JULY 25-28, 2011

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iWant to Make Music on iPad FILLED
Instructor: Deb Fett, music teacher, Riverside and Rosenow Elementary Schools
We will have fun exploring, composing and performing using mostly free music apps for the iPad. Students will each have their own iPad to use in class. We will participate in a variety of musical games and activities using the iPad as a metronome, tuner, and compositional tool and even play with each other using the iPad as an instrument creating our own iPad “band.” Be amazed at what the iPad can do!

Rockin’ with Rock Art
Instructor: Alice Tzakais, art instructor, North Fond du Lac School District
Become time travelers to North America’s hidden treasures as we create our own rock art images with watercolor and pen. Take risks and explore the endless possibilities of watercolor and pen as we study early Native American rock art. Rich motivational resources will help us to embrace the images left for us by the ancestors of this land. Join us to create visual messages that transcend the written word. This class promises to be oodles of fun for students who like to play with paint! Please bring an old shirt to protect your clothing. Computer

Programming Using Scratch FILLED
Instructor: John Papenheim, Owner of Papenheim’s Signcrafters, Moraine Park Technical College instructor, mentor for Fondy Fire FIRST Robotics, founder/mentor FDL Junior Robotics Leagues
We will create our own computer games, interactive stories and art using a computer programming language called Scratch. This fun and easy to master language allows us to learn about things like loops and variables. Create incredible computer programs! When we are through, we will share our creations with the world on the Scratch website.

Exploring Green Energy
Instructors: John Papenheim, Owner Papenheim’s Signcrafters, Moraine Park Technical College instructor, mentor for Fondy Fire FIRST Robotics, founder/mentor FDL Junior Robotics Leagues
Design and build our own wind turbine and solar panel and see how much electricity the sun and wind can create. We will monitor our creations with a computerized power analyzer to keep track of the power we have created over time. Learn the difference between a milliwatt and a megawatt. Take your turbine and solar panel home and continue to produce green energy when the class is over. You will also take a peek at a car that runs on vegetable oil and how it works – we’ll even mix up our own batch of bio-diesel!

Cool Science Investigations Using Technology
Instructor: Gillian King, science instructor, Woodworth Middle School
Using Vernier™ GoLink! probes and lap tops, students will do fun and exciting science experiments. The probes provide immediate data collection and we are able to see and explain what happens. Students will be able to create their own variables to explore in the experiments. Themes that can be explored could be motion, chemistry, heat and other fun topics. If you can think it, you can try it. See how science really happens!

Fantastic Chemistry: Food, Fireworks and Fun!
Instructor: Stephanie Ballard, chemistry instructor, Campbellsport School District
In this hands-on chemistry class, we will perform experiments to learn about the nature of matter. We will learn more about solids, liquids, and gases, and also about a particularly weird type of matter called a “thixotrope.” We will perform numerous other experiments, including experiments to help us figure out how much acid is in some everyday products such as vinegar, soda, and juice, experiments that will illustrate how metals react with each other and with other chemicals, and experiments that will provide a SPARK to our brains! Come learn some chemistry and experience a SHOCK to your system!

Fitness for Your Brain!
Instructor: Dru Mitchell, phy ed instructor, Theisen Middle School
Participate in a variety of fun and challenging activities when physical challenge produces brand new brain cells. Different activities will highlight and be prescriptive each day for different brain functions such as attention and mood management, stress reduction, panic prevention, and experiencing reward. In addition to the brain benefits, we will get some quality exercise and improve some finer skills such as balance. Technology will be incorporated to give us some biofeedback. Dress for activity with shorts and athletic shoes. This class is a blast!!

Creative Ceramic Fun FILLED
Instructor: Amanda Lehtola, adjunct art instructor, UW-Fond du Lac
This class is an exciting and hands-on introduction to clay. We will create a variety of coil pots, bowls, and sculptures using an array of pottery techniques. Explore various ceramic hand-building techniques along with artistic expression. All projects will be constructed and fired in a kiln with traditional ceramics techniques. All pottery will be lead-free and food-safe.

Theatre Character Makeup
Instructor: Katie Thompson, former College for Kids student (!) and UW-Milwaukee music major. She also directs shows for Milwaukee Youth Theatre where she works with children ages 6-18, teaches improv, makeup design, set-building, character development, and basic acting techniques.
Be any character you’d like to be through the proper use and application of stage makeup! Learn the basics of application and removal of stage makeup. We will learn to create age differences, animal characters, and fairy tale characters. Photos will be taken for the young artists’ portfolio of the faces and characters that they design throughout the week.

Veterinary Science & Our Pets
Instructor: Barbara Janiak, CVT/Practice Manager, Companion Animal Care
We will explore the wellness, prevention and illness intervention needs of our pets. Discover the microscopic world of internal and external parasites, how they impact our pets and ourselves. We will explore nutrition requirements and how “You are what you eat” also applies to your pets. We’ll review the importance of our pet’s dental care and learn how to brush our own pet’s teeth. Then, we’ll have fun looking at radiographs (xrays) and identifying “what might be wrong with this picture.” We’ll discuss the different career paths available within veterinary medicine. There will be films covering surgery and understanding canine behavior with lots of other visuals and hands-on to accompany these topics. Each day we’ll meet a representative from a different career that involves working with animals including; police, wildlife rehabilitator, wildlife veterinarian, canine behaviorist, and a dog breeder. We’ll finish the week with a game of Dog O’ Jeopardy with the best prizes yet!

Art Smorgasbord FILLED
Instructor: Trista Holz, artist
Hey kids! Ever want to create really awesome artwork from materials only grown-ups get to use? Then this class is for you! Have fun and learn new art techniques in this hands-on workshop! We will create several projects using extraordinary materials such as “fused glass,” semi-precious gems, bottle caps, resin, enamel, metal, and polymer clay. You will love the colorful and attractive finished art and will be all the wiser on how to use advanced materials.

Letterboxing
Instructor: John Matysik, elementary school counselor, Fond du Lac School District
Letterboxing is a mix of treasure hunting, hiking, navigation and art. Through a series of fun activities which involve mystery solving and intuitive thinking, we will learn how to solve clues that will lead us to a hidden letterbox, a weatherproof box containing a logbook and carved rubber stamp. Class time will include compass reading, clue solving, create individual rubber stamps, designing a logbook and planting letterboxes. Using all these techniques, we will participate in a series of hunts to discover hidden letterboxes.

STUCK: The Phreaky Physics of Duct Tape
Instructor: Chris Hathaway, UW-Oshkosh physics graduate and substitute instructor at Seaton Middle School, Maplewood Middle School, St. Mary’s Central High School, and Menasha High School.
We will focus on various properties of duct tape. Properties include but are not limited to friction (sticky and smooth side), tension, leverage, sound properties (amplitude, frequency), and suspension properties. Additionally, we will learn of the many real-life ways to use this amazing product! Check out these websites about duct tape at www.theducttapeguys.com or www.popular mechanics.com/science/mythbusters/projects/mythbusters-build-duct-tape-bridge

ACT Prep! CANCELLED
Instructors: Paul Sanders, associate lecturer, mathematics; Carey Woodward, PhD, assistant professor, physics; Jim Hutchinson, PhD, lecturer, English; and Maggie Gellings, student services coordinator
This is the real ACT Prep that high school juniors take! You will take a real retired ACT test as a pretest. After receiving the results, you will go over English, grammar, writing, math and science with UW professors. At the end of this class you will take another retired ACT test and receive those results allowing you to see how much you have improved. This course is intended for academically gifted students performing at a 90th percentile or better in school. This course is an all day course and is the only course you will take during College For Kids.


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