SUMMER QUEST Enrichment

Application deadline is June 1st. WEEK 1 JUNE 25-29

Most classes will begin at 9:00 am and end at 3:00 pm. Sports camps will start at Skate and Game Camp 9:30 am and end at 3:30 pm $340 | Ages 6-12 | 9am-3pm (AM and PM Care Available) We will spend each morning learning the exciting art of skating while having loads of Extended Day is available before and fun! All levels of inline and quad skating will be taught, from beginner to advanced after the Enrichment classes except skaters. We will cover everything from the basics to Freestyle-Slalom, advanced cool where indicated. tricks, hockey and other games on skates. Our afternoons will be spent outdoors at the *indicates no AM or PM child care. Meridian Park where we will continue our adventure filled with fun activities & games. More info at: Letsplayubuntu.com The fees for Extended Day before/after Let’s Skate & Play! full day Enrichment classes ONLY are:

Half-day (AM or PM) $70 Machine Sewing by Little Hands Creations Both AM and PM $120 $375 | Ages 6- 12 | Full Day 9am-3pm (AM and PM Care Available)

To register, complete the main Summer Students are invited to learn a skill they will use for a lifetime and a hobby they will Quest 2018 Application form at forever enjoy…sewing! No experience necessary for boys and girls to learn the basics www.meridianschool.edu/explore/ and beyond. Beginning students will learn machine safety and beginner sewing summer-quest/ techniques, while the more experienced students can expand on skills they already have. Student will advance at their own pace to more exciting and challenging projects The Extended Day fees and Enrichment throughout the session. Projects, which are constantly rotating during the quarter, class fees must be paid in full prior to include backpacks, phone cases, clothing, accessories, bags, games, stuffed animal and the start of the class for participation to more! www.little-hands-creations.com be granted. There will not be any refunds after June 1st 2018 for Enrichment classes unless The Meridian School Stop Motion Animation Camp Summer Quest program has to cancel $250 | Age 9-15 | Half Day 9am- 12pm (AM Care Available, No PM Care) a class. Campers, bring your story to life by making animated movies! We’ll have fun engaging in the process of creating exciting characters and the stories that they live. It could be Families with middle school youth, check as dynamic as making a robot who loves dancing or shooting the next greatest Lego out the list of camps! movie! Young directors will watch their story grow by learning how to brainstorm ideas, storyboard (making fun comics!), and writing dialogue. Their visions will come to life as they shape their characters from scratch and their sets out of LEGO® bricks, origami, even candy (if allowed). Using the Frames software, campers will learn how to animate, add dialogue and scores, edit their films, and publish! Young directors will have the opportunity to show their movies on the last day of camp and take home their movies. 4649 Sunnyside Ave N #242 Seattle, WA 98103

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Create. Learn. Make Friends. Explore. Have Fun! Being busy has never been so much FUN! Video Game Design Camp Lego Brick Animation by Clay $250 | Age 9-15 | Half Day 1pm-4pm (PM Care Available , Animation Network No AM Care) $200 | Ages 7- 12 | Half Day 9am-12pm (AM Care Campers, playing video games is super fun, but so is making Available, No PM care) them! We’ll have fun mastering the art of video game design. Create your own stop-motion animation movie! In this Campers will design 2D games with their own artwork and class students will use iPads (provided by the instructor) to characters that they create. Campers will have full license take animation photos of LEGO® pieces and to edit video in producing the video game of their dreams. Since campers and sound. Set, character, and story construction will be design all the levels, the game will look the way they want taught and unique student ideas will be supported. View it to. We’ll have fun engaging in the process of building an over 4,000 student animations at www.cancancancan.com exciting game narrative. During the last day of camp, young (4 cans). (LEGO® is not affiliated with, and does not sponsor video game designers will have the opportunity to play or endorse, the services or products of the Clay Animation other campers’ games and showcase their own. What’s Network.) more: Campers will be able to continue to build and develop their game after camp ends since BEAM Experiences uses the free program called Stencyl. BEAM will also send all campers the actual game file so that after camp the young Make Your Comic Book By game designers can share and play their video games with Clay Animation Network their friends and family. $200 | Ages 7- 12 | Half Day 1pm-4pm (PM Care Available, No AM care)

Have you ever read a comic book and wanted to make your own? In this class students will use traditional art supplies (pen, pencil, and paper) to make their own comic book. Students will receive coaching on how to draw specific characters and 3D objects if help is requested, and will be supported in finding their own artistic style and voice. Watch the commercial on www.cancancancan.com.

