SESSIONS AT A GLANCE
WEEK ONE Morning Seminars ART/DESIGN Adornment and Personal Expression Through Jewelry Design SCIENCE Science of Food
CLICK A BLUE MATH Rubik's Cube the Slow Way HEADER TO JUMP TO THAT SECTION MUSIC Making Cuban Music OF YOUR GUIDE FILM/WRITING Screenwriting SOFTWARE ENGINEERING Software as a Language ART The Art of Making Art: An Introduction to Process Art FILM/THEATRE So You Think You Want To Be A Stuntman POSITIVE PSCYCHOLOGY Happiness 101 POLITICS/ART Political Cartooning LIFESKILLS An Introduction to Full-Force Self Defense CREATIVE WRITING Story Craft with The Stanford Storytelling Project
WEEK ONE Afternoon Seminars MATH How Big Is Big: An Exploration of Infinity WRITING Writing a Novel LEADERSHIP/BUSINESS Courageous Leadership IMPROV Improv: High School League POLITICAL SCIENCE/HISTORY Political Violence In Western Europe: Bombs, Basques, and Baader-Meinhof ART Abstract Painting LIFESKILLS Public Speaking
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WEEK ONE Afternoon Seminars Continued
SOFTWARE ENGINEERING Python Projects in Action APPLIED SCIENCE Forensic Science CLICK A BLUE SOCIAL SCIENCES/LINGUISTICS Languages of the World: What HEADER TO JUMP TO THAT SECTION Makes Them Tick? OF YOUR GUIDE WELLNESS Introduction to Meditation ART/TECHNOLOGY Digital Animation
WEEK ONE Intensives MICROBIOLOGY Antibiotic Sensitivity and Natural Product Discovery MUSIC Free Composition and Music Improv ART Artist Retreat: Screenprint, The Art of Zines ART HISTORY/STUDIO ART Radical Art In The 1960's: Exploration, Discussion, and Study ART Glass Blowing Retreat at Bay Area Glass Institute (BAGI) ENGINEERING/INDUSTRIAL ARTS TIG Welding ENGINEERING/INDUSTRIAL ARTS ARC Welding ART/SOCIAL JUSTICE Woodworking: Building Shelter Pods for the Homeless PHOTOGRAPHY Photographic Story Telling: The Visual Narrative
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WEEK ONE Activities
WEDNESDAY WILDLIFE/ENVIRONMENT Conservation Ambassadors: Under the CLICK A BLUE Canopy HEADER TO JUMP TO THAT SECTION SOCIAL JUSTICE Simulated Society: Poverty, Privilege, and OF YOUR GUIDE Responsibility (Simulation) COOKING Cooking and Culture: Korea, 5 Flavors. 5 Colors. FITNESS/WELLNESS Juggling and Balancing FITNESS/WELLNESS AcroYoga: Laugh Riot HISTORY Legends of History: Alexander The Great PUBLIC SPEAKING Body Language: It's Not Just What You Say That Counts ART/SOCIAL JUSTICE Making Graffiti and Street Art FILM/THEATRE Stunts Through the Years: From the Silent Era, Through the Westerns, to the Modern Day MEDICINE Medical Exploration: Primary Care Exams and The Check Up
THURSDAY WILDLIFE/ENVIRONMENT Conservation Ambassadors: Desert Magic SOCIAL JUSTICE Simulated Society: Poverty, Privilege, and Responsibility (Simulation) COOKING Cooking and Culture: Indonesia, Rice at the Center FITNESS/WELLNESS Juggling and Balancing
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WEEK ONE Activities Continued
HISTORY Legends of History: Catherine The Great APPLIED SCIENCE The World of Forensic Science: Cracking the CLICK A BLUE Case HEADER TO JUMP TO THAT SECTION ART/CULTURE History, Culture, and Application of Henna OF YOUR GUIDE ART/SOCIAL JUSTICE Making Graffiti and Street Art NEUROSCIENCE Stress, Health, and Coping SPORTS/BUSINESS The Business of Sports
FRIDAY WILDLIFE/ENVIRONMENT Conservation Ambassadors: Where Animals Call Home COOKING Cooking and Culture: Middle East, The Meze Table, Small Plates to Share and Savor MUSIC Life As Cuban Musicians: Discussion and Music FITNESS/WELLNESS AcroYoga: Laugh Riot HISTORY Legends of History: Winston Churchill ART/CULTURE History, Culture, and Application of Henna ART/SOCIAL JUSTICE Making Graffiti and Street Art HISTORY/SCIENCE A History of Medicine: Medics, Mayhem, and Accidentally Saving Lives BUSINESS Corporate Strategy: Harvard Business School Case Study, The Walt Disney Studios MEDICINE Medical Exploration: IV and Injections MUSIC/HISTORY Rhythm Talks: Afro-Venezuelan Music and Culture
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WEEK TWO Morning Seminars ART/SCIENCE Making A Dinosaur PERFORMANCE/FITNESS Running Away to the Circus: Aerials and Acrobatics
CLICK A BLUE BUSINESS So You Want to Be a VC: Simulated Partner Meeting HEADER TO JUMP TO THAT SECTION ART/PHYSICS Making Metal Move: Forging Nonferrous Metals OF YOUR GUIDE FITNESS/WELLNESS Rock Climbing MULTIMEDIA JOURNALISM Transmedia Journalism WRITING/POLITICS Speechwriting for POTUS WORLD HISTORY/ARCHEOLOGY When Empires Clash: Exploring Ancient Military Battles WELLNESS Advanced Meditation MEDICINE So You Want to be a Doctor: Pediatrics, Infectious Diseases, and Orthopedics LIFESKILLS/FINANCE Crash Course in Money Management: Budgeting, Accounts, and Credit THEATRE The Mask Theater Workshop: Faces Within INTERIOR DESIGN/BUSINESS Interior Design 101 WELLNESS/SOCIAL JUSTICE We Are All Heroes: Discovering Ourselves and Telling Our Stories LANGUAGE Introduction to French
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WEEK TWO Afternoon Seminars ART/SCIENCE Making A Dinosaur DANCE Hip-Hop Dance and Choreography POLITICS Anatomy of a Political Campaign CLICK A BLUE MATH/CRITICAL THINKING Learn to Play Bridge HEADER TO JUMP TO THAT SECTION ART/THEATRE Puppetry: Animation to Activism OF YOUR GUIDE ART/CHEMISTRY Etching: Taking Metal Away WRITING/PUBLISHING Writing Children's Books MATH/STATISTICS Sports and Statistics LANGUAGE Introduction to American Sign Language WRITING/PERFORMANCE Power Poetry: Speaking Up and Speaking Out ART/SUSTAINABILITY Wild Crafting: The Ecology of Color, Making Felt from the Forest ART Expressive Calligraphy BUSINESS The Language of Leadership PHILOSOPHY/FILM Film and Philosophy FILM/ART Storyboarding for Animation BUSINESS An Entire MBA In One Course
WEEK TWO Intensives ART/DESIGN Wearable Art Using Alternative Materials and Found Objects SCIENCE Marine Science: Creeks and Oceans, 3 Labs in 3 Days ART Artist Retreat: Water Color Painting
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WEEK TWO Intensives Continued
ART/TECHNOLOGY Filmmaking and Visual Effects ART Glass Blowing Retreat at Bay Area Glass Institute (BAGI) CLICK A BLUE ENGINEERING/INDUSTRIAL ARTS MIG Welding HEADER TO JUMP TO THAT SECTION ENGINEERING/INDUSTRIAL ARTS TIG Welding OF YOUR GUIDE MUSIC Songwriting and Analysis MUSIC Afro-Cuban Jazz Ensemble MACROBIOLOGY Small Mammal DNA in Barn Owl Pellets ART/SOCIAL JUSTICE Woodworking: Building Shelter Pods for the Homeless WRITING Lit Camp: A Writer’s Workshop SOFTWARE ENGINEERING Engineering a Robot Operating System "ROS" THEATRE Playwriting and Acting in Ensemble
WEEK TWO Activities
MONDAY WILDLIFE/ENVIRONMENT Conservation Ambassadors: Vanished FITNESS/WELLNESS Rock Climbing COOKING Cooking and Culture: Scandinavia, Survival Food for a Long Winter BUSINESS B Corporations and the Ventures for Good Movement LIFESKILLS Introduction to Self Defense
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WEEK TWO Activities Continued
LIFESKILLS/OUTDOORS Wilderness Skills: Salves and Tinctures INDUSTRIAL ARTS Blacksmithing FITNESS/WELLNESS AcroYoga: Laugh Riot AVIATION Life of Flight POSITIVE PSYCHOLOGY Happiness in Action: Practicing Positive Psychology – Positivity and Engagement HISTORY/MATH Crucial, Beautiful Math: A History of Math BUSINESS Corporate Strategy: Harvard Business School Case Study, Beyoncé MEDICINE Medical Exploration: Introduction to the Art of Suturing NEUROSCIENCE The Uniqueness of Humans
TUESDAY WILDLIFE/ENVIRONMENT Conservation Ambassadors: Wild America FITNESS/WELLNESS Rock Climbing COOKING Cooking and Culture: Mexico, Flavors of the Americas MEDICINE/TECHNOLOGY Impact of Virtual Reality on Real Surgery LIFESKILLS Introduction to Self Defense PERFORMANCE Rebel Poetry: Spoken Word Performance HISTORY/SCIENCE The Making of Otzi the Ice Man
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WEEK TWO Activities Continued
LIFESKILLS/OUTDOORS Wilderness Skills: Fire Safety and Making INDUSTRIAL ARTS Blacksmithing ART/CULTURE History, Culture, and Application of Henna HISTORY/FASHION Image and Fashion: The Bizarre History POSITIVE PSYCHOLOGY Happiness in Action: Practicing Positive Psychology – Relationships and Meaning PSYCHOLOGY Early Childhood Development
WEDNESDAY WILDLIFE/ENVIRONMENT Conservation Ambassadors: Amazing Animal Adaptations FITNESS/WELLNESS Rock Climbing COOKING Cooking and Culture: "Cooking" Out of the Kitchen, Indian Breads and Spices COOKING/LANGUAGE Cooking Venezuelan Arepas in Spanish FILM/ANIMATION The Making of Minions and Stories from the World of Digital Animation LIFESKILLS Introduction to Self Defense LIFESKILLS/OUTDOORS Wilderness Skills: Knife and Ax Carving INDUSTRIAL ARTS Blacksmithing FITNESS/WELLNESS AcroYoga: Laugh Riot ART/CULTURE History, Culture, and Application of Henna
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WEEK TWO Activities Continued
ENGINEERING/DESIGN The Future of Autonomous Vehicles and Urban Mobility
POSITIVE PSYCHOLOGY Happiness in Action: Practicing Positive Psychology – Achievement MEDICINE Medical Exploration: Emergency Medicine, A Simulation
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WEEK ONE Morning Seminars
Intersession Guide 2017 Seminar Adornment and Personal Expression through Jewelry Design
Winnie van der Rijn ART/DESIGN
Week 1 People have been adorning themselves since the beginning Morning of human society. Archeologists have discovered beads in Morocco dating back 110,000 years. This seminar will examine
the historic relevance and cultural significance of adornment, January 4, 5, 6 beads, and jewelry-making. We will consider jewelry as
fashion, accessory, and self-expression. After an exploration 8:45 to 10:45 am of jewelry design basics, including color and pattern, and
practice of core skills, including stringing and wire wrapping, Bay Meadows we will embark on open-studio design using our skills and selected materials to create original jewelry.
I have been a maker since childhood. I work with textiles, beads, wire, metal, paper, clay, resin, wood, and found objects. I’ve created jewelry, sculpture, prints, hangings, shoes, hats, children’s books, costumes, and housewares. Making is an essential part of my life. My current work focuses on upcycling found objects. The designs are not premeditated. I employ an organic creative process — design and construction happen simultaneously. I find beauty and possibility in the imperfect and discarded. I like things that are broken and worn and a bit dirty with a patina of age. I am curious about how and why we acquire, consume, treasure, and discard. I am intrigued by the idea of value and how things are assigned value in society. I work to create some kind of visual balance in each piece and an irreverent sense of whimsy; instead of asking “why?” I like to ask “why not?” I’m about constraint, reinvention, transformation, and evolution for myself and my work.
I started teaching jewelry design shortly after I started making jewelry. I have created curriculum and kits and taught for a wide range of audiences at bead shops and bead shows all around the country as well as at local middle schools and creativity retreats. In addition, I spent 4 years as the National Training Director for Luxe Jewels (now Stella and Dot), where I focused on teaching consultants how to teach jewelry design with kits, conferences, and video training. I am committed to helping people access and express their creativity. www.eccentricd.com
Intersession Guide 2017 Seminar Science of Food
Monika Schoenhoff and Erika Schillinger SCIENCE
Week 1/ Week 2 Have you ever wondered why eggs solidify and turn white Morning when you cook them, or why green beans turn even greener when you steam them? Why does chocolate taste so good?
Explore the world of food science in this unique mini-course! January 4, 5, 6, 9, Discover and learn about food chemistry, sensory science, 10, 11 and cooking through hands-on experiments, demonstrations,
discussions with expert speakers, and exciting/tasty field trips! 8:45 to 10:45 am
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NOTE: This is a double Monika Schoenhoff, PhD — Erik Meike’s mom — has worked for a number morning seminar; if you of years in the pharmaceutical industry as a pharmacokinetics / choose this seminar pharmacodynamics scientist (Genentech and small start-ups). For the last you will be ten-plus years she followed her passion for science by bringing it to the automatically enrolled classroom. She is honored and excited to be teaching the "Science of in all morning sessions Food” course for Nueva again. She believes combining equal parts of both weeks. passion for science, cooking, baking, and education is the perfect recipe.
Erika Schillinger, MD — Griffin Tarpenning’s mom — is a clinical associate This seminar also has professor of medicine at Stanford. She is the Predoctoral Director in Family two field trips on Medicine and has helped develop Stanford’s clinical skills and doctoring Thursday, January 5, curriculum. Her focus is on bedside manner, professionalism, and patient- and Friday, January 6, centered care. In her work as an educator, she strives for an integrative, which will extend into collaborative, innovative approach. She is grateful to be given the the activity sessions on opportunity to weave together three passions — science, teaching, and those days. If you are food — in the service of a school she is coming to love. enrolled in this seminar, we will not enroll you in activity sessions on those days.
Waiver required.
Intersession Guide 2017 Seminar Rubik's Cube the Slow Way
Aaron Abrams MATH
Week 1 Did you know that every Rubik's Cube, no matter how messed Morning up, can be solved in 20 moves? It's true — but people who know how to solve a cube almost always use many, many
more moves than that. Why? In this seminar we will learn January 4, 5, 6 about a mathematical way of thinking about Rubik's Cube
that breaks down the problem into several smaller problems, 8:45 to 10:45 am each of which we will be able to solve. This leads to an
extremely slow — but very effective — way to solve not only Bay Meadows the Rubik's Cube but also lots of other similar puzzles.
Aaron Abrams is a mathematics professor at Washington and Lee University in Lexington, VA. As a mathematician he studies a variety of phenomena, ranging from symmetry to randomness. As a teacher his primary goal is to make the tools of mathematics as accessible as possible. He has an undergraduate degree from UC Davis and a PhD in mathematics from UC Berkeley, and he enjoys visits back to the Bay Area whenever possible.
Intersession Guide 2017 Seminar Making Cuban Music
Rodney Yllarza Barreto and Yaroldy Abreu Robles MUSIC
Week 1 Since the 19th century Cuban music has been hugely popular and influential throughout the world. It has been perhaps the most Morning popular form of regional music since the introduction of recording technology. Cuban music has its principal roots in Spain and West January 4, 5, 6 Africa, but over time has been influenced by diverse genres from different countries, including American Jazz. The seminar will cover 8:45 to 10:45 am a variety of Cuban song and dance styles, including danzon, bolero, son, Mozambique, mambo, cha cha, rhumba, regaton and Bay Meadows the bata rhythms of the Santeria religion. Students will learn through lectures in English and Spanish, listening, demonstration, and hands- on playing and singing.
Rodney Yllarza Barreto was born in Havana City and studied percussion at Guillermo Tomas School and subsequently at Amadeo Roldan Conservatory, also in Havana City. When he was very young, he joined the Charanga de Guanabacoa children’s orchestra. At seventeen, he joined the Isaac Delgado Orchestra (a first rank band and one of the most popular salsa bands in Cuba). He was professor of percussion at Paulita Concepción School in Havana City for three years. He won the Cubadisco Award for best record with Drums La Habana in 2010. Rodney won the Award as the best accompanist musician in the JOJAZZ, the National Contest for Cuban Young Jazz-Players. Rodney has been working both with great musicians and great national and foreign bands his entire life.
Yaroldy Abreu Robles was born in Sagua de Tanamo, Cuba. He started his professional career in Holguin in 1995 with the group Agua and then went on to form the experimental percussion ensemble Cinco Puntos. He graduated with honors with a bachelor's degree in percussion from the Higher Institute of Art in 2001. While Yaroldy was still a student, Chucho Valdés invited him to join his group Irakere and in 2001, the Chucho Valdés Jazz Quartet. Yaroldy has shared the stage and recorded with many top musicians inside and outside of Cuba. In 2003, Yaroldy was nominated for a Grammy Award in the category of Best Traditional Tropical Album for Amadito Valdés' Bajando Gervasio; and in 2004 he won the Latin Grammy Award in the Latin jazz category for Chucho Valdés Jazz Quartet's New Conceptions. A valued teacher, Yaroldy has been invited to teach master classes in Europe and the U.S., and at various music festivals throughout the world.
Intersession Guide 2017 Seminar Screenwriting
Adam Tobin FILM/WRITING
Week 1
Morning Consider a scene from your favorite movie or TV series, but dubbed over in another language — what would you still January 4, 5, 6 understand, feel? What else is going on besides the words themselves? And once the words return, how do they work? 8:45 to 10:45 am What is the full range of tools at the disposal of a screenwriter? This seminar will introduce students to the many Bay Meadows disciplines folded into writing for film, television, and media, and engage students in writing scenes, analyzing films, and generating ideas and outlines for movies.
NOTE: Students in this seminar need to Adam Tobin is a senior lecturer teaching screenwriting in the Film & Media watch Toy Story Studies Program at Stanford. He created the half-hour comedy series and Wall E (even if About a Girl and the reality show Best Friend's Date for Nickelodeon's The- you have seen it N network, has worked at ESPN and the NBA, and received an Emmy for before) in advance writing on Discovery Channel's Cash Cab. He has taught story and of the seminar. pitching seminars at DreamWorks Animation, Twentieth Century Fox/Blue Sky Studios, and Aardman Animations. He received a BA in English with honors at Stanford and an MFA in screenwriting from the USC School of Cinematic Arts.
Intersession Guide 2017 Seminar Software as a Language
Robyn Allen SOFTWARE ENGINEERING
Week 1 Many people value the opportunity to travel to a foreign country in order to learn about other cultures or simply gain perspective by Morning experiencing a new place. The goal of this seminar is to “visit” a software application (built in Python, Flask, and MongoDB). By January 4, 5, 6, listening to the languages used in different pieces of this application, as if we were a group of tourists from other 8:45 to 10:45 am nonsoftware professions, we will gain perspective on what people who speak these languages care about — and what these Bay Meadows languages can be used to communicate.
We will study an app designed to help students memorize foreign NOTE: language vocabulary. As a group, we will walk through (and edit) No prior the different parts of this app: how the words (and their definitions/ programming translations) are stored in the computer; how the computer selects experience a word and displays it to the user; what happens after the user required. types in a guess as to what the word means; and what would need to change about the app in order to quiz the user only on “difficult” words (words the user needs the most help with).
Participants will each receive login credentials that will give them access to the app for the rest of the year
Robyn Allen teaches engineering because many of today's grand challenges — in energy, healthcare, transportation, and other areas — require interdisciplinary engineering teams that have both world-class technical skills and world-class teamwork abilities. Robyn has mentored math teams, startup companies, and student engineers for 15 years. She holds a BS in aerospace engineering from MIT. Prior to teaching, Robyn worked as a systems engineer in hybrid car design, ultralight aircraft, mobile robotics, software design, and electric grid optimization. She has extensive experience in early-stage technology evaluation and prototyping from both an engineering and business perspective.
Robyn has been honored by numerous organizations, including the International Achievement Summit, the Clinton Global Initiative, the MIT Energy Initiative, and the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics.
Intersession Guide 2017 Seminar The Art of Making Art: An Introduction to Process Art
Simon Firth ART
Week 1 Come learn about, and then make, "process art," where we create unexpected sets of instructions that can result in works of surprising Morning beauty.
January 4, 5, 6 The creativity in process art rests in devising interesting and elegant rules to follow in making your work, rather than having a 8:45 to 10:45 am predetermined outcome in mind. The concepts of chance, change, and transience are all important to the approach. Some Bay Meadows of process art’s most well known practitioners include Lynda Benglis, Eva Hesse, Robert Morris, Bruce Nauman, Susan O'Malley, Alan Saret, Richard Serra, Robert Smithson, and Keith Sonnier. Process art also relates to the earlier Dada and Surrealist movements, Buddhist sand painting, conceptual art, and the work of drip painters like Jackson Pollock.
In this seminar, we’ll spend some time researching process artists and their methods. We’ll then work in groups or individually to devise our own sets of rules and follow them to create our own works. The materials we use could include paints, paper, ink, 3D materials, our bodies, sound, interviews, found objects, and digital software. We will document our work and share it in a gallery space, either on campus or online.
Simon Firth (Finely Firth's dad) is a professional communicator and amateur maker of everything from jewelry to tree houses. A former public television producer and commissioned playwright, he now makes a living writing for clients like HP, VMware, and Stanford University. Simon has a longstanding interest in the history and practice of art, with a particular emphasis on the intersection of art and ideas. He has taught art practice in a number of intersessions at the Girls' Middle School in Palo Alto, covering topics that include process art, environmental art, inspirational signage, and information display at a massive scale. Simon received a BA in philosophy and art history (minor) from University College, London, an MA in communications studies from City University, London, and an MSc in television, radio, and film from Syracuse University. https://simonfirth.wordpress.com/
Intersession Guide 2017 Seminar So You Think You Want to Be a Stuntman
Tony Vella FILM/THEATRE
This seminar is a hands-on and fully physical clinic. If you think Week 1 you want to be a stunt performer and want to know more Morning about the acting and the industry, this workshop is for you! This course will cover the basic information on the fight, fall, January 4, 5, 6 and take-down techniques that constitute entry-level knowledge of the stunt performer’s industry. Additionally, time 8:45 to 10:45 am will be given to explaining how the industry works for stunt performers in the film and television industry and what you Bay Meadows need to know to begin a possible career.
Tony Vella is an experienced stuntman, stunt coordinator, actor, and San Francisco native, legitimately trained in both stunts and acting with more NOTE: than 25 years’ experience both on-camera and behind the scenes. Due to the nature of this course you His personal work in both stunt coordinating and on-camera stunts must not have any includes a multitude of commercials, industrials, television, feature movies, physical restrictions and “live” stunt shows. His stunt coordinator credits include La Mission and/or limitations, (2009) starring Benjamin Bratt, the quirky cult hit All About Evil (2010) with and be in good Natasha Lyonne, About Cherry (2012) starring James Franco, Garden of physical health. Eden with Eric Roberts (2014), Quitters with Mia Sorvino (2014), and The Boat Builder with Christopher Lloyd (2015).
Hold Harmless and His stunt credits include doubling various actors on The Bridge (FX), Gang Release of Liability Related (Fox), Bad Judge (NBC), the upcoming show Angie Tribeca (TBS) forms will be issued. with Rashida Jones, Antman as driving double for Michael Pena, San Andreas as specialty rigger working directly with Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson during the parachuting into AT&T Park scene, and several seasons as both a principal stunt double and occasional bad guy on San Francisco’s own Nash Bridges. Additional stunt coordinator and upcoming credits include: Kicks (2016), Diary of a Teenage Girl, Cardinal X, the currently in production Pushing Dead with James Roday (Psych) and Robin Weigert (Deadwood), LASSO (a horror film that is sure to become a cult classic with psycho cowboys), and Take The 10 with Josh Peck (Grandfathered and Drake and Josh) and Tony Revolori (Grand Budapest Hotel) with more shows in the works. www.bayareastunts.com
Intersession Guide 2017 Seminar Happiness 101
Stacey Yates Sellar POSITIVE PSYCHOLOGY
IT IS POSSIBLE to be happier! Research and science from leading Week 1 academic institutions has proven that it is possible to disrupt patterns of Morning negative thinking, manage stress, build skills to overcome life challenges, increase success in all areas, and improve overall happiness. In fact, January 4, 5, 6 Harvard’s Positive Psychology 1504, taught by Professor Tal Ben-Shahar, is in the books as the most popular course in the history of Harvard University.
8:45 to 10:45 am Positive psychology is the scientific study of what makes life most worth living. Based on a model that breaks down into P.E.R.M.A. (Positivity, Bay Meadows Engagement, Relationships, Meaning, and Achievement), it is a call for psychological science and practice to be as concerned with strength as with weakness, as interested in building the best things in life as in repairing the worst, and as concerned with making the lives of normal people fulfilling as with healing pathology.
In this seminar, Stacey will provide students with an introduction to positive psychology, introducing and breaking down the decades’ worth of science and research into bite-size tools and techniques that can be practiced to increase happiness and life satisfaction.
Stacey Yates Sellar, C.A.P.P., began studying and practicing positive psychology interventions of gratitude, positivity, optimism, care, mindfulness, beliefs, neuroscience, willpower, and success at a very early age. Practicing what she preaches for most of her life has reaped benefits. For the last 13 years, she has been an integral part in building a multimillion-dollar business whose staff success and client loyalty she credits to positive psychology interventions.
In 2015, she earned her certification in applied positive psychology and has since begun a business that offers coaching and motivational products, including “Happier by the Minute,” one-minute educational videos that turn the research and the rigor into easy-to-practice tools. Stacey’s mission is to curate and deliver the best of positive psychology’s research, rigor, tips, and tools to ensure that individuals, families and communities thrive.
Intersession Guide 2017 Seminar Political Cartooning
Mark Fiore POLITICS/ART
Week 1 Come explore the art of political cartooning and its role in the “political discourse of a society that provides for freedom of Morning speech and of the press.” According to Encyclopedia Brittanica, “a political cartoon is also an artistic vehicle characterized by both January 4, 5, 6 metaphorical and satirical language. It may point out the contexts, problems, and discrepancies of a political situation while not 8:45 to 10:45 am altering the facts. During the process of rendering opinions into such a visual form, many artistic decisions (regarding Bay Meadows symbols, allegories, techniques, composition, and so forth) must be made. When successful, political cartoons can fulfill an important criticizing and controlling function in society.”
Come practice the tools of satire, analysis, and ridicule as you learn the art of political cartooning, the media available (print and digital), and how it can help shape conversations critical to our country and our world.
Pulitzer Prize–winner Mark Fiore, whom the Wall Street Journal has called “the undisputed guru of the form,” creates animated political cartoons in San Francisco, where his work has been featured on the San Francisco Chronicle’s web site, SFGate.com, for over ten years. Fiore’s political animation has also been featured on broadcast outlets across the globe.
Beginning his professional life by drawing traditional political cartoons for newspapers, ranging from the Washington Post to the Los Angeles Times, in the late 1990s, he began to experiment with animating political cartoons. After a short stint at the San Jose Mercury News as their staff cartoonist, Fiore devoted all his energies to animation.
Fiore grew up in California, but he also spent a good portion of his life in the backwoods of Idaho. It was this combination that shaped him politically. Mark majored in political science at Colorado College, where, in a perfect send-off for a cartoonist, he received his diploma as commencement speaker Dick Cheney smiled approvingly. (Update: In a bit of poetic justice, Fiore was the commencement speaker twenty years later.) www.markfiore.com
Intersession Guide 2017 Seminar Introduction to Full Force Self Defense
Impact Bay Area LIFESKILLS
Week 1 Students in this 6‐hour class learn awareness, intuition, and Morning verbal conflict avoidance/deterrence, as well as front and rear attack and ground fighting techniques.
January 4, 5, 6
8:45 to 10:45 am
Bay Meadows Impact Bay Area is a nonprofit organization that teaches effective boundary-setting, personal safety, and physical self-defense skills. We have been teaching self-defense in schools for over 25 years. Impact classes build verbal and physical skills to set good boundaries, prevent possible violence, and fight back when necessary. Our classes boost confidence and empower students! NOTE: Waiver required. www.impactbayarea.org/private_class_info
Intersession Guide 2017 Seminar Story Craft with the Stanford Storytelling Project
Michelle Darby and Dan Klein CREATIVE WRITING
Week 1 Study the art of writing and storytelling in an intensive, fun, Morning hands-on workshop with the dynamic faculty of the Creative Writing program and the Stanford Storytelling Project. You'll
leave with an expanded understanding of writing and a January 4, 5, 6 sheaf full of pages.
8:45 to 10:45 am
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The Stanford Storytelling Project is an arts program at Stanford University that explores how we live in and through stories and, even more importantly, how to deepen our lives through our own storytelling.
