2017 Worlds of Wisdom and WonderThe Center for Gifted ~ Midwest Torrance Center for Creativity presents

Wheaton for Grades PreK-7in

Session I - July 17-21

Rainforest Adventures (PreK-K)Soaking Up Science (PreK-K)Animal Stories and Art: From Peter Rabbit to the Pigeon (K-3)Chemistry of the World (1-5)Chess, Math, and Finch Robots (K-2)Conquer the Cube (3-7)Makerspace (4-7)Monsters of the Microworld (3-7)Mysterious Math (3-7)Outer Space Escapades (K-2)Play with Your Food! Creativity, Science, and Microwave Cooking (1-5)Science and Star Wars (3-7)Solder and Build: Electronics Lab (5-7)Things that Fly, Float, and Flee: Mechanical and Animal (K-3)Web Game Design with Scratch (3-7)Writing, Art, and Calligraphy (4-7)

Session II - July 24-28

African Safari (PreK-K)Stories and Art: The Caldecott Winners (PreK-K)Balloonatics (3-7)Chess for Beginners (K-3)Chess Games and Strategies (3-7)Creative Creatures (3-7)Human Biology (1-5)Lego Mindstorms Robotics (3-7)Lego WeDo Robotics (K-3)Makey Makey (3-7)Mask Madness! (K-3)Mathemagicians (K-2)Readers Theater (1-7)Science Experiments with Toys (K-3)Slopes and Slides: Math and Engineering (3-7)Stop-Motion Animation (3-7)

Madison Elementary School1620 Mayo Avenue

Wheaton

Innovative summer challenges for advanced learners!

Workshops for PreK - K

Students attend a single workshop each morning and/or afternoon.

African Safari: Embark upon a simulated sa-fari through savannas, jungles, and deserts! Discover the rich diversity of African wildlife, from herds of wildebeests to shy mountain gorillas, from tall giraffes to small meerkats, through creative, hands-on activities.

Rainforest Adventures: Create a simulated rainforest with monkeys on vines, parrots in treetops, and pink dolphins in the Amazon River!

Soaking Up Science: Swish, squish, and splash as you experiment with everyday items and explore the world around you. Science is in your kitchen and on the play-ground, during a thunderstorm and at the beach—the possibilities are endless!

Stories and Art: The Caldecott Winners: Why is a book a Caldecott winner? How does the art express the story? How does the story inspire the art? What do you think of the stories and illustrations? Explore artistic styles found in the superbly illustrated winners of the Caldecott Medal and create your own illustrations.

Our Worlds of Wisdom and Wonder programs are designed for bright, motivated learn-ers who welcome dynamic opportunities to explore diverse subjects in a challenging, creative environment. In all classes, hands-on activities and inventive modes of partici-pation foster originality and imagination, evoking active involvement and discovery; the development of problem-solving skills, creativity, and critical thinking is inherent in the framework!

Applications are accepted online via our website, or by mail, email, fax (847-901-0179) or in person. $80 deposit is required per session and will be applied to tuition. Applications have a $4 processing fee per session, and some courses require lab fees (see course descriptions). Payments are fully refundable for withdrawals requested by the beginning of each session. Financial assistance is available.

New students require recommendations from educators (form is available on our website). Grade reports or test scores may be substituted.

Extended CareOrganized, nurturing supervision is offered every day, 8:00-9:00 a.m. at a cost of $9 per hour.

FREE Transportation!

Session I: July 17-21Session II: July 24-29

Full Day: 9:00 a.m.-3:00 p.m.Mornings Only: 9:00-11:40 a.m.Afternoons Only: 12:20-3:00 p.m.Early Care: 8:00-9:00 a.m.

Full Day: $420Half Day: $210Early Care: $9/hr

www.centerforgifted.org

Classes for K - 7

Students attend two classes each morning and/or afternoon, selecting their favorites among the course offerings. Note that for courses spanning several grade levels, stu-dents are scheduled with their age peers.

Animal Stories and Art: From Peter Rabbit to the Pigeon: Do you like animal stories? Especially stories with wonderful illustra-tions? Explore a rich diversity of stories and artistic styles. Express your own creative ideas through both writing and art.

Balloonatics: They’re fun at parties, but you can use them for much more! Use balloons to learn about air pressure and Newton’s Laws of Motion! Make a hot air balloon.

