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Overview of Initiatives

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Leadership/Obstacle Courses

•Team building

•Problem Solving

Skills


Moot Trials

•Law

•Debating

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Skills


Spaghetti Bridge Building

•Team building

•Problem Solving

•Physics

Skills


Tinker Lab

Skills•Problem Solving

•Confidence Building

•Manual Skills


Deconstructing Appliances

Skills• Engineering

•Manual Skills

• Science


Skills• Engineering

•Manual Skills

• Science

Rocketry


Learning Farms

Skills•Earth Sciences


•Manual Skills

•Food Education


Cooking

Skills•Sciences


•Manual Skills

•Food Education


Forensics

Skills

•Sciences

•Team Building


Animation

Skills•Communications

•Team Building

•Manual Skills

•Writing


Skills• Communication

• Team Building

• Writing

Film Academy


Music


Skills•Design

•Team Building

•Manual Skills

•Communication

Fashion/Design


Programming

Skills•Programming

•Team Building

•Mathematics


System Dynamics

Skills• System Thinking

• Mathematics

• Programming


Dinner Conference Show


Summer Programs

SkillsPossible Partners•Academics

•Foreign Languages

•Career Orientation

• Academic Institutions

•Professional Organizations

•Corporations


Summer Programs

• Counselling/Services on existing programs

• Taylor made programs with different

degrees of outsourcing


Design LodgingTravel Location &Materials

Staff

Catalogue

Type of Courses

Custom Made

Self Produced

Several Production Options Available Example


HistoryArchaeologyLiterature

Art HistoryPolitics/Current Affairs

Law

Creative WritingFilm Academy

AnimationDesignArts

Achitecture

PhysicsRobotics

Computer ProgrammingVideoGamesChemistryForensics

MathematicsRocketry

Earth Sciences

Humanities Sciences Creativity

Sample Topics


Summer Programs can be structured as Themed Trips


or Themed Cruises


Already tested!


Skills• History• Biology• Astronomy•Arts•Archeology•...

Examples• On Odysseus steps• The Fields of WW1•Napolenonic Route•The Hansa Cities•Industrial Revolution•The Etruscans•...


Also offered with focus on specific targets:Granparents/Grand Sons


...Father/Son and Mother/Daughter etc.


Science Fair

Skills•Communications

•Research

•Manual Skills

•Science


Professions’ Workshops

Visits and workshops aimed at learning about a profession:- what it is- what it takes- How to get in

Possible Partners•Professional Associations

•Individual Firms


“Open Days”

Visits aimed at learning about how complex organizations work. E.g.- Ports/Airports- Factories- Newspapers

with behind the scene visits and face to face meetings

Possible Partners•Professional Association

•Individual Firms


Day Camp/After school Extension

Possible SponsorsCorporate

Local Councils

This “format” addresses the need of (working) parents for extended monitored time.

Activities range from tutored home works to co- and extra-curricular activities as described earlier.

Pick up and Drop Down options available


While More and More Skilled Guidance is Needed, families have less time to devote to it

- Study Method- Academic Orientation

- Curriculum- Summer/Extracurriculum

- Career Orientation- Job Search


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