Our mission is to promote the transformative nature of traditional and modern oral storytelling, from Lakota tales to Radiolab, and empower students to create and perform their own stories. The project sponsors courses, workshops, live events, and grants. In 2012, we created a new radio show, State of the Human, where we share stories that deepen our understanding of single, common human experiences — fighting, giving, lying, resilience — all drawn from the experiences and research of the Stanford community. Tune in every Wednesday at 5pm on 90.1 KZSU or download our podcast on iTunes.
http://storytelling.stanford.edu/index.php/aboutus.html https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/stanford-storytelling- project/id518898586
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WEEK ONE Afternoon Seminars
Intersession Guide 2017 Seminar How Big Is Big? An Exploration of Infinity
Aaron Abrams MATH
Week 1 How many whole numbers are there? How many prime Afternoon numbers are there? How about rational or positive or irrational or real numbers? The short answer is infinity, but there
is more to the story than that! A closer look reveals that the January 4, 5, 6 answers to those questions are not all the same. In this
seminar we will explore some of the many different faces of 1:15 to 3:15 pm infinity.
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Aaron Abrams is a mathematics professor at Washington and Lee University in Lexington, VA. As a mathematician he studies a variety of phenomena ranging from symmetry to randomness. As a teacher his primary goal is to make the tools of mathematics as accessible as possible. He has an undergraduate degree from UC Davis and a PhD in mathematics from UC Berkeley, and he enjoys visits back to the Bay Area whenever possible.
Intersession Guide 2017 Seminar Writing a Novel
Kelly Loy Gilbert WRITING
Week 1 In this seminar, we’ll take an in-depth look at writing and Afternoon publishing a novel. We’ll devote time to creative prompts that will heighten novel-writing skills and help writers understand
and explore their own projects more deeply. We will also January 4, 5, 6 discuss:
1:15 to 3:15 pm • Writing a novel — the process of producing a book-
length manuscript and how to address challenges Bay Meadows along the way
• The process and stages of publication — what happens behind the scenes when a book deal is inked (including traditional vs. self-publishing, the major players in a book’s development and how each one is involved, how books are made into films, etc.) and how to send a book into the world (how to research literary agents, how to pitch a book to agents or editors)
• Writing in community — finding an audience, working with critique partners, and being in conversation about issues that affect the greater publishing community (diversity, censorship, equity, etc.)
Kelly Loy Gilbert is a lifelong lover of books and writing. After attending high school in a heavily STEM-focused high school in the SF Bay Area, she studied creative writing at UCSD and then earned an MFA in fiction at San Francisco State. Her first novel, Conviction, a 2015 Indie Next pick and BFYA nominee, was published by Disney-Hyperion in May, and her second novel, Nothing Gold Can Stay, is forthcoming in 2017. Now a full-time novelist, Kelly also serves on the associate board of the literacy nonprofit NaNoWrimo and teaches fiction writing.
Intersession Guide 2017 Seminar Courageous Leadership
Hala Kleinknecht LEADERSHIP/BUSINESS
Week 1 Successful leadership requires making bold, risky, and sometimes unpopular decisions. In a word, it requires courage. However, Afternoon courage is much more than charging into the unknown with uncertain outcomes. While everyone has the capacity for courage, January 4, 5, 6 not every aspiring leader understands how to harness courage to enhance effectiveness. Courageous leadership requires a deep 1:15 to 3:15 pm understanding of the unique relationship between courage and fear, as well as the connection between leaders and those they Bay Meadows lead.
Students will examine their own concept of courage and how it influences leadership and communication styles. We will evaluate modern leadership strategies and discover how the proper balance of courage and fear fosters effective communication that inspires and engages others. Research has shown that compassionate leaders inspire loyalty and commitment, thus creating an environment that breeds productivity and health. Through experiential practices and group discussion, students will gain greater awareness about their authentic selves and the courage to apply the most appropriate leadership style in any given situation.
A native of Jordan, Hala received her master’s in counseling psychology from the Institute of Transpersonal Psychology and started her career as a therapist working for several years with underprivileged youth and their families. Hala has spent 15 years in the fields of coaching and teaching.. Hala believes that once we know and accept our inner strengths and gifts we have the power to deepen our lives and inspire the lives of those around us. That is what leadership is to her.
Hala has taught undergraduate psychology courses and graduate cultural and diversity courses. She developed, created, and teaches the Courageous Leadership course at Stanford University. Hala also co- founded Head Heart Consulting, a leadership and executive coaching and consulting company that works with teams to create their vision for authentic and inspiring leadership and culture.
Intersession Guide 2017 Seminar Improv: High School League
Jeff Kramer, ComedySportz IMPROV
Week 1 This workshop will provide an introduction to the improv skills Afternoon necessary to start a ComedySportz High School League team at your school. You’ll learn the basics of ComedySportz
improv, including teamwork, trust, leadership, listening, January 4, 5, 6 character-building, environment, and status. Get ready for a
fast-paced, laughter-inducing seminar where we know where 1:15 to 3:15 pm we are starting but have no idea where we will end!
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ComedySportz is the award-winning interactive comedy show where two teams of "act-letes" compete for audience laughs and points while improvising scenes, games, operas, and musicals based on your suggestions. ComedySportz was started in 1984 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, by Dick Chudnow, who based it on the competitive Theatresports improvisational techniques of Keith Johnstone from Calgary, Alberta. The continued growth of ComedySportz culminated in the birth of the World Comedy League. The WCL now has grown to over 20 teams, including teams in Manchester, U.K., and Berlin, Germany.
ComedySportz San Jose was founded by Jeff Kramer, who was an original member of the Madison Team. The ComedySportz High School League® is the largest, most successful improv training program for high school students in the country. The High School League® empowers students to create their own theater and nourishes their communication skills through improvisational theater workshops and performances. It encourages their individuality and provides a forum to succeed or fail in a safe environment that combines showmanship and sportsmanship. The league provides an extracurricular activity that goes beyond stage work into everyday situations. http://comedysportzsanjose.com/about-us/
Intersession Guide 2017 Seminar Political Violence in Western Europe: Bombs, Basques, and Baader-Meinhof
Pat Zimmerman POLITICAL SCIENCE/HISTORY
Week 1 This seminar will explore the use of violence for political ends Afternoon from the end of the Second World War until the present. This will include ethnic conflicts, such as those in Algeria and the
Basque country, as well as organizations with other goals, January 4, 5, 6 such as the Red Army Faction and the Red Brigades. It will
cover the use of “terror” by radical and revolutionary 1:15 to 3:15 pm movements and its employment by governments against
internal opposition. The goal of this course will be to explore Bay Meadows the varying causes and motivations behind the adoption of violence as a political strategy and its consequences. Central to this seminar will be an exploration of the definition of “terrorism,” how violence is justified by both sides, and the struggle for public support.
Days 1 and 2 of the seminar will focus on discussions and guided primary and secondary source evaluation to give a
brief contextual overview of the history and theory behind military and paramilitary movements. Day 3 will consist mostly of a practical exercise, with the students designing, planning, and role-playing an insurrectionary student movement.
Pat Zimmerman is a historian and anthropologist interested in the connections between mass culture and the social and political contexts in which it exists.
Throughout his career — both professional and academic — Pat has been fascinated by the question of why communities behave in the way they do, and (especially) what causes that behavior to change? Politics, cultural shifts, social and demographic changes, and technological development and adoption are all part of that wider process, which to Pat is awesome!
Pat has just recently launched Principally Uncertain, an online magazine and research community for smarty-pants nerds who like to actively analyze the world around them — with a sense of humor. To edify and entertain!
http://principallyuncertain.com/
Intersession Guide 2017 Seminar Abstract Painting
Daniel Diaz-Tai ART
Week 1 Overview Afternoon Day 1: Space
We will explore the concept of space by working with January 4, 5, 6 different washes varying in thickness. We will explore primary
and secondary colors but will ultimately constrain the palette 1:15 to 3:15 pm to only two colors. By working on paper and cutting it during
the painting process, we will further explore the idea of the Bay Meadows use of space.
Day 2: Loose vs Tied Continue to explore with different materials, incorporating geometric shapes, strokes, lines, and washes in the same work.
Day 3: Abstract Still Life Explore semi-abstract and abstract still life by arriving at the essence, feel, and texture of objects on a canvas.
Venezuelan-born San Francisco resident Daniel Diaz-Tai has a BFA in graphic design and a MFA in (nonfigurative) painting from the Academy of Art University. Daniel’s art can be found throughout the US and Asia. His work is inspired by writing and movement. Daniel’s subconscious creates an energy and a repetition of dialogue in which he writes and washes upon a medium. Daniel’s limited color palette helps him remain in the moment with his work. Through Daniel's subconscious process, he expresses himself by rapidly writing his personal thoughts and ideas. Daniel also wants the viewer to relate to the movement of his writing, which is done through creating his own nihilistic script and allowing the viewer to interpret the writing by reading its fluidity.
www.missionartistsunited.org
Intersession Guide 2017 Seminar Public Speaking
Nathan Swan, Magnetic Speaking LIFESKILLS
Week 1 In this 3-day public speaking workshop, participants will learn Afternoon the mindset and tools to communicate with clarity, confidence, and power. They will learn, practice, and drill to
enhance their skills and confidence both in scripted settings January 4, 5, 6 and in settings requiring more extemporaneous responses,
where Improv comes in handy (imagine Q and A sessions 1:15 to 3:15 pm after your perfectly practiced speech).
Bay Meadows The seminar is fully immersive and students will learn in an interactive, experiential environment.
NOTE: At the end of this training students will: While debate • Feel empowered and expressive team/MUN • Have a model for personal charisma members are • Feel self-assured and confident welcome to sign • Have the tools to express themselves authentically and up, this seminar is eloquently intended for students with less public speaking Nathan Swan is an international speaker, has been featured on top experience. media sites such as the Huffington Post, and is the winner of numerous national debate and speech competitions. As a speaker and coach for Magnetic Speaking (www.magneticspeaking.com), Nathan teaches the mindset and strategies behind leadership and communication mastery.
Nathan traveled to more than 20 countries over the span of one year, speaking to international audiences and creating relationships with people in cultures as diverse as Peru, Japan, India, and Morocco. He draws upon the profound life lessons he has learned from world experience to teach insights about society and human psychology. He specializes in helping clients become more confident in their communication abilities.
Intersession Guide 2017 Seminar Python Projects in Action
Robyn Allen SOFTWARE ENGINEERING
Week 1 Can Python programs be fun to write? YES! If you are curious about programming but not ready to commit to an elective Afternoon course, then this class is for you. We will work together as a class to write a few fun applications in Python, including: January 4, 5, 6 • A program to automatically read the article headlines 1:15 to 3:15 pm from the New York Times website • A program to make a poem from a random set of the Bay Meadows words in said headlines • A program that lets the user play a text-based adventure game (written by you!) NOTE: • A program to test mental math skills (this program, if time No prior permits, may include database basics) programming experience Even if you don't think you'll use programming in your future required. career, we welcome you to try your hand at a few Python
projects during this seminar. Our goal is to use pre-existing Python libraries to show you how easy it can be to do powerful (and entertaining) things with the Python programming language.
Robyn Allen teaches engineering because many of today's grand challenges — in energy, healthcare, transportation, and other areas — require interdisciplinary engineering teams that have both world-class technical skills and world-class teamwork abilities. Robyn has mentored math teams, startup companies, and student engineers for 15 years. She holds a BS in aerospace engineering from MIT. Prior to teaching, Robyn worked as a systems engineer in hybrid car design, ultralight aircraft, mobile robotics, software design, and electric grid optimization. She has extensive experience in early-stage technology evaluation and prototyping from both an engineering and business perspective.
Robyn has been honored by numerous organizations, including the International Achievement Summit, the Clinton Global Initiative, the MIT Energy Initiative, and the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics.
Intersession Guide 2017 Seminar Forensic Science
Romayne Putna APPLIED SCIENCE
Week 1 Students will be introduced to the many different branches of Afternoon forensics and their roles in the investigation process, such as forensic entomology, botany, ballistics, toxicology, and
anthropology. We will explore more deeply the science January 4, 5, 6 involved in the branches of forensic odontology,
fingerprinting, and DNA analysis and engage in hands-on 1:15 to 3:15 pm activities pertaining to those fields. There will be additional,
shorter activities interspersed throughout the sessions to Bay Meadows demonstrate techniques and issues in the other fields.
We will also discuss the protocol of how an investigation is carried out, and the crucial preservation of the chain of evidence. Students will learn the history and development of forensic investigation, hear real-life case studies, and discover the flaws in the world of forensics as well as the benefits. We will discuss the far-reaching implications of forensic science, such as its use in identifying victims of genocide and exposing white collar and environmental crime, and resulting advances in science and medicine.
Romayne Putna accidentally started working in education in the late 1990s. She found it so enjoyable that she’s been having the same accident for nearly twenty years. Romayne spent six years working between the UK and the USA as a visual arts and theater instructor and an outdoor educator.
In 2007, Romayne moved to Los Angeles, creating and instructing project- based curriculum on a diverse range of subjects from neuroscience to Shakespeare to engineering to cryptozoology. Today, as an educational consultant, she continues to be a passionate advocate of interactive learning and “edutainment” and enjoys introducing topics that will inspire curiosity and lots of questions, except for tax law as those questions give her a headache.
Intersession Guide 2017 Seminar Languages of the World: What Makes Them Tick?
Asya Pereltsvaig SOCIAL STUDIES/LINGUISTICS
Week 1 Ever wanted to learn more about different languages around Afternoon the world? We are going to see what makes languages as varied as English, Japanese, Russian, Tatar, and Hausa tick; in
what ways languages are different from one another; and, January 4, 5, 6 perhaps surprisingly, in what ways they are all the same!
1:15 to 3:15 pm You may be surprised that grammar can be fun, if looked at
in a scientific way. We will also become historical detectives, Bay Meadows tracking down languages into the dawn of human prehistory. Come and see how linguistics combines language and math in a way that is fun and intellectually enriching.
Asya Pereltsvaig is a linguist, educator, and author. She received a PhD in linguistics from McGill University (Montreal, Canada) in 2002, and has taught at Yale, Cornell, and Stanford, as well as in several European universities. Her research on the structure of Slavic, Semitic, and Turkic languages has been published in major journals, and she has presented at many scientific and educational conferences.
Her interests also include geography, history, and genetics as they pertain to language groups around the world. Two of her most recent books, published by Cambridge University Press, are Languages of the World: An Introduction (2012, second edition to be published in 2017) and The Indo- European Controversy: Facts and Fallacies in Historical Linguistics (2015), co-authored with Stanford geographer Martin W. Lewis. Moreover, Asya Pereltsvaig also teaches linguistic courses at several continuing education institutions in the Bay Area and blogs at LanguagesOfTheWorld.info about the geography and diversity of human languages.
www.languagesoftheworld.info
Intersession Guide 2017 Seminar Introduction to Meditation
Alison Laichter WELLNESS
Week 1 Research has shown that meditation and mindfulness training Afternoon reduces stress, anxiety, and depression, improves concentration and focus, and helps students perform better
on tests. Do you want to learn how to deal with stress and January 4, 5, 6 increase your capacity to be calmer, kinder, and happier? Of
course you do! Consider this your meditation boot camp. 1:15 to 3:15 pm Through instruction, group discussions, and fun workshop
activities, we’ll learn basic (and maybe some advanced) Bay Meadows meditation practices and how to integrate these practices into our everyday lives. Also, it will be fun.
Alison Laichter is a meditation teacher, consultant, urban planner, community organizer, and former Brooklynite, now based in southern California. She has taught classes and retreats for children and adults throughout the world, including students and professors at Yale University, doctors at Bellevue Hospital, farmers and retreatants at Hazon and the Leichtag Ranch, children and mothers at NYC homeless shelters, social entrepreneurs in Jerusalem, humanitarian activists in Mumbai, and artists in Mexico City. She founded and directed the Jewish Meditation Center (JMC) in New York City. She was a recipient of the Joshua Venture Group Dual Investment Program, a two-year, $100K fellowship for social entrepreneurs and was named one of the Jewish Week’s “36 Under 36: Visionaries for a New Era.” Alison studied civil engineering at the Cooper Union and urban planning at Columbia University.
As the founding director of the JMC, Alison created the first-ever grassroots and community-led Jewish Meditation Center. At the JMC, Alison directed all aspects of the organization, earning a spot in Slingshot’s 50 Most Innovative Jewish Nonprofits in North America three years in a row. She has consulted with foundations, organizations, and companies to build strong teams, develop and cultivate communities, and create sustainable programs, using meditation and mindfulness as strategic tools. Alison is a sought-after teacher and an accomplished spiritual leader who believes that truly sustainable repair of the world happens from the inside out.
Intersession Guide 2017 Seminar Digital Animation
Austin Broder FILM/TECHNOLOGY
Week 1 Love Pixar movies? Want to learn what goes into making Afternoon one? In this three-day course, we dive into EVERYTHING. We learn about 3D sculpting tools, how to make your own
character, create custom textures, digital lighting, even a bit January 4, 5, 6 of animation. Along the way, we'll reveal secret tips and tricks
used by the pros and cover concepts that will help you make 1:15 pm to 3:15 pm your own short film!
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Austin Broder has been teaching 3D art and animation for nearly 8 years and during that time has incorporated his experience in the industry and professional tricks and techniques into his lessons. In his lessons, he covers everything from the basics of 3D modeling programs to the history of animation to revealing insights as to how the industry works. His students have gone on to receive film festival awards and earn master’s degrees in animation. He hopes to inspire and empower his students and provide a once-in-a-lifetime experience.
Intersession Guide 2017
WEEK ONE Intensives
Intersession Guide 2017 Intensive Antibiotic Sensitivity and Natural Product Discovery
Ellen Hilbrich, Schmahl Science MICROBIOLOGY
Week 1 Antibiotics were once thought of as a “magic bullet,” a nearly perfect drug for combating bacteria. But things are never that
simple. In contemporary Western culture, we have come to rely on January 4, 5, 6 chemical preservatives to prevent food spoilage and have utilized antibiotics to treat bacterial diseases. While the use of these has 8:30 am departure helped to diminish the impact of many common diseases, many from Nueva BM pathogens have evolved resistance to some or all of the known antibiotics. The source for our arsenal of antibacterial drugs has Schmahl Science traditionally been the natural world of fungi, plants, and bacteria. Lab, San Jose As we see more resistant strains of bacteria evolve, we must turn to that source again for potential new drugs. NOTE: 9:30 am arrival at A number of approaches have been historically used to find lab. “leads” for new and potentially useful biologically active natural products. Today, the drug discovery process involves a Depart lab at 2:15 sophisticated array of biological assays, or “bioassays” and this pm. session will explore some of those. This session will introduce students to one of the first stages of the drug discovery process and also Bring lunch / snack emphasizes the interface between chemistry and biology. Students (microwave will gain experience in chemical extraction, media preparation, available). staining techniques, and various biochemical and serological tests for identification and sensitivity. They will become familiar with the Must have closed concepts of aseptic technique, antibiotic sensitivity, antibiotic toe shoes for lab resistance, minimum inhibitory concentration, minimum safety. Long hair tied bactericidal concentration, zone of inhibition, serial dilution, back. Lab coats differential vs. simple stains, and the McFarland standard. provided.
Waiver required. Schmahl Science Workshops is a nonprofit partnership of students, parents, teachers, scientists, and engineers who come together to foster the innate curiosity and love of science that exists among students of all ages. The An information instructors for these sessions are scientists with advanced biology degrees and packet will be a wealth of teaching experience. The molecular and micro biology sessions provided to review provide an opportunity for students to work with research protocols in a in advance for those detailed and structured layout guided by Schmahl scientists. enrolled.
Intersession Guide 2017 Intensive Free Composition and Music Improv
Matt LaRocca MUSIC
Week 1 Through excercises and guided improvisations, students learn the basics of free improvisation, find new ways to make January 4, 5, 6 music, experiment with new playing techniques for their instruments, and expand on how they think about music. 8:45 am to 3:15 pm The workshop will be a combination of composition and free Bay Meadows improvisation (not necessarily jazz-style improvisation, but rather spontaneous composition with no boundaries).
Matt LaRocca is a conductor, composer, and educator based in Burlington, VT. He is the conductor of the Champlain Philharmonic Orchestra and is on the faculty of Saint Michael’s College, where he teaches music theory, conducting, and composition. Matt is also the Assistant Director of Music-COMP, a Vermont organization that teaches composition to elementary through high school students and facilitates live performances of their music by professional musicians. He attended Middlebury college, graduating with a BA in chemistry, and recently completed his doctoral work in music composition at Boston University.
As a composer, his music focuses on fostering deeper connections between the listener and extramusical instances, including human emotions and responses, historical events, and the natural world. Matt’s work has been commissioned by the Vermont Symphony, the New Jersey Youth Symphony,and the Great Falls Symphony Orchestra, and he was the faculty composer in residence at Montana State University in 2007– 2008. He was a recent member of an artistic residency to the island of Svalbard in the high arctic led by the Arctic Circle organization. In addition to composing, Matt is an avid performer on both the guitar and viola, with projects ranging from traditional and modern classical music to rock bands to an improvisation dance collective.
Intersession Guide 2017 Intensive Artist Retreat: Screenprint, the Art of Zines
KALA Arts, Yael Levy ART
Week 1 This 3-day workshop will take students through the process of composing their own comic narrative and turning it into a January 4, 5, 6 small edition, screenprinted mini-zine. Students will acquire fundamental knowledge of visual storytelling, including an 8:30 am departure understanding of text/image relationships, cover design, and from Nueva BM layout. They will then learn hands-on screenprinting and paper-folding techniques to reproduce their zines in the spirit KALA studio, of a small-run, independent publication. Berkeley
Yael Levy is a visual artist and storyteller. Born and raised in Israel in a bilingual home, she had always been fascinated by the power of images to bridge — or even transcend — language. This passion for image NOTE: making led her to the Art Students League of New York, where she became acquainted with classical techniques of figure drawing, painting, 9:30 arrival at Kala and color theory. She later went on receive a BFA of illustration from Art Institute. Parsons, the New School for Design. It was at Parsons that she was exposed to the world of sequential art and started exploring text/image Depart Kala at 2:15 interactions. Since graduating from college, she has worked for the pm. Unemployed Philosophers Guild as an illustrator and designer and taught in Kala’s Artists-in-Schools program. She is currently pursuing an MFA in Students bring comics at California College of the Arts. lunch.
Waiver required.
Intersession Guide 2017 Intensive Radical Art in the 1960s: Exploration, Discussion, and Studio
Corey D'Augustine ART HISTORY/STUDIO ART
Week 1 The 1960s was a decade of extreme upheaval and violence. Taking cues from sources as disparate as the bombing of January 4, 5, 6 North Vietnam, the Civil Rights Movement, and the Beatles, artists exploded the Modernist notion of a self-contained 8:45 am to 3:15 pm artwork in favor of experimental concepts, materials, and processes in a wide array of international movements such as Bay Meadows, Pop, Minimalism, and Fluxus. with a visit to SFMOMA This course will examine the wide array of creative strategies used in the 60s through a combination of art historical lectures, extended visits to the SFMoMA galleries, and studio sessions where students will make paintings and other objects based on these works. Artists considered will include Gerhard Richter, Eva Hesse, Robert Rauschenberg, Albero Burri, James Rosenquist, Agnes Martin, Andy Warhol, Yayoi Kusama, and many more. No previous painting experience is necessary.
Corey D'Augustine is a technical art historian and a conservator of modern and contemporary art. He regularly lectures at New York University, Pratt Institute, the Museum of Modern Art, and Sotheby’s Institute of Art. He is the principal conservator at Corey D'Augustine Conservation after working at the Museum of Modern Art and the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum for many years.
Intersession Guide 2017 Intensive Glass Blowing Retreat at Bay Area Glass Institute (BAGI)
BAGI and Treg Silkwood ART
Week 1 Immerse yourself in the magic of glass. This 3-day intensive is a totally hands-on experience that allows you to learn the January 4, 5, 6 basics of traditional free-form glass blowing. We’ll touch on safety in the hot shop, learning which tool does what, some 8:30 am departure key glassblowing terms, and how to work molten glass into a from Nueva BM cool piece of art or something functional like a cup. You’ll work in teams to assist each other in creating your artwork BAGI Studio, San while under the careful direction of masters. The goal for Jose each student is to make perfect bubbles, paperweights, flowers, and a functional vessel, and to come away with the skills necessary to take glassblowing to the next level.
Treg Silkwood knew that he wanted to work with his hands. In 1996 he received his BFA from Alfred University, graduating as the top student of the Art and Design School. In 1995, he spent a semester studying at the NOTE: Academy of Applied Arts in Prague. Treg spent the next five years working 9:30 am arrival at as a production glassblower, recreating early American glass at the Henry studio. Ford Museum & Greenfield Village, where he deepened his knowledge and appreciation for the history and the craft of working with glass. After
pursuing a year of graduate studies with Jack Wax at Illinois State Depart studio at University, Treg was honored to become one of the first gaffers for the Hot 2:15 pm. Glass Road Show of the Corning Museum of Glass.
Students bring Treg moved to the Bay Area in 2002 and, with Candace Martin, formed lunch. Silkwood Glass, a custom, handcrafted glass company whose innovative designs are largely inspired by the natural world. In 2008, Treg had his first Waiver required. solo show at the Steuben Flagship Store on Madison Avenue in New York City and was honored to be one of only two artists invited to take part in the “Steuben Selections Series,” which showcases some of the world’s foremost artists in glass. Treg’s work has been exhibited internationally and showcased in many prestigious galleries. He has become widely recognized as a premier California marine glass artist. Treg and Candace’s work can be seen at www.SilkwoodGlass.com.
Intersession Guide 2017 Intensive TIG Welding
The Crucible ENGINEERING/INDUSTRIAL ARTS
Week 1 Tungsten Inert Gas (TIG) welding is a highly precise method of welding that makes clean and focused welds on everything January 4, 5, 6 from super-thin to very thick materials. Using TIG welding, an expert can weld any metal that can be welded and can 8:30 am departure even join dissimilar metals. You will learn the basics of TIG from Nueva BM welding by working with stainless steel. The class will also introduce the plasma cutter and a variety of shop sheet- Crucible Studios, metal tools. The instructor will assign sculpture projects that Oakland allow you to put your creativity and welding skills to use.
NOTE: The Crucible is a 501(c)(3) non-profit arts education organization that 9:30 am arrival at fosters a collaboration of arts, industry, and community. Through training in Crucible. the fine and industrial arts, the Crucible promotes creative expression, reuse of materials, and innovative design, while serving as an accessible arts venue for the general public in the Bay Area. Known for one-of-a-kind Depart Crucible at industrial arts education programs, the Crucible is also highly regarded for 2:15 pm. its innovative performances.
Students bring www.thecrucible.org lunch.
Wear comfortable, athletic clothing and shoes.
Waiver required.
Intersession Guide 2017 Intensive Arc Welding
The Crucible ENGINEERING/INDUSTRIAL ARTS
Week 1 Learn to fuse, cut, bend, and shape metal with arc welding. This intensive introduction to stick welding — also known as January 4, 5, 6 arc welding — and oxyacetylene torch cutting is taught by a technical pro, giving each student in-depth demonstrations 8:30 am departure and one-on-one guidance on the safe and effective from Nueva BM operation of welding equipment. Students complete a small welded sculpture or project. Crucible Studios, Oakland
NOTE: The Crucible is a 501(c)(3) non-profit arts education organization that 9:30 am arrival at fosters a collaboration of arts, industry, and community. Through training in Crucible. the fine and industrial arts, the Crucible promotes creative expression, reuse of materials, and innovative design, while serving as an accessible Depart Crucible at arts venue for the general public in the Bay Area. Known for one-of-a-kind 2:15 pm. industrial arts education programs, the Crucible is also highly regarded for its innovative performances. Students bring lunch. www.thecrucible.org
Wear comfortable, athletic clothing and shoes.
Waiver required.
Intersession Guide 2017 Intensive Woodworking: Building Shelter Pods for the Homeless
Fred Sotcher ART/SOCIAL JUSTICE
Come join us in building a survival shelter for the homeless. Week 1 There are approximately 6,500 homeless men, women, and children in Santa Clara County alone. These are people who January 4, 5, 6 might be holding a job but still cannot afford to pay the exorbitant rents here in Silicon Valley. These are men, women, 8:30 am departure and children who are living under bridges, under plastic from Nueva BM sheets, and on park benches. During this Intensive, we will be building one portable shelter, for one person. It is a long way Fred Sotcher’s from a solution to the problem, but it will provide one person Workshop, San with a dry, warm, safe place to stay. Jose The shelter we will build is one of a number of shelters that I hope to provide over time. I am looking for students who are NOTE: willing to work with me to create such a shelter and to 9:30 am arrival at become a small part of the movement to assist individuals in Fred's Workshop. need. The construction will take place at my home workshop in San Jose. You will be guided by three experienced Depart at 2:15 pm. woodworkers. We hope you will join us.
Students bring lunch. Fred Sotcher is current president of the South Bay Woodworkers and Students must wear former president of a number of woodworking clubs in the Bay Area. He has authored a number of articles in Fine Woodworking Magazine and closed toed shoes, others. Fred has been teaching woodworking for over 20 years at the long haired tied John Montgomery School, the Girls Middle School, Creekside Academy, back, no long and through private classes at his home shop. His joy in life is working with necklaces, scarves, young people to help them develop their creative talents. or loose sleeves.
