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SUMMER INSTITU TES F O R TA L E N T D E V E L O P M E N T

Got Talent?

2012
H C P S S

2012 G/T Summer Institutes for Talent Development Teacher Nomination Form
Deadline: May 15, 2012 Return to: Stephanie Bateman G/T Oce at Old Cedar Lane Student registration is not complete without the receipt of this form

Student Name: ______________________________________________________________ School __________________________________ Student ID Number: _________________________________________ Grade Level (2011-2012) ________________________________ is student is applying to: __________________________________________________________________________________________ Teachers Name: _________________________________________________________________________________________________ Teachers Position: _____________________________________________________ Daytime Phone #: (______) ___________________ Has this student participated in any of the following G/T oerings in the 2011-2012 school year? (Check all that apply) G/T Math for Grades 4 and 5 G/T Curriculum Extension Units G/T Instructional Seminars Type III Research Investigation Middle School G/T Classes G/T Saturday Art Program

Directions for Teachers:

Please relate your responses specically to this students ability in the subject area relating to the course selected. Please rate each behavior on a scale of 1-4. If you have questions regarding a class recommendation for a specic student, please contact Karen Saunderson at karen_saunderson@hcpss.org, or 410-313-6937. 4 = Frequently observed or demonstrated 3 = Occasionally observed or demonstrated 2 = Seldom observed or demonstrated 1 = Unable to observe

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Summer Institutes for Talent Development Summer 2012

General Academic Classes

Oakland Mills Middle School 9540 Kilimanjaro Road, Columbia, MD 20145

GG01.E1 Grades 1-2 GG02.E1 Grades 2-3 GG03.E1 Grades 2-3 GG04.E1 Grades 2-3 GG05.E1 Grades 2-3 GG06.E1 Grades 3-4 GG07.E1 Grades 4-5 GG08.E1 Grades 4-5 GG09.E1 Grades 4-5 GG21.M1 Grades 6-8 GG22.M1 Grades 6-8 GG23.M1 Grades 6-8

8:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.

Oakland Mills Middle School 9540 Kilimanjaro Road, Columbia, MD 20145

GG10.E2 Grades 1-2 GG11.E2 Grades 2-3 GG12.E2 Grades 2-3 GG14.E2 Grades 2-3 GG15.E2 Grades 3-4 GG16.E2 Grades 4-5 GG17.E2 Grades 4-5 GG18.E2 Grades 4-5 GG24.M2 Grades 6-8 GG25.M2 Grades 6-8 GG26.M2 Grades 6-8 GG13.E2 Grades 2-3

Innovative I Spy Adventures Talking Tangrams: Integrating Geometry and Writing e Elementary Chemist Math Smarts Sailing rough Literature rough the Arts

8:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.

Eco-Tech Wrapped up in Writing: A Young Authors Workshop e Elementary Chemist Solving a Scientic Mystery Sailing rough Literature

Building a Green Community Mystery Writing: Get a Clue 3, 2, 1 Blast O into Outer Space Mathematical Mystery Tour Computer Programming e Writer As An Artist

Great Adventures in Math, Engineering and Science Creative Writing Ready, Set, Build: e Fundamentals of Engineering Medical Diagnosis 101 Enlightened Mysteries in History Math by Design

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Forensic Science: Unlocking the Mysteries of DNA

Fine Arts Classes

Oakland Mills Middle School 9540 Kilimanjaro Road, Columbia, MD 20145

8:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.

e World Around Me: Drawing and Painting

Oakland Mills Middle School 9540 Kilimanjaro Road, Columbia, MD 20145

8:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.

Construct and Sculpt

GA01.E1 Grades 1-3

GA04.E2 GA05.E2 GA06.E2

Grades 1-3 Grades 4-5 Grades 4-5

GA02.E1 Grades 4-5 Artistic Journey Around the World GA03.E1 Grades 4-5 Recycled and Remade GA21.M1 Grades 6-8
Drawing Workshop: Perceptual Skills in Drawing

Mastering the Masters: Creating Original Masterpieces Build It: Sculptural Forms Design Your World Creating Art with Adobe Photoshop

GA23.M2 Grades 6-8 GA24.M2 Grades 6-8

GA22.M1 Grades 6-8 Cartooning and the Graphic Novel

Wilde Lake High School 5460 Trumpeter Road, Columbia, MD 21044

8:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.