WEEK 2 JULY 2-6 (CLOSED JULY 4TH)

Fiber Arts & Crafts by Little Hands Creations $375 | Ages 6- 12 | Full Day 9am-3pm (AM and PM Care Available)

Expand your imagination and let’s get creative! This class with explore different techniques in fiber arts! Projects range from textile art, including knitting, weaving, dying, and bleach printing to wearable crafts, like bead making, wire wrapping, gemstone work, chandelier earrings, to paper crafts and stamp making! This class is designed to teach children with both beginning and advanced skills. All supplies included, let’s make some art! www.little-hands- creations.com/

Create. Learn. Make Friends. Explore. Have Fun! Being busy has never been so much FUN! WEEK 3 JULY 9-13 Day of the Dead with Riveted Kids Machine Sewing by Little $385 | Ages 9-12 | 9am-3pm (AM and PM Care Available)

Hands Creations This Latin American holiday is so special that we are going $375 | Ages 6- 12 | Full Day 9am-3pm (AM and PM Care to learn and explore it early this year! Day of the Dead—or Available) Día de los Muertos—integrates art, food, and traditions to appreciate passed loved ones. We’ll learn about meaningful Students are invited to learn a skill they will use for a decorations such as papel picado (cut paper banners), lifetime and a hobby they will forever enjoy… sewing! calavera (skull) images, and even create our own ofrenda (a No experience necessary for boys and girls to learn the layout to recognize passed loved ones). We’ll make our own basics and beyond. Beginning students will learn machine pan de muerto (bread of the dead) and alfeñiques (sugar safety and beginner sewing techniques, while the more candied skulls). We’ll combine a range of indoor and outdoor experienced students can expand on skills they already activities, see fun videos, and get hands-on with projects. have. Student will advance at their own pace to more We’ll end the week with our own fiesta (celebration), inviting exciting and challenging projects throughout the session. parents and families to join us as well. Projects, which are constantly rotating during the quarter, include backpacks, phone cases, clothing, accessories, bags, This camp is taught by Jay Waltmunson who is a Seattle games, stuffed animal and more! Public Schools Middle School Spanish teacher and Chief Fun www.little-hands-creations.com Officer atRiveted Kids. Meridian Soccer Camp Session 1 $350 | Ages 5-8 | 9:30am-3:30pm (AM and PM Care) Papier-Mâché Beasts $350 | Ages 8-12 | 9:00-3:00 (AM and PM Care) The camp will provide a challenging and exciting week of soccer based on fun and participation. Children will be Bring your imagination and creativity! Campers will create taught: individual technique, positional play and team original beasts using a combination of new and recycled organization on the field, according to their age and materials. Dragons, monsters, fairies, killer fish, or whatever experience. Players will play small sided games so that they you can imagine! This will be a hands-on, messy, and fun can develop their confidence and get a maximum of touch on week! The process is open to innovation and invention, and the ball. We will also put the players into tactical situations is only limited by time. Please make sure your child is able to to help him/her improve their overall playing ability and attend every day of this week before registering. understanding of the game. Each day will be dedicated to a different step of the process, Sessions will focus also on good training habits and including building bodies, designing and making eyes, teeth good sportsmanship. Regis Thevenet will be using the and claws, painting, and festooning with feathers, fur, or curriculum developed by the French Football Association in scales. The technique is best suited for imaginative creatures cooperation with the Department of Education. The camp is and reptiles and amphibians, but any type of creature is designed to be a fun experience and a good way to prepare possible with perseverance and a creative mind. Materials for for the soccer season. the course will be provided, and include non-toxic materials including white glue, masking tape, recycled paper, modelling Regis Thevenet is a veteran who has been coaching locally clay, fabric, and more. Tools include sharp edges and hot-glue, for the last 30 years at High school, Clubs and Soccer Camp which will be used under supervision. (Northwest Soccer Camp) and who has a USSF National Coaching License. During the school year he teaches Health The course is taught by Meridian’s Creativity & STEAM and Fitness at The Meridian School. instructor, Mary Allen. Ms. Allen has been creating papier- mâché creatures for the past 10 years. Her creations include dragons, angler fish, scale covered rabbits, and a gigantic hermit crab. She loves creative problem solving and figuring out ways to create uniquely detailed beasts. Finished projects will come home on the last day of class.

