Summer Camps!
All Work and No Play Makes for a Boring Summer. Consider These Low-cost Camps from our Friends at Marian College.

Why does soda fizz? How does a bicycle teach us physics? The answers to these and other cool questions will be explored at “The Way Things Work,” one of Marian College’s 2008 Summer Camps. The Way Things Work is offered June 16-20 to students in Grades 3 through 5, but there are many other options for many other ages.

“Can We Save the Earth?” scheduled for July 21-25, invites Grades 6 to 8 to consider whether some of the headlines we hear are true and whether all scientists agree about current environmental topics. Grades 9-11 will enjoy looking into whether Ben Franklin’s kite really was struck by lightning and other scientific phenomenon in “Myths and Misconceptions” from July 28 to August 1.

Girls aged 11-14 will kick some mathematical and scientific bootie in “Camp GEMS (Girls Empowered in Math and Science)” offered July 7-18.

Some students may qualify for fees reduced to as low as $50 per camp! For further information about these activities, click on the “Summer Camps” to the left, or contact Marian College’s Janice Hicks Slaughter at 317.524.7701 or at jhslaughter@marian.edu (or browse www.lifescienceeducation.org).

Math and science teachers, check out the website; there are sessions available for you, too.

A FREE music camp is being offered by the Philharmonic Orchestra of Indianapolis in cooperation with the Metropolitan Youth Orchestra and Chuck Flowers/IPS School 70th magnet (just a $10 registration fee). “Strings and Jazzy Things” will teach 10- to 15-year-olds who are students of brass, wind, percussion and stringed instruments. The free camp meets at Broadripple High School from June 9 to 13 and culminates in a concert that Friday evening.

Hurry to register for this one; auditions for string players’ placement are in early May. For more information, see http://www.philharmonicindy.org/main.php?page=education.