Wilde Lake High School 5460 Trumpeter Road, Columbia, MD 21044

8:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.

GA31.H1 Grades 9-12 Digital Photography and Adobe Photoshop

GA32.H2 Grades 9-12

Portfolio Preparation and Development: Painting and Drawing

For registration information go to www.hcpss.org/gt or hcpssgtac.wordpress.com/ For further information, please call 410-313-6800 or email Stephanie_Bateman@hcpss.org
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GENERAL INFORMATION
GIFTED AND TALENTED SUMMER INSTITUTES FOR TALENT DEVELOPMENT

REGISTRATION PROCEDURES
Complete the following:

TRANSPORTATION

e G/T Summer Institutes provide interested students with advanced-level instruction and enrichment experiences not regularly available during the academic school year. e curriculum is focused on talent development and provides academically and artistically rigorous activities. Teaching strategies represent best practices in the elds of gifted and talented and arts education.

Information Form on page 9

Transportation for students enrolled in the G/T Summer Institutes will be the responsibility of the students and their parents/ guardians. Students must be dropped o and picked up on time.

TUITION REDUCTION

page 1 (Given to teacher of choice) Mail to: G/T Summer Institutes 5451 Beaverkill Road Columbia, MD 21044 Deadline: Postmarked by May 15, 2012 Payment must be included with registration. Registration is pending until all registration materials are received.

Parents/guardians may apply for tuition reduction if they qualify for Free and Reduced Meals services (FARMs) through Food and Nutrition Services. Parents who are also experiencing a documented nancial hardship may also apply. Please contact Stephanie Bateman at 410-313-6800 for more information.

REGISTER EARLY! LOCATIONS

Enrollment is limited and will be accepted on a rst-come, rst-served basis. Oakland Mills Middle School 9540 Kilimanjaro Road Columbia, MD 21045 Wilde Lake High School 5460 Trumpeter Road Columbia, MD 21044

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CLASS CANCELLATION

Please register early. Class size is limited. Classes with insucient enrollment will be cancelled. Class enrollment will be reviewed weekly. Registrants will be notied by phone if a class is full or canceled. Alternate classes will be oered, as available. Any refund will be made in the original form of payment.

Before and after care will be available on-site at Oakland Mills Middle for an additional fee. Please contact the Columbia Association for more information regarding program specics and hours of operation at 410-715 -3164.

AFTER CARE

CONTACT

Stephanie Bateman 410-313-6800 stephanie_bateman@hcpss.org

DATES, TIMES

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Session I June 25-July 6, 8:30 am-12:30 pm $270 Session II July 9-July 20, 8:30 am-12:30 pm $300

TUITION

WITHDRAWALS

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Send a letter requesting cancellation which must include an explanation for the request to: G/T Summer Institutes 5451 Beaverkill Road Columbia, MD 21044 e refund will be made in the original form of payment. Refund requests received after June 1, 2012 will be assessed a 20 percent administrative fee. Refunds will not be granted after June 25, 2012.

REFUNDS

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PAYMENT

(make payable to HCPSS.)

Checks returned by your bank due to insucient funds will be assessed a $25 charge. If payment is not received in full, the unpaid amount will be entered as an outstanding obligation at your childs school. All nancial obligations must be satised prior to graduation.

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General Academics Session I: June 25-July 6, 8:30 am-12:30 pm

GG01.E1 Session I Entering Grades: 1-2 Tuition: $270.00 Location: Oakland Mills MS Instructor: Cheryl Follmer Get your magnifying glasses ready to explore the photographic and rhythmic literary experiences created by Jean Marzollo and Walter Wick in their I Spy book collection. e students in this class will discover the creative process that is involved in designing these books and the accompanying riddles. ey will be inspired to construct a variety of theme-based projects that will become the artifacts for the class I Spy displays and original keepsake books. e activities are designed to include topics in reading, writing, math, science, social studies, and arts integration. GG02.E1 Session I Entering Grades: 2-3 Tuition: $270.00 Location: Oakland Mills MS Instructor: Sarah Biondo is class explores the use of tangrams, ancient Chinese puzzle pieces consisting of 7 geometric shapes, to create dierent characters for stories that students read and write. Instruction is math-based and focuses on creativity and hands-on activities to enhance math skills. Students learn and interpret geometric and spatial relationships while integrating language arts skills. Team building skills are stressed when students work with peers to produce and perform engaging plays as end projects.

