemistry, biology and physics. Tackle events from national competitions, such as bottle rockets, food science, and crime busters. A
great introduction for those interested in science competitions!
Motors, Circuitry, and Electronics: Investigate the roles energy, force,
and motion play in our modern world. Learn basic circuitry and apply
principles of physics, electronics, and engineering as you design and
construct kinetic contraptions that hover, float, fly, hop, and toss!
Note: Soldering will be required
Pulleys, Levers, and Gears: Create Simple Machines: Explore physics
through hands-on experiments as you discover how machines work
and create your own!
Roller Coaster Physics: Explore forces centrifugal and centripetal,
acceleration and velocity. Seek the ultimate balance of speed, thrills,
and safety, as you design and construct working models and minicoasters.
Slopes and Slides: Draw, build, and measure the slopes of slides and
ramps. Engineer your own ramps course as you investigate variables
that affect how objects move down various slopes
Statistics (middle school): More than mean, median, and mode! Learn
how statistics can lie by analyzing the daily news. Conduct surveys,
organize,and interpret the data. Explore histograms, frequency tables,
and more!
Statistics (high school): How are statistic, probability, and combinations
linked? Collect, organize, and interpret data from a variety of sources.
Investigate interquartile range, box plots, z-scores, standard deviation,
normal curves, and more!
Plus many more....
Additional information, program-specific details, and online application available at www.centerforgifted.org
* Courses vary by location. Some courses require additional lab fees. Half and Full Day Options. Transportation and before/after care available for some programs *
30 summer 2016 programs at 14 locations in 10 cities!
Barrington
Prairie Middle School
40 W. Dundee Rd.
July 11-22
Buffalo Grove – Summer Wonders
Chicago
Thorp Scholastic Academy
6024 W. Warwick Ave.
I. August 8-12
II. August 15-19
Meridian Middle School
2195 Brandywyn Rd.
I. June 8-17
II. June 20-24
III. June 27-July 1
IV. July 5-15
Crete
Chicago
Cass Junior High
8502 Bailey Rd.
July 25-August 5
Alcott Elementary School
2625 N. Orchard St.
I. July 5-8
II. July 11-15
Chicago
Audubon Elementary School
3500 N. Hoyne Ave.
I. July 25-29
II. August 1-5
Chicago
Lenart Regional Gifted Center
8101 S. LaSalle St.
August 1-5
Mother Teresa Catholic Academy
24201 S. Kings Rd.
I. June 6-10
II. June 13-17
Darien
Elmhurst
Glenview
The Center for Gifted
1926 Waukegan Rd.
I. July 18-22
II. July 25-29
III. August 1-5
IV. August 8-12
V. August 15-19
Naperville - North
Prairie Elementary School
500 S. Charles Ave.
June 6-17
Naperville - South
Crone Middle School
4020 111th St.
June 20-23
Sandburg Middle School
345 E. St. Charles Rd.
I. June 13-24
II. June 27-July 1
III. July 5-15
Skokie
Elmhurst – Project 2016
Wheaton
Sandburg Middle School
345 E. St. Charles Rd.
June 27-July 15
(no classes July 4)
All sites offer morning, afternoon, and full-day options. For details, courses, forms,
and to apply online, visit www.centerforgifted.org; or call us anytime at 847-901-0173.
McCracken Middle School
8000 East Prairie Rd.
I. June 13-17
II. June 20-24
Madison Elementary School
1620 Mayo Ave.
I. June 13-16
II. July 25-28
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