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Week of June 12-16 Preschool Fun Camp A fun-filled week of games, arts & crafts, and outdoor activities. Children will spend the morning with one of our early elementary education teachers and engage in cooperative and creative learning. Ages: 3 - 5 Dates: June 12 - 16 Time: 9am to Noon Instructor: Jennifer Sebelist and Margrethe Faulkner Cost: $180.00
Passport to the Arts Come along as we take a week long tour of the world in this full day camp. Immerse yourself in the culture of 5 different countries through dance, music, arts and crafts, language, cooking and more. Can you perform a flamenco dance like they do in Spain? Have you ever stuffed cabbage leaves like they do in Ukraine? Which colors are vert, rouge and noir in French? Pack your bags and get ready for a week full of fun and learning, but without the jet lag. Ages: 7—11 Dates: June 12 - 16 Time: 9am to 3pm Instructors: Christine Healy and Stephanie Blocher Cost: $325.00
Principles of Engineering Design: Towers, Mobiles Basic physics will be taught as it relates to each objective, as well as sound engineering practices. Available to students who have completed grade 6 and up. This camp is essentially the same program as the first week (of a three week residential program) at a Center for Talented Youth site. The CTY program has been taught by Mr Ringlein the past three summers at Haverford College and this is the first time offered at LCDS. Ages: 13 - 18 Dates: June 12 - 16 Time: 9am to 3pm (FULL DAY) Instructor: Jim Ringlein Cost: $400.00
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Principles of Engineering Design: Towers, Mobiles Basic physics will be taught as it relates to each objective, as well as sound engineering practices. Available to students who have completed grade 6 and up. This camp is substantially the same program as the first week (of a three week residential program) at a Center for Talented Youth site. The CTY program has been taught by Mr Ringlein the past three summers at Haverford College and this is the first time offered at LCDS. Ages: 13 - 18 Dates: June 12 - 16 Time: 9am to 12:30pm (HALF DAY) Instructor: Jim Ringlein Cost: $275.00
Creative Writing Workshop This week-long summer creative writing workshop is for students in grades 4 & 5. For three hours a day, students will read, discuss, and write poetry and fiction with the goal of helping them develop their creative and critical abilities with language. Camp is led by LCDS 7th grade English teacher-writer, Meghan Kenny. Writing will be done in and outside of the classroom on the LCDS campus where students will write their own short stories and poems, and receive peer and teacher feedback for revision. Ages: 8 - 11 Dates: June 12 - 16 Time: 9am-12pm Instructor: Meghan Kenny Cost: $180.00
Cool Chemistry and Phun Physics Explore a range of science topics using hands-on activities to solve phun physics problems, experiment with cool chemistry reactions and investigate crime scene puzzles. Ages: 11 - 13 Dates: June 12 - 16 Time: 9am to Noon Instructor: Lindsay Deibler-Wallace Cost: $180.00
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Week of June 19-23 Lion King Jr. Have you ever wanted to travel to the African savanna? What about meeting Simba and his best friends Nala, Timon, and Pumba? Well you CAN! This summer come and play with all of the characters from The Lion King! During this two week, full day camp, we will be learning and performing all of the famous songs while working on how to develop characters. There will be a final performance the last day of camp for family and friends. Come and join the fun! And remember, Hakuna Matata! Ages: 8 - 11 Dates: June 19 - 30 Time: 9am to 3pm Instructors: Kristin Wolanin and Heather Woodbridge Cost: $650.00
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Creative Writing Workshop This week-long summer creative writing workshop is for students in grades 6-8. For three hours a day, students will read, discuss, and write poetry and fiction with the goal of helping them develop their creative and critical abilities with language. Camp is led by LCDS 7th grade English teacher-writer, Meghan Kenny. Writing will be done in and outside of the classroom on the LCDS campus where students will write their own short stories and poems, and receive peer and teacher feedback for revision. Ages: 10 - 13 Dates: June 19 - 23 Time: 9am-12pm Instructor: Meghan Kenny Cost: $180.00