INNOVATIVE I SPY ADVENTURES

concepts, such as patterns, geometry, fractions, statistics, problem solving, and measurement. Emphasis will be on the use of creative thinking in solving mathematical problems. GG05.E1 Session I Entering Grades: 2-3 Tuition: $270.00 Location: Oakland Mills MS Instructor: Tammy Sczepanski is class focuses on developing higher-level vocabulary, comprehension and interpretive thinking skills as students set sail through oceans of exciting literature selections. Instruction explores and navigates noteworthy authors to help students gain a greater understanding of style. Students read and respond to stories in creative ways that include imaginative writing activities to enhance their own writing skills.

SAILING THROUGH LITERATURE

COMPUTER PROGRAMMING TALKING TANGRAMS:INTEGRATING BUILDING A GREEN COMMUNITY GG21.M1 Session I GG06.E1 Session I Entering Grades: 6-8 Tuition: $270.00 GEOMETRY AND WRITING Entering Grades: 3-4 Tuition: $270.00 Location: Oakland Mills MS
Location: Oakland Mills MS Instructor: Christopher Brown In this interactive class, students will explore the many environmental problems that face the human race as Earths population continues to grow. Students will study a variety of sustainable practices that go into the planning of such a community, including energy production and consumption, transportation options, water treatment and conservation, protection of our natural resources and creative alternatives for waste management. Students will demonstrate their new knowledge by working cooperatively to plan a green community of their own. Instructor: Phil Wright is class introduces the essential building blocks behind object-oriented programming through creating fun, interactive stories and games. Students will use Scratch (a project from the MIT Media Lab) and Alice (a project from Carnegie Mellon) software to learn programming through interactive storytelling. In addition, students will develop critical thinking and problem solving skills by learning the basic programming code of the Python language.

GG09.E1 Session I Entering Grades: 4-5 Tuition: $270.00 Location: Oakland Mills MS Instructor: Kelly Collins In this class, students will focus on Fibonacci Numbers and the Golden Ratio as they work to integrate history, design, writing, geometrical constructions, botany, zoology, astronomy, and philosophy. e students will use problem solving skills, inferencing, estimation, research, pattern recognition and analogical thinking as they solve mathematical mysteries. e tour will culminate with a student exhibit of models, drawings, and explanations of the mathematical tour. is mathematical adventure is sure to please the inquisitive learner.

MATHEMATICAL MYSTERY TOUR

THE WRITER

THE ELEMENTARY CHEMIST: KIDS KITCHEN CHEMISTRY

MYSTERY WRITING: GET

GG03.E1 Session I Entering Grades: 2-3 Tuition: $270.00 Location: Oakland Mills MS Instructor: Holly Walker is class is for students interested in a handson science experience. Instruction will focus on using the scientic method to experiment, observe, and test hypotheses. Students will engage in learning about matter and its properties while using chemistry to create and explain color changes, huge bubbles, weird smells and eusions of gas. Curriculum is designed to teach the principles of chemistry, to allow students to become familiar with laboratory techniques, and to encourage scientic inquiry.

A CLUE GG07.E1 Session I Entering Grades: 4-5 Tuition: $270.00 Location: Oakland Mills MS Instructor: Mary Reinhard is class is designed to explore how mathematics is woven into the plot of mystery writing. Instruction will focus on learning the basic components of mystery writing. Students will study the works of Blue Balliett, beginning with her award-winning novel, Chasing Vermeer. After analyzing Ballietts style, the students will apply their knowledge of mystery writing to write an original, realistic ction book, using digital photography to record clues.
GG08.E1 Session I Entering Grades: 4-5 Tuition: $270.00 Location: Oakland Mills MS Instructor: Jessica Michaelson In this class, young astronauts will explore the theme of space through science, math, technology, writing, reading, career education and current events. ey will learn about Americas history in space in order to promote a deeper understanding of the Space Race and NASAs future plans involving Mars. Instruction will emphasize problem-solving activities and creativity, as students build rockets and make model space devices.