Chemistry of the World: Experiment with solutions, suspensions, acids, and bases as you travel the world of exploring chemistry.

Chess for Beginners: Intrigued by the game of chess? Learn how to play! Explore basic openings and end games. Enjoy trying out different strategies as you play chess with your classmates.

Chess Games and Strategies: Designed to challenge chess freaks of all calibers – from basic rules and simple strategies, to highly sophisticated schemes and end-game tactics. Test your skills as you challenge your peers!

Chess, Math, and Finch Robots: Interested in pursuing a variety of topics? Play chess, solve math puzzles, and program robotic Finches in a flexible learning environment.

Creative Creatures: Whimsical? Majes-tic? Feisty? What kind of creatures will you create? Draw inspiration from the amazing animals that inhabit our planet or rely wholly on your vivid imagination!

Conquer the Cube: Hone your STEM skills utilizing the iconic Rubik’s Cube! Unlock the secrets to solving this mysterious block with tips and tricks direct from the experts. Use multiple cubes to create detailed mosaics by learning to think backwards, visualize pixels, and make circles out of squares!

Human Biology: Delve into the workings and operations of human biology, including heart, blood, and lungs.

Lego Mindstorms Robotics: Explore principles of engineering and programming! Employ gears, sensors, and motors to create robots. Work in engineering teams to innovate and experiment in designing, constructing, and programming your robots. ($15 lab fee)

Lego WeDo Robotics: Build robots such as monkeys, alligators, and birds. Work from our building plans or create your own robots. Program actions and sounds. The possibili-ties are endless! ($15 lab fee)

Makerspace: Let your imagination come to life in a space where trans-disciplinary learn-ing, inquiry, risk-taking, thinking, crafting, tinkering, and wondering can blossom. ($15 lab fee)

Makey Makey: Use this invention kit to turn everyday objects into touch pads. Artists, engineers, designers, and inventors all love the possibilities! ($15 lab fee)

Mask Madness! Make masks that explode with creativity. Use a variety of materials such as plaster casting, recycled gallon bottles, and paper grocery bag masks. Paint, color, and embellish them with jewels, beads, and feathers. Become the character you have created!

Mathemagicians: From codes to magic squares and number tricks discover secret sequences, play math games, and inves-tigate intriguing puzzles. Create your own number tricks!

Monsters of the Microworld: Explore the amazing universe invisible to the naked eye! ($10 lab fee)

Mysterious Math: Explore mathematical topics not generally found in your math text-book. Think outside the box and be creative in your approach to math.

Outer Space Escapades: Blast off, as-tronauts, to an astronomically fun, factual, and fantastic exploration of the universe! Experience the joy of discovering, creating, and learning through an interdisciplinary approach integrating science literature, math, history, art, and drama.

Madison Elementary School, 1620 Mayo Ave. | Full day: 9:00-3:00 | AM: 9:00-11:40; PM: 12:20-3:00 | Extended care available

Ingenuity. Inspiration. Imagination. Innovation.

Tinker-a-Thon!at Elmhurst College

for students entering grades 1-5

Enroll for one, two, or all three weeks!July 17 - August 4

‘at Elmhurst Collegefor students entering grades 6-12

FREE Transportation!

Project 17

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July 17 - August 4

Worlds of Wisdom and Wonderfor students entering grades PreK-8

see our website for details

- Barrington- Chicago- Crete

- Elmhurst- Glenview- Naperville

- Skokie- Wheaton

More Exciting Summer Opportunities!

1926 Waukegan Road, Suite 2 Glenview, IL 60025

Joan Franklin Smutny, Founder and Director

The Center for Gifted is a not-for-profit organization under IRC Section 501(c)(3)

Play with Your Food! Creativity, Science, and Microwave Cooking: Make cars out of vegetables and mold chocolate into fun shapes. Investigate food dyes, explore mi-crowave cooking, and even learn a bit about nutrition! (1-5)

Readers Theater: Literature comes alive when you read it aloud. Include characters, narration, and setting. Choose favorites in reading and writing and see what happens when you put stories on stage!

Science and Star Wars: Lightsabers, levitat-ing cars, and faster-than-light travel. All these things make Star Wars fun at the movies, but can they happen in the real world? In-vestigate and try to recreate some of the fun science from Star Wars.