Create. Learn. Make Friends. Explore. Have Fun! Being busy has never been so much FUN! Galaxy Far Away Lego WEEK 4 JULY 16-20 Engineering Camp by Bricks 4Kidz $450 | Age 5-10 | Full Day 9am- 3pm (AM and PM Care Fashion Camp by Little Hands Available) Creations $375 | Ages 6- 12 | Full Day 9am-3pm (AM and PM Care Join us on an adventurous Star Wars journey through space Available) at this all-day Lego Engineering camp! Build a spacecraft to blast through the atmosphere into a realm that is truly out Get ready for Project Runway, Meridian Edition! This week, of this world—a world where motorized X-Wings and Tie your student will be tapping into their fashion design abilities Fighters have epic battles. Using LEGO® Bricks, create an by drawing, designing, and sewing a complete look from their entire Star Wars universe, building all the planets in Star own imagination! After sketching their design, students will Wars! We’ll build motorized models that represent the have a personal shopper pick out their fabrics. They’ll have ultimate space battle, where the future of entire planets the rest of the week to ‘make it work!’ On the final day of hang in the balance. Don’t miss out on building a motorized class, there will be a fashion show in the classroom. This class Yoda, who will show how the best fight. Engineer your has a prerequisite of a beginners sewing class from Little favorite droid, whether it be R2D2 or BB8. We’ll compare Hands Creations. www.little-hands-creations.com this wondrous, fictionalized world to ours and build the Redstone Rocket, NASA’s Gemini Capsule, satellites, and centrifuges. All campers will take home a custom mini-figure at the end of the week.

Chess Camp $315 | Ages 6- 12 | Full Day 9am-3pm (AM and PM Care Available)

Join the Chess Camp with Orlov Chess Academy and learn! Improve your problem-solving skills, train your memory, think and plan ahead. Learn chess tactics and strategies, solve chess puzzles, play competitive and just-for-fun games! Workbooks and other teaching materials are provided, just come ready to learn!

Create. Learn. Make Friends. Explore. Have Fun! Being busy has never been so much FUN! Junior Papier-Mâché The Meridian School Archery $250 | Ages 5- 7 | Half Day 9am-12pm (AM Care Available, Camp No PM Care Available) $255 | Ages 9- 12 | Half Day 1pm-4pm (AM Care Available,

Bring your imagination and creativity! Campers will create No PM Care) original beasts using a combination of new and recycled materials. Dragons, monsters, fairies, killer fish, or whatever An Archery camp is now being offered by Mr. Regis Thevenet. you can imagine! Similar to the Papier-Mâché Beasts Mr. Thevenet (Health and Fitness teacher at the Meridian class for older kids, this class is scaled down to provide a School) gained his credentials as a basic archery instructor successful experience for all participants. This will be a through NASP—National Archery in the Schools Program hands-on, messy, and fun week! Please make sure your child and is excited to offer this fun archery camp. The Camp will is able to attend every day of this week before registering. be limited to students in grades 3 – 5.

Each day will be dedicated to a different step of the designing our projects, including building forms, applying Street Photography with papier-mâché, painting, and festooning with all sorts of Riveted Kids fun details. The technique is best suited for imaginative $385 | Ages 9-12 | Full Day (AM and PM Care Available) creatures and reptiles and amphibians, but any type of creature is possible with perseverance and a creative mind. Have you ever wondered what it would look like if the world stood still? This week we’ll experiment with digital Materials for the course will be provided, and include non- photography. We’ll freeze time by looking at both huge toxic materials including white glue, masking tape, recycled and tiny slices of the neighborhood, capturing the most paper, modelling clay, fabric, and more. Respect for and interesting visuals around Wallingford on film. The week will safe use of tools will be emphasized. The course is taught culminate with a competition in different photo categories, by Meridian’s Creativity & STEAM instructor, Mary Allen. creating a slideshow of your best work that you can show Ms. Allen has been creating papier-mâché creatures for your friends and family online. In this information-filled over 10 years. Her creations include dragons, angler fish, week we’ll explore concepts of macro, micro, light, texture, scale covered rabbits, and a gigantic hermit crab. She loves and movement. You’ll need to bring your own digital camera creative problem solving and figuring out ways to create which you will be taught how to use. This camp is taught by uniquely detailed beasts. Finished projects will come home Jay Waltmunson, a local travel and lifestyle photographer on the last day of class who is also Seattle Public Schools Middle School teacher and Chief Fun Officer at Riveted Kids. http://jaywaltmunsonphotography.com/RivetKids Ropeworks Jump Rope Camp $219 |Ages 6- 12 | Half Day 9am-12pm (AM Care Available, No PM Care)