AS AN ARTIST GG22.M1 Session I Entering Grades: 6-8 Tuition: $270.00 Location: Oakland Mills MS Instructor: Lauren Vint is class will focus on developing students skills in creative writing. Curriculum is designed to engage students in imaginative thinking as they craft original poetry and short stories. Emphasis will be on exploring how setting, character and mood meld with diction, voice and sentence uency to enrich student writing. Students gain a deeper understanding of how writers paint images that capture the imagination of readers.
GG23.M1 Session I Entering Grades: 6-8 Tuition: $270.00 Location: Oakland Mills MS Instructor: Suzanne Stafford Have you ever wondered how DNA is used in solving crimes? Come learn why DNA is so important to forensic science and how this amazing molecule encodes genetic information. is exciting class will focus on the scientic processes of collecting evidence, conducting ngerprint analysis, and analyzing DNA.

3, 2, 1, BLAST OFF INTO OUTER SPACE!

FORENSIC SCIENCE: UNLOCKING THE MYSTERIES OF DNA

MATH SMART THROUGH

THE ARTS GG04.E1 Session I Entering Grades: 2-3 Tuition: $270.00 Location: Oakland Mills MS Instructor: Linda Ferrara is class provides students with the opportunity to discover the natural connections between the four major art forms and mathematics. Instruction will include drawing, painting, listening to and responding to music, drumming, dramatic play, and movement. Students will learn how these art activities relate to math

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General Academics Session II: July 9-20, 8:30 am-12:30 pm

ECO-TECH
GG10.E2 Session II Entering Grades: 1-2 Tuition: $300.00 Location: Oakland Mills MS Instructor: Shannon Kennedy Do you love nature? How about technology? If you said yes to both, you will love this class! Hands on activities and educational technology will be used to integrate the earth and life sciences in this environmentally focused class. Students will use observation skills, collect data, and draw conclusions about the importance of the delicate balance of our local ecosystem. Educational technology such as electronic databases, digital cameras, and iLife software will be integrated with science content to extend learning.

SAILING THROUGH LITERATURE

WRAPPED UP IN WRITING: A YOUNG AUTHORS WORKSHOP

GREAT ADVENTURES IN MATH, ENGINEERING AND SCIENCE

GG14.E2 Session II Entering Grades: 2-3 Tuition: $300.00 Location: Oakland Mills MS Instructor: Tammy Sczepanski is class focuses on developing higher-level vocabulary, comprehension and interpretive thinking skills as students set sail through oceans of exciting literature selections. Instruction explores and navigates noteworthy authors to help students gain a greater understanding of style. Students read and respond to stories in creative ways that include imaginative writing activities to enhance their own writing skills. GG15.E2 Session II Entering Grades: 3-4 Tuition: $300.00 Location: Oakland Mills MS Instructor: Carol Brzezinski is class will provide opportunities for students to explore math, engineering, and science through hands-on activities and guest speakers. Constructing projects that spotlight the essentials of physics, students will learn about engineering through Lego Robotics, explore geometry with bubbles, and learn about cryptography with an expert from NSA. is class is designed to empower students to become problem solvers, stimulate interest in these inspiring elds of study, and explore careers related to these topics. GG16.E2 Session II Entering Grades: 4-5 Tuition: $300.00 Location: Oakland Mills MS Instructor: Lisa Young Both writers and artists use specic elements to craft a masterpiece. In this session, students will learn the components of eective creative writing as they explore the work of master artists, such as Monet and van Gogh. Students will develop an understanding of writing traits, such as organization, sentence uency, and voice, to compose original stories and poems. en, students will create their own unique artistic masterpiece based upon the work of classic artists.

MEDICAL DIAGNOSIS 101

THE ELEMENTARY CHEMIST: KIDS KITCHEN CHEMISTRY

GG11.E2 Session II Entering Grades: 2-3 Tuition: $300.00 Location: Oakland Mills MS Instructor: Amy English is class will provide students with a unique writing experience. By incorporating 6+1 traits of writing to expand ideas, diction, organization, grammar, sentence uency and voice, the students will eectively and successfully learn how to assemble the building blocks of writing. e curriculum is designed to be interactive, using authentic literature as expert examples for students as they develop their own stories and nal presentation. GG12.E2 Session II Entering Grades: 2-3 Tuition: $300.00 Location: Oakland Mills MS Instructor: Holly Walker is class is for students interested in a handson science experience. Instruction will focus on using the scientic method to experiment, observe and test hypotheses. Students will engage in learning about matter and its properties while using chemistry to create and explain color changes, huge bubbles, weird smells and eusions of gas. Curriculum is designed to teach the principles of chemistry, to allow students to become familiar with laboratory techniques and to encourage scientic inquiry.