Science Experiments with Toys: Discover mystery eggs, feely balloons, burping bot-tles, and crushing cans. Explore the science and wonder of toys via hands-on fun and lab experiments.

Slopes and Slides: Math and Engineer-ing: Draw, build, and measure the slopes of slides and ramps. Engineer your own ramps course as you investigate variables that af-fect how objects move down various slopes.

Solder and Build: Electronics Lab: Con-struct a variety of electronic projects and robots from water alarms to photophobic micro-bugs to water alarms. ($30 lab fee)

Stop-Motion Animation: From storyboard-ing to photographing each incremental step to adding sound and special effects, use a digital camera and movie software to create your own unique stop-motion animation. ($15 lab fee)

Things that Fly, Float, and Flee: Mechan-ical and Animal: Discover ways nature has influenced the design of man-made flying objects. Explore Bernoulli’s scientific princi-ples of flight by experimenting with airplanes, kites and rockets. Build a balloon hovercraft!

Web Game Design with Scratch: Want to know how flash games got their start? Create your own version of “Five Nights at Freddy’s” or try something new of your choosing.

Writing, Art, and Calligraphy: Do you love to paint pictures with words? Express your creative ideas through free verse poetry and haiku. Use watercolors on rice paper to paint beautiful images to complement your poems. Enhance your writing with italic calligraphy.

• Summer 2017 Overview • The Center for Gifted and Midwest Torrance Center for Creativity

The format for most students is two classes (chosen from a variety of exciting topics) each morning and/or two each afternoon. Online application,

courses, descriptions, and details for all programs are at www.centerforgifted.org, where you also will find links to eligibility info and other forms.

Program category key: Worlds of Wisdom and Wonder • Summer Wonders • Project ’17 • Glenview Wonders • Tinker-a-Thons

The Center for Gifted and Midwest Torrance Center for Creativity • A Northern Illinois University Partner Joan Franklin Smutny, Director • 847-901-0173 • Fax 847-901-0179 • info@centerforgifted.org • www.centerforgifted.org

Mailing address: Box 364, Wilmette, IL 60091 • Physical address: 1926 Waukegan Road, Glenview

Program Site Cities

Dates Grades (as of

fall ‘17)

Morning Program

Hrs/Tuition

Afternoon Program

Hrs/Tuition

Full-Day Program

Hrs/Tuition

Extended Care

($9/hr) Locations

Notes and Specials (Contact us or see

website for details)

Barrington I July 10-14 PK-8th

9:00-11:40 $210

12:20-3:00 $210

9:00-3:00 $420 8:00-9:00 Lines Elementary School

217 S Eastern Ave

Barrington II July 17-21 PK-8th

9:00-11:40 $210

12:20-3:00 $210

9:00-3:00 $420 8:00-9:00 Lines Elementary School

217 S Eastern Ave

Buffalo Grove I June 7-16 PK-8th

9:00-11:40 $336

12:20-3:00 $336

9:00-3:00 $672

7:00-9:00 3:00-6:00

Meridian Middle School 2195 Brandywyn

Buffalo Grove II June 19-23 PK-8th

9:00-11:40 $210

12:20-3:00 $210

9:00-3:00 $420

7:00-9:00 3:00-6:00

Meridian Middle School 2195 Brandywyn

Buffalo Grove III June 26– July 7 PK-8

th 9:00-11:40

$378 12:20-3:00

$378 9:00-3:00

$756 7:00-9:00 3:00-6:00

Meridian Middle School 2195 Brandywyn

Buffalo Grove IV July 10-14 PK-8th

9:00-11:40 $210

12:20-3:00 $210

9:00-3:00 $420

7:00-9:00 3:00-6:00

Meridian Middle School 2195 Brandywyn

Chicago I Aug 7-11 PK-8th

9:00-11:40 $210

12:20-3:00 $210

9:00-3:00 $420 8:00-9:00 Audubon Elementary School

3500 N Hoyne Ave Audubon is in the Roscoe Village Neighborhood.

Chicago II Aug 14-18 PK-8th

9:00-11:40 $210

12:20-3:00 $210

9:00-3:00 $420 8:00-9:00

Audubon Elementary School 3500 N Hoyne Ave

Crete July 24-28 PK-8th

9:00-11:40 $210

12:20-3:00 $210

9:00-3:00 $420

See note at right

Mother Teresa Catholic Academy 24201 S Kings Road

Extended Care is offered through the Academy. Please contact them for details.