Mix It Up! Mix it up! It’s a games, art, science, cooking and imaginative play bash! Experienced teachers have planned countless indoor and outdoor activities with the goal of keeping everyone involved in hours of fun each day! Bring your imagination and get ready for fun! Ages: 5 - 8 Dates: June 19 - 23 Time: 9am to 3pm Instructors: Kevia Walton and Cathy Swiatek Cost: $325.00
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LEGO速 Technic速 Camp What is LEGO Technic? Technic is the LEGO product line that includes bricks with holes, pegs and axles, wheels, gears, motors and much more. Using LEGO Technic elements we will begin with basic principles for how to build strong yet light frames and chassis, then quickly move on to suspension systems, steering systems, transmissions both simple and highly complex. Using LEGO motors and gears one of the models they build will be a fully functional 5-speed transmission with reverse. This camp will be an excellent opportunity to vastly improve LEGO construction skills helpful for FIRST LEGO League. Ages: 10 - 14 Dates: June 19 - 23 Time: 9am to Noon Instructor: Mike Tighe Cost: $180.00
LEGO速 NXT速 Brick Programming Camp We will build an assortment of LEGO robots and learn how to program them. A main focus will be to use sensors to control how the robot responds to its surroundings: How not to drive off a table with touch and light sensors; How to make precise turns using a gyro sensor. How to follow straight and curved lines on the floor with one or more light sensors; How to follow a line using one sensor while another sensor to reads stripe or color codes it passes. One example will be to build a "CargoBot" that will follow a line with one sensor then read stripes or colors to instruct it where to turn to pickup and deliver its payload then return. This camp will be an excellent opportunity to vastly improve LEGO construction skills helpful for FIRST LEGO League. Ages: 10 - 14 Dates: June 19 - 23 Time: 1 - 4pm Instructor: Mike Tighe Cost: $180.00
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Soccer Camp GOAL!!!! It's always a good time to practice your game! Come join the summer fun and improve your soccer skills. From passing drills, to ball control and footwork, and teamwork - we have you covered! Ages: 9 - 11 Dates: June 19 - 23 Time: 9 - Noon Instructor: Dave German Cost: $180.00
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Soccer Camp GOAL!!!! It's always a good time to practice your game! Come join the summer fun and improve your soccer skills. From passing drills, to ball control and footwork, and teamwork - we have you covered Ages: 12 - 14 Dates: June 19 - 23 Time: 1 - 4pm Instructor: Dave German Cost: $180.00
Social Innovation and Entrepreneurship Leadership for social change will be more important than ever in coming years. Whether the issue is human rights, resource scarcity, or climate change, this hands-on camp encourages young leaders to work together to identify the world’s most pressing problems and practice solving them. Our goal will be to create solutions that add more value or are more sustainable than those currently in use. To do that, we’ll study innovative people globally and locally who are trying to create sustainable solutions. Along the way, we’ll learn basic tools of innovation, organizing, and collaboration. Ages: 14 - 18 Dates: June 19 - 23 Time: 9am to 4pm Instructor: Trex Proffitt Cost: $350.00
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Animation Art Did you ever want to make your own stop motion animated film? Or be a filmmaker? Well here is your chance. Learn how to draw a storyboard, make sets and characters, use cameras and computer capture software, edit your rough footage, and compose an original soundtrack. All you need is patience. Stopmotion animation is a process where a picture is taken then the object being animated is moved just a little bit. Another picture is taken and another small movement is made. This process is repeated over and over until the scene is completed. The goal is to make inanimate objects appear to move and come to life. Ages: 9-14 Dates: June 19 - 23 Time: 9am - Noon Instructor: Diane Wilikofsky Cost: $180.00