Waiver required.
Intersession Guide 2017 Intensive Photographic Storytelling: The Visual Narrative
Emilio Bañuelos PHOTOGRAPHY
Week 1 This intensive three-day workshop is designed to help you understand the narrative, aesthetic, and emotional aspects January 4, 5, 6 of photography and visual storytelling. We will create an opportunity for personal photographic exploration that allows 8:45 am to 3:15 pm you to learn skills that will enable you to document your community using your unique voice. Bay Meadows, plus one day San Each day is divided between classroom instruction, personal Francisco and group critiques, and photography fieldwork. In the first part of this workshop, students will be making images that look closely at the people and environment in their school, home and in San Francisco’s downtown neighborhoods. NOTE: Participants should be prepared to photograph intensively Strudents bring with a sense of visual curiosity and instincts in order to extend lunch, offsite day the limits of their approach to visual storytelling. only (TBD). The second part of our workshop will focus on editing and Pre-Req: Beginning sequencing as the key elements in achieving meaning and photography determining what we say with the personal narratives we experience. create. Photographers interested in honing a more intimate Bring: Digital connection and expression in their photography and projects camera, one lens will benefit from this intense workshop experience. (35mm to 50mm range), multiple memory cards, laptop, hard drive, Emilio Bañuelos has worked as a photographer and consultant for notepad and pen. newspapers in Mexico and Panama and as an editorial photographer for publications in Illinois, Hawaii, and California. In the San Francisco Bay Area he works as an arts educator and has conducted workshops for the Academy of Art University, San Jose Museum of Art, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Contemporary Jewish Museum, University of California Santa Cruz-Extension, University of Hawaii at Manoa, and through Rayko Photo Center.
Intersession Guide 2017
WEEK ONE Activities
Intersession Guide 2017 Activity Conservation Ambassadors: Under the Canopy
David, Lisa, and Samantha Jackson WILDLIFE/ENVIRONMENT
Week 1 Discover the rain forest, the single most important ecosystem Wednesday on earth. Students will learn about the resources we rely on that are found in the rain forests of the world, and they will
take a journey through the layers to meet the animals that January 4 keep the rain forest alive.
11:00 am to
12:30 pm
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David’s passion for wildlife and desire to educate and inspire conservation worldwide is what led him to establish Conservation Ambassadors 25 years ago. His passion started in high school with jobs in animal care and training NOTE: dogs and parrots. His unique experiences inspired him to pursue a career in Live animals are the animal care field, and he went to work in the zoological medicine department at UC Davis Veterinary Teaching Hospital. His dedication and part of each interest in wildlife and wild places led him to attend Moorpark College in session. California, a facility certified by the Association of Zoos and Aquariums, where he earned a degree in exotic animal training and zoological management. You may sign up for David has traveled around the world to assist with wildlife conservation efforts. more than one Over his career, he has received numerous awards for animal welfare, zoo session; however, management, education, and training. we will only assign Conservation Ambassadors’ mission is giving a worldwide voice to wildlife by students to providing a permanent, loving home for displaced, abused, abandoned, or additional sessions permanently injured wild and exotic animals. Through our “Zoo to You” after everyone who outreach program, we share these animal ambassadors with school children wants this activity and learners of all ages to educate them about conservation, connect them has had a first to the wild world, and inspire them to protect the planet. opportunity. www.conservationambassadors.org
Intersession Guide 2017 Activity Simulated Society: Poverty, Privilege, and Responsibility (Simulation)
Elaine Poon SOCIAL JUSTICE
Week 1 It is difficult to understand another person, let alone an entire Wednesday population, without sharing a common experience with them. While a simulated experience will never compare to
actual life experience, it provides a glimpse into some of the January 4 emotions, quandaries, and struggles one faces in certain
circumstances. Our session will put participants in the shoes of 11:00 am to our neighbors who have less, if only for a brief moment, with a 12:30 pm focus on systemic causes of poverty and inequality.
Bay Meadows This simulation of privilege and scarcity will attempt to force us to think twice about our preconceived notions of poverty and inequality with the hope of fostering increased understanding about how societal structures reinforce existing conditions. We will follow our simulation with a debriefing, with the hope that the simulation sparks a conversation that continues far beyond this session.
Elaine Poon is an attorney living in central Virginia, where she works in Institutional Research and Admissions at Washington and Lee University School of Law. Prior to working in Virginia, she was a senior staff attorney at Atlanta Legal Aid Society, Inc. There, she represented low-income senior citizens in cases against large banks in predatory loan and foreclosure cases. She also worked in a wide range of areas such as disability rights, heir property, and domestic violence prevention.
Ms. Poon is an active member of the National Lawyers Guild, the first integrated bar association in the U.S., and has participated in litigation against cities and counties for police and prison brutality. She is also an avid gardener and founded her neighborhood community garden in Atlanta, which donates the majority of its produce to food co-ops for the poor.
Intersession Guide 2017 Activity Cooking and Culture: Korea — 5 Flavors, 5 Colors
Simran Singh & Stacie Dong, A Little Yumminess COOKING (INTERNATIONAL)
Week 1 Bibimbap could be considered Korea’s national dish. Wednesday Bibimbap means “mixed rice,” and, beyond rice as its foundation, the variation of flavors and toppings is endless.
Bibimbap can be as simple as rice topped with kimchee, one January 4 or two sautéed vegetables (namul), and chili paste
(gochujang), or it can be a bowl elaborately topped with 11:00 am to meat, sauces, a rainbow of vegetables, and a fried egg. In 12:30 pm some ways, bibimbap helps uncover the essence of Korean
cuisine and its philosophy of incorporating five colors (red, Bay Meadows yellow, black, white, and green) and five flavors (hot, sour, NOTE: salty, sweet, and bitter) in one meal or dish. You may sign up for more than one session; In this hands-on activity session, we’ll make a variety of however, we will only colorful and flavorful ban chan (side dishes) to top our assign students to bibimbap, including bulgogi beef/tofu, beosut bokkeum additional sessions (sauteed mushrooms), kongnamul-muchim (bean sprout side after everyone who wants this activity has dish), sigeumchi-namul (spinach side dish), oi sobagi (quick had a first opportunity. cucumber kimchee), musaengchae (spicy radish salad), and an assortment of sauces. Waiver required.
Vegetarian: OK (we will prepare an Simran Singh and Stacie Dong love to teach kids of all ages to cook foods optional meat topping from around the world. They also write about food and share recipes on for our rice bowls) their blog, A Little Yumminess (www.alittleyum.com), as well as for the San Jose Mercury News (“Fast & Furious Weeknight Cooking”). In addition to Vegan: OK (we will teaching kids’ classes, they teach classes for adults at 18 Reasons, Cavallo prepare optional Point Cooking School in Sausalito, and Ramekins Culinary School in meat and egg Sonoma. toppings for our rice bowls)
GF: YES
Intersession Guide 2017 Activity Juggling and Balancing
Jeremy Vik FITNESS/WELLNESS
Week 1 Ever wanted to balance a ladder on your face? Juggle Wednesday chainsaws? Well, in this class we won’t quite get to that, but in one and a half hours you will learn the techniques necessary
to do these things in the future. You might even come away January 4 from it being able to juggle three oranges and balance a
broom on your face. 11:00 am to
12:30 pm
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Jeremy Vik has only been paying his rent with juggling recently, but his NOTE: journey to becoming a professional juggler started 12 years ago when he You may sign up for got his first set of juggling balls for Christmas. Three months of addiction more than one later, Jeremy ran away to clown school and specialized in juggling and session; however, handstands. Although he loves to teach, act, and sing, Jeremy makes the we will only assign bulk of his living through juggling and handstands. Jeremy has a BFA in students to acting from Southern Oregon University, certificates in clowning and additional sessions acrobatics from Circus Center, and has been teaching for eight years. after everyone who wants this activity has had a first opportunity.
Intersession Guide 2017 Activity AcroYoga: Laugh Riot
Susan Holland FITNESS/WELLNESS
Week 1 AcroYoga is a fusion of partner yoga, acrobatics, and Wednesday inversions. Students will learn new ways of movement and balance while exploring upside-down, sideways, and multiple
person body stacking. All students will learn to base (lift January 4 people up with their hands and feet), fly (be lifted up), spot
(make sure no one falls face-first on the floor), and begin to 11:00 am to practice handstands. 12:30 pm
AcroYoga is a safe, fun way to grow trust in one’s own Bay Meadows strength and in the stability of those around us. Students will learn how to spot each other so no one is at risk of injury while exploring these new skills. Safety comes first in AcroYoga, then NOTE: You may sign up for comes fun, playtime, upside-down amazingness, and plenty more than one of laughter. session; however, we will only assign students to additional sessions after everyone who wants this activity Susan Holland is a certified personal trainer, vinyasa and acroyoga has had a first teacher, and has extensive training in kickboxing. She has taught fitness opportunity. and yoga and trained triathletes and novices around the world, including New York City, Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Seoul. Susan hails from the Waiver required. Eastern Shore of Maryland and has always loved athletic endeavors, especially anything involving being upside down. With a passion for all things playful, skillful, and healthy, Susan has found that yoga, fitness, and wellness have teamed up to be a wonderful career, hobby, and way of life. She believes that wellness isn’t an endpoint, but rather a path which continually evolves. She has an infectious and hilarious approach to fitness and her clients not only benefit through successful results, but also enjoy her motivating, patient, and creative process. Susan is currently a personal trainer and yoga instructor at Google.
Intersession Guide 2017 Activity Legends of History: Alexander the Great
Bruce Elliot HISTORY
Week 1 What makes for an historical legend? At critical junctures Wednesday throughout history, there have been individuals who have risen, larger than life, to meet immense challenges. This series
of Intersession presentations highlights the character and January 4 leadership of three such pivotal characters: Alexander the
Great, Catherine the Great, and Winston Churchill. Each of 11:00 am to these momentous figures appeared unexpectedly, in some 12:30 pm sense out of nowhere, to inspire their people and
dramatically affect the course of history. Bay Meadows
Through a dynamic multimedia presentation, we will examine the historical context for the challenges faced by each of these remarkable leaders. We’ll look at the web of legend generated by their remarkable accomplishments, feats like NOTE: Students are conquering the known world (Alexander), bringing the welcome to sign up Enlightenment to Europe’s most backward nation for all three of (Catherine), and thwarting history’s most terrifying tyrant Professor Elliott's (Churchill). sessions as each will cover a different subject. Bruce Elliott received his PhD in history from UC Berkeley. Dr. Elliott currently teaches courses in European history and culture at several lifelong- learning institutes in the Bay Area, including Stanford, UC Berkeley, Dominican University, and Sonoma State University. When he taught undergraduate classes at UC Berkeley and San Francisco State, his core course was European Civilization from the Renaissance to Modern Times.
His current research focuses on historical biography, highlighting pivotal figures who greatly influenced the course of Western history. In summertime, Dr. Elliott leads travel-study groups to fascinating European cities.
Intersession Guide 2017 Activity Body Language: It's Not Just What You Say That Counts
Laura Powers PUBLIC SPEAKING
Week 1 What did you just say? We don’t just talk with our hands — we Wednesday talk with our whole bodies. And sometimes we have no idea what we really just communicated. As students, team January 4 members, and leaders, it’s essential that we connect with others and congruently communicate so that our message 11:00 am to gets heard. 12:30 pm Join us in this session to learn how to establish rapport quickly Bay Meadows with individuals and groups. Discover body stances based on psychological archetypes that can either support or distract from your message. This session is ideal for anyone who wants to be a more effective influencer and speaker by making sure their body language matches their words.
Laura M. Powers is living proof that you never quite know where your next career move may take you. Educated as a mechanical engineer, she has been involved in the design of aircraft engines, diapers, and electric cars, as well as software systems at Hewlett Packard, Sales.com, and eBay. These days, you’ll find Laura “talking for a living” — coaching high-tech teams to communicate and collaborate as they create the next big thing. Laura holds a BS and MS in mechanical engineering from Virginia Tech, and is a Certified Scrum Professional (CSP), Certified Trainer of Neuro Linguistic Programming (NLP), and a Certified LEGO® Serious Play® facilitator.
Intersession Guide 2017 Activity Making Graffiti and Street Art
Cameron Moberg and Strider Patton, 1 AM Gallery SF ART/SOCIAL JUSTICE
Week 1 Introduction to the spray can and stenciling: practice Wednesday exercises and techniques on how to use the can and spray paint safely. Together, produce a colorful, vibrant, letter- based mural on one canvas and a stencil mural on another January 4 canvas (two canvases total). 11:00 am to 12:30 pm
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1 AM Gallery, short for First Amendment, is a gallery dedicated to street and urban art. Founded in 2008, 1AM is located in downtown San Francisco, serving as a community gallery, store, and educational center to help encourage appreciation and curiosity towards graffiti and street NOTE: art. Monthly themed exhibitions feature artists from San Francisco and You may sign up for around the world and weekly classes educate both corporations and more than one individuals on the culture of street and graffiti art. As believers that street session; however, we art is one of the last true forms of freedom of speech, 1AM advocates this will only assign through creating private and public murals and documenting art on their students to worldwide, free app — 1AM Mobile. Seeing is believing, so come witness additional sessions the 1AM movement. after everyone who wants this activity has had a first opportunity.
Wear clothes that can get messy!
Intersession Guide 2017 Activity Stunts through the Years: From the Silent Era, through the Westerns, to the Modern Day
Tony Vella FILM/THEATER
Week 1 Stuntman Tony Vella will share with you an entertaining Wednesday presentation on the history and evolution of stunts through the years from the silent era, through the westerns, to the modern
day. January 4
11:00 am to
12:30 pm Tony Vella is an experienced stuntman, stunt coordinator, actor, and San Francisco native, legitimately trained in both stunts and acting with more Bay Meadows than 25 years’ experience both on-camera and behind the scenes.
His personal work in both stunt coordinating and on-camera stunts includes a multitude of commercials, industrials, television, feature movies, and “live” stunt shows. His stunt coordinator credits include La Mission (2009) starring Benjamin Bratt, the quirky cult hit All About Evil (2010) with Natasha Lyonne, About Cherry (2012) starring James Franco, Garden of Eden with Eric Roberts (2014), Quitters with Mia Sorvino (2014), and The Boat Builder with Christopher Lloyd (2015).
His stunt credits include doubling various actors on The Bridge (FX), Gang Related (Fox), Bad Judge (NBC), the upcoming show Angie Tribeca (TBS) with Rashida Jones, Antman as driving double for Michael Pena, San Andreas as specialty rigger working directly with Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson during the parachuting into AT&T Park scene, and several seasons as both a principal stunt double and occasional bad guy on San Francisco’s own Nash Bridges. Additional stunt coordinator and upcoming credits include: Kicks (2016), Diary of a Teenage Girl, Cardinal X, the currently in production Pushing Dead with James Roday (Psych) and Robin Weigert (Deadwood), LASSO (a horror film that is sure to become a cult classic with psycho cowboys), and Take The 10 with Josh Peck (Grandfathered and Drake and Josh) and Tony Revolori (Grand Budapest Hotel) with more shows in the works. www.bayareastunts.com
Intersession Guide 2017 Activity Medical Exploration: Primary Care Exams and the Checkup
Shanda Manion and Kimble Torres, Pathway to Medicine MEDICINE
Week 1 One of the most critical aspects of being an effective Wednesday healthcare practitioner is the ability to skillfully perform a comprehensive physical exam on a patient of any age. This
lab will teach you how to thoroughly evaluate patient health January 4 from head to toe, inside and out, using the instruments, skills,
and tests physicians and nurses use to accurately detect 11:00 am to disease and keep patients healthy. 12: 30 pm
Students will learn the complex process of diagnosing Bay Meadows illness/injury, documenting their work using patient charts, working collaboratively as a part of a healthcare team, developing comprehensive treatment plans, and treating real-life medical cases.
Kimble Torres is a veteran biologist specializing in the human body and athletics. During his tenure in the biotech industry, Kimble worked for Nektar Therapeutics, Genentech, and Tyco Healthcare investigating product feasibility and managing lab operations. In 2014, his passion for medicine and health education culminated in the founding of Pathways to Medicine, a pre-med program for high school students.
Shanda’s passion for education and medicine has inspired her extensive work in the healthcare field. In 2011, she began working at UCSF Hospital as a patient health educator for the UCSF National Center of Excellence in Women’s Health and UCSF’s Women’s Health Great Expectations Pregnancy Program. She co-founded Pathways to Medicine in order to share her knowledge and enthusiasm for medicine with the next generation of healthcare providers.
Intersession Guide 2017 Activity Conservation Ambassadors: Desert Magic
David, Lisa, and Samantha Jackson WILDLIFE/ENVIRONMENT
Week 1 Watch the desert come alive in this thought-provoking, Thursday entertaining look at the animals that survive and thrive in the harshest of climates.
January 5
11:00 am to
12:30 pm
David’s passion for wildlife and desire to educate and inspire conservation Bay Meadows worldwide is what led him to establish Conservation Ambassadors 25 years ago. His passion started in high school with jobs in animal care and training NOTE: dogs and parrots. His unique experiences inspired him to pursue a career in Live animals are the animal care field, and he went to work in the zoological medicine part of each department at UC Davis Veterinary Teaching Hospital. His dedication and session. interest in wildlife and wild places led him to attend Moorpark College in California, a facility certified by the Association of Zoos and Aquariums, where
he earned a degree in exotic animal training and zoological management. You may sign up for David has traveled around the world to assist with wildlife conservation efforts. more than one Over his career, he has received numerous awards for animal welfare, zoo session; however, management, education, and training. we will only assign students to Conservation Ambassadors’ mission is giving a worldwide voice to wildlife by additional sessions providing a permanent, loving home for displaced, abused, abandoned, or permanently injured wild and exotic animals. Through our “Zoo to You” after everyone who outreach program, we share these animal ambassadors with school children wants this activity and learners of all ages to educate them about conservation, connect them has had a first to the wild world, and inspire them to protect the planet. opportunity. www.conservationambassadors.org
Intersession Guide 2017 Activity Simulated Society: Poverty, Privilege, and Responsibility (Simulation)
Elaine Poon SOCIAL JUSTICE
Week 1 It is difficult to understand another person, let alone an entire Thursday population, without sharing a common experience with them. While a simulated experience will never compare to
actual life experience, it provides a glimpse into some of the January 5 emotions, quandaries, and struggles one faces in certain
circumstances. Our session will put participants in the shoes of 11:00 am to our neighbors who have less, if only for a brief moment, with a 12:30 pm focus on systemic causes of poverty and inequality.
Bay Meadows This simulation of privilege and scarcity will attempt to force us to think twice about our preconceived notions of poverty and inequality with the hope of fostering increased understanding about how societal structures reinforce existing conditions. We will follow our simulation with a debriefing, with the hope that the simulation sparks a conversation that continues far beyond this session.
Elaine Poon is an attorney living in central Virginia, where she works in Institutional Research and Admissions at Washington and Lee University School of Law. Prior to working in Virginia, she was a senior staff attorney at Atlanta Legal Aid Society, Inc. There, she represented low-income senior citizens in cases against large banks in predatory loan and foreclosure cases. She also worked in a wide range of areas such as disability rights, heir property, and domestic violence prevention.
Ms. Poon is an active member of the National Lawyers Guild, the first integrated bar association in the U.S., and has participated in litigation against cities and counties for police and prison brutality. She is also an avid gardener and founded her neighborhood community garden in Atlanta, which donates the majority of its produce to food co-ops for the poor.
Intersession Guide 2017 Activity Cooking and Culture: Indonesia — Rice at the Center
Simran Singh & Stacie Dong, A Little Yumminess COOKING (INTERNATIONAL)
Week 1 Thursday Rice is a staple throughout Indonesia and is the center of almost every meal, with everything else being on the side. A
“typical” Indonesian meal might be described as a simple January 5 mound of rice accompanied by several savory side dishes of
vegetables, fish, or perhaps a meat or poultry dish with a chili 11:00 am to hot condiment or sambal on the side and crispy wafers 12:30 pm (krupuk) and fried shallots sprinkled on top to provide a
crunchy contrast. Bay Meadows
NOTE: In this hands-on activity session, we’ll taste and explore a You may sign up for variety of Indonesian ingredients and make a traditional nasi more than one campur (mixed rice plate), including Balinese bamboo, spice session; however, we paste kare ayam, chicken curry kare sayur, vegetable curry will only assign tumis kacang panjang, green beans in sweet soy, kolek students to additional pisang (bananas simmered with coconut milk, pandan leaf, sessions after and palm sugar), and a selection of sambals, pickles, and everyone who wants condiments. this activity has had a first opportunity.
Waiver required. Simran Singh and Stacie Dong love to teach kids of all ages to cook foods from around the world. They also write about food and share recipes on
their blog, A Little Yumminess (www.alittleyum.com), as well as for the San Vegetarian: YES Jose Mercury News (“Fast & Furious Weeknight Cooking”). In addition to teaching kids’ classes, they teach classes for adults at 18 Reasons, Cavallo Vegan: NO (curry will Point Cooking School in Sausalito, and Ramekins Culinary School in include dairy) Sonoma.
GF: NO (some prepared condiments may contain gluten)
Intersession Guide 2017 Activity Juggling and Balancing
Jeremy Vik FITNESS/WELLNESS
Week 1 Ever wanted to balance a ladder on your face? Juggle Thursday chainsaws? Well, in this class we won’t quite get to that, but in one and a half hours you will learn the techniques necessary
to do these things in the future. You might even come away January 5 from it being able to juggle three oranges and balance a
broom on your face. 11:00 am to
12:30 pm
Bay Meadows
Jeremy Vik has only been paying his rent with juggling recently, but his NOTE: journey to becoming a professional juggler started 12 years ago when he You may sign up for got his first set of juggling balls for Christmas. Three months of addiction more than one later, Jeremy ran away to clown school and specialized in juggling and session; however, handstands. Although he loves to teach, act, and sing, Jeremy makes the we will only assign bulk of his living through juggling and handstands. Jeremy has a BFA in students to acting from Southern Oregon University, certificates in clowning and additional sessions acrobatics from Circus Center, and has been teaching for eight years. after everyone who wants this activity has had a first opportunity.
Intersession Guide 2017 Activity Legends of History: Catherine the Great
Bruce Elliot HISTORY
Week 1 What makes for an historical legend? At critical junctures Thursday throughout history, there have been individuals who have risen, larger than life, to meet immense challenges. This series
of Intersession presentations highlights the character and January 5 leadership of three such pivotal characters: Alexander the
Great, Catherine the Great, and Winston Churchill. Each of 11:00 am to these momentous figures appeared unexpectedly, in some 12:30 pm sense out of nowhere, to inspire their people and
dramatically affect the course of history. Bay Meadows
Through a dynamic multimedia presentation, we will examine the historical context for the challenges faced by each of these remarkable leaders. We’ll look at the web of legend generated by their remarkable accomplishments, feats like conquering the known world (Alexander), bringing the NOTE: Enlightenment to Europe’s most backward nation Students are (Catherine), and thwarting history’s most terrifying tyrant welcome to sign up (Churchill). for all three of Professor Elliott's sessions as each will cover a different Bruce Elliott received his PhD in history from UC Berkeley. Dr. Elliott currently subject. teaches courses in European history and culture at several lifelong- learning institutes in the Bay Area, including Stanford, UC Berkeley, Dominican University, and Sonoma State University. When he taught undergraduate classes at UC Berkeley and San Francisco State, his core course was European Civilization from the Renaissance to Modern Times.
His current research focuses on historical biography, highlighting pivotal figures who greatly influenced the course of Western history. In summertime, Dr. Elliott leads travel-study groups to fascinating European cities.
Intersession Guide 2017 Activity The World of Forensic Science: Cracking the Case
Lisa Faber APPLIED SCIENCE
Week 1 This session will provide an insider’s look behind the scenes of the Trace Evidence Unit at the NYPD Crime Laboratory — the largest Thursday and busiest municipal crime lab in the country. Is real crime- scene investigation anything like the television series CSI? How January 5 did three tiny hairs found on a car floor mat help solve a kidnapping homicide? I will discuss real cases and show how 11:00 am to forensic scientists work meticulously on microscopic items of 12:30 pm evidence in order to provide detectives with answers and investigative leads. Bay Meadows Learn how technological advances in DNA testing have drastically changed the way criminal cases are investigated NOTE: and solved. This session will also demonstrate how forensic Caution: due to the scientists can put their skills to use outside the crime laboratory — nature of this work, from authenticating a Jackson Pollock painting to helping the some students may writers of NBC’s Law & Order: Special Victims Unit make their find course content series as realistic as possible. disturbing.
Lisa Faber served as a supervising criminalist at the New York Police Department's (NYPD) Crime Laboratory, where she worked as a forensic scientist for eleven years, managing a unit that received over 3,000 cases annually. As a trace evidence analyst she performed thousands of forensic analyses and testified as an expert witness in a variety of criminal cases.
Lisa also worked as the liaison between the NYPD Crime Laboratory and NYC's Rape Kit Backlog Project and the NYPD Cold Case Homicide Squad. With advancements in DNA testing technology, her role involved reviewing evidence from thousands of untested sexual assault kits and cold homicide cases in order to determine if any items were suitable for DNA testing. She implemented and managed the NYPD’s Biotracks Program, which involved collecting DNA "touch evidence" from no-suspect burglary scenes and entering eligible DNA profiles into state and national databases of convicted offenders. She was profiled in The New Yorker magazine and CNN’s Anderson Cooper 360°. She is now a forensic consultant for NBC's Law & Order: Special Victims Unit. She holds a master's degree in forensic science from George Washington University and a bachelor's degree from Harvard University.
Intersession Guide 2017 Activity History, Culture, and Application of Henna
Roopa Raman ART/CULTURE
Week 1 Henna is popularly associated with the Indian culture, but did Thursday you know that the tradition dates back as far as ancient Egypt? That Cleopatra was known to decorate herself with
henna and that ancient Egyptians applied henna to the January 5 mummies? That, in addition to its decorative aspects, henna
is believed to have medicinal and healing properties? Join us 11:00 am to for an exploration of the history, culture, and art of applying 12:30 pm henna to your skin, and learn about its benefits.
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Come learn about the history and cultural significance of henna and let a professional teach you the intricacies of henna (also called mehndi) application. Roopa Raman, a professional and licensed henna artist and owner of Henna Bash (www.hennabash.com), will explore traditional henna motifs with you and teach you how to draw effectively using henna paste. There will be plenty of henna cones for everyone.
Raman is a Bay Area henna expert and has taken Henna Bash to various events, including private parties, community fairs, public libraries, colleges, corporations, schools, and more.
Intersession Guide 2017 Activity Making Graffiti and Street Art
Cameron Moberg and Strider Patton, 1 AM Gallery SF ART/SOCIAL JUSTICE
Week 1 Introduction to the spray can and stenciling: practice Thursday exercises and techniques on how to use the can and spray paint safely. Together, produce a colorful, vibrant, letter-
based mural on one canvas and a stencil mural on another January 5 canvas (two canvases total).
11:00 am to
12:30 pm
Bay Meadows
NOTE: 1 AM Gallery, short for First Amendment, is a gallery dedicated to street You may sign up for and urban art. Founded in 2008, 1AM is located in downtown San Francisco, serving as a community gallery, store, and educational center more than one to help encourage appreciation and curiosity towards graffiti and street session; however, art. Monthly themed exhibitions feature artists from San Francisco and we will only assign around the world and weekly classes educate both corporations and students to individuals on the culture of street and graffiti art. As believers that street additional sessions art is one of the last true forms of freedom of speech, 1AM advocates this after everyone who through creating private and public murals and documenting art on their wants this activity worldwide, free app — 1AM Mobile. Seeing is believing, so come witness has had a first the 1AM movement opportunity.
Wear clothes that can get messy!
Intersession Guide 2017 Activity Stress, Health, and Coping
Robert Sapolsky NEUROSCIENCE
Week 1 Very few of us are likely to get sick with bubonic plague or protein malnutrition. Instead, we're going to get sick in Westernized ways, Thursday which is to say diseases where we slowly fall apart over time as a function of our lifestyle. Overwhelmingly, these are diseases that January 5 can be caused by or made worse by stress. This talk gives an overview of what stress — especially psychological stress — has to 11:00 am to do with health, starting early in life, and what the building blocks 12:30 pm are of successfully coping with stress.
Bay Meadows Robert Sapolsky, PhD, is the John A. and Cynthia Fry Gunn Professor of Biological Sciences and Professor of Neurology and Neurological Sciences at Stanford University. Sapolsky, a leading neuroendocrinologist, has focused his research on issues of stress and neuron degeneration, as well as on the possibilities of gene therapy strategies for help in protecting susceptible neurons from disease. He has been called "one of the best scientist-writers of our time" by Oliver Sacks. In his well-known book Why Zebras Don't Get Ulcers: An Updated Guide to Stress, Stress-Related Diseases and Coping, Sapolsky examines how prolonged stress can inhibit learning and cause or contribute to damaging physical and mental afflictions.
