Does your child love high-tech, writing or specialty arts? Attending a summer camp with this focus is a perfect way for them to explore and to experience. Look through our selection and find the perfect fit for your child.
ID Tech Summer Camps
We're trusted and hosted by the world's top learning organizations. The right instructor changes everything. With personalized learning, your child will progress at their own pace. Your child can level up to Grade 10, standing out to colleges and future work. We can't wait to welcome your child to our community of 500, 000+ students.
Summer Academic Youth Programs
Summer is the perfect time for pre-college students to explore their career interests. Our programs provide opportunities for students to experience college life while expanding their knowledge and exploring their interests. There are many opportunities including overnight camps.
Independent Lake Camp
It is an overnight summer camp offering impressive activities due to our quality facilities (设备), and talented staff. Started as a non-traditional summer camp, we focus on promoting creativity within each camper and the community and developing individual growth with our personalized scheduling — each camper chooses their own activities.
Virtual Live Creative Writing Camp
Creative writing is taught live online by experienced teachers. Great for ages 7+ and divided into age-based groups, this camp has a limited class size so students can learn fun new skills. Videos will also be made available to all creative writing campers. So, with flexible classes to choose, your child will never miss a beat!
Growing up, my grandparents bought a second home among a small forest in Arkansas and would bring me there every single summer. I would spend a lot of time outside there following my grandfather around while he did yard work. We would collect cool-looking rocks and refill the hummingbird feeders.
I always remember my grandparents calling me over to the window when a deer family was in the yard or a few hummingbirds were at the feeders so that I could watch them. I would explore around in the yard by myself sometimes to look for interesting rocks and if I was lucky I would find a turtle. If I did find a turtle, my grandfather would put it in the kiddy pool for me to observe for a few minutes. I was always amazed by these creatures. After I finished observing the turtle, my grandfather would pick it back up and return it to the bush I found it in. I would watch in amazement as it slowly stuck its legs out and crawled back under.
I always felt very at peace at my grandparents' home. It was quiet and full of interesting natural things I never got to see in Illinois. They disturbed the land around them as little as possible and didn't see it as nuisance (令人讨厌的东西), rather a beautiful view.
As Aldo Leopold, an American scientist, puts it, we should take the time to appreciate and observe the natural world around us. When we do this, we find it brings us happiness and has a great value beyond just that of resources. Conservation(保护) of the natural world is important because we are dependent upon it for life. We cannot worsen such a bountiful provider at such a rate in which it will never return to anything like what it once was. Our experiences with nature are what will drive us to reach this conclusion, if only everyone took the time to really involve themselves in it.
While most TV stations try to attract viewers by producing reality shows, Henan TV has become famous by promoting traditional culture through Chinese dance. Henan TV produced seven dance pieces introducing traditional culture for traditional festivals, such as "Rhapsody on the Luo River Goddess (《洛神水赋》)", a two-minute underwater dance for the Dragon Boat Festival. "Guardian Warriors of Longmen (《龙门金刚 》)", a dance piece supported by AR technology against the backdrop of the Longmen Grottoes(石窟).
"These pieces have gotten nearly 30 billion hits," said Yao Wei, director of the TV station. "It's a huge success for Henan TV."
On Nov 1, 2021, Yao was invited to talk about how the TV station had produced the hit dance pieces at a three-day forum (论坛) centering on the research of Chinese dance.
The pieces were popular with audiences, most of whom are members of Gen Z, (people born between 1995 and 2009), Yao said.
"It's been over forty years since the country's reform and opening-up and the younger generations have grown up with open minds. They love Chinese culture and are proud of it," said Yao. "What we need to do is present Chinese culture and tradition in interesting ways for those young people."
Yao added that Henan TV has been producing shows promoting traditional culture, such as traditional operas and kung Fu, for nearly 30 years.
"To allure younger audiences, we are also changing our shows. One of the keys is to produce them with creativity," Yao said. "For example, the latest technology and special stage settings, like underwater scenes, have become our new ways of telling stories about traditional Chinese culture."
Another key to successfully reaching younger audiences is using social media to promote their shows.
"Social media is being shaped and driven by young people. It's a powerful form of communication. When they watch short videos, they easily become interested in an eye-catching video," Yao said.
Although computer technology is often necessary today, using a pen or pencil activates more areas of your brain than a keyboard does. You can potentially remember more by handwriting, according to a new study.
The potential benefits of handwriting for memory have been debated for some time. The new study set out to answer one question: How does handwriting compare to using a keyboard when it comes to remembering new information?