Boys and Girls of all skill levels are invited to participate in “Jump Rope For Fun and Fitness” camp.Jumping rope is a wonderful lifetime fitness activity. Join Ropeworks as we share our “smart sequencing” approach to jumping rope. Our camps help anyone; of any skill level learn the steps to basic, intermediate and advanced level jump rope skills. Jump Rope Camp Includes: Single Rope Skills, Partner Routines, Double Dutch Jumping, Long Rope Skills, Group Games, Group Choreography, and More! Kids work together in a fun and rewarding environment of goal setting, best effort and team building. Play games, learn skills, and develop new skills and stay fit in our fun-filled high energy program that really gets you jumpin! An end of the week performance culminates our camp. www.learntojumprope.com/camp18

Create. Learn. Make Friends. Explore. Have Fun! Being busy has never been so much FUN! WEEK 5 JULY 23-27

Knitting Camp by Little Hands Creations $375 | Ages 6- 12 | Full Day 9am-3pm (AM and PM Care Available)

Learn the art of knitting and crochet! Knitting is calming, relaxing, and keeps us centered because of its repetitive rhythmic movements. Beginners will start slowly with finger knitting, before moving on to knitting needles and our handy Knifty Knitter Looms. Projects include bookmarks, stuffed animals, hats, headbands, pouches and more!

Creativity Camp: Infinity Mirror Creation $275 | Ages 9- 12 | Half Day 9am-12pm (AM Care Meridian Soccer Camp Available, No PM Care) Session 2

Bring your imagination and creativity! Campers will design $350 | Ages 9-12 | 9:30am-3:30pm (AM and PM Care) and their own infinity mirror featuring colorful The camp will provide a challenging and exciting week of LED lights and whatever creative theme they choose. soccer based on fun and participation. Children will be Materials for the course will be provided, and include non- taught: individual technique, positional play and team toxic materials. Tools include sharp edges and hot-glue, organization on the field, according to their age and which will be used under supervision. experience. Players will play small sided games so that they can develop their confidence and get a maximum of touch on Each day will be dedicated to a different stop of the process, the ball. We will also put the players into tactical situations from designing the overall look of the project, constructing to help him/her improve their overall playing ability and the mirrored light-box, and decorating the exterior of the understanding of the game. box. Please make sure your child is able to attend all days of this camp in order to complete their project. Sessions will focus also on good training habits and good sportsmanship. Regis Thevenet will be using the curriculum The course is taught by Meridian’s Creativity & STEAM developed by the French Football Association in cooperation instructor, Mary Allen. Ms. Allen enjoys creating wacky with the Department of Education. The camp is designed to projects and loves creative problem solving and figuring be a fun experience and a good way to prepare for the soccer out ways to make her ideas come to life. She mainly works season. with papier-mâché and has been building creatures for the past 10 years. Her creations include dragons, angler fish, Regis Thevenet is a veteran who has been coaching locally scale covered rabbits, and a gigantic hermit crab. Finished for the last 30 years at High school, Clubs and Soccer Camp projects will come home on the last day of class. (Northwest Soccer Camp) and who has a USSF National Coaching License. During the school year he teaches Health and Fitness at The Meridian School.

Create. Learn. Make Friends. Explore. Have Fun! Being busy has never been so much FUN! Girls Code with Riveted Kids James and the Giant Peach Computational Thinking & By Stone Soup Theater Coding $363 | Ages 5-7 | Full Day 9am-3pm (AM and PM Care Available) $385 | Ages 9-12 | 9am-3pm (AM and PM Care Available) Join James in a series of mysterious and miraculous events as Hey girls! Did you know that you are significantly underrep- he finds himself at the center of a giant peach floating across resented in the world of technology? This camp is your first the Atlantic accompanied by his giant insect friends on the step in world domination. Every day we’ll do some computa- way to New York city! tional thinking games outside, as well as use laptops indoors to explore coding using online programming tools and tutorials. We’ll also look at the industry and have some amazing local women in tech come tell us about their work.

By the end of the week everyone will have built a program or game online and have made friends from team building games. You’ll need to bring your own laptop but don’t need any coding experience. Trans and non-binary children who enjoy spending time with girls are welcome.

This camp is taught by Jay Waltmunson, who worked in the tech industry for more than 12 years getting computers to understand voices, streaming video, and building developer tools. Jay is also the father of an amazing middle school girl, Science Makers Rovers a Seattle Public Schools Middle School teacher, past high school STEM teacher, and Chief Fun Officer atRiveted Kids. Rocketing to Space! By Destination Science $375 | Ages 6- 12 | Full Day 9am-3pm (AM and PM Care Available

Build a Dinosaur RoverBot & launch a rocket to a fantastical planet. Calling all future astronauts, we’re returning to space… Destination Dinoterra! A newly discovered planet inhabited with alien dinosaurs. Design & build your own Space Rover to gather & transmit information back to Earth. Blast-off your own H2O rocket. Bring your robot, rocket, launch system and much more home.