Intersession Guide 2017 Activity The Business of Sports
Marc Badain SPORTS/BUSINESS
Week 1 For sports-obsessed students, there are more career options Thursday than just becoming a professional athlete. With revenues of over $230 billion a year, the U.S. sports industry needs
managers, marketers, lawyers, doctors, and a host of other January 5 professionals to keep it running. According to the North
American Society for Sports Management, more than 100 top 11:00 am to colleges and universities currently offer sports management 12:30 pm programs. Opportunities abound: management, broadcast
and journalism, marketing/PR, scouting, athlete Bay Meadows representatives, sports medicine, legal, university athletics, operations, sports camps, trainers, and event coordinators — to name just a few.
Come hear from Marc Badain, president of the Oakland Raiders, about his personal journey, stories from the gridiron and the field, and the current state of professional sports. (And if you think this industry is just for men, think again — many women are overcoming past barriers and are beginning very successful management roles in the sport industry.)
Marc Badain is currently president of the Oakland Raiders. He began his career with the team in 1992 in football operations, moved into a role in the finance department in 1995, held the position of CFO from 2004 to 2015, and was given his current title in January of 2015.
Marc earned his BA in economics from Emory University and his MBA from the Haas School of Business at the University of California, Berkeley. He and his wife Amy live in San Ramon, CA, with their three children.
Intersession Guide 2017 Activity Conservation Ambassadors: Where Animals Call Home
David, Lisa, and Samantha Jackson WILDLIFE/ENVIRONMENT
Week 1 Take an imaginary field trip around the world to discover the Friday habitats that animals call home. Students will meet our animal ambassadors and learn about the niches that these animals
fulfill in their environments and how they survive in an ever- January 6 changing world.
11:00 am to
12:30 pm
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David’s passion for wildlife and desire to educate and inspire conservation worldwide is what led him to establish Conservation Ambassadors 25 years NOTE: ago. His passion started in high school with jobs in animal care and training Live animals are dogs and parrots. His unique experiences inspired him to pursue a career in part of each the animal care field, and he went to work in the zoological medicine session. department at UC Davis Veterinary Teaching Hospital. His dedication and interest in wildlife and wild places led him to attend Moorpark College in
California, a facility certified by the Association of Zoos and Aquariums, where You may sign up for he earned a degree in exotic animal training and zoological management. more than one David has traveled around the world to assist with wildlife conservation efforts. session; however, Over his career, he has received numerous awards for animal welfare, zoo we will only assign management, education, and training. students to additional sessions Conservation Ambassadors’ mission is giving a worldwide voice to wildlife by providing a permanent, loving home for displaced, abused, abandoned, or after everyone who permanently injured wild and exotic animals. Through our “Zoo to You” wants this activity outreach program, we share these animal ambassadors with school children has had a first and learners of all ages to educate them about conservation, connect them opportunity. to the wild world, and inspire them to protect the planet.
www.conservationambassadors.org
Intersession Guide 2017 Activity Cooking and Culture: Middle East — The Meze Table, Small Plates to Share and Savor
Simran Singh & Stacie Dong, A Little Yumminess COOKING (INTERNATIONAL)
Week 1 The delicious tradition of meze extends from Greece through Friday the Balkans to Turkey and throughout the Middle East. A meze table can be as simple as flatbread, dips, olives, and cheese,
or it can be a very elaborate feast that includes dozens of January 6 colorful dishes. Many of the ingredients and recipes common
to the meze table have ancient roots and have shared 11:00 am to traditions across many national and cultural boundaries. By 12:30 pm design, the meze table is a place for conversation and social
interaction where the shared experience is just as important Bay Meadows as the food that is served. NOTE: You may sign up for In this hands-on activity session, we’ll taste classic flavors and more than one ingredients of the Middle East and cook together to create session; however, our own meze table, including dishes and recipes such as we will only assign za’atar (spice blend) man’oushe (Lebanese-style spiced students to flatbread), a selection of dips, spreads and salads, basbousa additional sessions cake (Moroccan-style semolina cake), and mint tea. after everyone who wants this activity has had a first Simran Singh and Stacie Dong love to teach kids of all ages to cook foods opportunity. from around the world. They also write about food and share recipes on their blog, A Little Yumminess (www.alittleyum.com), as well as for the San Waiver required. Jose Mercury News (“Fast & Furious Weeknight Cooking”). In addition to teaching kids’ classes, they teach classes for adults at 18 Reasons, Cavallo Vegetarian: YES Point Cooking School in Sausalito, and Ramekins Culinary School in Sonoma. Vegan: NO
GF: NO
Intersession Guide 2017 Activity Life as Cuban Musicians: Discussion and Music
Rodney Yllarza Barreto and Yaroldy Abreu Robles MUSIC
Week 1 Daily life in Cuba presents many hardships and struggles but Friday also embraces music as one of the vital parts of its culture. Rodney and Yaroldy will talk about their upbringing,
schooling, and dealing with everyday life at home. They will January 6 play their music and tell you what it’s like touring worldwide
with the top musicians in Havana today. 11:00 am to
12:30 pm Rodney Yllarza Barreto was born in Havana City and studied percussion at Bay Meadows Guillermo Tomas School and subsequently at Amadeo Roldan Conservatory, also in Havana City. When he was very young, he joined the Charanga de Guanabacoa children’s orchestra. At seventeen, he joined the Isaac Delgado Orchestra (a first rank band and one of the most popular salsa bands in Cuba). He was professor of percussion at Paulita Concepción School in Havana City for three years. He won the Cubadisco Award for best record with Drums La Habana in 2010. Rodney won the award as the best accompanist musician in the JOJAZZ, the National Contest for Cuban Young Jazz-Players. Rodney has been working both with great musicians and great national and foreign bands his entire life.
Yaroldy Abreu Robles was born in Sagua de Tanamo, Cuba. He started his professional career in Holguin in 1995 with the group Agua and then went on to form the experimental percussion ensemble Cinco Puntos. He graduated with honors with a bachelor's degree in percussion from the Higher Institute of Art in 2001. While Yaroldy was still a student, Chucho Valdés invited him to join his group Irakere and, in 2001, the Chucho Valdés Jazz Quartet. Yaroldy has shared the stage and recorded with many top musicians inside and outside of Cuba. In 2003, Yaroldy was nominated for a Grammy Award in the category of Best Traditional Tropical Album for Amadito Valdés' Bajando Gervasio, and in 2004 he won the Latin Grammy Award in the Latin jazz category for Chucho Valdés Jazz Quartet's New Conceptions. A valued teacher, Yaroldy has been invited to teach master classes in Europe and the U.S., and at various music festivals throughout the world.
Intersession Guide 2017 Activity AcroYoga: Laugh Riot
Susan Holland FITNESS/WELLNESS
Week 1 AcroYoga is a fusion of partner yoga, acrobatics, and Friday inversions. Students will learn new ways of movement and balance while exploring upside-down, sideways, and multiple
person body stacking. All students will learn to base (lift January 6 people up with their hands and feet), fly (be lifted up), spot
(make sure no one falls face-first on the floor), and begin to 11:00 am to practice handstands. 12:30 pm
AcroYoga is a safe, fun way to grow trust in one’s own Bay Meadows strength and in the stability of those around us. Students will learn how to spot each other so no one is at risk of injury while exploring these new skills. Safety comes first in AcroYoga, then NOTE: comes fun, playtime, upside-down amazingness, and plenty You may sign up for of laughter. more than one session; however, we will only assign students to additional sessions after everyone who Susan Holland is a certified personal trainer, vinyasa and acroyoga wants this activity teacher, and has extensive training in kickboxing. She has taught fitness has had a first and yoga and trained triathletes and novices around the world, including opportunity. New York City, Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Seoul. Susan hails from the Eastern Shore of Maryland and has always loved athletic endeavors, Waiver required. especially anything involving being upside down. With a passion for all things playful, skillful, and healthy, Susan has found that yoga, fitness, and wellness have teamed up to be a wonderful career, hobby, and way of life. She believes that wellness isn’t an endpoint, but rather a path which continually evolves. She has an infectious and hilarious approach to fitness and her clients not only benefit through successful results, but also enjoy her motivating, patient, and creative process. Susan is currently a personal trainer and yoga instructor at Google.
Intersession Guide 2017 Activity Legends of History: Winston Churchill
Bruce Elliot HISTORY
Week 1 What makes for an historical legend? At critical junctures Friday throughout history, there have been individuals who have risen, larger than life, to meet immense challenges. This series
of Intersession presentations highlights the character and January 6 leadership of three such pivotal characters: Alexander the
Great, Catherine the Great, and Winston Churchill. Each of 11:00 am to these momentous figures appeared unexpectedly, in some 12:30 pm sense out of nowhere, to inspire their people and
dramatically affect the course of history. Bay Meadows
Through a dynamic multimedia presentation, we will examine the historical context for the challenges faced by each of NOTE: Students are these remarkable leaders. We’ll look at the web of legend welcome to sign up generated by their remarkable accomplishments, feats like for all three of conquering the known world (Alexander), bringing the Professor Elliott's Enlightenment to Europe’s most backward nation sessions as each will (Catherine), and thwarting history’s most terrifying tyrant cover a different (Churchill). subject.
Bruce Elliott received his PhD in history from UC Berkeley. Dr. Elliott currently teaches courses in European history and culture at several lifelong- learning institutes in the Bay Area, including Stanford, UC Berkeley, Dominican University, and Sonoma State University. When he taught undergraduate classes at UC Berkeley and San Francisco State, his core course was European Civilization from the Renaissance to Modern Times.
His current research focuses on historical biography, highlighting pivotal figures who greatly influenced the course of Western history. In summertime, Dr. Elliott leads travel-study groups to fascinating European cities.
Intersession Guide 2017 Activity History, Culture, and Application of Henna
Roopa Raman ART/CULTURE
Week 1 Henna is popularly associated with the Indian culture, but did Friday you know that the tradition dates back as far as ancient Egypt? That Cleopatra was known to decorate herself with
henna and that ancient Egyptians applied henna to the January 6 mummies? That, in addition to its decorative aspects, henna
is believed to have medicinal and healing properties? Join us 11:00 am to for an exploration of the history, culture, and art of applying 12:30 pm henna to your skin, and learn about its benefits.
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Come learn about the history and cultural significance of henna and let a professional teach you the intricacies of henna (also called mehndi) application. Roopa Raman, a professional and licensed henna artist and owner of Henna Bash (www.hennabash.com), will explore traditional henna motifs with you and teach you how to draw effectively using henna paste. There will be plenty of henna cones for everyone.
Raman is a Bay Area henna expert and has taken Henna Bash to various events, including private parties, community fairs, public libraries, colleges, corporations, schools, and more.
Intersession Guide 2017 Activity Making Graffiti and Street Art
Cameron Moberg and Strider Patton, 1 AM Gallery SF ART/SOCIAL JUSTICE
Week 1 Introduction to the spray can and stenciling: practice Friday exercises and techniques on how to use the can and spray paint safely. Together, produce a colorful, vibrant, letter-
based mural on one canvas and a stencil mural on another January 6 canvas (two canvases total).
11:00 am to
12:30 pm
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NOTE: 1 AM Gallery, short for First Amendment, is a gallery dedicated to street You may sign up for and urban art. Founded in 2008, 1AM is located in downtown San Francisco, serving as a community gallery, store, and educational center more than one to help encourage appreciation and curiosity towards graffiti and street session; however, art. Monthly themed exhibitions feature artists from San Francisco and we will only assign around the world and weekly classes educate both corporations and students to individuals on the culture of street and graffiti art. As believers that street additional sessions art is one of the last true forms of freedom of speech, 1AM advocates this after everyone who through creating private and public murals and documenting art on their wants this activity worldwide, free app — 1AM Mobile. Seeing is believing, so come witness has had a first the 1AM movement. opportunity.
Wear clothes that can get messy!
Intersession Guide 2017 Activity A History of Medicine: Medics, Mayhem, and Accidentally Saving Lives
Romayne Putna HISTORY/SCIENCE
Week 1 The science of healing, as we know it, is based on empirical Friday evidence gathered from years of painstaking research in the dissection room and the laboratory. Today we are able to
diagnose and treat complex medical conditions with high January 6 success rates. But in the thousands of years before all of this
meticulous data was collected, much of medicine was 11:00 am to founded in wild conjecture and a patchwork of opinion and 12:30 pm assumption.
Bay Meadows TOPICS COVERED: Odd, hopeless, and downright dangerous NOTE: cures. The development of surgery. Archaic medical devices, Students will be and the inventions of some we recognize today. Major- handling suturing league medics: Hippocrates, Marie Curie, Asclepius, Louis and syringe needles Pasteur, Alexander Fleming, Roentgen. Trends in medicine, in this session. both useful and dangerous.
ACTIVITIES: Suturing — students will use the classic curved suturing needle on fruit (banana) that has a texture similar to skin. Testing syringe skills by injecting dye into plant veins.
Romayne Putna accidentally started working in education in the late 1990s. She found it so enjoyable that she’s been having the same accident for nearly twenty years. Romayne spent six years working between the UK and the USA as a visual arts and theater instructor and an outdoor educator.
In 2007, Romayne moved to Los Angeles, creating and instructing project- based curriculum on a diverse range of subjects from neuroscience to Shakespeare to engineering to cryptozoology. Today, as an educational consultant, she continues to be a passionate advocate of interactive learning and “edutainment” and enjoys introducing topics that will inspire curiosity and lots of questions, except for tax law as those questions give her a headache.
Intersession Guide 2017 Activity Corporate Strategy: Harvard Business School Case Study — The Walt Disney Studios
Dickson Louie BUSINESS
Week 1 Pioneered by Harvard Business School faculty, the case method is a profound educational innovation that presents the greatest Friday challenges confronting leading companies, nonprofits, and government organizations — complete with the constraints and January 6 incomplete information found in real business issues — and places the student in the role of the decision maker. 11:00 am to 12:30 pm This case discussion on the Walt Disney Studios examines hit-making and risk-taking in the context of the Hollywood film industry, and Bay Meadows specifically how leading content producers are increasingly shifting to a “tentpole” or “blockbuster” strategy that revolves around making huge bets, especially with Disney's Pixar, Lucasfilms (Star Wars) and Marvel Entertainment franchises. The goals of this case are: • to analyze product-portfolio management strategies • to understand the economics of “blockbuster” strategies • to evaluate product-development and product-launch strategies for films and other creative goods • to explore the evolving role of superstar talent as well as to understand the importance of creating a culture of creative collaboration and innovation in the entertainment business
Dickson Louie is principal of Louie & Associates, providing strategic planning services. He teaches the "Business of the Media" MBA elective at UC Davis. Louie is CEO of Time Capsule Press, a book-publishing imprint that focuses on the creation of books from archival material.
Louie has over 25 years of professional management experience within the news media industry, including at the LA Times, the San Jose Mercury News, and the San Francisco Chronicle. As a member of the corporate staff of Times Mirror, he oversaw the finances of its $2 billion newspaper division. Louie was a research associate at the Harvard Business School, where he authored over 20 management case studies for the second-year MBA course. A certified public accountant, Louie received his BS in business administration from California State University, East Bay (with high honors), and his MBA from the University of Chicago. He completed the Advanced Executive Program at Northwestern University’s Media Management Center.
Intersession Guide 2017 Activity Medical Exploration: IVs and Injections
Shanda Manion and Kimble Torres, Pathway to Medicine MEDICINE
Week 1 This workshop is a truly one-of-a-kind medical experience for Friday teens that will teach each participant the basics of inserting and starting an IV, administering injections, collecting venous
blood samples, and much more! January 6
Whether you are interested in nursing and dermatology or 11:00 am to anesthesia and surgery as possible career paths, this lab will 12:30 pm allow you to practice and perfect the skills these professions
use every day! You will learn first-hand how healthcare Bay Meadows professionals deliver life-saving medicine in hospitals and NOTE: clinics using IVs and injections. Students will be handling needles in this session. Kimble Torres is a veteran biologist specializing in the human body and athletics. During his tenure in the biotech industry, Kimble worked for Nektar Therapeutics, Genentech, and Tyco Healthcare investigating product feasibility and managing lab operations. In 2014, his passion for medicine and health education culminated in the founding of Pathways to Medicine, a pre-med program for high school students.
Shanda’s passion for education and medicine has inspired her extensive work in the healthcare field. In 2011, she began working at UCSF Hospital as a patient health educator for the UCSF National Center of Excellence in Women’s Health and UCSF’s Women’s Health Great Expectations Pregnancy Program. She co-founded Pathways to Medicine in order to share her knowledge and enthusiasm for medicine with the next generation of healthcare providers.
Intersession Guide 2017 Activity Rhythm Talks: Afro-Venezuelan Music and Culture Jackeline Rago MUSIC / HISTORY
Week 1 This hands-on course serves as an introduction to Afro-Venezuelan music, focusing on drumming and chanting from the central coast Friday of Venezuela. Come learn and play as we cover:
January 6 • History of the music and culture of Venezuela • Political, social, religious, and cultural influences on Afro- 11:00 am to Venezuelan music 12:30 pm • The importance of rhythm in Venezuelan music • Body percussion introduction: "Rhythm Talks" Bay Meadows We will also be introduced to the quitiplas (bamboo ensemble), a type of drumming and dance found mainly in the coastal regions of the country and performed during the celebrations of summer solstice. Among the African dances found in the Venezuelan folklore, the quitiplas is one of the oldest, most elegant, and most syncopated dances. Learning the quitiplas ensemble can be very helpful in understanding the musical concepts of “2 against 3” and “polyrhythm.”
The quitiplas are made out of pieces of bamboo sticks cut in different sizes. Each bamboo is played in a different pattern with a different meter, creating a rich polyrhythmic ensemble.
Jackeline Rago is a multi-instrumentalist, composer, arranger, producer, and educator who specializes in Venezuelan folk music and music from other Latin American and Caribbean countries. She holds a BA in music, majoring in classical mandolin, from Music and Arts Institute in San Francisco and is an Orff certified teacher. She is also the director of the music program at EBI (Escuela Bilingue Internacional) in Oakland, California, as well as a California Jazz Conservatory faculty member and a Venezuelan music workshop leader and performer. She is a founding member and musical director of two Bay Area bands, the “Venezuelan Music Project” (folk-Venezuelan music) and the “VNote Ensemble” (fusion of Venezuelan music and jazz).
Intersession Guide 2017
WEEK TWO Morning Seminars
Intersession Guide 2017 Seminar Making A Dinosaur
Gary Staab ART/SCIENCE
Week 2 Students will have a hands-on experience sculpting a small- Morning scale dinosaur. The workshop will compare the anatomy of living and extinct animals. It will explore some of the same
aesthetic and scientific considerations artists face as they January 9, 10, 11 work with scientists to create sculptures for museum displays.
Materials and tools will be provided. 8:45 to 10:45 am
Gary will also share stories about dinosaurs he has built and Bay Meadows other projects he has led, including building Super Croc from the fossils up and being escorted into King Tut’s tomb by armed guard so he could create the replica of King Tut that traveled worldwide.
Gary Staab produces natural history and prehistoric life models for NOTE: museums, publishing, and film. Gary has a degree in art/biology and You may notice interned at the Smithsonian Institution and the British Museum of Natural that this seminar is History. Staab’s work and eclectic studio demonstrate a flair and passion offered in the for natural forms both past and present. Gary’s sculptures embellish the afternoon as well. halls of the Smithsonian, the British Museum of Natural History, the You may sign up for American Museum of Natural History, the BBC, and many other institutions. both, but will only His work has also been featured by the Discovery Channel, National be assigned to one. Geographic magazine, and Dorling Kindersley Publishers. He has been the recipient four times of the prestigious John Lanzendorf PaleoArt Prize for sculpture, presented by the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology.
Gary has worked the last 19 years as a freelance sculptor for such institutions as the National Geographic Society, the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History, the Carnegie Museum of Natural History, and the Miami Science Museum, among many others. “It is an amazing privilege to be a part of the production of models for museums. It’s a job that continues to hold much fascination for me as it allows me to read and research, sculpt and paint, and interact with scientists doing exciting work in the field of paleontology/archeology.” You can see images of Gary’s work at www.staabstudios.com.
Intersession Guide 2017 Seminar Running Away to the Circus: Aerials and Acrobatics
Aaron Kozloff and Miranda Kent PERFORMANCE/FITNESS
Week 2 Seen videos of superhuman aerialists and acrobatics in Morning Cirque? Do you want to flip, tumble, and fly in the circus? This 3-day seminar will be an introduction to a variety of aerial
apparatuses, acrobatics, and the general strength and January 9, 10, 11 flexibility needed for the circus. Don’t know which circus skills
you want to learn yet? Students will have the opportunity to 8:45 am to 12:30 pm learn skills across the spectrum, including Chinese pole, straps,
trapeze, silks, handstands, tumbling, partner balancing, and Circus Center, San cube. Francisco
NOTE: This seminar will be Aaron Kozloff is a circus and movement instructor who started his training held at Circus — after studying neuroscience at Oberlin College — by running away to Center so students the Circus Warehouse in New York. Since then he has trained at SANCA, have access to the Circus Center, and with world-renowned hand-balancing coaches. He equipment they has taught at Nueva, Circus Center, Acrosports, and Zip Zap Circus in need. Washington, DC. With a pedagogy using science-based training approaches, this seminar will give you the tools to train aerial and Any student acrobatic strength and flexibility on your own. assigned to this Miranda Kent began her athletic career as a collegiate swimmer in seminar will not be Tacoma, WA. She found circus in 2009 and promptly quit the swim team assigned to an to lift herself and others through the air. She has trained acrobatics and activity session on aerial arts in Seattle, Portland, Buenos Aires (Argentina), and San these days as you Francisco. Miranda currently works and trains at the San Francisco Circus need the extra time Center and Acrosports, and coaches the Olympic Club Swim Team. She for transport. You loves to teach children of all ages and believes that with enough time will be back in time and patience everyone has the potential to do amazing things. for lunch.
Waiver required.
Intersession Guide 2017 Seminar So You Want to Be a VC: Simulated Partner Meeting
Jennifer Carolan (Mon.), Paul Holland (Tues.), and Harold Chen with David Popowitz (Wed.) BUSINESS
Week 2 Students will have the opportunity to learn from partners at Morning each of three firms — representing early-stage, late- stage/private equity, and hybrid nonprofit/for-profit seed
fund venture capital firms — about different phases of January 9, 10, 11 venture capital, getting an inside look at how firms make
funding decisions in the process. Simulating an actual partner 8:45 to 10:45 am meeting, students will hear real startups/private equity firms
make their pitch for funding, conduct a Q&A, and then Bay Meadows deliberate (with coaching) on whether to fund these companies. There will be time for Q&A with all presenters.
Jennifer Carolan, General Partner, Reach Capital: which she co-founded to make investments in early-stage education technology companies with potential for big impact in K–12 education. Jennifer began her career as a teacher and became interested in differentiated learning. She has led over 40 investments. See more of her bio at www.reachcap.com
Paul Holland, General Partner, Foundation Capital: invests in the IT, consumer, and digital energy sectors. Prior to venture capital, Paul was the executive producer of the documentary Something Ventured, and he is a past president of the Western Association of Venture Capital. For more on Paul, see www.foundationcapital.com
Harold Chen, Member, Private Equity and Co-Head Technology, KKR: directly involved with the investments in Mitchell, Go Daddy, Visma, Kodak, Sun Microsystems, and Kindercare Learning Centers. Formerly a MD with Fox Paine & Company, CEO of ACMI Corporation, and CFO and co-founder of Jamcracker, Inc. See Harold’s bio at http://www.kkr.com/our-firm/leadership/herald-chen/
David Popowitz, SVP, Corporate and Business Development, GoDaddy: leads GoDaddy's global corporate and business development activities, which includes acquiring and partnering with companies that can enhance GoDaddy customer and product experiences. This group also develops partnerships with large resellers to bring GoDaddy products to their customers. For more see: https://www.linkedin.com/in/popowitz
Intersession Guide 2017 Seminar Making Metal Move: Forging Nonferrous Metals
Deb Jemmott, Artist, and Gil Jemmott, Mechanical Engineer ART/PHYSICS
Week 2 As a traditional blacksmithing technique, forging has been Morning used to create everything from balcony railings to horseshoes. In this class, we will use the same skills to manipulate
nonferrous metals. Through the hands-on forging process, you January 9, 10, 11 will learn about the crystalline structure of metal, discover the
properties of work hardening and annealing, and explore the 8:45 to 10:45 am ductility of metals to create pieces of jewelry or tableware.
Materials and tools will be provided. Bay Meadows
Deb Jemmott is a practicing jeweler, metalsmith, and instructor. She received her BFA from the University of Houston and her MA from San Diego State University — both in art, specializing in jewelry making and metalsmithing. She has taught jewelry making for over 40 years and especially loves spending the day in her studio creating wonderful things. NOTE: Waiver required. Gil Jemmott is a mechanical engineer and graduated from University of California, San Diego, with degrees in applied mechanics and psychology. He has worked on the Hubble Space Telescope, developed biomedical devices, and designed and built tools for jewelry manufacturing.
Intersession Guide 2017 Seminar Rock Climbing
Ryan Honda FITNESS/WELLNESS
Week 2 The rock-climbing Intersession course will give you an in-depth Morning look into the world of rock climbing. We will cover the basic skills and procedures of the sport and learn all about the
world of climbing. This is a great opportunity to explore a new January 9, 10, 11 sport, as well as challenge your body and mind!
8:45 to 10:45 am
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Ryan Honda is an experienced indoor and outdoor rock climber. He runs the Planet Granite youth rock-climbing team and has taught a rock- climbing course at Nueva High School. His love for the outdoors was forged in the backcountry of Wyoming and Utah, where he completed courses with the National Outdoor Leadership School and received NOTE: certification in Wilderness First Responder and Leave No Trace. He holds a Waiver required. degree in outdoor recreation administration and is a Bay Area native.
Intersession Guide 2017 Seminar Transmedia Journalism
Maria Finn MULTIMEDIA JOURNALISM
Week 2 This session on transmedia storytelling will begin with a Morning traditional class on feature writing. We’ll start with creative writing exercises and craft our ideas into magazine-style
stories. The class will then workshop and give feedback on January 9, 10, 11 these stories, and we’ll explore other media venues for these
same ideas. How would you tell this on Instagram, or 8:45 to 10:45 am Snapchat? Could it be a podcast? Does this change the
story? Then we’ll discuss other methods of telling stories, Bay Meadows including pop-up food events, start-up businesses, and art pieces or products.
Maria Finn has written for Sunset Magazine, the Wall Street Journal, Afar, the New York Times, Wine Spectator, the Food and Environmental Reporting Network, the San Francisco Chronicle, Saveur, Organic Living, Women’s Health, and Gastronomica, among many other publications. She is the author of the books The Whole Fish, Hold Me Tight and Tango Me Home, and A Little Piece of Earth: How to Grow Your Own Food in Small Spaces. She has been an artist-in-residence at Autodesk Pier 9 Creative Lab, The Marin Headlands Center for the Arts, and Mesa Refuge. Finn received an MFA from Sarah Lawrence College. She teaches feature writing at Stanford University’s School of Continuing Education.
Intersession Guide 2017 Seminar Speechwriting for POTUS
Dylan Loewe WRITING/POLITICS
Week 2 Nothing rivals the power of a speech to transform an idea into action, to chart a new and clear course, to contain a crisis, or Morning define a debate. But how do you write a compelling speech — either for yourself or on behalf of someone else? How do you January 9, 10, 11 express a vision and advance a goal in a way that engages your audience and moves them to action? 8:45 to 10:45 am Whether you’re a prime minister explaining difficult decisions to a Bay Meadows national audience, or a startup executive preparing to launch a new product or campaign, there is both an art and a science to presenting ideas that stick, bringing facts and figures to life, and connecting with the intended audience in a memorable way.
In this seminar, students will learn the fundamentals of speechwriting: how to build a persuasive argument; how to write for the ear; and how to grab — and keep — an audience’s attention. They will learn the tools that speechwriters rely on to pump life into their words. And they will have the chance to put those lessons to the test during a speechwriting simulation exercise.
Dylan Loewe is a principal at the speechwriting and strategy firm WEST WING WRITERS. In 2012, Dylan joined the Obama Administration as Special Assistant to President Obama and Chief Speechwriter to Vice President Biden. During the 2012 presidential campaign, Dylan traveled across more than 30 states with Vice President Biden, working with him on nearly every campaign speech. That included the vice president’s address to the Democratic National Convention, which was viewed by 42 million people, more than any convention speech ever delivered. Dylan has advised presidents and prime ministers, presidential candidates and royalty, CEOs and some of the world’s most well-known personalities. He has also collaborated with authors on more than a dozen book projects, including multiple New York Times bestsellers.
Dylan’s political commentary and analysis have also appeared in print and on television. Dylan teaches the Art and Science of Effective Speechwriting at Stanford University. He holds a JD from Columbia Law School, a master’s in public policy from Harvard University, and a bachelor’s in political science from UCLA. http://westwingwriters.com/team/dylan-loewe
Intersession Guide 2017 Seminar When Empires Clash: Exploring Ancient Military Battles
Patrick Hunt WORLD HISTORY/ARCHEOLOGY
Week 2 Combining expertise in archaeology, geography, military history, Morning classical studies, and field work at the sites, Dr. Hunt provides a fresh analysis of twelve conflicts of the ancient world that shaped
subsequent history in the West. From the Late Bronze Age to the January 9, 10, 11 Late Roman Empire and Early Medieval Era, this seminar examines some of the following battles: Kadesh (1274 BCE), Ninevah (612 8:45 to 10:45 am BCE), Marathon (490 BCE), Issus (333 BCE), Trebbia (218 BCE), Cannae (216 BCE), Cartagena (209 BCE), Alesia (52 BCE), Actium Bay Meadows (31 BCE), Masada (73 CE), the Catalaunian Plains (451 CE), and Tours (732 CE).