GG18.E2 Session II Entering Grades: 4-5 Tuition: $300.00 Location: Oakland Mills MS Instructor: Jessica Brown Students in this interactive class will work in cooperative groups called medical clinics to explore the components and workings of six dierent systems in the human body: circulatory, respiratory, nervous, digestive, muscular/skeletal, and immune system. Each student will become an expert in his or her specialty and must pass a Board Exam prior to practicing medicine. Within the clinics, students will study the relationship between positive health behaviors and the prevention of injury, illness, and disease. e unit will conclude with Grand Rounds, where each clinic team is presented with a patient, and must research and work together to nd a diagnosis.

ENLIGHTENED THROUGH ENGINEERING

CREATIVE WRITING THROUGH MASTER ART WORKS

GG24.M2 Session II Entering Grades: 6-8 Tuition: $300.00 Location: Oakland Mills MS Instructor: Phil Wright is class provides students with the opportunity to explore the engineering process involved in designing and programming a robot for a real world application. Student teams will use problem solving through hands-on projects and computer simulations to learn engineering concepts. e students will use creativity, ingenuity, and technology to develop their nal projects.

MYSTERIES

SOLVING

GG13.E2 Entering Grades: 2-3 Tuition: $300.00 Location: Oakland Mills MS Instructor: Jo Scheler is class is designed for students who love to solve mysteries. Instruction will focus on solving the crime of which suspect borrowed the classrooms stued friend, Mr. Bear. Students will examine clues and evidence while learning important scientic skills and concepts. Emphasis will be on applying skills in observation, analysis, technology and problem solving, as students become active crime scene investigators.

MATH BY DESIGN READY, SET, BUILD: SCIENTIFIC MYSTERY THE FUNDAMENTALS OF ENGINEERING GG26.M2 Entering Grades: 6-8 Session II
GG17.E2 Session II Entering Grades: 4-5 Tuition: $300.00 Location: Oakland Mills MS Instructor: Jessica Michaelson is class introduces students to the basics of engineering through exploring a variety of tasks that involve designing planes, cars, bridges, rockets, and more. After learning the mathematical and scientic concepts that relate to each project, students will simulate the role of civil engineers, as they are challenged to create successful products.

IN HISTORY GG25.M2 Session II Entering Grades: 6-8 Tuition: $300.00 Location: Oakland Mills MS Instructor: Katie Quinn Students in this class will act as historical investigators, determining the cause and eect of many of the worlds mysteries: the disappearance of Amelia Earhart, Stonehenge, the Bermuda Triangle, and the lost colonists of Roanoke. As students conduct their historical investigations, they will learn and further develop research skills, such as determining source reliability, dierentiation of primary and secondary sources, and critical thinking. Successful students have a vast toolbox of research skills. What better way to add to that toolbox than through the study of our civilizations greatest mysteries!
Session II Tuition: $300.00 Location: Oakland Mills MS Instructor: Mary Reinhard Students in this class will use their imaginations and apply mathematical concepts to create their own architectural drawings and models. Using geometry and measurement skills, students will determine costs, solve problems in response to design challenges, and advertise their projects. e instructor will teach these concepts through the exploration of several architectural styles, design concepts, and problem-solving strategies. Students will complete hands-on activities as they build original models.

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Fine Arts Session I: June 25-July 6, 8:30 am-12:30 pm

THE WORLD AROUND ME: DRAWING AND PAINTING
GA01.E1 Session I Entering Grades: 1-3 Tuition: $270.00 Location: Oakland Mills MS Instructor: Tolly Rumbaugh is class is designed to expose young artists to various mediums in art, such as paints, pastels and pencils. Students will practice observational skills while working directly from real objects, people, and landscapes. Curriculum is designed to provide an artistically rich environment where students experiment with color mixing, mark-making, balance, composition and shading. GA21.M1 Session I Entering Grades: 6-8 Tuition: $270.00 Location: Oakland Mills MS Instructor: April Simpson is class is designed for students wanting to rene their drawing skills. Participants will learn how to use the power of observation to accurately depict what they see. Working from life, students will draw a variety of subject matter including still-life, portraits, gures, and landscapes. Using materials such as graphite, charcoal, and pastel, students will learn how to use light and shadow to accurately depict subjects.
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DIGITAL PHOTOGRAPHY DRAWING WORKSHOP: PERCEPTUAL SKILLS IN DRAWING ADOBE PHOTOSHOP

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ARTISTIC JOURNEY AROUND THE WORLD: THE ART OF MANY CULTURES

CARTOONING AND GRAPHIC NOVEL

GA31.H1 Session I Entering Grades: 9-12 Tuition: $270.00 Location: Wilde Lake HS Instructor: Jacob Cecil is class will introduce students to the principles of photography, the features and functions of digital cameras, and the instruction for manipulating and enhancing images using Adobe Photoshop. Studio problems are designed to help master photographic techniques and tap into students personal experience of the visual world around them. Students will learn how to conceive, develop, and rene images while exploring options in manipulating imagery for expressive purposes.