WEEK 6 JULY 30- AUGUST 3 The Very Hungry Caterpillar By Stone Soup Theater Science Makers & Inventors $363 | Ages 5-7 | Full Day 9am-3pm (AM and PM Care Available) Camp! Build Soccer-Bots & Rube Goldberg-like contraptions By The Very Hungry Caterpillar: One Sunday morning, a red-faced caterpillar hatches from an egg, and begins to Destination Science look for some food. He eats through increasing quantities $375 | Ages 6- 12 | Full Day 9am-3pm (AM and PM Care of fruit on the following five days. By the end of Saturday, Available the inevitable happens and he is ill. After recovering from a Sports meets science with our Soccer-Robots & more! Invent stomach-ache, he returns to a more sensible diet. Later, the your own science fun with moving motors, circuits, and zip “big fat caterpillar” emerges as a beautiful butterfly with lines. Build your own Rube Goldberg inspired chain reactions large, gorgeous, multi-colored wings. Join us for this most using Newton’s Laws, crazy chemistry, and electrical circuits. popular tale.

Create. Learn. Make Friends. Explore. Have Fun! Being busy has never been so much FUN! Ubuntu Skate and Game Camp Amusement Park Science $340 | Ages 6- 12 | Full Day 9am-3pm (AM and PM Care Camp! Roller Coasters, Available) Carnivals & Marine Explorers We will spend each morning learning the exciting art of skating while having loads of fun! All levels of inline and By Destination Science quad skating will be taught, from beginner to advanced $375 | Ages 6- 12 | Full Day 9am-3pm (AM and PM Care skaters. We will cover everything from the basics to Available Freestyle-Slalom, advanced cool tricks, hockey and Build your own kid-powered roller coaster—The Great other games on skates. Our afternoons will be spent Gravity Dropper! Design a crazy fun backyard carnival using outdoors at the Meridian Park where we will continue our centripetal force, simple machines & catapulting games. adventure filled with fun activities & games. More info at: Create your own floating Ocean Explorer to touch a real Letsplayubuntu.com shark & other marine specimens. Let’s Skate & Play! www.destinationscience.org

Nature Journaling The Science of Art $250 | Ages 8- 12 | Half Day 9am-12pm (AM Care $250 | Ages 6-8 | Half Day 9am-12pm (AM Care Available, Available, No PM Care) No PM Care)

Kelsey and Marika, Meridian teachers, will take students on Join Kelsey and Marika, Meridian teachers, to learn about daily walking adventures to learn the tips and techniques the many ways science connects to art. Students will explore of nature journaling, a valuable tool for documenting art-themed science experiments such as pendulum art, solar occurrences and patterns in nature. Through drawing, printing, and color theory. Not only will the camp utilize painting, and scientific observations we will explore several Meridian’s science lab, but will also venture into Meridian local parks. At the start of the week, students will customize park to make connections to the natural world. Students will and create their very own travel kit for nature journaling document their explorations in their own science notebook and learn art techniques to help them work in the field and to keep at the end of the week. visually document the natural world around them.

WEEK 7 AUGUST 6- 10 Hip Hop Dance $220 | Ages 8- 12 | Half Day 9am-12pm (AM Care Available, No PM Care) Machine Sewing by Little This is a fun, funky and upbeat dance camp for boys and girls Hands Creations regardless of their experience. The class will accommodate $375 | Ages 6- 12 | Full Day 9am-3pm (AM and PM Care dancers on any level, from beginner to years of training. Available) Students will learn an energetic dance routine, basic break- dancing skills & create some of their own choreography Students are invited to learn a skill they will use for a in small groups for a performance at the end of the week. lifetime and a hobby they will forever enjoy… sewing! Students will push themselves in coordination, strength, No experience necessary for boys and girls to learn the flexibility, balance, musicality and confidence. This class is basics and beyond. Beginning students will learn machine a safe haven to explore and give kids a place to be bold and safety and beginner sewing techniques, while the more support each other in a hip hop dance family. Also, each experienced students can expand on skills they already dancer will receive a CD with the music used in class and a have. Student will advance at their own pace to more cool, hip-hop T-shirt to wear in the show at the end of the exciting and challenging projects throughout the session. week! You don’t want to miss it! Projects, which are constantly rotating during the quarter, include backpacks, phone cases, clothing, accessories, bags, games, stuffed animal and more!

Create. Learn. Make Friends. Explore. Have Fun! Being busy has never been so much FUN!