NOTE: Discussions for each include battle map, background, discussion of Dr. Hunt's recent topography, major commanders, order of battle of adversaries, book When battle chronology, unusual decisions, tactics, outcomes, and conclusions as to why each affected history. Empires Clash:
Twelve Great In the seminar Dr. Hunt will emphasize the Second Punic War (218– Battles in Antiquity 202 BCE) with Hannibal and Scipio (Battles of Trebbia, Cannae, and (2015) is a Cartagena). companion reading for the seminar. Award-winning archaeologist, author, and National Geographic grantee Patrick Hunt earned his Ph.D. in Archaeology from the Institute of Archaeology, University College London, and has taught at Stanford University for 25 years. Patrick directed the Stanford Alpine Archaeology Project from 1994-2012, and has continued project-related fieldwork in the region in the years since. His Alps research has been sponsored by the National Geographic Society's Expeditions Council. Patrick frequently lectures for National Geographic and others on Hannibal and the European mummy nicknamed, Ötzi the Iceman. He is an elected Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society. He has published18 books including the Penguin best- seller, “Ten Discoveries That Rewrote History.” He has also published more than 100 articles, including more than a dozen for Encyclopedia Britannica. Patrick has been featured in many National Geographic and NOVA documentaries, and has consulted for BBC. He has a lifelong love of the Alps, having lived in the Alps annually for several months since 1994. .
Intersession Guide 2017 Seminar Advanced Meditation
Alison Laichter WELLNESS
Week 2 This seminar will offer students a deeper dive into meditation Morning techniques. Through personalized guidance, increased meditation practice (including sitting meditation, walking
meditation, writing meditation, and other modalities), and January 9, 10, 11 small and larger group discussions, we'll focus on cultivating
our personal meditation learning with the intention of 8:45 to 10:45 am creating a foundation for a daily practice. Using our
meditation practice and interactive activities, we'll deepen Bay Meadows our practices and gain valuable and accessible skills for navigating difficult situations and challenges. NOTE: Helpful, but not Alison Laichter is a meditation teacher, consultant, urban planner, required, to have community organizer, and former Brooklynite, now based in southern prior knowledge of California. She has taught classes and retreats for children and adults throughout the world, including students and professors at Yale University, meditation doctors at Bellevue Hospital, farmers and retreatants at Hazon and the techniques from Leichtag Ranch, children and mothers at NYC homeless shelters, social past work students entrepreneurs in Jerusalem, humanitarian activists in Mumbai, and artists in have completed or Mexico City. She founded and directed the Jewish Meditation Center from having taken (JMC) in New York City. She was a recipient of the Joshua Venture Group Alison’s Introduction Dual Investment Program, a two-year, $100K fellowship for social to Meditation from entrepreneurs and was named one of the Jewish Week’s “36 Under 36: last year or last Visionaries for a New Era.” Alison studied civil engineering at the Cooper week. Union and urban planning at Columbia University.
As the founding director of the JMC, Alison created the first-ever grassroots and community-led Jewish Meditation Center. At the JMC, Alison directed all aspects of the organization, earning a spot in Slingshot’s 50 Most Innovative Jewish Nonprofits in North America three years in a row. She has consulted with foundations, organizations, and companies to build strong teams, develop and cultivate communities, and create sustainable programs, using meditation and mindfulness as strategic tools. Alison is a sought-after teacher and an accomplished spiritual leader who believes that truly sustainable repair of the world happens from the inside out.
Intersession Guide 2017 Seminar So You Want to be a Doctor: Pediatrics, Infectious Diseases, and Orthopedics
Dr. Lisa Chamberlain, Pediatrics (Mon.), Dr. Hiroyu Hatano, Infectious Diseases (Tues.), and Dr. Scott Hoffinger, Orthopedics (Wed.) MEDICINE
Week 2 In this highly interactive seminar, students will have the opportunity to explore the field of medicine and research with three of the Bay Morning Area’s finest doctors. Students will be able to imagine themselves as physicians as they discuss real case studies and even try their January 9, 10, 11 hand at setting a bone or two.
8:45 to 10:45 am Pediatrics: Lisa Chamberlain, MD, MPH, is Associate Professor of Pediatrics Bay Meadows at Lucile Packard Children's Hospital at Stanford. Dr. Chamberlain also cares for patients in East Palo Alto at the Ravenswood Family Health Center. For her work in medical student and resident education she has received two of Stanford’s highest teaching awards. She was the inaugural recipient of the Institute of Medicine as a Profession’s Physician Merit Award in 2008 and received the Academic Pediatric Association’s Advocacy Award in 2009. Her research examines access to care for impoverished children in California, focusing on children with chronic illness. She is co-founder and co-chair of the Speak Up For Kids Advocacy Committee of the American Academy of Pediatrics.
Infectious Diseases: Dr. Hiroyu Hatano received her AB from Harvard in psychology. She entered clinical practice in internal medicine 11 years ago at Stanford Medical School and Harvard’s Brigham and Women’s Hospital. She then completed subspecialist training in infectious diseases at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF). After completing her infectious diseases fellowship, Dr. Hatano joined the faculty at UCSF, where she was a professor and attending physician for eight years. While at UCSF, she also led a very active clinical research program focused on finding an HIV cure. She has published widely in this area and received numerous research awards for her work. In 2015, she joined a small concierge internal medicine practice in Portola Valley. She is an attending physician at Stanford Hospital.
Orthopedics: Dr. Scott Hoffinger is an orthopedic surgeon currently practicing at Stanford University Hospital and is affiliated with several hospitals in the area, including California Pacific Medical Center and Children's Hospital and Research Center Oakland. He received his medical degree from University of Michigan Medical School and has been in practice for more than 20 years.
Intersession Guide 2017 Seminar Crash Course in Money Management: Budgeting, Accounts, and Credit
Tim Ranzetta and Jessica Winkler LIFESKILLS/FINANCE
Week 2 Managing your personal finances consists of a series of small Morning decisions that inform larger decisions that make a huge impact on your health, your wealth, your lifestyle, and even
your happiness. January 9, 10, 11
In this Intersession workshop, you’ll acquire concrete 8:45 to 10:45 am knowledge to improve your financial literacy; engage in
rigorous, real-world finance activities; and think through Bay Meadows important decisions you’ll need to make in high school, college, and your young adult years.
We will specifically focus on foundations of money management, budgeting during college, and using credit wisely.
Tim Ranzetta’s saving habits started at seven, when a neighbor with a broken hip gave him a dog-walking job. Her recovery, which took almost a year, resulted in Tim’s getting to know the bank tellers quite well (and accumulating a savings account balance of over $300!). His recent entrepreneurial adventures have included driving a shredding truck, analyzing executive compensation packages for Fortune 500 companies, and helping families make better college financing decisions. After volunteering in 2010 to create and teach a personal finance program at Eastside College Prep in East Palo Alto, Tim saw firsthand the impact of an engaging and activity-based curriculum, which inspired him to start his new nonprofit, Next Gen Personal Finance.
Jessica Endlich Winkler has an undergraduate degree in finance, spent four years teaching math at a Brooklyn public high school, loves scouring the internet for interesting things to learn, and has a real soft spot for spreadsheets — it’s as though her position at NGPF was created just for her. A graduate of Bank Street College of Education, she considers learning personal finance to be a matter of social justice and views the work perpetually through that lens. www.nextgenpersonalfinance.org
Intersession Guide 2017 Seminar The Mask Theater Workshop: Faces Within
Tery Arnold THEATER
Week 2 "THE FACES WITHIN" Workshop explores dramatic Morning characterization through the use of full-faced neutral and three-quarter character masks. Mask work is an art form in
which the body is used to express emotions usually expressed January 9, 10, 11 through one’s face; thus, intense physical exercise is
encouraged. 8:45 to 10:45 am
Traditionally, masks have been used to express a society’s Bay Meadows cultural memes. In this workshop, students discover their contemporary culture and reflect their current conditions. Developing characterizations with masks helps actors, as well as non-actors, cultivate an understanding of the many characters within. A common misconception is that the mask “hides,” but students will actually find that the mask “reveals.” Through the mask, individuals work with the visceral, instinctive side of their nature in order to create a real "transformation” of character — not from the intellect, but from the heart.
Tery Arnold, a University of California at Los Angeles theater graduate, worked extensively throughout the United States and Europe as an actor, director, musician, and teacher of masks and movement. She was a founding member of the Los Angeles Mask Research Foundation and the Los Angeles Mask Theatre. She has helped guide actors and non-actors to discover the many characters that dwell within through the transformative power of the mask.
Arnold pursued additional mask study in Paris, France, at the prestigious Jacques le Coq School of Mime. She has sustained her passion for mask theater throughout her educational career as Senior Director of Gifted and Talented Education at STAR, Inc., in Los Angeles, California, and continues to teach Mask Work, Shakespeare, Acting for the Camera, Musical Theater, and Improvisation to students of all ages in the Los Angeles area.
Intersession Guide 2017 Seminar Interior Design 101
Lizette Marie Bruckstein, Lizette Marie Interior Design INTERIOR DESIGN/BUSINESS
Week 2 Residential interior design is truly the art of problem-solving. Morning We curate interiors that represent our clients personalities, passions, and desires. We solve functionality obstacles and
make day-to-day living more practical. And, we build January 9, 10, 11 sanctuaries. Yes, there is a fair amount of creativity and
artistic approach to interior design; however, the heart and 8:45 to 10:45 am soul of a successful interior designer is much more than that.
In this three-day seminar we will dive deep and explore what Bay Meadows it really means to be an interior designer, including group- based design charrettes. The final day will be a half-day field NOTE: trip at a client job site plus a tour of the San Francisco Design Any student assigned Center. to this seminar will automatically be assigned to the Lizette Marie Bruckstein burst onto the San Francisco interior design scene Wednesday, January less than fifteen years ago. Forgoing the traditional route of apprenticing 11th activity session in a prestigious design firm, Lizette founded her high-end residential design firm, Lizette Marie Interior Design, right out of design school. In the years from 11:00 am to since, Lizette has evolved into a well-respected designer with a loyal list of 12:30 pm to allow for clients that span from San Francisco to the greater bay area. a half-day field trip. Lizette’s philosophy is simple — to create custom spaces for her clients Field trip will depart that are a reflection of the client’s best self. From provocative to playful, from Nueva BM at colorful to serenely neutral, Lizette’s designs are expertly crafted as she 8:30am, January 11. plays up the use of scale, texture, and pattern. A big proponent of custom design, incorporating it into floor coverings and case goods, Lizette strives Waiver required. to give each space she creates its own signature focal point. Her use of color and geometrics in large-scale projects has also garnered attention from local and national magazines, such as the San Francisco Chronicle’s
Stylemakers, Silicon Valley Magazine, and Gentry Magazine.
Lizette’s portfolio can be viewed online at www.lminteriordesign.com
Intersession Guide 2017 Seminar We Are All Heroes: Discovering Ourselves and Telling Our Stories
Gregg Cassin WELLNESS/SOCIAL JUSTICE
Week 2 What makes a hero? Where does confidence come from? How are hardship and pain linked to transformation and courage? Morning In this workshop, we will examine the stories behind the great January 9, 10, 11 heroes of our time — famous ones and the ones in our lives. People like Martin Luther King Jr., Nelson Mandela, Malala Yousafzai, 8:45 to 10:45 am Harvey Milk — what happened in each of their journeys that transformed them from “ordinary” to “great”? They were not born Bay Meadows great; they were not without fear and self-doubt, but they each chose to surrender their fears and trust that no matter the outcome, something profound would take place just by taking the stand.
We are not so different from the people in the news or in history books. We all face challenges; we all suffer; and these difficulties sometimes become rare and precious opportunities in our lives. When we share our personal stories of hardship, something profound can happen — isolation dissolves, fear subsides, and a collective wisdom surfaces as we recognize our deep connectedness. It is life-changing when we recognize that we have something to contribute — that we can all make a difference. Stories have power. Let’s discover ours.
Gregg Cassin is an advocate and activist for LGBTQA rights, HIV+ people, and youth empowerment. He believes in the profound healing power of community and self-expression. During the height of the epidemic Gregg began facilitating groups for people affected by HIV/AIDS. He founded the San Francisco Healing Circle and the San Francisco Center for Living, as well as leading conferences and retreats around the country. His contribution to the HIV/AIDS community has been recognized with the Certificate of Special Recognition from the U.S. Congress, presented by Nancy Pelosi, as well as honors from the City of San Francisco. He is seen in the groundbreaking documentaries Absolutely Positive and That's a Family! He began organizing anti–Prop 8 rallies in 2008, and he was the co-organizer of the incredibly successful March for Equality in 2013, the night before the Supreme Court's DOMA and Prop 8 ruling. Gregg is a gay dad and has lived with HIV longer than you’ve been alive.
Intersession Guide 2017 Seminar Introduction to French
Jeanne “Aïda” Frotier de Bagneux, ABC Languages LANGUAGE
Week 2 Learning French can not only teach you French but can also Morning teach you French history and how to decode French behaviors. When did we start speaking French? How did
French kings express themselves? Why is it that in some January 9, 10, 11 countries where French was not their native language, it
became their official language? Why and how does French 8:45 to 10:45 am keep evolving? Where do the feminine and masculine forms
come from? Why are French people so particular on spelling? Bay Meadows These are only a few of the questions we can explore while learning the French language.
After living 42 years in Paris, France, 3 years in London and Oxford in the U.K., and spending several summer vacations in either Moscow or St. Petersburg, Russia, Aïda moved to the United States (Mountain View, CA), eager to share her knowledge of French and French culture with Americans. Aïda has taught French conversation to GCSE and A-level students back in the UK, and now, in the US, she is sharing her first passion of teaching.
For her, teaching French is not only teaching how the language works, but also how to listen and feel the melody and the rhythm of the language, just like music, which makes it easier and more fun to study. Learning the language then becomes more creative, all the more if you get to know when it was born, how it grew up, and what it tells you about French history and French behaviors.
By the way, where does Aïda's surprisingly long name come from?
Intersession Guide 2017
WEEK TWO Afternoon Seminars
Intersession Guide 2017 Seminar Making A Dinosaur
Gary Staab ART/SCIENCE
Week 2 Students will have a hands-on experience sculpting a small- Afternoon scale dinosaur. The workshop will compare the anatomy of living and extinct animals. It will explore some of the same
aesthetic and scientific considerations artists face as they January 9, 10, 11 work with scientists to create sculptures for museum displays.
Materials and tools will be provided. 1:15 to 3:15 pm
Gary will also share stories about dinosaurs he has built and Bay Meadows other projects he has led, including building Super Croc from the fossils up and being escorted into King Tut’s tomb by NOTE: armed guard so he could create the replica of King Tut that You may notice traveled worldwide. that this seminar is offered in the morning as well. Gary Staab produces natural history and prehistoric life models for You may sign up for museums, publishing, and film. Gary has a degree in art/biology and both, but will only interned at the Smithsonian Institution and the British Museum of Natural be assigned to one. History. Staab’s work and eclectic studio demonstrate a flair and passion for natural forms both past and present. Gary’s sculptures embellish the halls of the Smithsonian, the British Museum of Natural History, the American Museum of Natural History, the BBC, and many other institutions. His work has also been featured by the Discovery Channel, National Geographic magazine, and Dorling Kindersley Publishers. He has been the recipient four times of the prestigious John Lanzendorf PaleoArt Prize for sculpture, presented by the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology.
Gary has worked the last 19 years as a freelance sculptor for such institutions as the National Geographic Society, the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History, the Carnegie Museum of Natural History, and the Miami Science Museum, among many others. “It is an amazing privilege to be a part of the production of models for museums. It’s a job that continues to hold much fascination for me as it allows me to read and research, sculpt and paint, and interact with scientists doing exciting work in the field of paleontology/archeology.” You can see images of Gary’s work at www.staabstudios.com.
Intersession Guide 2017 Seminar Hip-Hop Dance and Choreography
Micaya DANCE
Week 2 Learning choreography is different from doing your own thing Afternoon on the dance floor! It requires focus on detail, musicality, precision, and muscle memory.
January 9, 10, 11 This session will focus on hip-hop choreography, including
entrances, exits, and staging, and teach what it takes to 1:15 to 3:15 pm produce a top-quality performance. Students will create a
short piece that we will perform at the end of the seminar. Bay Meadows
NOTE: Waiver required. Micaya is a dance instructor, choreographer, and producer extraordinaire. Formally trained in many dance forms, she incorporates a diverse range in her choreography and teaching styles. In 2012, she was awarded “Best Dance Teacher” by the SF Bay Guardian readers’ poll.
In 1993, Micaya began producing high-energy, grassroots, sold-out hip- hop dance shows in the heart of San Francisco’s Mission District. Those shows led to the creation of the First Annual San Francisco Hip Hop DanceFest in 1999 at Theatre Artaud. Now in its 15th year and presented at the historic Palace of Fine Arts Theatre, the critically acclaimed DanceFest has grown to be THE event that has put San Francisco on the map for presenting hip-hop dance. Acknowledged as the first festival dedicated specifically to hip-hop dance, the internationally recognized, award-winning DanceFest is a groundbreaking event, hosting dance companies from all over the globe.
Micaya is also the founder, director, and choreographer of SoulForce Dance Company. Micaya’s choreography and SoulForce dancers have been in music videos, commercials, touring productions, festivals, corporate events, and more. Micaya also produces Mission in the Mix every June. Mission in the Mix is a multidisciplinary show that features SoulForce and up-and-coming local talent and students.
Intersession Guide 2017 Seminar Anatomy of a Political Campaign
Ace Smith, Erica Kwiatkowski and Team POLITICS
Week 2 The political firm representing Governor Jerry Brown, Lieutenant Governor Gavin Newsom, and Attorney General (now Senator) Afternoon Kamala Harris will share battle stories and dive into the structure of a winning campaign. From fundraising to debate prep to media January 9, 10, 11 training to TV ads, this course will examine what makes a political winner and how new mediums like Twitter have changed the 1:15 to 3:15 pm game.
Bay Meadows The course will include an interactive political campaign simulation, in which students take on important roles and duke it out in a whirlwind mini-campaign. You don’t have to be a political junkie to dive into these high-energy, collaborative sessions that give students a chance to see what goes on behind the scenes every election season.
SCN Strategies is a full-service firm specializing in complex communications challenges. We offer a broad array of strategic and media services with an integrated and creative approach to storytelling.
In recent years, SCN has run winning campaigns for Governor Jerry Brown, Lieutenant Governor Gavin Newsom, Attorney General Kamala Harris, State Senator Richard Roth, Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf, San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee, and Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa.
SCN has also earned a reputation for running and winning California's toughest ballot measure campaigns. Successes include Prop 1, the $7- billion Water Bond; Prop 2, the Rainy Day Fund; Prop 47, which reduced penalties for low-level offenses; Prop 30, Governor Brown's measure to fund schools; and Prop 36, the historic reform of California's "three strikes" law. The San Francisco Chronicle named SCN the winner of its "Hot Political Shop Award" in 2010, the "Political Winner" in 2012, and the "Biggest Winners" of 2014. Rush Limbaugh disagrees. www.scnstrategies.com
Intersession Guide 2017 Seminar Learn to Play Bridge
Carol Knowles MATH/CRITICAL THINKING
Week 2 Come try your hand at what many consider the “world’s Afternoon greatest game.” Combining probability and critical thinking, perhaps the best one-sentence description of how bridge
players feel about their game is playwright George S. January 9, 10, 11 Kaufman’s parody of a famous remark: “I’d rather be South
than be President.” Bridge, as a mind sport, provides a lifetime 1:15 to 3:15 pm of benefits:
Bay Meadows • FASCINATION: “Bridge is such a sensational game that I wouldn’t mind being in jail if I had three cellmates who were decent players and who were willing to keep the game going 24 hours a day.” Warren Buffett
• MENTAL CHALLENGE: “Many games provide fun, but bridge grips you. It exercises your mind.” Omar Sharif
• MULTIPLICITY OF REWARDS: “Bridge is simultaneously fascinating and fun. In pursuit of winning you meet the elusiveness of perfection and the perverseness of chance. In preparation, you have the opportunity to develop and refine your system as linguistic science.” Michael Neuschatz
Instructors will be available to help all levels from beginner to advanced!
Carol Knowles is an experienced and accredited ACBL (American Contract Bridge League) Teacher, Director, and Life Master. As a founder of PYB (Peninsula Youth Bridge), she loves to share her passion for the mind sport of bridge with students.
Intersession Guide 2017 Seminar Puppetry: Animation to Activism
Judy Roberto ART/THEATER
Week 2 Explore the ancient and yet very modern art of puppetry. Learn how to create the magic of this beloved theater art that is the Afternoon precursor to all digital animation and provided the visuals for protest movements around the world. January 9, 10, 11 • Day 1: Animate and Manipulate — You will discover 1:15 to 3:15 pm animation in its purest form through object manipulation. Learn how to breathe life into an object, the age-old secrets Bay Meadows that will convince others that it is alive. We will use various objects, hand puppets, rod puppets, and string puppets.
• Day 2: In the Shadows — Shadows are captivating to the human mind, as they require the observer to participate in completing the image. You will discover how to portray the essence of a character through movement and light on a screen. Shadow puppetry is extremely powerful and magical. We will use shadow puppets, light, and screens.
• Day 3: Giant Activism — Throughout the world, activism and giant puppets go hand in hand. In groups you will promote your social statement with giant puppets that you build collaboratively. We will use mostly recycled materials and found objects.
From Giant Parade Puppets to Miniature Puppet Theater, and everything puppet in between, Judy Roberto entertains and engages all ages in the puppetry arts. She has led the Puppet Theater Program at Happy Hollow Park and Zoo in San Jose, CA, since 2006. As a California teaching artist and performer for many years, she has directed puppet entertainment and creation with schools, universities, festivals, and parades.
Judy became devoted to a career with puppets after performing as a puppeteer in the final scene of the original Muppet Movie. She recently performed in the ensemble for Bread and Puppet Theater, whose puppets became famous in the early 1960s for leading processions during the earliest demonstrations against Vietnam.
Intersession Guide 2017 Seminar Etching: Taking Metal Away
Deb Jemmott, Artist, and Gil Jemmott, Mechanical Engineer ART/CHEMISTRY
Week 2 In 1840, Thomas Spencer and John Wilson were granted a Afternoon patent for “Engraving Metals by Voltaic Electricity.” This process has been updated and adapted for use in home
studios to create etched metal for jewelry and other January 9, 10, 11 ornamentation. With a very simple setup that includes a small
rectifier and relatively benign chemicals, you will learn about 1:15 to 3:15 pm the electrolytic process through a hands-on exploration of
etching sheet metal. Materials, tools, and supplies will be Bay Meadows provided.
NOTE: Waiver required.
Deb Jemmott is a practicing jeweler, metalsmith, and instructor. She received her BFA from the University of Houston and her MA from San Diego State University — both in art, specializing in jewelry making and metalsmithing. She has taught jewelry making for over 40 years and especially loves spending the day in her studio creating wonderful things.
Gil Jemmott is a mechanical engineer and graduated from University of California, San Diego, with degrees in applied mechanics and psychology. He has worked on the Hubble Space Telescope, developed biomedical devices, and designed and built tools for jewelry manufacturing.
Intersession Guide 2017 Seminar Writing Children’s Books
Rana DiOrio WRITING / PUBLISHING
Week 2 One of the most well-known and beloved mediums of Afternoon storytelling is the picture book. Let’s demystify the publishing process and get creative in this crash course on children’s
picture book development. Participants will have the January 9, 10, 11 opportunity to learn the art of storytelling and picture book
creation through the analysis of classic fairy tales with award- 1:15 to 3:15 pm winning publisher/author Rana DiOrio.
Bay Meadows We’ll brainstorm, write, workshop, illustrate, assemble, and then showcase our dummies (that’s what you call a rough draft of a picture book). Students will go home with a dummy of their own creation, a picture book for their libraries, and plenty of inspiration and resources for future projects!
Rana DiOrio is the founder and chief executive officer of March 4th, Inc. (M4), a Certified B Corporation, which she founded in 2009 to create media and products that foster kindness in young people — and to do so in a manner congruent with that mission. Striving to be the change it seeks, M4, formerly known as Little Pickle Press, was named a Best for the World B Corporation for three consecutive years and ForeWord Reviews’ Independent Publisher of the Year in 2014. To date, M4 has been the recipient of 85 industry awards and has received coverage in Entrepreneur, FastCompany, the Wall Street Journal, the Washington Post, and Publisher’s Weekly.
Rana has written her way through life — as a student, a lawyer, an investment banker, a growth capital investor, and now as an entrepreneur. Rana is the author of seven picture books in the award- winning What Does It Mean To Be . . . ?® series. She serves on the faculty of the Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators annual and regional conferences and the SF Writers for Change conference. She also serves on the editorial advisory committee of the Independent Book Publishing Association. Rana holds an AB in Psychology from Duke University and a JD from Vanderbilt University School of Law.
Intersession Guide 2017 Seminar Sports and Statistics
Pat Zimmerman MATH/STATISTICS
Week 2 This seminar will look at the history, methods, and political Afternoon battles over the use of quantitative data analysis in sports. In particular, it will introduce students to reasoning behind when,
how, and why certain statistics and metrics come in and out January 9, 10, 11 of favor, as well as when quantitative methods are (and are
not) an appropriate way to answer a given question. We will 1:15 to 3:15 pm cover some of the background behind more “scientific”
approaches to sports, from baseball to soccer, and compare Bay Meadows and contrast the statistical cultures of different sports. Why are some sports more conducive to advanced metrics (baseball, NOTE: for example) than others (ice hockey)? Students will need to provide their own The seminar will employ a mix of historical and sport-specific computers for this context and methodological instruction in working with seminar. spreadsheets, data-mining, and Dashboard visualization software. Each student will also build their own interactive Students should be dashboard from one of several sample datasets to (better) comfortable with answer a specific sports question of their choosing and post it math, but no live on Tableau Public. particularly hard mathematics are really required, we Pat Zimmerman is a historian and anthropologist interested in the will cover the basic connections between mass culture and the social and political contexts in stats in session. which it exists.
No coding He has expertise in qualitative research methods: textual analysis, in-depth experience interviewing, ethnography, archival research, linguistic analysis, and thick necessary, though description; and quantitative research methods: survey design and analysis, social network analysis, and SQL. some SQL would be useful background. Pat has just recently launched Principally Uncertain, an online magazine and research community for smarty-pants nerds who like to actively analyze the world around them — with a sense of humor. To edify and entertain!
www.principallyuncertain.com
Intersession Guide 2017 Seminar Introduction to American Sign Language
Francis Phiri, ABC Languages LANGUAGE
Week 2 Afternoon This American Sign Language seminar is an introduction to the basic skills needed in the production and comprehension of
ASL. Activities include focus on the manual alphabet, January 9, 10, 11 numbers, conversational skills, and culturally appropriate
behaviors. We will spend some time understanding the social 1:15 to 3:15 pm and cultural norms important to the Deaf community in North
America. Bay Meadows
Francis Phiri was born and raised in Zambia, where he used to walk to school with no shoes, and now, as he says, he "has so many shoes he loses count.“ "Sometimes I feel like this is a dream that I can’t wake up from, when I think about where I came from to now.”
Phiri now lives in San Francisco, CA, where he first started to learn English and American Sign Language. He attended Ohlone College in Fremont, CA, where he recently graduated with his first college degree in American Sign Language/Deaf studies and liberal arts. In the spring of 2017, he will be studying education and social work at San Francisco State University. He will also work as an American Sign Language teacher at ABC Languages School in San Francisco and as a substitute high school instructor at Mid-Peninsula High School in Menlo Park.
His wish is to always share his life story and hope it can inspire others to appreciate every little good thing that happens in their life.
Intersession Guide 2017 Seminar Power Poetry: Speaking Up and Speaking Out
Terisa Siagatonu WRITING/PERFORMANCE
Week 2 "...poetry is not a luxury. It is a vital necessity of our existence. It forms the quality of the light within which we predicate our hopes Afternoon and dreams toward survival and change, first made into language, then into idea, then into more tangible action." — Audre Lorde January 9, 10, 11 Led by nationally ranked spoken word poet and arts educator 1:15 to 3:15 pm Terisa Siagatonu (as seen on Button Poetry and All Def Poetry), this session is for poetry lovers, poetry haters, and anyone who has a Bay Meadows story and a voice to tell it with. This 3-day session brings together writing, performance, courage, willingness, truth, and you and asks the question: if you don’t tell your own story, who will?
