The Saturday Enrichment Program’s Accelerated Weekend Experience (AWE) provides academically talented students in grades 6 through 9 an opportunity to explore an area of study in depth and with concentration over one weekend, with an expert in the field.
Since older students often try to juggle many commitments, the Accelerated Weekend Experience affords them the chance to be inspired, invigorated and impassioned in a short timeframe. Participants explore and apply new technology with like-minded peers and vanguard instructors.
Current courses, and dates, times and costs can be found below.
Course Descriptions
| Winter 2010 AWE courses Winter Offering I: February 13 & 14 2010 |
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Session I: Naperville, IL
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Veterinary Medicine The average doctor does not have patients who chase cars or are plagued by hairballs, but veterinarians do! This introduction to the world of veterinary medicine enables students to explore a career path that many are eager to follow. Engaging activities include working with both microscopes and Subject Area: Science Qualifying Score: Reading or Math
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Aviation Academy flight planning and aviation communication are covered, and flight simulator software is used to provide context and experience. Students learn what it takes to be a pilot for recreation or for a career. This class is designed for students who are interested in math, science, communication or adventure! Subject Area: Science Qualifying Score: Reading or Math |
| Winter 2010 AWE courses Winter Offering II: March 6 & 7, 2010 Session II: Evanston, IL |
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Photoshop: From Concepts to Creations
Grades 6-7 Photoshop is a popular—and one of the most powerful—image-editing programs available. It is also the most commonly used commercial application in the world. Students learn to navigate the workspace and proceed to explore image modes, selections and masks, layers and blend modes in addition to the painting and retouching tools. Drawing skills are not necessary in graphic design. Participants discuss the ethics of digital manipulation and its effects. Students leave the course able to recognize and make digital compositions, taking with them a number of digital illustrations. Subject Area: Technology Qualifying Score: Reading or Math |
Tools for Becoming an Effective & Educated Journalist Grades 8-9 “The smarter the journalists are, the better off society is. [For] to a degree, people read the press to inform themselves—and the better the teacher, the better the student body.” –Warren Buffet. Good journalists are able to ask the right questions and synthesize, analyze and organize information accurately and quickly. Students in this course delve into the history of journalism and the changes in media in the last 30 years, discussing and debating the current state of the field and their own media consumption. They are introduced to journalism standards and principles—storytelling, reporting, multimedia and design, blogging, understanding audience—with the course culminating in a student-developed media brand. Get your typing fingers ready. This course is designed and taught by a Medill School of Journalism graduate. Subject Area: English & Writing Qualifying Score: Reading |