AND REMADE GA03.E1 Session I Entering Grades: 4-5 Tuition: $270.00 Location: Oakland Mills MS Instructor: Amy Johnson Want an opportunity to go green while creating a personal work of art? Everywhere we look there are cardboard tubes and boxes, plastic bottles, caps, forks and spoons, broken coee mugs and other objects of waste waiting for a new purpose. In this class, old becomes new again when students take a look at how everyday recyclable objects become tools in making personal works of art! Students will learn new 2- and 3-D art making techniques while using their imagination and creativity to create collages, sculptures, and works that explore design-based problems through the use of found objects.

GA02.E1 Session I Entering Grades: 4-5 Tuition: $270.00 Location: Oakland Mills MS Instructor: Dominique Bucci Do you love to travel to new places you have never seen before? is class is designed to help students visually travel around the world to experience the individual colors, textures, and styles of artwork from dierent continents. By exploring the historical and cultural background of artworks throughout the world, students will experiment with a wide variety of 2- and 3-D materials while creating personal drawings, paintings, collages, and 3-dimensional culturally responsive works of art.

GA22.M2 Session I Entering Grades: 6-8 Tuition: $270.00 Location: Oakland Mills MS roughout its long history, cartooning and caricature have provided a wonderful means for people to capture (humorous) likenesses, entertain one another, bring forth laughter, and take amazing ights of fantasy. is class is designed to look at cartooning as a powerful medium for all kinds of storytelling and idea exploration while focusing on the student as artist and author. Students will create their own characters and illustrate their own stories by using a variety of art materials and studio techniques.

RECYCLED

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Fine Arts Session II: July 9-20, 8:30 am-12:30 pm

CONSTRUCT

AND SCULPT GA04.E2 Session II Entering Grades: 1-3 Tuition: $300.00 Location: Oakland Mills MS Instructor: Tolly Rumbaugh is class is designed for students who have a interest in putting together unusual materials to create three-dimensional objects. Based on individual student needs and strengths, instruction will focus on a variety of exciting and fun ways to problem solve and create original 3-D structures while experimenting with clay, paper, foam core, wire, plaster-craft and papier-mch using a variety of diverse sculpting techniques.

BUILD IT: SCULPTURAL FORMS

MASTERING THE MASTERS: CREATING ORIGINAL MASTERPIECES

GA05.E2 Session II Entering Grades: 4-5 Tuition: $300.00 Location: Oakland Mills MS Instructor: Dominique Bucci is class will focus on the many materials, techniques, and subjects that master artists (both past and present) work with to inspire and create one of a kind works of art. Students will delve into masterful ways to create portraits, landscapes, and abstractions while utilizing drawing, painting, collage, and mixed media techniques. Master artists will inspire students to experiment and develop personal and original masterpieces through thoughtful planning, preparation and experimentation.

GA06.E2 Session II Entering Grades: 4-5 Tuition: $300.00 Location: Oakland Mills MS Instructor: April Simpson is class is designed for students who like to construct and sculpt using 3-D materials. Instruction will focus on how Master Artists utilize artful building techniques and the dierent ways students can creatively develop original sculptural masterpieces. Students enrolled in this class will have fun working with various materials including plaster gauze, clay, paper, paper-mache, wire, and natural/ found objects to create new works of art ranging from mobiles to masks. Sculptural methods introduced will allow students to explore, develop, and build their artistic compositional and technical skills all in one! GA23.M2 Session II Entering Grades: 6-8 Tuition: $300.00 Location: Oakland Mills MS Instructor: Amy Johnson Who designs all of the colorful products, objects, and other graphic images that entice you to pick-up, look at, try, wear, and purchase your favorite products? is class is designed to help develop visual problem-solving skills that enable students to enrich and inform their personal lives with meaningful designbased solutions to real world problems. Participants will explore and use a variety of art materials, tools, and techniques to create 2 and 3-D artworks that allow them to become imaginative designers of their worlds.