Terisa Siagatonu is an award-winning poet, arts educator, and community organizer born and rooted in the San Francisco Bay Area. Her presence in the spoken word world as a queer Samoan womyn and activist has granted her opportunities to perform in places ranging from the White House to the UN Conference on Climate Change in Paris, France. The most memorable moment in her career was receiving President Obama’s Champion of Change Award (2012) for her activism as a spoken word poet/organizer in her Pacific Islander community. Terisa's writing blends the personal with the political in a way that calls for healing, courage, justice, and truth.
Her work has been extensively featured in the media. Terisa performs, competes, and coaches spoken word poetry nationwide, having placed 2nd in the nation twice on two national poetry slam teams. In May 2016, Terisa published her first collection of poems in her chapbook “Remember We Have Choir Practice” (available for purchase at www.terisasiagatonu.com).
Off stage, Terisa is involved in community organizing work revolving around issues such as youth advocacy, educational attainment, Pacific Islander/Indigenous rights, LGBTQQIA rights, gender-based violence, and other causes she is passionate about. Terisa also works as a therapist in San Francisco and aims to merge art and therapy in her career as a therapist/educator.
Intersession Guide 2017 Seminar Wild Crafting: The Ecology of Color — Making Felt from the Forest
Maria Finn ART/SUSTAINABILITY
Week 2 Come explore how to create color out of natural products. Afternoon We can gather leaves, mushrooms, wasp galls, and even food scraps. We’ll research what different colors will come
from these elements. We will spend time mixing mordants and January 9, 10, 11 making our dyes and discussing how a mordant, like rusty
nails, co-creates color. We will then dye wool and hang it up 1:15 to 3:15 pm to dry. Finally we will turn spun wool into felt and explore if this
process makes us think differently about our relationship with Bay Meadows ecosystems and color.
Maria Finn has written for Sunset Magazine, the Wall Street Journal, Afar, the New York Times, Wine Spectator, the Food and Environmental Reporting Network, the San Francisco Chronicle, Saveur, Organic Living, Women’s Health, and Gastronomica, among many other publications. She is the author of the books The Whole Fish, Hold Me Tight and Tango Me Home, and A Little Piece of Earth: How to Grow Your Own Food in Small Spaces. She has been an artist-in-residence at Autodesk Pier 9 Creative Lab, The Marin Headlands Center for the Arts, and Mesa Refuge. Finn received an MFA from Sarah Lawrence College. She teaches feature writing at Stanford University’s School of Continuing Education.
Intersession Guide 2017 Seminar Expressive Calligraphy
Daniel Diaz-Tai ART
Week 2 Day 1: Making words speak Afternoon Explore the use of different materials to give feelings to words. Examples include exercises with word combinations such as
Dry/Wet, Messy/Neat. January 9, 10, 11
Day 2: Greetings 1:15 to 3:15 pm Apply what we learned on Day 1 to create three expressive
and playful greeting cards of the student’s subject choice. Bay Meadows
Day 3: Asemic and Music Focus on how to interact with music and movement of the hand to create rhythmic repetitions on paper. Then take calligraphy to an abstract level, using dry materials with the sounds of a flute and strings, and wet paint with the sound of percussion instruments.
Venezuelan-born San Francisco resident Daniel Diaz-Tai has a BFA in graphic design and a MFA in (nonfigurative) painting from the Academy of Art University. Daniel’s art can be found throughout the US and Asia. His work is inspired by writing and movement. Daniel’s subconscious creates an energy and a repetition of dialogue in which he writes and washes upon a medium. Daniel’s limited color palette helps him remain in the moment with his work. Through Daniel's subconscious process, he expresses himself by rapidly writing his personal thoughts and ideas. Daniel also wants the viewer to relate to the movement of his writing, which is done through creating his own nihilistic script and allowing the viewer to interpret the writing by reading its fluidity.
www.missionartistsunited.org
Intersession Guide 2017 Seminar The Language of Leadership
Laura Powers BUSINESS
Week 2 Many studies have been conducted on what makes Afternoon successful companies — leadership and the ability to build teams are always at the top of the list. As a recent Tech
Crunch article noted, “Startups come and go for a lot of January 9, 10, 11 reasons, but a lot of good ideas fail because the founding
team fails to take into consideration the people factors. It’s 1:15 to 3:15 pm one thing to come up with the great idea, it’s another to pull
together the right group of people to execute it.” Bay Meadows
Teamwork is simple — but not always easy to implement. Some of the greatest challenges to its success come with hair on top — the people involved! This workshop explores the critical skills a leader needs to foster high-performing teams. Students will take part in experiential exercises, improv games, and activities designed to teach: building rapport, active listening, and chunking information to guide conversations and negotiations.
Laura M. Powers is living proof that you never quite know where your next career move may take you. Educated as a mechanical engineer, she has been involved in the design of aircraft engines, diapers, and electric cars, as well as software systems at Hewlett Packard, Sales.com, and eBay. These days, you’ll find Laura “talking for a living” — coaching high-tech teams to communicate and collaborate as they create the next big thing. Laura holds a BS and MS in mechanical engineering from Virginia Tech, and is a Certified Scrum Professional (CSP), Certified Trainer of Neuro Linguistic Programming (NLP), and a Certified LEGO® Serious Play® facilitator.
Intersession Guide 2017 Seminar Film and Philosophy
Frederick Dolan PHILOSOPHY/FILM
Week 2 A film can relate to philosophy in a variety of ways: it might illustrate a philosophical problem, yield to a philosophical interpretation, or Afternoon actually “philosophize” — contribute to philosophical knowledge in a way that is distinctively cinematic. In this seminar, we’ll explore all January 9, 10, 11 three approaches.
1:15 to 3:15 pm Ridley Scott’s Blade Runner (1982) concerns the ostensible differences between human beings and genetically engineered Bay Meadows “replicants.” It asks: What makes you a “person,” and how can you know for certain that other persons are conscious in the way you are? Blade Runner raises such issues as the dangers of self- NOTE: deception, the value of freedom, and the meaning of mortality. Students must view What’s the nature of legitimate political authority? How is it possible ALL the following for some persons to “represent” others? Is it ever right for our films in advance of representatives to lie to or mislead us? We’ll also explore these the seminar: questions in John Ford’s The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962).
Ridley Scott, Blade What is love? Are there important differences between the love of Runner (2007 — individuals and the love of more abstract objects such as beauty, Final Cut version) goodness, and justice? What about the differences between romantic love, friendship, parental love, and the love of God? Or Alfred Hitchcock, between love and desire, passion, fantasy, obsession, and Vertigo (1958) compulsion? We’ll see what Alfred Hitchcock has to say about these matters in his Vertigo (1958). John Ford, The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962). After completing my Ph.D. at Princeton in 1987, I taught at UC Berkeley, for the better part of two decades, in the Department of Rhetoric — something of a
wildlife preserve that houses scholars in a variety of fields, including literature, film, intellectual history, law, politics, sociology, and philosophy. In 2006 I retired from Berkeley to become dean of graduate studies at CCA. I've worked in a variety of areas in philosophy over the years, including political and moral philosophy, philosophy of art, philosophy of mind, hermeneutics, and metaphysics. Among the mighty dead thinkers I've found especially inspiring are Aristotle, Pascal, Hobbes, Locke, Hume, Kant, Hegel, Kierkegaard, Tocqueville, Nietzsche, William James, Peirce, Heidegger, Wittgenstein, Rawls, Nozick, and Arendt. I am currently teaching a longer version of this course for Stanford University.
Intersession Guide 2017 Seminar Storyboarding for Animation
George Evelyn FILM/ART
Week 2 Before any actual animation begins, the successful filmmaker must have all the “what happens when” elements figured out in visual Afternoon terms. This is what the storyboard is all about: a bit like a comic book except that it uses cinematic technique (staging, cuts, zooms, January 9, 10, 11 pans, sequential narrative, etc.) to tell the story.
1:15 to 3:15 pm Traditionally, storyboard drawings were pinned up on a wall, but nowadays the storyboard art is shot on camera in a timed Bay Meadows sequence called an animatic. The result is a kind of “rough version” of the film.
This seminar aims to walk students through the process — from thumbnail drawings, to storyboard, to timed animatic — so that when the time comes for them to make their own film, they’ll be familiar with this basic production methodology.
George Evelyn has been directing animation since 1984, when he was part of the team at (Colossal) Pictures San Francisco that re-invented TV branding with the MTV ID campaign.
Since then Mr. Evelyn has co-created and directed animated television shows (“Higglytown Heroes” and “Sheriff Callie’s Wild West” for Disney Channel), tons of TV commercials, broadcast ID packages, short cartoons, interactive adventures, web-toon series, and theme park rides where one watches cartoons out a window while being shaken hydraulically.
For his various efforts over the past thirty-odd years, Mr. Evelyn has received the Clio Award, a couple of Emmys, an Annie Award, a batch of Broadcast Design Awards, and the World Animation Celebration’s “Best Commercial Director 1996,” and he was a semifinalist in competition at the 2000 Sundance Film Festival. He has especially enjoyed working with media icons like the Trix Rabbit, Wile E. Coyote, Fred Flintsone, Betty Boop, and the musician Prince, each of whom has benefited in some way from Mr. Evelyn’s seasoned expertise. Currently, Mr. Evelyn is a Visiting Artist at the California College of Art where he teaches Beginning Character Animation and Short-Film Production.
Intersession Guide 2017 Seminar An Entire MBA in One Course
Chris Haroun BUSINESS
Week 2 Come learn everything you need to know about business — Afternoon from starting a company to taking it public. This course covers all of the important topics you would learn getting an MBA
from a top school plus real-life practical business concepts January 9, 10, 11 that will help make you more successful!
1:15 to 3:15 pm Many business concepts are simply common sense. This
seminar will focus on business concepts that you need to Bay Meadows know that might not be common sense and will make the general business, accounting, and finance processes easy to understand! I will minimize the “boring theoretical concepts” in order to keep it as close to reality as possible.
Chris Haroun is the author of the #1 best-selling business course on Udemy called "An Entire MBA in 1 Course©." According to Business Insider, "Haroun is one of the highest rated professors on Udemy, so you can expect to be in good hands through the course of your education." Chris is also the author of the book 101 Crucial Lessons They Don't Teach You in Business School, which Forbes called "1 of 6 books that all entrepreneurs must read right now."
Chris is the founder and CEO of Haroun Education Ventures, which has three areas of focus: edtech venture capital, education charities, and online education focusing on business and self development courses. He is an award-winning business school professor, MBA graduate from Columbia University, and former Goldman Sachs employee. He has raised/managed over $1 billion in his career.
Chris is passionate about educational charities and he is on the board of directors of several tech companies and the Lemo Foundation, which offers scholarships and mentoring to East Palo Alto students. He is also on the board of Providing Opportunities for Women (P.O.W.), which was founded by a few of his business school students. His other work experience includes working at hedge fund giant Citadel, consulting firm Accenture, and several startups.
Intersession Guide 2017
WEEK TWO Intensives
Intersession Guide 2017 Intensive Wearable Art Using Alternative Materials and Found Objects
Winnie van der Rijn ART/DESIGN
Week 2 Immerse yourself in open studio design and creation. In this three-day art intensive, we will turn alternative materials and January 9, 10, 11 found objects into wearable art through an exploration of traditional and nontraditional techniques. We will examine 8:30 am departure ideas about value, art, and beauty and look at jewelry as art, from Nueva BM idea, and statement. We will discuss advanced design through a lens of inspiration — an idea, a shape, an emotion. Winnie’s Studio, We will collect and manipulate source materials and South San investigate wire work, cold connections, assemblage, Francisco collage, resin, and riveting. This intensive will focus on play, discovery, and possibility.
NOTE: 9:30 am arrival at studio. I have been a maker since childhood. I work with textiles, beads, wire, metal, paper, clay, resin, wood, and found objects. I’ve created jewelry, Depart studio at sculpture, prints, hangings, shoes, hats, children’s books, costumes, and 2:15 pm. housewares. Making is an essential part of my life. My current work focuses on upcycling found objects. The designs are not premeditated. I employ Students bring an organic creative process — design and construction happen simultaneously. I find beauty and possibility in the imperfect and lunch. discarded. I like things that are broken and worn and a bit dirty with a patina of age. I am curious about how and why we acquire, consume, Students must wear treasure, and discard. I am intrigued by the idea of value and how things closed toed shoes. are assigned value in society. I work to create some kind of visual balance in each piece and an irreverent sense of whimsy; instead of asking “why?” Comfortable, old I like to ask “why not?” I’m about constraint, reinvention, transformation, clothes and evolution for myself and my work. recommended. I started teaching jewelry design shortly after I started making jewelry. I Waiver required. have created curriculum and kits and taught for a wide range of audiences at bead shops and bead shows all around the country as well as at local middle schools and creativity retreats. In addition, I spent 4 years as the National Training Director for Luxe Jewels (now Stella and Dot), where I focused on teaching consultants how to teach jewelry design with kits, conferences, and video training. I am committed to helping people access and express their creativity. www.eccentricd.com
Intersession Guide 2017 Intensive Marine Science: Creeks and Oceans, Three Labs in Three Days
Marine Science Institute SCIENCE
Week 2 Lab One: Offsite Session to Stulsaft Park, Redwood City. This program will be learning about watershed, use of January 9, 10, 11 Enviroscape, creek water quality analysis, and trash analysis.
8:30 am departure Lab Two: Offsite Session to the Marine Science Institute for a from Nueva BM Biomimicry and Shoreside program. Biomimicry is an engineering based program. Students learn about nature’s Marine Science adaptations and biomimicry — how humans mimic them to Institute, Redwood make everyday objects more efficient. Students will make City observations about adaptations and their functions. Students will apply their new-found knowledge to design a self- sustaining research vessel. NOTE: 9:30 am arrival at Lab Three: Offsite Session to MSI again for our Ocean Lab Stulsatt Park or MSI program and ocean acidification lab. Students will focus and Lab. study 5 different phyla found in our rocky intertidal shores. Students will observe and engage with ocean animals during Depart by 2:15 pm. the first portion of the program, and during the second part
they will focus on ocean acidification. Students bring lunch. The Marine Science Institute was founded in 1970, around the time that the issue of water resources was becoming a major concern for many Bay Wear comfortable Area inhabitants. The Institute's philosophy was based on the idea that clothes that can putting students in direct physical contact with their local bay get dirty. Prepare environment will help cultivate their natural sense of curiosity, enrich their for ALL weather. understanding of science, and foster a responsibility to protect the environment. Waiver required. The Institute's mission is to cultivate a responsibility for the natural environment and our human communities through interdisciplinary science education.
Intersession Guide 2017 Intensive Artist Retreat: Watercolor Painting
KALA Arts, Heide Gyn Miller ART
Week 2 Learn through play as we approach watercolor painting by encouraging you to rely on your own natural curiosity and January 9, 10, 11 impulse to experiment. Our daily practice will foster confidence in each person’s unique approach to artmaking, 8:30 am departure while teaching brushwork techniques and experimenting with from Nueva BM tools and materials. You will document your explorations, create inventories of techniques, and build a variety of works, KALA Art Studio, culminating in a small portfolio collection. Berkeley
NOTE: Heide Gyn Miller is a practicing artist as well as a senior teaching artist at 9:30 am arrival at the deYoung Museum, where she develops lessons and delivers programs Kala Art Institute. for visiting student groups, teachers, families, and parents. She created educational programming for a number of Bay Area museums, including Depart Kala at 2:15 the UC Berkeley Art Museum, SFMoMA, the Contemporary Jewish pm. Museum, the Magnes Museum, and the Oakland Museum of California. As an art educator, Heide endeavors to help each student identify his/her
natural ability to be curious, to explore, and to experiment in order to Students bring have a better understanding of personal process and preference for lunch. learning and creating art. She believes that students who learn to rely on their own emerging skill sets can develop a personal relationship to artistic Waiver required. motivations and expressions.
Intersession Guide 2017 Intensive Film Making and Visual Effects
Austin Broder FILM/TECHNOLOGY
Week 2 In this course we learn how to use the visual effects program After Effects to create amazing spectacles. We'll learn the January 9, 10, 11 tricks of the trade and how to operate professional camera equipment. Then we'll apply these new ideas to our own 8:45 am to 3:15 pm original films that we will write, shoot, and edit! You'll exit the program with your own original short and an understanding of Bay Meadows how to create your own special effects films!
Austin Broder has been teaching 3D art and animation for nearly 8 years and during that time has incorporated his experience in the industry and professional tricks and techniques into his lessons. In his lessons, he covers everything from the basics of 3D modeling programs to the history of animation to revealing insights as to how the industry works. His students have gone on to receive film festival awards and earn master’s degrees in animation. He hopes to inspire and empower his students and provide a once-in-a-lifetime experience.
Intersession Guide 2017 Intensive Glass Blowing Retreat at Bay Area Glass Institute (BAGI)
BAGI and Treg Silkwood ART
Week 2 Immerse yourself in the magic of glass. This 3-day intensive is a totally hands-on experience that allows you to learn the January 9, 10, 11 basics of traditional free-form glass blowing. We’ll touch on safety in the hot shop, learning which tool does what, some 8:30 am departure key glassblowing terms, and how to work molten glass into a from Nueva BM cool piece of art or something functional like a cup. You’ll work in teams to assist each other in creating your artwork BAGI Studio, San while under the careful direction of masters. The goal for Jose each student is to make perfect bubbles, paperweights, flowers, and a functional vessel, and to come away with the skills necessary to take glassblowing to the next level.
NOTE: 9:30 am arrival at Treg Silkwood knew that he wanted to work with his hands. In 1996 he studio. received his BFA from Alfred University, graduating as the top student of the Art and Design School. In 1995, he spent a semester studying at the Depart studio at 2:15 Academy of Applied Arts in Prague. Treg spent the next five years working pm. as a production glassblower, recreating early American glass at the Henry Ford Museum & Greenfield Village, where he deepened his knowledge Students bring lunch. and appreciation for the history and the craft of working with glass. After pursuing a year of graduate studies with Jack Wax at Illinois State
University, Treg was honored to become one of the first gaffers for the Hot Waiver required. Glass Road Show of the Corning Museum of Glass.
Treg moved to the Bay Area in 2002 and, with Candace Martin, formed Silkwood Glass, a custom, handcrafted glass company whose innovative designs are largely inspired by the natural world. In 2008, Treg had his first solo show at the Steuben Flagship Store on Madison Avenue in New York City and was honored to be one of only two artists invited to take part in the “Steuben Selections Series,” which showcases some of the world’s foremost artists in glass. Treg’s work has been exhibited internationally and showcased in many prestigious galleries. He has become widely recognized as a premier California marine glass artist. Treg and Candace’s work can be seen at www.SilkwoodGlass.com.
Intersession Guide 2017 Intensive MIG Welding
The Crucible ENGINEERING/INDUSTRIAL ARTS
Week 2 Metal inert gas (MIG) welding, also known as wire-feed welding, falls between arc welding and TIG in the welding January 9, 10, 11 spectrum. Quieter and cleaner (and some say easier) than arc welding, MIG welding is typically used in production 8:30 am departure fabrication such as furniture making, light construction, and from Nueva BM auto restoration. Plasma cutting is an amazing technique to cut out shapes in metal for negative space or to cut pieces to Crucible Studios, be welded onto a larger metal project. Oakland
NOTE: 9:30 am arrival at The Crucible is a 501(c)(3) non-profit arts education organization that Crucible. fosters a collaboration of arts, industry, and community. Through training in the fine and industrial arts, the Crucible promotes creative expression, Depart Crucible at reuse of materials, and innovative design, while serving as an accessible 2:15 pm. arts venue for the general public in the Bay Area. Known for one-of-a-kind industrial arts education programs, the Crucible is also highly regarded for Students bring its innovative performances. lunch. www.thecrucible.org
Wear comfortable, athletic clothing and shoes.
Waiver required.
Intersession Guide 2017 Intensive TIG Welding
The Crucible ENGINEERING/INDUSTRIAL ARTS
Week 2 Tungsten Inert Gas (TIG) welding is a highly precise method of welding that makes clean and focused welds on everything January 9, 10, 11 from super-thin to very thick materials. Using TIG welding, an expert can weld any metal that can be welded and can 8:30 am departure even join dissimilar metals. You will learn the basics of TIG from Nueva BM welding by working with stainless steel. The class will also introduce the plasma cutter and a variety of shop sheet- Crucible Studios, metal tools. The instructor will assign sculpture projects that Oakland allow you to put your creativity and welding skills to use.
NOTE: 9:30 am arrival at Crucible. The Crucible is a 501(c)(3) non-profit arts education organization that fosters a collaboration of arts, industry, and community. Through training in Depart Crucible at the fine and industrial arts, the Crucible promotes creative expression, 2:15 pm. reuse of materials, and innovative design, while serving as an accessible arts venue for the general public in the Bay Area. Known for one-of-a-kind Students bring industrial arts education programs, the Crucible is also highly regarded for its innovative performances. lunch.
www.thecrucible.org Wear comfortable, athletic clothing and shoes.
Waiver required.
Intersession Guide 2017 Intensive Songwriting and Analysis
Spencer Hattendorf MUSIC
Week 2 What do the Beatles, Michael Jackson, Nirvana, Chance the Rapper, and Taylor Swift all have in common? Chart-topping January 9, 10, 11 singles? Sure. Massive popularity? You bet. Techniques for songwriting? More than you might think. This Intersession 8:45 am to 3:15 pm intensive will be a hands-on crash course in the fundamentals of songwriting. We will study some of the most successful Bay Meadows and songwriters from the past 60 years by breaking down popular J Ace J Studio, songs into their elements and taking a close look into what Redwood City makes a great song great. We will then apply these (January 11) techniques to our own material, and by the end of this session students will walk out with their own fully developed composition.
NOTE: Students please bring instruments if Spencer Hattendorf is a composer, performer, and multi-instrumentalist they have them currently residing in New York City. He is a founding member of the available. indie/soul group The Rooks, who recently released their sophomore EP Wires and won an Independent Music Award for the single "Secrets." He
graduated from Wesleyan University with a BA in music and African- Students bring American studies, has been studying jazz saxophone for 15 years, and lunch on studio performs regularly in New York and throughout the Northeast. day, January 11.
Waiver required.
Intersession Guide 2017 Intensive Afro-Cuban Jazz Ensemble
Rodney Yllarza Barreto and Yaroldy Abreu Robles MUSIC
Week 2 Since the 19th century Cuban music has been hugely popular and influential throughout the world. It has been perhaps the most popular form of regional music since the introduction of January 9, 10, 11 recording technology. Cuban music has its principal roots in
Spain and West Africa; however, over time it has been 8:45 am to 3:15 pm influenced by diverse genres from different countries, including
American Jazz. Bay Meadows Afro-Cuban Jazz Ensemble will explore the exciting Cuban rhythms in a big band setting using brass, woodwinds, guitar, piano, bass, and drums. The ensemble will be coached by two of the top recording and touring musicians in Havana today. Students will gain firsthand knowledge of Cuban styles while playing alongside these great artists.
Rodney Yllarza Barreto was born in Havana City and studied percussion at Guillermo Tomas School and subsequently at Amadeo Roldan Conservatory also in Havana City. When he was very young, he joined the Charanga de Guanabacoa children’s orchestra. At seventeen, he joined the Isaac Delgado Orchestra (a first-rank band and one of the most popular salsa bands in Cuba). He was professor of percussion at Paulita Concepción School in Havana City for three years. He won the Cubadisco Award for best record with Drums La Habana in 2010. Rodney won the Award as the best accompanist musician in the JOJAZZ, the National Contest for Cuban Young Jazz-Players. Rodney has been working both with great musicians and great national and foreign bands his entire life.
Yaroldy Abreu Robles was born in Sagua de Tanamo, Cuba. He started his professional career in Holguin in 1995 with the group Agua and then went on to form the experimental percussion ensemble Cinco Puntos. He graduated with honors with a bachelor's degree in percussion from the Higher Institute of Art in 2001. While Yaroldy was still a student, Chucho Valdés invited him to join his group Irakere and, in 2001, the Chucho Valdés Jazz Quartet. Yaroldy has shared the stage and recorded with many top musicians inside and outside of Cuba. In 2003, Yaroldy was nominated for a Grammy Award in the category of Best Traditional Tropical Album for Amadito Valdés' Bajando Gervasio; and in 2004 he won the Latin Grammy Award in the Latin jazz category for Chucho Valdés Jazz Quartet's New Conceptions. A valued teacher, Yaroldy has been invited to teach master classes in Europe and the U.S., and at various music festivals throughout the world.
Intersession Guide 2017 Intensive Small Mammal DNA in Barn Owl Pellets
Ellen Hilbrich, Schmahl Science MACROBIOLOGY
Week 2 Molecular biology is the study of DNA and RNA, proteins, and other macromolecules involved in genetic information and January 9, 10, 11 cell function. This branch of biology characteristically makes use of advanced tools and techniques of separation, 8:30 am departure manipulation, imaging, and analysis. from Nueva BM Owl pellets provide an excellent skeletal record of the small Schmahl Science mammals consumed, as they contain the undigested, Lab, San Jose regurgitated portions of prey. Owl pellets are a useful tool for inventorying small mammals that live in a habitat.
In this session, students will assess the DNA in bone samples NOTE: 9:30 am arrival at lab. recovered from barn owls in order to catalog the prey species found in the habitat. The DNA will be extracted using Depart lab at 2:15 standard isolation techniques and amplified using PCR. The pm. amplified DNA will be isolated on an agarose gel and analyzed. Bring lunch / snack (microwave Concepts: Aseptic technique, DNA isolation, DNA available). amplification through PCR, gel electrophoresis
Must have closed toe shoes for lab safety. Schmahl Science Workshops is a nonprofit partnership of students, parents, Long hair tied back. teachers, scientists and engineers who come together to foster the innate Lab coats provided. curiosity and love of science that exists among students of all ages. The instructors for these sessions are scientists with advanced biology degrees Waiver required. and a wealth of teaching experience. The molecular and micro biology sessions provide an opportunity for students to work with research An information protocols in a detailed and structured layout guided by Schmahl packet will be scientists. provided to review in advance for those enrolled.
Intersession Guide 2017 Intensive Woodworking: Building Shelter Pods for the Homeless
Fred Sotcher ART/SOCIAL JUSTICE
Week 2 Come join us in building a survival shelter for the homeless. There are approximately 6,500 homeless men, women, and January 9, 10, 11 children in Santa Clara County alone. These are people who might be holding a job but still cannot afford to pay the 8:30 am departure exorbitant rents here in Silicon Valley. These are men, women, from Nueva BM and children who are living under bridges, under plastic sheets, and on park benches. During this Intensive, we will be Fred’s Workshop, building one portable shelter, for one person. It is a long way San Jose from a solution to the problem, but it will provide one person with a dry, warm, safe place to stay.
NOTE: The shelter we will build is one of a number of shelters that I 9:30 am arrival at hope to provide over time. I am looking for students who are Fred's Workshop. willing to work with me to create such a shelter and to Depart Fred’s become a small part of the movement to assist individuals in Workshop at 2:15 need. The construction will take place at my home workshop pm. in San Jose. You will be guided by three experienced woodworkers. We hope you will join us. Students bring lunch.
Students must wear Fred Sotcher is current president of the South Bay Woodworkers and closed toed shoes, former president of a number of woodworking clubs in the Bay Area. He long haired tied has authored a number of articles in Fine Woodworking Magazine and back, no long others. Fred has been teaching woodworking for over 20 years at the necklaces, scarves, John Montgomery School, the Girls Middle School, Creekside Academy, or loose sleeves. and through private classes at his home shop. His joy in life is working with young people to help them develop their creative talents. Waiver required.
Intersession Guide 2017 Intensive Lit Camp: A Writer’s Workshop
Janis Cooke Newman WRITING
Week 2 Ever wonder what it would be like to be a writer? Think it’s all sitting in cafés with your laptop, fancy book tours, and seeing January 9, 10, 11 your novel turned into a movie? Think again.
8:45 am to 3:15 pm This intensive is meant to immerse you in the real, day-to-day life of a working writer. We’ll spend some time writing, sharing Bay Meadows and work, and talking about craft — because you can’t get Other Offsite anywhere as a writer unless you actually do it. But you’ll also Locations learn about the business side of getting a book out into the world — by talking to an agent, an editor, and a publisher.
We’ll visit the office of a literary magazine, to see how that NOTE: works. Plus, you’ll see how published writers form community Offsite locations and fight the isolation that comes with the profession by and lunch plans visiting the oldest — and best-known — writers collective, the TBD. San Francisco Writers Grotto, hearing from some of its members.
The main instructor for Lit Camp will be novelist and memoirist Janis Cooke Newman. However, the intensive is designed to expose Nueva’s budding writers to as many members of the Bay Area literary community as possible.
Janis Cooke Newman is the author of the recently released A Master Plan for Rescue, a novel the SF Chronicle called “dazzling” and “magical.” Her previous novel, Mary, was an LA Times Book Prize Finalist and named USA Today’s Historical Novel of the Year. She is also the author of a memoir, The Russian Word for Snow. Newman is the founder of the Lit Camp writers’ conference, a juried conference held each year in the Napa Valley (litcampwriters.org). She is a member of both the San Francisco Writers Grotto and the Castro Writers Cooperative. She holds an MFA in creative writing.