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Sculpture and Fused Glass Class Here's your chance to make your own unique fused glass objects from jewelry to glass trivets. You will learn how to cut glass and compose with color and shape. We will also work with wire, metal foil and other materials as we explore sculpture. Ages: 9 - 14 Dates: June 19 - 23 Time: 1 - 4pm Instructor: Diane Wilikofsky Cost: $180.00
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Before Camp Childcare
After Camp Childcare
Dates: June 19 - 23 Time: 8 - 9am Instructor: Cathy Swiatek Cost: $8.00 per Hour
Dates: June 19 - 23 Time: 3 - 4pm Instructor: Cathy Swiatek Cost: $8.00 per Hour
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Week of June 26-30 Mix It Up! Mix it up! It’s a games, art, science, cooking and imaginative play bash! Experienced teachers have planned countless indoor and outdoor activities with the goal of keeping everyone involved in hours of fun each day! Bring your imagination and get ready for fun! Ages: 5 - 8 Dates: June 26 - 30 Time: 9am to 3pm Instructors: Kevia Walton and Cathy Swiatek Cost: $325.00
Beginner Volleyball Camp This camp is designed to teach the game of volleyball, focusing on individual player development. We will focus on technique, skill development and individual self confidence. We will provide a positive environment so each camper will gain confidence as a volleyball player while improving their physical skills! Ages: 9 - 13 Dates: June 26 - 30 Time: 9am to 12:30pm Instructor: Aimee Nelson Cost: $210.00
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LEGOÂŽ Great Ball Contraption Camp What is a LEGO Great Ball Contraption? Imagine the "Mouse Trap" game super-sized in LEGO. Imagine a continuous looping Rube Goldberg machine with LEGO. A quick search on YouTube of "Great Ball Contraption" will yield hours of entertainment and LEGO inspiration. This LEGO GBC camp will focus on the fundamentals of mechanical principles of design and implementation to move LEGO soccer balls and basket balls using methods limited only by the imagination of the builder. Ages: 10 - 14 Dates: June 26 - 30 Time: 9am to Noon Instructor: Mike Tighe Cost: $180.00
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LEGO® SumoBot Camp LEGO SumoBot competitions have been around since shortly after LEGO introduced the LEGO Robotics Invention System in 1998. Each LEGO SumoBot round consists of 2 LEGO robots placed in a 4 foot white ring with a black border. Each robot attempts to find the other robot and push it outside the ring. This camp will focus on the fundamentals of mechanical design and programming aimed at detection and traction to implement good defensive strategies and offensive tactics. There will be an in-class tournament during the final period - families are invited to attend and cheer on the competitors. Advanced programming will be explored utilizing multi-threading programming for sophisticated multi-sensor event and coordinated motor controls. Ages: 10 - 14 Dates: June 26 - 30 Time: 1 - 4pm Instructor: Mike Tighe Cost: $180.00
Kitchen Science Cooking is not just an art form, it’s science. Kids will explore real biological and chemical principles and phenomena such as respiration, emulsification, oxidation, and chemical reactions, by making bread with yeast, whipping up a smooth cheese sauce for mac and cheese, and learning the secret to the perfect cookie. They will discover what makes a lemon sour, and how turning the sour down in a sauce can make it salty instead. They’ll even learn the difference between soap and detergent, so that they can do a good job cleaning up too! Kids should bring an apron or wear stainable clothes, and be prepared to tie long hair back. We will taste what we make, and if we can, send leftovers home. Diverse ingredients will be used, but we will avoid nuts. Ages: 8 - 12 Dates: June 26 - 30 Time: 1pm to 4pm Instructor: Juliette Winterer Cost: $180.00