CREATING ART WITH ADOBE PHOTOSHOP

DESIGN YOUR WORLD

GA24.M2 Session II Entering Grades: 6-8 Tuition: $300.00 Location: Oakland Mills MS Instructor: Jacob Cecil In this class, students use digital imaging to create and manipulate original works of art. Using personal photographs, drawings, collages, artworks, and Adobe Photoshop, students will explore the potential of the digital medium to create personally meaningful compositions and images. By utilizing a variety of compositional decisions and visual eects via use of lters, the graphics drawing toolbox, color eects, and artful use of text individuals will experiment with creating completely new images. Students works are printed and copied to CD for their portfolios.

PORTFOLIO PREPARATION AND DEVELOPMENT: PAINTING AND DRAWING

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GA32.H2 Session II Entering Grades: 9-12 Tuition: $300.00 Location: Wilde Lake HS Instructor: Heather Leatherman is class is designed to help students further develop observational drawing and painting skills in a traditional method, exploring dierent genres, including still-life, gure, portraiture, and landscape. Students will work in a large format, using a variety of wet and dry media. Work produced in this course can be used for the Breadth section of the Advanced Placement Drawing or 2-D Portfolio.

2012 Summer Programs Registration Form

Student ID Number:

On-site registration ONLY for BSAP and Comprehensive Programs Mail-in registration ONLY for Career Academies, G/T Summer Institutes, and STEM Programs
Part 1: Biographical Information - (PLEASE PRINT)

Student Last Name:_______________________________________________________ First Name:______________________________________ Current School (2011-12):________________________________ School for Fall (2012-13):__________________________ Grade 2011-12:_____ Student Home Address Street:______________________________________________________________________________________________ City:_____________________________________________________ State:____________________________________ Zip:__________________ Parent/Guardian Last Name:________________________________________________ First Name:_____________________________________ Parent/Guardian E-mail:__________________________________________________________________________________________________ Home Telephone: (_________) _______________________________Work /Cell Telephone: (_________) ________________________________ Student Ethnicity (check one): Hispanic Race (check all that apply): Yes No Student Gender: Asian Male Female Native Hawaiian or Other Pacic Islander White American Indian/Alaskan Native Black/African American

Check here if you do not want your child photographed for school system purposes while enrolled in a summer program. Parent Signature: _______________________________________________________________________ Date: ____/____/____________

Part 2: Class Selection - Refer to this catalog for registration information. Choose only one class per session.
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All Grades Is your child receiving Support Services? Attach a copy of your childs document to this form. Support Services student is receiving Elementary and Middle Is your child Elementary and Middle Is your child IEP on on 504 Yes above above Action Plan (FBA, BIP, etc.) No If Yes, attach MD Accommodations form. below grade level for Math? below grade level for Reading? Did the student receive ESOL Services in 2011-12 school year?

Comprehensive K-8 Summer School Program requires a copy of the most recent report card with this registration form.

G/T Summer Institutes onlyHas your child participated in any of the following G/T oerings in the 2011-12 school year? (Check all that apply)
G/T Math for Grades 4 and 5 Type III Research Investigation G/T Curriculum Extension Units Middle School G/T Content Area Classes G/T Instructional Seminars G/T Saturday Art Program

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Name of person Name of person Name of person Relationship Relationship Relationship (area code) day time phone number (area code) day time phone number (area code) day time phone number

Summer School Emergency Notication

2. _________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 3. _________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Other procedures desired: _____________________________________________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Summer School Health Information

(For Health Room use)

List any health conditions/handicapping conditions: _______________________________________________________________ List any allergies: _____________________________________________________________________________________________ Describe the usual symptoms/reactions or any deviation from the usual reaction: ___________________________________________ Does your child have any activity restrictions? Will any medication be needed at school? available in any school health room. Yes Yes No If yes, please explain. _________________________________________ No If yes, a written order from your Doctor is required. Medication forms are ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________

health assistant prior to the child attending summer school. discussed with sta as necessary to maintain your childs safety. Parent/Guardian Signature _______________________________________________________________ Date ____/____/________

For ofce use only: please make a copy of this form, send original to Health Services Ofce at ARL. Send copy to the Front Ofce of students summer school.
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