Intersession Guide 2017 Intensive Engineering a Robot Operating System (ROS)
Robyn Allen SOFTWARE ENGINEERING
Week 2 This intensive will provide fast-paced instruction in the open source ROS programming standard and a hackathon-style opportunity to
develop original apps for the Honda UNI-CUB robot. We will test January 9, 10, 11 student apps using a virtual simulator and explore novel ideas for using the UNI-CUB. 8:45 am to 3:15 pm The UNI-CUB is a personal mobility device currently under Bay Meadows development at Honda. Even during this developmental phase, Honda has chosen to release an API and encourage a wide variety of people to write apps for the UNI-CUB. Multiple languages are already supported by the platform.
Students will be asked to consider their own ideal use for the UNI- CUB: what would you do if you could control one of these vehicles? What use case do you think your app will address? NOTE: Depending upon progress, students may have the opportunity to Prior programming present their apps to Honda engineers on the third day and may experience be invited to test their apps on a real UNI-CUB prototype. required.
More information on ROS and the Robyn Allen teaches engineering because many of today's grand challenges UNI-CUB may be — in energy, healthcare, transportation, and other areas — require found at interdisciplinary engineering teams that have both world-class technical skills http://www.ros.org/ and world-class teamwork abilities. Robyn has mentored math teams, startup and companies, and student engineers for 15 years. She holds a BS in aerospace https://developer.h engineering from MIT. Prior to teaching, Robyn worked as a systems engineer ondasvl.com/ in hybrid car design, ultralight aircraft, mobile robotics, software design, and electric grid optimization. She has extensive experience in early-stage technology evaluation and prototyping from both an engineering and business perspective.
Robyn has been honored by numerous organizations, including the International Achievement Summit, the Clinton Global Initiative, the MIT Energy Initiative, and the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics.
Intersession Guide 2017 Intensive Playwriting and Acting in Ensemble
Luke Rosen THEATER
Week 2 A well-crafted play is filled with urgency and attention to setting. In this workshop, actors and playwrights develop January 9, 10, 11 complete characters and create highly developed worlds. We’ll define the important differences between dialogue, 8:45 am to 3:15 pm monologue, and soliloquy. Time will be divided between writing and acting. The seminar culminates with a Bay Meadows performance of scenes written by our playwrights.
Luke Rosen is the co-founder and artistic director of Eastcheap Rep, a New York–based theater company whose original plays have been produced all over the world. Most notably, the 2002 production of his play, Jumpers, premiered at the Underbelly in Edinburgh and transferred to NewYork’s Abingdon Theater.
Eastcheap Rep has produced over twenty plays worldwide. The company’s February 2016 production of A. R. Gurney’s Pulitzer Prize– winning Love Letters will mark Eastcheap’s fifteenth year, and is the tenth production in which Luke performs with his wife, Sally Jackson.
Luke has appeared in multiple New York stage productions including Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, Hamlet, The Three Sisters, Love Letters, Brave New World, and Long Day's Journey into Night. His extensive film and television credits include Orange is the New Black, Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt, Law & Order, Numb3rs, Unforgettable, The Sopranos, Skate, Stalked, and the soon-to-be-released features Keep the Change and No One Asked Me.
Luke trained at the British American Drama Academy at Oxford University, National Theater Institute, Eugene O'Neill Theater Center, and the Lee Strasberg Theater and Film Institute. He has a BA from Connecticut College with concentrations in theater and classics.
www.nationalstage.org www.lukerosen.net www.eastcheaprep.com
Intersession Guide 2017
WEEK TWO Activities
Intersession Guide 2017 Activity Conservation Ambassadors: Vanished
David, Lisa, and Samantha Jackson WILDLIFE/ENVIRONMENT
Week 2 After meeting our animal ambassadors and hearing their Monday stories, students will be able to distinguish between what it means for an animal to be threatened, endangered, or
extinct. We will meet species that are currently endangered January 9 as well as animals that have successfully come back from the
brink of extinction. 11:00 am to
12:30 pm
Bay Meadows
David’s passion for wildlife and desire to educate and inspire conservation worldwide is what led him to establish Conservation Ambassadors 25 years NOTE: ago. His passion started in high school with jobs in animal care and Live animals are training dogs and parrots. His unique experiences inspired him to pursue a part of each career in the animal care field, and he went to work in the zoological session. medicine department at UC Davis Veterinary Teaching Hospital. His dedication and interest in wildlife and wild places led him to attend
Moorpark College in California, a facility certified by the Association of You may sign up for Zoos and Aquariums, where he earned a degree in exotic animal training more than one and zoological management. David has traveled around the world to session; however, assist with wildlife conservation efforts. Over his career, he has received we will only assign numerous awards for animal welfare, zoo management, education, and students to training. additional sessions after everyone who Conservation Ambassadors’ mission is giving a worldwide voice to wildlife wants this activity by providing a permanent, loving home for displaced, abused, has had a first abandoned, or permanently injured wild and exotic animals. Through our “Zoo to You” outreach program, we share these animal ambassadors with opportunity. school children and learners of all ages to educate them about conservation, connect them to the wild world, and inspire them to protect the planet.
www.conservationambassadors.org
Intersession Guide 2017 Activity Rock Climbing
Ryan Honda FITNESS/WELLNESS
Week 2 This activity will give you a taste of the world of rock climbing. Monday We will cover the basic skills and procedures of the sport and learn about the world of climbing. This is a great opportunity
to explore a new sport and challenge your body and your January 9 mind!
11:00 am to
12:30 pm
Bay Meadows
Ryan Honda is an experienced indoor and outdoor rock climber. He runs the Planet Granite youth rock-climbing team and has taught a rock- climbing course at Nueva High School. His love for the outdoors was NOTE: forged in the backcountry of Wyoming and Utah, where he completed You may sign up for courses with the National Outdoor Leadership School and received more than one certification in Wilderness First Responder and Leave No Trace. He holds a session; however, degree in outdoor recreation administration and is a Bay Area native. we will only assign students to additional sessions after everyone who wants this activity has had a first opportunity.
Waiver required.
Intersession Guide 2017 Activity Cooking and Culture: Scandinavia — Survival Food for a Long Winter
Simran Singh & Stacie Dong, A Little Yumminess COOKING (INTERNATIONAL)
Week 2 Long, dark winters along the Arctic Circle have greatly Monday influenced the cuisine of Scandinavia from Viking times to the current renaissance of “New Nordic” cuisine. Foraging in
bountiful times, preserving food for survival during icy winters, January 9 a deep connection to the landscape, and a celebration of
design all give a window into the culture and history of this 11:00 am to region. In this hands-on activity session, we’ll taste and 12:30 pm explore a variety of Nordic ingredients and make traditional
recipes, including ärtsoppa (Swedish pea soup [vegetarian Bay Meadows version]); knäckebröd (traditional Nordic rye flatbread); a selection of pickles, sauces, and condiments; and smørrebrød NOTE: (Danish-style open-faced sandwiches). You may sign up for more than one session; however, we will only assign students to additional sessions after everyone who wants this activity has had a first opportunity. Simran Singh and Stacie Dong love to teach kids of all ages to cook foods Waiver required. from around the world. They also write about food and share recipes on their blog, A Little Yumminess (www.alittleyum.com), as well as for the San Vegetarian: OK Jose Mercury News (“Fast & Furious Weeknight Cooking”). In addition to (smoked salmon will teaching kids’ classes, they teach classes for adults at 18 Reasons, Cavallo be offered as an Point Cooking School in Sausalito, and Ramekins Culinary School in optional topping for Sonoma. smørrebrød)
Vegan: OK (smoked salmon will be offered as an optional topping for smørrebrød)
GF: NO
Intersession Guide 2017 Activity B Corporations and the Ventures for Good Movement
Rana DiOrio BUSINESS
Week 2 Walk the talk and support others who do the same! Monday Embodying values in your business authentically and meaningfully isn't just ethical, it's good for business. Whether
you are a consumer, investor, or businessperson, we all have January 9 the ability (and responsibility) to create a sustainable
economy and conscientious global community that is 11:30 am to congruent with our personal values and passions. 12:30 pm
During our discussion, we will explore social entrepreneurship, Bay Meadows brand partnerships, and conscious capitalism/impact investing. Most importantly, you will learn how you can be the change you seek in the world by aligning your dollars with your values and encouraging others to do so too.
Rana DiOrio is the founder and chief executive officer of March 4th, Inc. (M4), a Certified B Corporation, which she founded in 2009 to create media and products that foster kindness in young people — and to do so in a manner congruent with that mission. Striving to be the change it seeks, M4, formerly known as Little Pickle Press, was named a Best for the World B Corporation for three consecutive years and ForeWord Reviews’ Independent Publisher of the Year in 2014. To date, M4 has been the recipient of 85 industry awards and has received coverage in Entrepreneur, FastCompany, the Wall Street Journal, the Washington Post, and Publisher’s Weekly.
Rana has written her way through life — as a student, a lawyer, an investment banker, a growth capital investor, and now as an entrepreneur. Rana is the author of seven picture books in the award- winning What Does It Mean To Be . . . ?® series. She serves on the faculty of the Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators annual and regional conferences and the SF Writers for Change conference. She also serves on the editorial advisory committee of the Independent Book Publishing Association. Rana holds an AB in Psychology from Duke University and a JD from Vanderbilt University School of Law.
Intersession Guide 2017 Activity An Introduction to Self Defense
Impact Bay Area LIFESKILLS
Week 2 As you go through high school, you gain more and more Monday independence. With that independence comes the need for increased awareness. This introduction to self defense will give
you the confidence to set clear boundaries, evaluate risk, January 9 and give you some tools to keep you safe as you travel into
the wider world. All are welcome! 11:00 am to
12:30 pm
Bay Meadows
NOTE: Impact Bay Area is a nonprofit organization that teaches effective You may sign up for boundary-setting, personal safety, and physical self-defense skills. We more than one have been teaching self-defense in schools for over 25 years. Impact classes build verbal and physical skills to set good boundaries, prevent session; however, possible violence, and fight back when necessary. Our classes boost we will only assign confidence and empower students! students to additional sessions www.impactbayarea.org/private_class_info after everyone who wants this activity has had a first opportunity.
Waiver required.
Intersession Guide 2017 Activity Wilderness Skills: Salves and Tinctures
Trackers Earth LIFESKILLS/OUTDOORS
Week 2 Herbal salves are a convenient way to benefit from the Monday healing power of herbs. At Trackers we infuse wild-foraged ingredients into organic oils to create wholesome,
concentrated organic herbal salves. Nourishing oils bring the January 9 healing and soothing properties of herbs deep into the
tissues. In this course you get to learn the uses of some 11:00 am to medicinal plants, plus you get make your own salve to take 12:30 pm home.
Bay Meadows
Tony and Molly Deis founded Trackers Earth in 2004. Tony based Trackers NOTE: on his personal work in outdoor education, which he began in 1992. Waiver required. Trackers Earth has grown into a national leader for outdoor camps and programs.
Trackers Earth exists to re-create a village of people connected through family and the land. They lead the way in education and collaborative organization. Their method is to revive outdoor lore and traditional skills, working to restore the common sense that is no longer common. Their vision is to help foster a deep appreciation for the natural world and community.
It seems that today people have forgotten what it means to be connected to land and community. Trackers exists to help us remember our story, to remind all of us of our connections to land, family and village.
http://www.trackersbay.com/
Intersession Guide 2017 Activity Blacksmithing
Trackers Earth INDUSTRIAL ARTS
Week 2 Learn the ancient art of working hot metal on the anvil! We Monday taper, split, twist, and punch steel to create art and functional tools. Come have fun and try your hand at the time-honored January 9 craft of blacksmithing. In this intro class you will learn all you need to begin manipulating and moving iron in true Maker 11:00 am to fashion. 12:30 pm
Bay Meadows Tony and Molly Deis founded Trackers Earth in 2004. Tony based Trackers on his personal work in outdoor education, which he began in 1992. Trackers Earth has grown into a national leader for outdoor camps and NOTE: programs. You may sign up for more than one Trackers Earth exists to re-create a village of people connected through session; however, family and the land. They lead the way in education and collaborative we will only assign organization. Their method is to revive outdoor lore and traditional skills, students to working to restore the common sense that is no longer common. Their additional sessions vision is to help foster a deep appreciation for the natural world and after everyone who community. wants this activity It seems that today people have forgotten what it means to be has had a first connected to land and community. Trackers exists to help us remember opportunity. our story, to remind all of us of our connections to land, family, and village.
Waiver required. http://www.trackersbay.com/
Intersession Guide 2017 Activity AcroYoga: Laugh Riot
Susan Holland FITNESS/WELLNESS
Week 2 AcroYoga is a fusion of partner yoga, acrobatics, and Monday inversions. Students will learn new ways of movement and balance while exploring upside-down, sideways, and
multiple-person body stacking. All students will learn to base January 9 (lift people up with their hands and feet), fly (be lifted up),
spot (make sure no one falls face-first on the floor) and begin 11:00 am to to practice handstands. 12:30 pm
AcroYoga is a safe, fun way to grow trust in one’s own Bay Meadows strength and in the stability of those around us. Students will learn how to spot each other so no one is at risk of injury while NOTE: exploring these new skills. Safety comes first in AcroYoga, then You may sign up for comes fun, playtime, upside-down amazingness, and plenty more than one of laughter. session; however, we will only assign students to additional sessions after everyone who wants this activity Susan Holland is a certified personal trainer, vinyasa and acroyoga has had a first teacher, and has extensive training in kickboxing. She has taught fitness opportunity. and yoga and trained triathletes and novices around the world, including New York City, Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Seoul. Susan hails from the Waiver required. Eastern Shore of Maryland and has always loved athletic endeavors, especially anything involving being upside down. With a passion for all things playful, skillful, and healthy, Susan has found that yoga, fitness, and wellness have teamed up to be a wonderful career, hobby, and way of life. She believes that wellness isn’t an endpoint, but rather a path which continually evolves. She has an infectious and hilarious approach to fitness and her clients not only benefit through successful results, but also enjoy her motivating, patient, and creative process. Susan is currently a personal trainer and yoga instructor at Google.
Intersession Guide 2017 Activity The Life of Flight
Paco Chierici AVIATION
Week 2 This is a two-day activity session which explores the various facets of aviation — military, commercial, and civil. The first day consists of Monday and an introduction followed by the screening of the award winning Tuesday adventure-domumentary Speed and Angels. The documentary portrays the dramatic real-life journey of two young Navy pilots January 9 and 10 treading the path from wide-eyed students to the real world of military aviation. 11:00 am to 12:30 pm https://youtu.be/HFcC1tNrhDk
The second day will consist of the remainder of the film followed by a Q&A session. During the second day we will also explore all the aspects of commercial aviation as well as the experience of flying NOTE: piston-powered, propeller-driven aerobatic planes. This is a two-part activity that includes a film screening (Monday, Paco Chierici has been an aviator his entire adult life, having logged over January 9) and 13,000 hours in nearly 30 years. He graduated from Boston University and discussion was commissioned through the Navy ROTC. He flew A-6E Intruders and F- (Tuesday, January 14A Tomcats during his 10-year active duty career. He flew the F-5 Tiger II 10). If you sign up for a further 10 years as a Bandit concurrent with his employment as a commercial pilot. Paco is currently a Boeing 737 captain. for this activity session, you will Paco is also the creator and producer of the award-winning naval automatically be aviation documentary Speed and Angels. Paco has written articles for enrolled in both various international and domestic magazines and is currently the editor- sessions. in-chief for FighterSweep.
Intersession Guide 2017 Activity Happiness in Action: Practicing Positive Psychology — Positivity and Engagement
Stacey Yates Sellar, C.A.P.P. POSITIVE PSYCHOLOGY
Week 2 IT IS POSSIBLE to be happier! Research and science from leading academic institutions has proven that you can disrupt patterns of Monday negative thinking, manage stress, build skills to overcome life
challenges, increase success, and improve overall happiness. January 9 Positive psychology is the scientific study of what makes life most 11:00 am to worth living. It is a call for psychological science to be as 12:30 pm concerned with strength as with weakness; as interested in building the best things in life as in repairing the worst; and as concerned Bay Meadows with making the lives of normal people fulfilling as with healing pathology.
After decades of studying positive psychology, we know two things for sure about happiness:
• When we know better, we do better
• Happiness is a practice. The more you practice, the happier you will be.
In this activity session you will learn and practice interventions scientifically proven to increase happiness. Today we will focus on positivity and engagement.
Stacey Yates Sellar, C.A.P.P., began studying and practicing positive psychology interventions of gratitude, positivity, optimism, care, mindfulness, beliefs, neuroscience, willpower, and success at a very early age. Practicing what she preaches for most of her life has reaped benefits. For the last 13 years, she has been an integral part in building a multimillion-dollar business whose staff success and client loyalty she credits to positive psychology interventions.
In 2015, she earned her certification in applied positive psychology and has since begun a business that offers coaching and motivational products, including “Happier by the Minute,” one-minute educational videos that turn the research and the rigor into easy-to-practice tools. Stacey’s mission is to curate and deliver the best of positive psychology’s research, rigor, tips, and tools to ensure that individuals, families and communities thrive.
Intersession Guide 2017 Activity Crucial, Beautiful Math: A History of Math
Romayne Putna HISTORY/MATH
Week 2 We will spend this activity session exploring the concept of Monday finding math everywhere, numbers as things of beauty, and the subconscious response to mathematical relations. January 9 We will explore: Were numbers invented or discovered? The changing face of numbers: mathematic systems from the 11:00 am to early times to today. Math as an everyday tool. Math in 12:30 pm nature, literature, and visual arts from painting to sculpture to animation and gaming, to crop circles, optical illusions, Bay Meadows flexagons, and hexaflexagons. Math in music, in sports and games, and in navigation in our world and beyond.
The aim is to open students to the idea that math is not only an academic subject or a useful tool, but it is a pattern, weaving matter together to create the universe.
Romayne Putna accidentally started working in education in the late 1990s. She found it so enjoyable that she’s been having the same accident for nearly twenty years. Romayne spent six years working between the UK and the USA as a visual arts and theater instructor and an outdoor educator.
In 2007, Romayne moved to Los Angeles, creating and instructing project- based curriculum on a diverse range of subjects from neuroscience to Shakespeare to engineering to cryptozoology. Today, as an educational consultant, she continues to be a passionate advocate of interactive learning and “edutainment” and enjoys introducing topics that will inspire curiosity and lots of questions, except for tax law as those questions give her a headache.
Intersession Guide 2017 Activity Corporate Strategy: Harvard Business School Case Study, Beyoncé
Dickson Louie BUSINESS
Week 2 Pioneered by Harvard Business School faculty, the case method is a profound educational innovation that presents the greatest Monday challenges confronting leading companies, nonprofits, and government organizations — complete with the constraints and January 9 incomplete information found in real business issues — and places the student in the role of the decision-maker. 11:00 am to 12:30 pm This case discussion on Beyoncé examines innovative product launch strategies in the context of the music industry with the Bay Meadows launch of her self-titled album in December 2013. The goals of this case are: • to understand the opportunities and challenges in managing channel relationships when advances in digital technology open up new forms of distribution and marketing, and • to explore the evolving role — and growing power — of superstars in the entertainment industry.
Dickson Louie is principal of Louie & Associates providing strategic planning services.He teaches the "Business of the Media" MBA elective at UC Davis. Louie is CEO of Time Capsule Press, a book-publishing imprint that focuses on the creation of books from archival material.
Louie has over 25 years of professional management experience within the news media industry, including at the LA Times, the San Jose Mercury News, and the San Francisco Chronicle. As a member of the corporate staff of Times Mirror, he oversaw the finances of its $2 billion newspaper division. Louie was a research associate at the Harvard Business School, where he authored over 20 management case studies for the second-year MBA course. A certified public accountant, Louie received his BS in business administration from California State University, East Bay (with high honors), and his MBA from the University of Chicago. He completed the Advanced Executive Program at Northwestern University’s Media Management Center.
Intersession Guide 2017 Activity Medical Exploration: Introduction to the Art of Suturing
Janesta Noland, MD, with Shanda Manion and Kimble Torres MEDICINE
Week 2 Join others passionate about exploring careers in the medical Monday field for a fun lab that will teach you the basics of suturing, including tying suturing knots. Get the opportunity to learn
valuable medical skills related to surgical professions. This class January 9 will also guide you through the steps nurses, doctors, and
surgeons follow to clean, disinfect, and anesthetize wounds 11:00 am to prior to surgery and suturing. 12:30 pm
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NOTE: Dr. Janesta Noland has been a pediatrician in the San Francisco bay area since 1999. After graduating from Stanford University with a degree in Suturing needles classics with honors, she did research at University of Pennsylvania for two will be used. years prior to starting medical school. She received her MD from Penn State, then returned to the Bay Area to complete her internship and residency in pediatrics at Stanford Children’s Hospital. She subsequently developed a very busy practice at Menlo Clinic, but was drawn to a more individualized and proactive style of practice which led her to found Burgess Pediatrics in 2007, the first pediatric concierge practice on the Peninsula. After nine years at Burgess, Dr. Noland decided to bring her experience and enthusiasm for children and families to Private Medical, drawn by the practice’s focus on patient-centered care and the superb patient experience. She is an adjunct faculty member of the Stanford School of Medicine.
Kimble Torres and Shanda Manion founded Pathways to Medicine, a pre- med program for high school students, in order to share their knowledge and enthusiasm for medicine with the next generation of healthcare providers. (Please see other Medical Exploration Activities for Kimble and Shanda’s full bios).
Intersession Guide 2017 Activity The Uniqueness of Humans
Robert Sapolsky NEUROSCIENCE
Week 2 Are we just another primate? Are we just a bunch of neurons? How are we to make sense of humans as part of the animal world, Monday where our every action, thought and emotion is the product of biology. Both funny and fascinating, this talk considers ways in January 9 which humans are or aren't unique, when it comes to the likes of empathy, aggression, altruism, competition, and love. 11:00 am to 12:30 pm Robert Sapolsky, PhD, is the John A. and Cynthia Fry Gunn Professor of Bay Meadows Biological Sciences and Professor of Neurology and Neurological Sciences at Stanford University. Sapolsky, a leading neuroendocrinologist, has focused his research on issues of stress and neuron degeneration, as well as on the possibilities of gene therapy strategies for help in protecting susceptible neurons from disease.
Hailed as smart, funny, and wise by the many who have heard him speak or taken his classes, Dr. Sapolsky has also been called "one of the best scientist-writers of our time" by Oliver Sacks. In his well-known book Why Zebras Don't Get Ulcers: An Updated Guide to Stress, Stress-Related Diseases and Coping, Sapolsky examines how prolonged stress can inhibit learning and cause or contribute to damaging physical and mental afflictions. Dr. Sapolsky is a recipient of a MacArthur genius fellowship. His teaching awards include Stanford University's Bing Award for Teaching Excellence and an award for outstanding teaching from the Associated Students of Stanford University.
Intersession Guide 2017 Activity Conservation Ambassadors: Wild America
David, Lisa, and Samantha Jackson WILDLIFE/ENVIRONMENT
Week 2 Some of the most amazing animals in the world are found Tuesday right here in our own backyard. Meet animals found throughout the USA, from sea to shining sea. Learn about their
significance to Native Americans and the impact they still January 10 have on all of us.
11:00 am to
12:30 pm
Bay Meadows
David’s passion for wildlife and desire to educate and inspire conservation worldwide is what led him to establish Conservation Ambassadors 25 years ago. His passion started in high school with jobs in animal care and NOTE: training dogs and parrots. His unique experiences inspired him to pursue a Live animals are career in the animal care field, and he went to work in the zoological part of each medicine department at UC Davis Veterinary Teaching Hospital. His dedication and interest in wildlife and wild places led him to attend session. Moorpark College in California, a facility certified by the Association of Zoos and Aquariums, where he earned a degree in exotic animal training You may sign up for and zoological management. David has traveled around the world to more than one assist with wildlife conservation efforts. Over his career, he has received session; however, numerous awards for animal welfare, zoo management, education, and we will only assign training. students to additional sessions Conservation Ambassadors’ mission is giving a worldwide voice to wildlife after everyone who by providing a permanent, loving home for displaced, abused, wants this activity abandoned, or permanently injured wild and exotic animals. Through our “Zoo to You” outreach program, we share these animal ambassadors with has had a first school children and learners of all ages to educate them about opportunity. conservation, connect them to the wild world, and inspire them to protect the planet.
www.conservationambassadors.org
Intersession Guide 2017 Activity Rock Climbing
Ryan Honda FITNESS/WELLNESS
Week 2 This activity will give you a taste of the world of rock climbing. Tuesday We will cover the basic skills and procedures of the sport and learn about the world of climbing. This is a great opportunity
to explore a new sport and challenge your body and your January 10 mind!
11:00 am to
12:30 pm
Bay Meadows
Ryan Honda is an experienced indoor and outdoor rock climber. He runs the Planet Granite youth rock-climbing team and has taught a rock- NOTE: climbing course at Nueva High School. His love for the outdoors was You may sign up for forged in the backcountry of Wyoming and Utah, where he completed more than one courses with the National Outdoor Leadership School and received session; however, certification in Wilderness First Responder and Leave No Trace. He holds a we will only assign degree in outdoor recreation administration and is a Bay Area native. students to additional sessions after everyone who wants this activity has had a first opportunity.
Waiver required.
Intersession Guide 2017 Activity Cooking and Culture: Mexico — Flavors of the Americas
Simran Singh & Stacie Dong, A Little Yumminess COOKING (INTERNATIONAL)
Week 2 No tomatoes in Italy? No chocolate in France? No potatoes Tuesday in Ireland? Imagine a world without potatoes, squash, beans, tomatoes, chilies, and chocolate! These ingredients all have
their origins in the Americas and play key roles in traditional January 10 cuisines of North, Central, and South America, but they have
also become fundamental ingredients in cuisines across the 11:00 am to globe. 12:30 pm
In this hands-on activity session, we’ll create our own taco Bay Meadows bar, featuring some of our favorite flavors of the Americas: tortillas de nopal (cactus tortillas), an assortment of taco fillings, guacamole, salsas and pickles, and pastel de pepitas NOTE: You may sign up for y chocolate (chocolate cake with pumpkin seeds). more than one session; however, we will only assign students to additional sessions after everyone who wants Simran Singh and Stacie Dong love to teach kids of all ages to cook foods this activity has had a from around the world. They also write about food and share recipes on first opportunity. their blog, A Little Yumminess (www.alittleyum.com), as well as for the San Jose Mercury News (“Fast & Furious Weeknight Cooking”). In addition to Waiver required. teaching kids’ classes, they teach classes for adults at 18 Reasons, Cavallo Point Cooking School in Sausalito, and Ramekins Culinary School in Sonoma. Vegetarian: YES
Vegan: OK (dessert contains eggs/butter)
GF: OK (dessert contains wheat flour)
Intersession Guide 2017 Activity Impact of Virtual Reality on Real Surgery
Nik Blevins, MD MEDICINE/TECHNOLOGY
Week 2 One of the most challenging aspects of surgery is gaining an understanding of the complex anatomy that will be Tuesday encountered. This is especially the case when working in areas where there are many vital structures in a limited space, such as January 10 in the ear and skull base. Surgeons have many high-resolution imaging studies available for preoperative planning, but they 11:00 am to could still use a method of interacting with them in a more 12:30 pm surgically relevant way before undertaking surgery on a specific patient. In this session we will look at the anatomy of the ear and Bay Meadows skull base — an area that is both highly complex and extremely important to patients’ health.
We will look at the function of these structures and how they can be affected by disorders resulting in hearing loss. We will look at ways surgeons can use virtual reality and immersive environments to gain a deeper understanding of the anatomy affected. A hands-on demo will be provided so participants can literally get a feel for the system and how if can be used to improve surgical outcomes.
Dr. Nikolas Blevins is the Larry and Sharon Malcolmson Professor of Otolaryngology at Stanford University. He is the Chief of the Division of Otology and Neuroethology, and is Director of the Stanford Cochlear Implant Center. His clinical interests include the treatment of hearing loss and tumors of the cranial base. His research is focused on the development and application of technology to augment microsurgical approaches to the skull base. He and his collaborators are developing minimally invasive techniques for inner ear micro-endoscopy, surgical micro-robotics, and other technology applicable to hearing restoration. A California native, he received his degree from Stanford University, completed medical training at Harvard, and then returned to California for residency at UCSF. Dr. Blevins joined the Stanford Department of Otolaryngology in 2003. https://med.stanford.edu/profiles/nikolas-blevins
Intersession Guide 2017 Activity An Introduction to Self Defense
Impact Bay Area LIFESKILLS
Week 2 As you go through high school, you gain more and more Tuesday independence. With that independence comes the need for increased awareness. This introduction to self defense will give you the confidence to set clear boundaries, evaluate risk, January 10 and give you some tools to keep you safe as you travel into the wider world. All are welcome! 11:00 am to 12:30 pm
Bay Meadows
Impact Bay Area is a nonprofit organization that teaches effective NOTE: boundary-setting, personal safety, and physical self-defense skills. We You may sign up for have been teaching self-defense in schools for over 25 years. Impact more than one classes build verbal and physical skills to set good boundaries, prevent session; however, possible violence, and fight back when necessary. Our classes boost we will only assign confidence and empower students! students to additional sessions www.impactbayarea.org/private_class_info after everyone who wants this activity has had a first opportunity.
Waiver required.
