Showcase: Media Production
The Media Production track was led by Mrs. Chien and Danny Fong, pastor of Redeemer–and full-time digital geek. Over the course of the week-long track, scholars got the chance to create their own stop-motion animation. From Idea to Screen Scholars learned the basics by first creating a paper-and-pencil flipbook animation, getting a feel for how many frames […]
Showcase: Engineering Track
As one of three tracks in this summer’s program, the engineering track was capably led by the fabulous Roy Wong, an engineer previously at Genentech and Bechtel. Over the course of 4 days, our scholars first learned basic scientific principles and then put them in action. Action. Reaction. Indy 500. Learning about Newton’s Laws of […]
Showcase: Learn to Code Track
One of three elective tracks for the summer program, the coding track was led by software engineers from Dayspring Technologies. Starting with an introduction to programming concepts through paper exercises teaching that computers can only do exactly what you tell them, scholars were then introduced to the MIT-developed Scratch visual programming environment. This drag-and-drop programming environment teaches the basics of […]