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Before Camp Childcare
After Camp Childcare
Dates: June 26 - 30 Time: 8 - 9am Instructor: Cathy Swiatek Cost: $8.00 per Hour
Dates: June 26 - 30 Time: 3 - 4pm Instructor: Cathy Swiatek Cost: $8.00 per Hour
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Week of July 3-7 Mix It Up! Mix it up! It’s a games, art, science, cooking and imaginative play bash! Experienced teachers have planned countless indoor and outdoor activities with the goal of keeping everyone involved in hours of fun each day! Bring your imagination and get ready for fun! Ages: 5 - 8 Dates: July 3 - 7 Time: 9am to 3pm Instructors: Kevia Walton and Cathy Swiatek Cost: $325.00
Before Camp Childcare
After Camp Childcare
Dates: July 3 - 7 Time: 8 - 9am Instructor: Cathy Swiatek Cost: $8.00 per Hour
Dates: July 3 - 7 Time: 3 - 4pm Instructor: Cathy Swiatek Cost: $8.00 per Hour
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Week of July 10-14 Mix It Up! Mix it up! It’s a games, art, science, cooking and imaginative play bash! Experienced teachers have planned countless indoor and outdoor activities with the goal of keeping everyone involved in hours of fun each day! Bring your imagination and get ready for fun! Ages: 5 - 8 Dates: July 10 - 14 Time: 9am to 3pm Instructors: Kevia Walton and Cathy Swiatek
Girls Lacrosse (Gr. K-2) The Lancaster Country Day Cougars Girls Lacrosse program has partnered with Full Force Lacrosse in order to offer an instructional lacrosse camp for girls. This camp is specifically designed to teach and develop the fundamental skills of the game , throwing/catching, cradling, shooting, and ground balls in a fun and educational atmosphere. Campers will need to provide their own equipment; girls lacrosse stick, protective goggles, and a mouthpiece. Ages: 5 - 7 (Girls entering K -2nd grade) Dates: July 10 - 14 Time: 9 - 10am Instructor: Claudia Ovchinnikoff Cost: $60.00
Girls Lacrosse (Gr. 3-4) The Lancaster Country Day Cougars Girls Lacrosse program has partnered with Full Force Lacrosse in order to offer an instructional lacrosse camp for girls. This camp is specifically designed to teach and develop the fundamental skills of the game, throwing/catching, cradling, shooting, and ground balls in a fun and educational atmosphere. Campers will need to provide their own equipment; girls lacrosse stick, protective goggles, and a mouthpiece. Ages: 8 - 9 (Girls entering 3th - 4th grade) Dates: July 10 - 14 Time: 10am - 11:30am Instructor: Claudia Ovchinnikoff Cost: $90.00
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Girls Lacrosse (Gr. 5-6) The Lancaster Country Day Cougars Girls Lacrosse program has partnered with Full Force Lacrosse in order to offer an instructional lacrosse camp for girls. The camp will focus on individual skills, team concepts and full field play. Campers will need to provide their own equipment; girls lacrosse stick, protective goggles, and a mouthpiece. Ages: 10 - 11 (Girls entering 5th - 6th grade) Dates: July 10 - 14 Time: 11:30am - 1pm Instructor: Claudia Ovchinnikoff Cost: $90.00
Girls Lacrosse (Gr. 7-9) The Lancaster Country Day Cougars Girls Lacrosse program has partnered with Full Force Lacrosse in order to offer an instructional lacrosse camp for girls. The camp will focus on individual skills, team concepts and full field play. Campers will need to provide their own equipment; girls lacrosse stick, protective goggles, and a mouthpiece. Ages: 12 - 14 (Girls entering 7th - 9th grade) Dates: July 10 - 14 Time: 1 - 3pm Instructor: Claudia Ovchinnikoff Cost: $150.00
Shaking Up Shakespeare!!! Come join the fun as we tackle one of Shakespeare's favorite love stories, "The Tempest". In five fun and drama filled days, we will produce a 30 minute version to perform on Friday for parents and friends. Are you up for the challenge? There will be theatre games, the show to put on, and also mask making. Come experience what Shakespeare is all about! This is going to be brilliant! Or as they say back in Shakespeare's time, "Huzzah!" In partnership with Theater of the Seventh Sister. Ages: 12 - 18 Dates: July 10 -14 Time: 9am-4pm Instructor: Kristin Wolanin and Diane Wilikofsky Cost: $350.00
