WeLove WeDo Robotics at Chatham!

This week at Chatham, WeDo Robotics has been a great time! Campers are getting the chance to explore their creativity and develop problem solving skills by constructing different machines and robots.

Our tiny class has created some awesome projects -- on Wednesday, they constructed Ferris wheels! These are some of their favorite projects:

Princeton Sharing Showcase (Week 4)

Well another week has come to an end and our campers here at Princeton were thrilled to share their crafts and creations with one another and their parents!

First up, Graphic Design and GIMP edited imagery of celebrities into Vampires and Zombies, then they created a Pixel Portrait!

Next, our talented ladies in Fashion and the Sewing Machine created their very own pajama bottoms, pillow case dresses, and a tote bag to carry it all home in! Below is Chloe modeling her garments

                    

Finally, all week in Robotics Level 1 Animals these ladies were creating more indepth and difficult robots, starting with an inch worm, then a spider, dolphin, a moving rattle snake, and finally an interactive puppy! Check out our YouTube page for videos of each robot!

For more pictures and videos from Week 4 at Princeton, please visit our Flickr page and Youtube channel! Like us on Facebook for updates!

Oakland's Week 4 Big Ol' Blowout Hootenanny Bash

The end of each week presents an opportunity to reflect on the skills learned and the strides made in each camper's respective class. This week proves no different, as our enthusiastic learners have stepped up their game for the end of the week and worked hard to finish their writing, suture bananas, and create the most chaos on the Minecraft servers.

Minecraft Creative: The Engineer in You finished off this week by creating their own worlds and building their own biomes to inhabit and build on. The classroom was always alive with the excited shrieks of the campers and enthusiasm to build and create whatever they can imagine.

The contest of who can crash the server the fastest ended in disaster

This camper works hard to build his own environment by editing his own world

The book is called "The Guide to Minecraft."

Minecraft Advanced had campers working in teams and building circuits of redstone, designing a theme park, and teaming up to create their own unique worlds. They even do team-building activities were cooperation is king.

This camper cooperated when I took a picture of him, clearly utilizing the skills that he learned in this class

This camper was quite emotional over the state of his project. 

This team of campers works to build their own minigame!

Fan Fiction and the Writing Process focused on inserting new stories into pre-existing worlds to increase their critical thinking skills. Campers focused on learning to revise and edit their creations, as long as increasing their typing skills. Some of our finished products include, Pitbull being sucked into Pokemon Go, and a very scary (and ingeniously written) Halloween Night.

Site Director Eric works with a camper on his idea for a story.

Counselor Josh even got in on the fun.

Inspiration comes from the wildest places.

Acting for the Stage perfected their scene from The Taming of the Shrew and performed it for the whole camp. Once they were done, they got a big bravo from their fellow campers. It looks like those long days of practicing and playing charades paid off.

The word was Golden Gate Bridge. But hey, he's learning.

This teacher goes over the rules of Iambic Pentameter.

It was a frustrating game of charades.

Rehearsal, always important. 

Anatomy and Surgical Techniques operated on some sheep's brains, sutured some bananas, and learned a lot about the composition of the human body. These exercises have made them surgeons of tomorrow, and if that's the case, our future is in capable hands. 

These campers learn the parts of the brain.

Our little surgeon is being paged. 

The team works on a real brain-teaser.

Week 4 may only last 55 more minutes, but the memories and knowledge will last a lifetime. Here's to Week 5, as the summer starts to wind down.

Closing out Somerset Week 4!

We cannot believe that another week has gone by so fast! This week, we had Graphic Design, Website Design and Java Programming 2: Minecraft Mods! All of our students had a great week filled with learning. They had some great teachers helping them along the way. Today, students got to see what was going on in all of the classes. They had a great time checking out the final products!

Graphic Design students showing off their pixel artwork.

Java Programming 2: Minecraft Mods students showing their houses and mods.

Thank you to everyone for another great week at International Ivy Somerset! We eagerly look forward to Week 5 starting on Monday!

Paramus Battle Bots!

Fantastic Friday at Scotch Plains

Week 4 is coming to a close but we have tons of great memories to look back on!

Trick or Treat?!  It's Halloween in July!!

3D Printing created awesome Plants v. Zombies chess pieces!

Shark Tank class made really unique products this week too! It's a sneaker that turns into a heel when you need to 'step' up your outfit!  

Thanks for another great week, campers!  

End of the week relay races at Short Hills

We love ending the week with fun relay races like crab walks, bear walks, potato sack races and more! The winning team all got ivy points which they got to use at the treasure chest which holds many awesome prizes. 

A High Tech Week in Paramus!

This week our students were technical designers in three unique classes: Java Level 1, Robotics Level 2, and Biomedical Engineering: Designing Knee Braces.  Our Java students learned the basics of the Java programming language, and challenged themselves to develop their own programs.  Robotics students learned programming methods and structural design that helped them create successful "battle-bots" and other robots.  In Biomedical Engineering, the students researched the needs of a patient with an injured knee and used that information to make their own knee brace design.  For now, this week meant a lot of fun for campers, but perhaps in the future, this week will have created a better world!

Two campers discuss their vision for the robot's movement.

A camper with his ball-pickup robot creation!

The first day of Java 1

Campers working together to write code.

Biomedical Engineering students examine their leg anatomy.

Tune in to Chopped Ivy in Summit!

Welcome to Chopped Ivy! Similarly to the television show on The Food Network, our campers will be competing in a challenge to create the most creative dish using all of the ingredients in our mystery basket. To prepare, students watched an episode of Chopped Junior in hopes of seeking inspiration for their own dishes. The rules of our challenge state that campers must use all basket ingredients and plate their meals before the time is up. Campers will be rated on the creativity, taste, and presentation of their dishes.

Today was the start of our two day challenge!

Our campers unveiled the ingredients in the mystery box!

Mystery ingredients included instant noodles, mini marshmallows, coconut water, rice crispy treats, and pretzels.

We also got to see the first taste of one camper's dish!

Campers were asked to taste their own dish and give a review before the judges tried their food. This dish included noodles in coconut water with pretzels, marshmallows, and rice crispy treats mixed in.

BOO! Today was also Halloween in July at International Ivy. We had some amazing costumes!

Two of our campers were dressed in such beautiful costumes!

A stealthy ninja having a great day at International Ivy