In all, 24 participants took part. Researchers asked each of them to write with a pen and then each was also asked to type on a keyboard. While performing these tasks, each volunteer wore a cap that held electrodes next to their head. It looked somewhat like a hair net fitted with 256 sensors. Those sensors recorded the participants' brainwaves. The electrodes noted which parts of the brain turned on during each task. And they showed that writing turned on memory areas in the brain while typing didn't.
Audrey van der Meer, the new study's leader, says this suggests that when we write by hand, we remember better. "This is because writing involves complex movements that activate more areas of the brain. The increased brain activity gives the brain more ‘hooks' to hang your memories on," she explains. Van der Meer also points out that writing by hand is related to visual notetaking. "Rather than typing blindly, the visual notetaker has to think about what is important to write down. Then, key words can be interlinked by boxes, arrows and small drawings," she adds.
This study does not recommend banning digital devices. In fact, its authors point out, computers and other devices with keyboards have become necessary in modern society. Keyboarding can especially benefit those with certain special needs (such as if they have trouble using their hands) and typing beats writing when it comes to speed, they add.
Sports day! These two words can inspire both joy and fear in the hearts of students everywhere.And it's also the chance to bag a prize or two. For others, it might feel like having to take part in something they aren't good at.
Today, more and more schools have recognized the importance of exercise. Many of them have non-competitive sports days. They hope that by making sports days less competitive, children of all abilities will be encouraged to take part without fear of losing. Exercise and fitness is important for everyone, no matter how good at sport you are.
However, some people feel that it's important that sport has winners and that learning to lose is just as important as learning how to win.Particularly, on a sports day which is your chance to really prove yourself!
According to a 2017 survey by Families Online, 82% of parents say they prefer "traditional" competitive sports days. Many adults feel that children can learn valuable lessons in both winning and losing. It's also an opportunity for some children to show off their physical and sporting skills.
People have different ideas about whether it is the winning or the taking part that counts when it comes to school sports daysWe want to know your ideas.
A. What's the point if no one wins?
B. Should sport just be about winning?
C. For many, sports day can be a great day of fun.
D. So, should School Sports Day be competitive or not?
E. Everyone should be celebrated for trying and playing their part.
F. There are lots of people who agree with the idea—parents in particular!
G. Many parents are worried that their kids can get injured when doing sports.
When my sister Diane began playing the violin, she was seven. How did she sound? Terrible. But she didn't 1. At twelve, she asked our parents if she could 2 a full-time music school. They said no. Actually, everyone agreed that my sister didn't have talent.
I was better at my 3. My teacher had told my parents that I had great potential. So my parents found the best piano teacher in the area to 4 me. But the only time when he was available was Saturday at 3 pm. Back then, I was5 by the British TV show . The Avengers, which was 6 every Saturday at 3 pm. I let nothing take up my The Avengers hour. So I 7 this amazing opportunity. Today, I don't even have a 8 in my house.
My sister became an engineer, but she 9 stopped making music. When she was in her 40s, she changed her career. She went back to college, got a 10 in music education, and became a music teacher. She starts kids off on their first instrument and gives them all the encouragement and support she never 11.Recently, she and a pianist pal put on a recital (音乐演奏会). A big crowd of friends and family 12 for her. As she played, I looked around at the 13. Everyone was obviously enjoying the music. It occurred to me that I was the only person who remembered that 7-year-old kid making those 14 sounds and knew how far she had come, despite everything.
Talent is 15. But enthusiasm is even more important.
More than two millennia ago the hard-working and courageous people of Eurasia explored and opened up several routes of trade and (culture) exchanges that linked the major civilizations of Asia, Europe and Africa, (general) called the Silk Road by later generations. For thousands of years, the Silk Road Spirit – "peace and cooperation, openness and inclusiveness, mutual learning and mutual benefit" – (pass) from generation to generation. In the 21st century, new era (时代) is marked by the theme of peace, (develop), cooperation and mutual benefit. It is more important us to carry on the Silk Road Spirit.
When Chinese President Xi Jinping (visit) Central Asia and Southeast Asia in September and October of 2013, he raised the idea of (build) the Silk Road Economic Belt and the 1st-Century Maritime Silk Road, have attracted close attention from all over the world. The Belt and Road Initiative is a systematic project, whose goal is (meet) the interests of all, and efforts should be made to combine the development strategies of the countries along the Belt and Road.
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