Intersession Guide 2017 Activity Rebel Poetry: Spoken Word Performance
Terisa Siagatonu PERFORMANCE
Week 2 How can an ancient (and often boring) art form respond to Tuesday Rihanna, #BlackLivesMatter, and global warming? A new generation of poets is using the stage and performance to
bring poetry to life and challenge the status quo. This January 10 presentation invites students to join the revolution. Slam
poetry champion Terisa Siagatonu performs original work and 11:00 am to introduces students to an art form that is answering the call 12:30 pm for socially engaged/enraged art in the 21st century. Students
will have a chance to perform themselves and a Q+A will Bay Meadows follow.
Terisa Siagatonu is an award-winning poet, arts educator, and community organizer born and rooted in the San Francisco Bay Area. Her presence in the spoken word world as a queer Samoan womyn and activist has granted her opportunities to perform in places ranging from the White House to the UN Conference on Climate Change in Paris, France. The most memorable moment in her career was receiving President Obama’s Champion of Change Award (2012) for her activism as a spoken word poet/organizer in her Pacific Islander community. Terisa's writing blends the personal with the political in a way that calls for healing, courage, justice, and truth.
Her work has been extensively featured in the media. Terisa performs, competes, and coaches spoken word poetry nationwide, having placed 2nd in the nation twice on two national poetry slam teams. In May 2016, Terisa published her first collection of poems in her chapbook “Remember We Have Choir Practice” (available for purchase at www.terisasiagatonu.com).
Off stage, Terisa is involved in community organizing work revolving around issues such as youth advocacy, educational attainment, Pacific Islander/Indigenous rights, LGBTQQIA rights, gender-based violence, and other causes she is passionate about. Terisa also works as a therapist in San Francisco and aims to merge art and therapy in her career as a therapist/educator.
Intersession Guide 2017 Activity The Making of Otzi the Ice Man
Gary Staab and Patrick Hunt HISTORY/SCIENCE
Week 2 He was stalked, attacked, and left to die alone. Murdered Tuesday more than 5,000 years ago, Otzi the Iceman is Europe’s oldest known natural mummy. Miraculously preserved in glacial ice,
his remarkably intact remains continue to provide scientists, January 10 historians, and archeologists with groundbreaking discoveries
about a crucial time in human history. But in order to protect 11:00 am to him from contamination, this extraordinary body has been 12:30 pm locked away, out of reach, in a frozen crypt — until now.
Come hear Gary Staab and Dr. Patrick Hunt discuss their Bay Meadows respective experiences with Otzi.
Renowned artist and paleo-sculptor Gary Staab was granted rare access into the Iceman’s frozen lair. Gary was charged with creating an exact replica of the mummy, which scientists and the public alike can then study up close and in person. Come hear how the Iceman was reborn using 3D printing, resin, clay, and paint, and about new revelations about Otzi’s life and legacy that have come to light, including surprising secrets hidden in his genetic code.
Archeologist and author Dr. Patrick Hunt explored the material technology Otzi carried, including a rare and precious copper axe, vital medical and bioarchaeological data in his DNA and full genome record, where he lived in the prehistoric Val Senales, and reconstructions of how he was killed, including possible scenarios of causes. Not only did Otzi treat his own parasites, showing prehistoric human medicine, but he used and carried over 10 different tree and plant products that survived in his glacial tomb. His weapons demonstrate early archery using spiraling arrows, suggesting prehistoric knowledge of aerodynamic stabilizing technology. For those fascinated with forensic and C.S.I. investigation, Otzi may be the coldest case on record.
Intersession Guide 2017 Activity Wilderness Skills: Fire-Making and Safety
Trackers Earth LIFESKILLS/OUTDOORS
Week 2 Fire is one of the most fundamental wilderness survival and Tuesday forest craft skills. Along with the gift of staying warm, we treat water and cook with its heat, light our nights by its flames,
and even use its coals to make tools. Come learn to make fire January 10 without modern matches or lighter. Use friction and wood to
make a coal or flint and steel to strike a spark. Delve into 11:00 am to these ancient methods of creating fire. 12:30 pm
Bay Meadows
Tony and Molly Deis founded Trackers Earth in 2004. Tony based Trackers NOTE: on his personal work in outdoor education, which he began in 1992. Waiver required. Trackers Earth has grown into a national leader for outdoor camps and programs.
Trackers Earth exists to re-create a village of people connected through family and the land. They lead the way in education and collaborative organization. Their method is to revive outdoor lore and traditional skills, working to restore the common sense that is no longer common. Their vision is to help foster a deep appreciation for the natural world and community.
It seems that today people have forgotten what it means to be connected to land and community. Trackers exists to help us remember our story, to remind all of us of our connections to land, family and village.
http://www.trackersbay.com/
Intersession Guide 2017 Activity Blacksmithing
Trackers Earth INDUSTRIAL ARTS
Learn the ancient art of working hot metal on the anvil! We Week 2 taper, split, twist, and punch steel to create art and functional Tuesday tools. Come have fun and try your hand at the time-honored craft of blacksmithing. In this intro class you will learn all you January 10 need to begin manipulating and moving iron in true Maker fashion. 11:00 am to 12:30 pm Tony and Molly Deis founded Trackers Earth in 2004. Tony based Trackers Bay Meadows on his personal work in outdoor education, which he began in 1992. Trackers Earth has grown into a national leader for outdoor camps and programs. NOTE: You may sign up for Trackers Earth exists to re-create a village of people connected through more than one family and the land. They lead the way in education and collaborative session; however, organization. Their method is to revive outdoor lore and traditional skills, working to restore the common sense that is no longer common. Their we will only assign vision is to help foster a deep appreciation for the natural world and students to community. additional sessions after everyone who It seems that today people have forgotten what it means to be wants this activity connected to land and community. Trackers exists to help us remember has had a first our story, to remind all of us of our connections to land, family, and village. opportunity. http://www.trackersbay.com/ Waiver required.
Intersession Guide 2017 Activity History, Culture, and Application of Henna
Roopa Raman ART/CULTURE
Week 2 Henna is popularly associated with the Indian culture, but did Tuesday you know that the tradition dates back as far as ancient Egypt? That Cleopatra was known to decorate herself with
henna and that ancient Egyptians applied henna on January 10 mummies? That in addition to its decorative aspects, henna is
believed to have medicinal and healing properties? Join us 11:00 am to for an exploration of the history, culture, and art of applying 12:30 pm henna on your skin, and learn about its benefits
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Come learn about the history and cultural significance of henna and let a professional teach you the intricacies of henna (also called mehndi) application. Roopa Raman, a professional and licensed henna artist and owner of Henna Bash (www.hennabash.com), will explore traditional henna motifs with you and teach you how to draw effectively using henna paste. There will be plenty of henna cones for everyone.
Raman is a Bay Area henna expert and has taken Henna Bash to various events, including private parties, community fairs, public libraries, colleges, corporations, schools, and more.
Intersession Guide 2017 Activity Image and Fashion: The Bizarre History
Romayne Putna HISTORY/FASHION
Week 2 History shows us that that humanity has always felt the need Tuesday to change the way we look. In this activity we explore why that is as we examine fads and fashions from the early days of civilization to modern day. Discover what lies behind the January 10 trends of the ages: from practicality to politics, and from fear to joy. Explore what makes today’s attitudes no different from 11:00 am to the past, yet marking new territory at the same time. 12:30 pm We will explore how and why humans choose image: Bay Meadows environmental practicality, self-expression, social conformity, and cultural identification. The history of make-up: sunscreen, war paint, camouflage, poison, and medicine. Varying perceptions of the human body, around the world and through time. Torture as couture: corsets, brass neck rings, foot binding, crinolines, and shoes. Fashion oddities explained: Egyptian head cones, powdered wigs, extreme haircuts, and plague beaks. History of body modification: scarification, tattooing, teeth alteration, and skin stretching. How the industrial revolution changed the image industry, for better and for worse.
Romayne Putna accidentally started working in education in the late 1990s. She found it so enjoyable that she’s been having the same accident for nearly twenty years. Romayne spent six years working between the UK and the USA as a visual arts and theater instructor and an outdoor educator.
In 2007, Romayne moved to Los Angeles, creating and instructing project- based curriculum on a diverse range of subjects from neuroscience to Shakespeare to engineering to cryptozoology. Today, as an educational consultant, she continues to be a passionate advocate of interactive learning and “edutainment” and enjoys introducing topics that will inspire curiosity and lots of questions, except for tax law as those questions give her a headache. Intersession Guide 2017 Activity Happiness in Action: Practicing Positive Psychology — Relationships and Meaning
Stacey Yates Sellar, C.A.P.P. POSITIVE PSYCHOLOGY
Week 2 IT IS POSSIBLE to be happier! Research and science from leading academic institutions has proven that you can disrupt patterns of Tuesday negative thinking, manage stress, build skills to overcome life
challenges, increase success, and improve overall happiness. January 10 Positive psychology is the scientific study of what makes life most 11:00 am to worth living. It is a call for psychological science to be as 12:30 pm concerned with strength as with weakness; as interested in building the best things in life as in repairing the worst; and as concerned Bay Meadows with making the lives of normal people fulfilling as with healing pathology.
After decades of studying positive psychology, we know two things for sure about happiness:
• When we know better, we do better
• Happiness is a practice. The more you practice, the happier you will be.
In this activity session you will learn and practice interventions scientifically proven to increase happiness. Today we will focus on relationships and meaning.
Stacey Yates Sellar, C.A.P.P., began studying and practicing positive psychology interventions of gratitude, positivity, optimism, care, mindfulness, beliefs, neuroscience, willpower, and success at a very early age. Practicing what she preaches for most of her life has reaped benefits. For the last 13 years, she has been an integral part in building a multimillion-dollar business whose staff success and client loyalty she credits to positive psychology interventions.
In 2015, she earned her certification in applied positive psychology and has since begun a business that offers coaching and motivational products, including “Happier by the Minute,” one-minute educational videos that turn the research and the rigor into easy-to-practice tools. Stacey’s mission is to curate and deliver the best of positive psychology’s research, rigor, tips, and tools to ensure that individuals, families and communities thrive.
Intersession Guide 2017 Activity Early Childhood Development
Colin Johnson and Emma Anne McCarthy, Bing Nursery School PSYCHOLOGY
Week 2 Have you ever wondered how you got to be you? And what a marshmallow (or two) might have to do with it? For 50 years, Tuesday scientists at Stanford University have worked with young children at Bing Nursery School to tackle questions like this and to uncover the January 10 workings of human development in the first years of life.
11:00 am to This Intersession activity session will review landmark research in 12:30 pm child development that has occurred at Bing over the years, from the early days of marshmallows and candy boxes to more recent Bay Meadows work that may have even included some current Nueva students. Through interactive work with real experimental protocols, we will examine some of the ingenious methods that researchers devised to turn scientific inquiry into children’s games, and we will discuss how they’ve contributed to our understanding of how children grow, learn, and build knowledge about themselves and the world around them.
Colin Johnson is a Head Teacher and Manager of Programs for Parents and Educators at Bing Nursery School, the laboratory school for the Psychology Department at Stanford University. His work at Bing includes classroom teaching with 2–5-year-old children, supporting research in child development, and developing various parent- and teacher-education experiences. He earned a BA and MA in Italian and English literature at Middlebury. He wrote his graduate thesis about fairy tales. He began at Bing in 2007, leaving temporarily to earn an MA in child development from Tufts University, where he focused on literacy and technology, and designed an experimental study exploring how young children comprehend wordless picture books. He's also an avid home cook, semiprofessional research buff, and proud co-owner of the world's best dog.
Emma McCarthy is an Early Childhood Educator at Bing Nursery School, getting to spend her day in awe as she witnesses and supports the growth and development of young children. She has been teaching at Bing since 2007, where she began her career in early childhood. Emma has a BS from Stanford University and a master’s degree in education from Harvard University. Emma lectures in the Psychology Department at Stanford, teaching courses in developmental psychology alongside other Bing educators.
Intersession Guide 2017 Activity Conservation Ambassadors: Amazing Animal Adaptations
David, Lisa, and Samantha Jackson WILDLIFE/ENVIRONMENT
Week 2 From camouflage to prehensile tails, adaptations are Wednesday essential for animals and humans to survive. The physical and behavioral characteristics of these amazing animal
ambassadors are highlighted in this interactive program. January 11
11:00 am to
12:30 pm
Bay Meadows David’s passion for wildlife and desire to educate and inspire conservation worldwide is what led him to establish Conservation Ambassadors 25 years ago. His passion started in high school with jobs in animal care and training dogs and parrots. His unique experiences inspired him to pursue a career in the animal care field, and he went to work in the zoological medicine department at UC Davis Veterinary Teaching Hospital. His NOTE: dedication and interest in wildlife and wild places led him to attend Live animals are Moorpark College in California, a facility certified by the Association of part of each Zoos and Aquariums, where he earned a degree in exotic animal training session. and zoological management. David has traveled around the world to assist with wildlife conservation efforts. Over his career, he has received numerous awards for animal welfare, zoo management, education, and You may sign up for training. more than one session; however, Conservation Ambassadors’ mission is giving a worldwide voice to wildlife we will only assign by providing a permanent, loving home for displaced, abused, students to abandoned, or permanently injured wild and exotic animals. Through our additional sessions “Zoo to You” outreach program, we share these animal ambassadors with after everyone who school children and learners of all ages to educate them about wants this activity conservation, connect them to the wild world, and inspire them to protect has had a first the planet. opportunity. www.conservationambassadors.org
Intersession Guide 2017 Activity Rock Climbing
Ryan Honda FITNESS/WELLNESS
Week 2 This activity will give you a taste of the world of rock climbing. Wednesday We will cover the basic skills and procedures of the sport and learn about the world of climbing. This is a great opportunity
to explore a new sport and challenge your body and your January 11 mind!
11:00 am to
12:30 pm
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Ryan Honda is an experienced indoor and outdoor rock climber. He runs the Planet Granite youth rock-climbing team and has taught a rock- climbing course at Nueva High School. His love for the outdoors was NOTE: forged in the backcountry of Wyoming and Utah, where he completed You may sign up for courses with the National Outdoor Leadership School and received more than one certification in Wilderness First Responder and Leave No Trace. He holds a session; however, degree in outdoor recreation administration and is a Bay Area native. we will only assign students to additional sessions after everyone who wants this activity has had a first opportunity.
Waiver required.
Intersession Guide 2017 Activity Cooking and Culture: "Cooking" Out of the Kitchen — Indian Breads and Spices
Simran Singh & Stacie Dong, A Little Yumminess COOKING (INTERNATIONAL)
Week 2 In this session we'll explore the masala dabba (spicebox) and Wednesday the cultural and flavor significance of spices in Indian cuisine. We'll cook together to assemble our own tiffin, the kind of
portable lunch or snack people across India take to work and January 11 school. Our tiffin will include channa dahl, flakey griddled
paranthas, spiced potato-stuffed paranthas, cool mint raita, 11:00 am to onion pickles, and traditional spiced tea to accompany our 12:30 pm meal.
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NOTE: You may sign up for more than one session; Simran Singh and Stacie Dong love to teach kids of all ages to cook foods however, we will only from around the world. They also write about food and share recipes on assign students to their blog, A Little Yumminess (www.alittleyum.com), as well as for the San additional sessions Jose Mercury News (“Fast & Furious Weeknight Cooking”). In addition to after everyone who teaching kids’ classes, they teach classes for adults at 18 Reasons, Cavallo wants this activity has Point Cooking School in Sausalito, and Ramekins Culinary School in had a first opportunity. Sonoma.
Waiver required.
Vegetarian: YES
Vegan: OK (yogurt and tea made with milk will be served as an accompaniment to the meal)
GF: NO
Intersession Guide 2017 Activity Cooking Venezuelan Arepas in Spanish
Cindy Weitzman COOKING/LANGUAGE
Week 2 The arepa is to Venezuelans what the tortilla is to Mexicans — Wednesday or the pupusa to the Salvadorans. It is our daily bread, made out of ground corn, following the ancient recipe of the
Timoto-Cuica tribes of the northern Andes. During this 90- January 11 minute session you will learn how to make an arepa from
dough to oven, and how to prepare two of the most 11:30 am to traditional arepa fillings: the "Reina Pepiada" (chicken and 12:30 pm avocado) and the "Domino" (black beans and white
cheese). Bay Meadows
NOTE: Each participant will take home a small bag of "Harina Arepas are gluten P.A.N,” the cornmeal brand used by most Venezuelans free and vegan. around the world, as well as printed recipes and resources to continue experimenting with creative arepa fillings at home. This activity session will be conducted in Spanish. Cindy Weitzman — mother of Paco and Nico Poler — is a native of Caracas, Venezuela, and an epicurean with special devotion to traditional Venezuelan food. The #1 food request she gets from her sons and their friends is for "arepas," which are the quintessential Venezuelan comfort food, and also conveniently gluten-free and vegan. Cindy is excited to cook with Nueva students during Intersession, and she promises to leverage her training as a molecular biologist to deliver not just a recipe, but a protocol for reproducible results in any kitchen anywhere.
Intersession Guide 2017 Activity The Making of Minions and Stories from the World of Digital Animation
Nina Rappaport Rowan FILM/ANIMATION
Week 2 What you didn't know about Despicable Me — an Wednesday introduction to how a big idea can make it to the big screen. Using Despicable Me as an example, the students will learn
the ins and outs of what it takes to get a project ready to January 11 pitch! Students will get to see the original character designs
and pitching materials that were used to sell Despicable Me 11:30 am to to Illumination Entertainment / Universal Studios. Students will 12:30 pm also learn about the many exciting career opportunities that
lie ahead if they are itching to break into the film industry and Bay Meadows will be given insight and direction on how to follow their creative path.
Nina Rappaport Rowan is a leader in the field of animation. Producer of the 1998 Academy Award® winning Best Animated Short Film, Bunny, and Executive Producer of Universal’s blockbuster animated feature Despicable Me, Rowan is known for her expert knowledge of computer animation and her skill in developing teams that can tackle innovative and complex animated and live action projects. In 2008, Rowan invented a line of educational toys called Kimochis. Kimochis teach children and adults how to express feelings and build positive communication skills.
Rappaport Rowan is also currently the president of TOT Industries, located in Marin County, CA, which she founded in 2006. TOT Industries provides the creative and technical aspects of original content development for books, live action, toys, animated feature films, and animation television production for the family entertainment industry. Since 2007, Nina Rappaport Rowan has executive-produced Despicable Me, a blockbuster animated feature film project for Universal Pictures, which was released in July 2010. From 2006 to 2009 she produced a series of children’s books for Simon and Schuster titled Trucktown, created by renowned children’s book author Jon Scieszka. Trucktown has appeared on the New York Times Children’s Best Sellers List. Ms. Rappaport Rowan has since consulted on multiple feature projects, children’s books, and commercials, including 20th Century Fox’s Rio.
Intersession Guide 2017 Activity An Introduction to Self Defense
Impact Bay Area LIFESKILLS
Week 2 As you go through high school, you gain more and more Wednesday independence. With that independence comes the need for increased awareness. This introduction to self defense will give
you the confidence to set clear boundaries, evaluate risk, January 11 and give you some tools to keep you safe as you travel into
the wider world. All are welcome! 11:00 am to
12:30 pm
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NOTE: Impact Bay Area is a nonprofit organization that teaches effective You may sign up for boundary-setting, personal safety, and physical self-defense skills. We more than one have been teaching self-defense in schools for over 25 years. Impact classes build verbal and physical skills to set good boundaries, prevent session; however, possible violence, and fight back when necessary. Our classes boost we will only assign confidence and empower students! students to additional sessions www.impactbayarea.org/private_class_info after everyone who wants this activity has had a first opportunity.
Waiver required.
Intersession Guide 2017 Activity Wilderness Skills: Knife and Ax Carving
Trackers Earth LIFESKILLS/OUTDOORS
Week 2 Blades are the foundational tools of Wilderness Survival and Wednesday Forest Craft. They carve, split, and chew away at wood. They have been used to skin, butcher, and even hunt. Blades can
be steel, stone, and also bone. In this class you not only learn January 11 how to use a blade safely, you get to use different blades
and understand their different uses. Blades for forest craft 11:00 am to include knives, saws, axes, and more. Each of these tools 12:30 pm serves its own purpose. Get hands-on, project-based
experience with tool selection, grips, and cuts for each class. Bay Meadows
Tony and Molly Deis founded Trackers Earth in 2004. Tony based Trackers on his personal work in outdoor education, which he began in 1992. NOTE: Trackers Earth has grown into a national leader for outdoor camps and Stating the obvious, programs. sharp knives and axes will be used in Trackers Earth exists to re-create a village of people connected through this activity. Extreme family and the land. They lead the way in education and collaborative caution must be organization. Their method is to revive outdoor lore and traditional skills, exercised. working to restore the common sense that is no longer common. Their vision is to help foster a deep appreciation for the natural world and Waiver required. community.
It seems that today people have forgotten what it means to be connected to land and community. Trackers exists to help us remember our story, to remind all of us of our connections to land, family and village. . http://www.trackersbay.com/
Intersession Guide 2017 Activity Blacksmithing
Trackers Earth INDUSTRIAL ARTS
Week 2 Learn the ancient art of working hot metal on the anvil! We Wednesday taper, split, twist, and punch steel to create art and functional tools. Come have fun and try your hand at the time-honored January 11 craft of blacksmithing. In this intro class you will learn all you need to begin manipulating and moving iron in true Maker 11:00 am to fashion. 12:30 pm
Bay Meadows Tony and Molly Deis founded Trackers Earth in 2004. Tony based Trackers on his personal work in outdoor education, which he began in 1992. Trackers Earth has grown into a national leader for outdoor camps and NOTE: programs. You may sign up for more than one Trackers Earth exists to re-create a village of people connected through session; however, family and the land. They lead the way in education and collaborative organization. Their method is to revive outdoor lore and traditional skills, we will only assign working to restore the common sense that is no longer common. Their students to vision is to help foster a deep appreciation for the natural world and additional sessions community. after everyone who wants this activity It seems that today people have forgotten what it means to be has had a first connected to land and community. Trackers exists to help us remember opportunity. our story, to remind all of us of our connections to land, family, and village.
Waiver required. http://www.trackersbay.com/
Intersession Guide 2017 Activity AcroYoga: Laugh Riot
Susan Holland FITNESS/WELLNESS
Week 2 AcroYoga is a fusion of partner yoga, acrobatics, and Wednesday inversions. Students will learn new ways of movement and balance while exploring upside-down, sideways, and
multiple-person body stacking. All students will learn to base January 11 (lift people up with their hands and feet), fly (be lifted up),
spot (make sure no one falls face-first on the floor) and begin 11:00 am to to practice handstands. 12:30 pm
AcroYoga is a safe, fun way to grow trust in one’s own Bay Meadows strength and in the stability of those around us. Students will learn how to spot each other so no one is at risk of injury while NOTE: exploring these new skills. Safety comes first in AcroYoga, then You may sign up for comes fun, playtime, upside-down amazingness, and plenty more than one of laughter. session; however, we will only assign students to additional sessions after everyone who wants this activity has had a first Susan Holland is a certified personal trainer, vinyasa and acroyoga opportunity. teacher, and has extensive training in kickboxing. She has taught fitness and yoga and trained triathletes and novices around the world, including Waiver required. New York City, Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Seoul. Susan hails from the Eastern Shore of Maryland and has always loved athletic endeavors, especially anything involving being upside down. With a passion for all things playful, skillful, and healthy, Susan has found that yoga, fitness, and wellness have teamed up to be a wonderful career, hobby, and way of life. She believes that wellness isn’t an endpoint, but rather a path which continually evolves. She has an infectious and hilarious approach to fitness and her clients not only benefit through successful results, but also enjoy her motivating, patient, and creative process. Susan is currently a personal trainer and yoga instructor at Google.
Intersession Guide 2017 Activity History, Culture, and Application of Henna
Roopa Raman ART/CULTURE
Week 2 Henna is popularly associated with the Indian culture, but did Wednesday you know that the tradition dates back as far as ancient Egypt? That Cleopatra was known to decorate herself with
henna and that ancient Egyptians applied henna on January 11 mummies? That in addition to its decorative aspects, henna is
believed to have medicinal and healing properties? Join us 11:00 am to for an exploration of the history, culture, and art of applying 12:30 pm henna on your skin, and learn about its benefits
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Come learn about the history and cultural significance of henna and let a professional teach you the intricacies of henna (also called mehndi) application. Roopa Raman, a professional and licensed henna artist and owner of Henna Bash (www.hennabash.com), will explore traditional henna motifs with you and teach you how to draw effectively using henna paste. There will be plenty of henna cones for everyone.
Raman is a Bay Area henna expert and has taken Henna Bash to various events, including private parties, community fairs, public libraries, colleges, corporations, schools, and more.
Intersession Guide 2017 Activity The Future of Autonomous Vehicles and Urban Mobility
Ivan Mihov ENGINEERING/DESIGN
Week 2 Autonomous vehicles (AVs) have captured the imagination Wednesday of the media and the public. The introduction of fully autonomous or driverless vehicles is approaching. Some new luxury-car models already feature sophisticated driver- January 11 assistance systems offering a degree of autonomy. 11:00 am to By reducing the human factor behind the wheel, 12:30 pm autonomous vehicles could cut accidents by as much as 90 percent, according to preliminary estimates, saving Bay Meadows thousands of lives and up to $190 billion a year in the United States alone by 2050. Autonomous driving could also increase the carrying capacity of roads because vehicles would be able to travel closer together and at higher speeds.
Ultimately, driverless vehicles (defined as 100 percent autonomous driving of a vehicle without an actual driver to override the system), could free up time for passengers to do other tasks, chauffeur people who cannot otherwise drive themselves, and help solve urban air pollution and congestion problems. Come hear Ivan Mihov discuss the future of autonomous vehicles and urban mobility and come see one of Zoox’s stealth vehicles.
Ivan is currently director of strategy for Zoox, an autonomous vehicle startup valued at over $1billion. Zoox is also developing the supporting ecosystem required to bring the technology to market at scale. Prior to his recent role, Ivan was SRP fellow and an engagement manager for McKinsey, leading their research effort on the future of transport and urban mobility. He has an MBA from Wharton and a B,Comm, Finance, from University of the Witwatersrand.
Intersession Guide 2017 Activity Happiness in Action: Practicing Positive Psychology — Achievement
Stacey Yates Sellar, C.A.P.P. POSITIVE PSYCHOLOGY
Week 2 IT IS POSSIBLE to be happier! Research and science from leading academic institutions has proven that you can disrupt patterns of Wednesday negative thinking, manage stress, build skills to overcome life
challenges, increase success, and improve overall happiness. January 11 Positive psychology is the scientific study of what makes life most 11:00 am to worth living. It is a call for psychological science to be as 12:30 pm concerned with strength as with weakness; as interested in building the best things in life as in repairing the worst; and as concerned Bay Meadows with making the lives of normal people fulfilling as with healing pathology.
After decades of studying positive psychology, we know two things for sure about happiness:
• When we know better, we do better
• Happiness is a practice. The more you practice, the happier you will be.
In this activity session you will learn and practice interventions scientifically proven to increase happiness. Today we will focus on achievement.
Stacey Yates Sellar, C.A.P.P., began studying and practicing positive psychology interventions of gratitude, positivity, optimism, care, mindfulness, beliefs, neuroscience, willpower, and success at a very early age. Practicing what she preaches for most of her life has reaped benefits. For the last 13 years, she has been an integral part in building a multimillion-dollar business whose staff success and client loyalty she credits to positive psychology interventions.
In 2015, she earned her certification in applied positive psychology and has since begun a business that offers coaching and motivational products, including “Happier by the Minute,” one-minute educational videos that turn the research and the rigor into easy-to-practice tools. Stacey’s mission is to curate and deliver the best of positive psychology’s research, rigor, tips, and tools to ensure that individuals, families and communities thrive.
Intersession Guide 2017 Activity Medical Exploration: Emergency Medicine, a Simulation
Shanda Manion and Kimble Torres, Pathway to Medicine MEDICINE
Week 2 This unique pre-med lab is designed to introduce teens to the Wednesday exciting world of emergency medicine. Each participant will learn about the life-saving medical skills EMTs and
paramedics use to stabilize victims at the scene of serious January 11 accidents and inside ambulances, including comprehensive
emergency treatment skills and in-depth rescue techniques. 11:00 am to We will conduct a mini-emergency simulation as well. This 12:30 pm workshop gives students an insider’s perspective on what it
takes to work day-to-day in the field of emergency medical Bay Meadows services.
Kimble Torres is a veteran biologist specializing in the human body and athletics. During his tenure in the biotech industry, Kimble worked for Nektar Therapeutics, Genentech, and Tyco Healthcare investigating product feasibility and managing lab operations. In 2014, his passion for medicine and health education culminated in the founding of Pathways to Medicine, a pre-med program for high school students.
Shanda’s passion for education and medicine has inspired her extensive work in the healthcare field. In 2011, she began working at UCSF Hospital as a patient health educator for the UCSF National Center of Excellence in Women’s Health and UCSF’s Women’s Health Great Expectations Pregnancy Program. She co-founded Pathways to Medicine in order to share her knowledge and enthusiasm for medicine with the next generation of healthcare providers.
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