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Scrapbook/Card Making Camp Take your pictures and create cool page designs or cards. Add colors, shapes, cutouts, stamps, sparkles, jewels, glitter. ANYTHING you want to make an awesome, collectible scrapbook. Ages: 8 - 17 Dates: July 10 - 14 Time: 9am to Noon Instructor: Aimee Nelson Cost: $180.00
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Social Innovation and Entrepreneurship Leadership for social change will be more important than ever in coming years. Whether the issue is human rights, resource scarcity, or climate change, this hands-on camp encourages young leaders to work together to identify the world’s most pressing problems and practice solving them. Our goal will be to create solutions that add more value or are more sustainable than those currently in use. To do that, we’ll study innovative people globally and locally who are trying to create sustainable solutions. Along the way, we’ll learn basic tools of innovation, organizing, and collaboration. Ages: 12 - 14 Dates: July 10 - 14 Time: 9am to 4pm Instructor: Trex Proffitt Cost: $350.00
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Making Magnificent Monsters! Children will unleash their creativity in this hands-on, monster-themed art camp. Imaginations will run wild as we use both traditional and non-traditional art materials to create an innovative array of monsters: friendly, fierce, or funny. The week will conclude with a monstrously fun art exhibit of our creative creatures. Ages: 6 - 10 Dates: July 10 - 14 Time: 1 - 4pm Instructor: Candy Thompson Cost: $180.00
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Make and Create Camp Campers will do a little of this and do a little of that! Part of the morning will be learning and using code to program characters to move, as well as learn the beginning steps to video game design. The second part of the morning will be devoted to using math, science, the outdoors and tinkering to make a boat, to play balloon blow up and to compete in a water drop race! Ages: 5 - 8 Dates: July 10 - 14 Time: 9am to Noon Cost: $180.00
Before Camp Childcare
After Camp Childcare
Dates: July 10 - 14 Time: 8 - 9am Instructor: Cathy Swiatek Cost: $8.00 per Hour
Dates: July 10 - 14 Time: 3 - 4pm Instructor: Cathy Swiatek Cost: $8.00 per Hour
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Week of July 17-21 Boys Lacrosse The Lancaster Country Day School/ Lancaster Catholic/ JP McCaskey (Cougars) Boys Lacrosse Program will be holding youth camps, offering boys in grades 9 - 12 lacrosse instruction in a fun and positive learning environment. Ages: 14 - 18 Dates: July 21 (6 - 8pm) July 22 (9am - 3pm) July 23 (9am - 3pm) Instructor: Zach Lombardo Cost: $180.00
Week of August 7-11 Kindergarten Jump Start “JUMP” into Kindergarten with confidence! Keep your Kindergarten child's academic concepts fresh while they make friends (and have some fun). Kindergarten Jump Start is the perfect way to enrich your Kindergarten child’s summer days. Snack will be provided. Make sure to bring a lunch for Dining Commons etiquette 101! Age: Kindergartener for 2017 Dates: August 7 - 11 Time: 9am to 1pm Instructors: Kevia Walton and Cathy Swiatek Cost: $100.00
Before Camp Childcare
After Camp Childcare
Dates: August 7 - 11 Time: 8 - 9am Instructor: Cathy Swiatek Cost: $8.00 per Hour
Dates: August 7 - 11 Time: 1 - 4pm Instructor: Cathy Swiatek Cost: $8.00 per Hour
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Refund Policy full refunds are available if you cancel your child’s place in a camp a minimum of three weeks prior to that camp’s start date. Due to registration and programming challenges, no refunds are available after that time.
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Contact information Kristin Wolanin wolanink@lancastercountryday.org Lancaster Country Day School 725 Hamilton Road Lancaster, PA 17603-2491 Phone: (717) 392-2916 x496
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