Elmhurst I June 19-23 PK-8th

9:00-11:40 $210

12:20-3:00 $210

9:00-3:00 $420 8:00-9:00 Bryan Middle School

111 W Butterfield Rd

Elmhurst II June 26-30 PK-8th

9:00-11:40 $210

12:20-3:00 $210

9:00-3:00 $420 8:00-900 Bryan Middle School

111 W Butterfield Rd

Elmhurst: Project ’17

July 17– Aug 4 6

th-12

th 9:00-11:40

$670 12:20-3:00

$670 9:00-3:00

$1245 8:00-9:00 3:00-6:00

Elmhurst College 190 Prospect Ave

FREE! roundtrip chartered buses from Arlington Heights, Barrington, Buffalo Grove,

Elmhurst: The Tinker-a-Thon I July 17-21 1

st-5

th 9:00-11:40

$200 12:20-3:00

$200 9:00-3:00

$400 8:00-9:00 3:00-6:00

Elmhurst College 190 Prospect Ave

Chicago (3 stops), Downers Grove, Glenview, Hinsdale, Lincolnshire, Melrose Park,

Elmhurst: The Tinker-a-Thon II July 24-28 1

st-5

th 9:00-11:40

$200 12:20-3:00

$200 9:00-3:00

$400 8:00-9:00 3:00-6:00

Elmhurst College 190 Prospect Ave

Naperville, Niles, Orland Park, Palatine, Park Ridge, Skokie, and Vernon Hills.

Elmhurst: The Tinker-a-Thon III

July 31- Aug 4 1

st-5

th 9:00-11:40

$200 12:20-3:00

$200 9:00-3:00

$400 8:00-9:00 3:00-6:00

Elmhurst College 190 Prospect Ave

Also, the Elmhurst Metra Station is only two blocks from campus.

Glenview Wonders I July 17-21 1

st-3

rd 9:00-11:40

$210 12:20-3:00

$210 9:00-3:00

$420 8:00-9:00 3:00-6:00

The Center for Gifted 1926 Waukegan Rd

Glenview Wonders II July 24-28 1

st-5

th 9:00-11:40

$210 12:20-3:00

$210 9:00-3:00

$420 8:00-9:00 3:00-6:00

The Center for Gifted 1926 Waukegan Rd

Glenview Wonders III

July 31– Aug 4 1

st-5

th 9:00-11:40

$210 12:20-3:00

$210 9:00-3:00

$420 8:00-9:00 3:00-6:00

The Center for Gifted 1926 Waukegan Rd

Glenview Wonders IV Aug 7-11 1

st-5

th 9:00-11:40

$210 12:20-3:00

$210 9:00-3:00

$420 8:00-9:00 3:00-6:00

The Center for Gifted 1926 Waukegan Rd

Glenview Wonders V Aug 14-18 1

st-5

th 9:00-11:40

$210 12:20-3:00

$210 9:00-3:00

$420 8:00-9:00 3:00-6:00

The Center for Gifted 1926 Waukegan Rd

Glenview Wonders VI Aug 21-25 1

st-5

th 9:00-11:40

$210 12:20-3:00

$210 9:00-3:00

$420 8:00-9:00 3:00-6:00

The Center for Gifted 1926 Waukegan Rd

Enroll for any one, two, three, or four--or all 5 days!

Naperville June 12-23 PK-8th

8:30-11:10 $420

11:50-2:30 $420

8:30-2:30 $840 7:30-8:30 Prairie Elementary School

500 S Charles Ave

Skokie I June 26-30 PK-8th

9:00-11:40 $210

12:30-3:00 $210

9:00-3:00 $420 8:00-9:00 McCracken Middle School

8000 East Prairie Rd

Skokie II July 10-14 PK-8th

9:00-11:40 $210

12:30-3:00 $210

9:00-3:00 $420 8:00-9:00 McCracken Middle School

8000 East Prairie Rd

Wheaton I July 17-21 PK-8th

9:00-11:40 $210

12:30-3:00 $210

9:00-3:00 $420 8:00-9:00 Madison Elementary School

1620 Mayo Ave

Wheaton II July 24-28 PK-8th

9:00-11:40 $210

12:30-3:00 $210

9:00-3:00 $420 8:00-9:00 Madison Elementary School

1620 Mayo Ave