Offsite Camp – STEAM EDA

Middle School Summer Day Camp – STEAM EDA
June 11th thru June 15th, 2018
9:00 AM – 12:00 PM Daily
@Columbia Adventist Academy (241 Riverchase Way, Lexington, SC 29072)
This camp is open to ALL middle school aged students!
Camp STEAM EDA: Explore, Discover, Apply (STEAM EDA). Middle school students will engage through a series of hands-on projects that help improve their problem-solving and critical thinking skills. The projects seamlessly integrate the Engineering Design Process which allows students to creatively explore. discover, and apply STEAM principles through design.
Hands-on projects will include:

Electricity
Aerospace
Coding

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General Information
Join us this summer and watch your students grow in their experience with STEAM!  IT-oLogy will offer a variety of week-long IT enrichment summer camps where students explore technology based themes in Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts and Math.
Students will immerse themselves in units of study that foster creativity and discovery-based learning.  Our “STEAM Series” summer camps with hands-on activities encourage explorative engagement and innovation.  Students will create projects utilizing collaboration, computational thinking, logic, creativity, and problem-solving skills. Students will present their projects at the end of each camp.  No prior technical or programming experience necessary.
Summer Camp Focus: STEAM & 21st Century Skills Development in: •           Project Base Learning •           Creativity •           Problem Solving •           Logic •           Critical Thinking •           Collaboration
Students will work individually and in a group setting. No prior technical or programming experience necessary for any camp.  Camps parallel to South Carolina’s Computer Science and STEAM standards.
To foster opportunities where students can apply knowledge gained from attending our summer camps, students are encourage to enter their projects in IT-oLogy’s Innovation Challenge event scheduled this October, 2018.

Camp Includes: All materials and snacks.
***Students must bring their lunch daily.***
No refunds 7 days prior to start of camp.

General Information for all Summer Camps
Drop Off: Please arrive no earlier than 8:45. For security purposes, we will require that you sign in your child every morning and sign them out every afternoon (with proper ID). To have your child dropped off or picked up by someone other than yourself, we will need his or her information in advance.
Pick Up:  Sessions will end each day at 12PM for half day camp and 4:00PM for full day camp.  We ask that you pick up your child no later than 15 minutes after the end of the session.  If you are unable to pick up your child by the designated time, you will need to let us know in advance.
What to Bring: Please pack a lunch for your child each day. If your child has any food allergies, please also provide them with a snack.
Behavior Policy: Each student is to participate and be respectful in class. There will be no texting, accessing personal email, or accessing non-class websites during class sessions. Participants may use cell phones, iPods, iPads, etc. during designated break times. We reserve the right to dismiss any student in response to inappropriate or unsafe behavior. There will be no refund for unused camp time if this occurs.