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10 | March 5, 2020 | 22nd century media camp guide part two 22ndCenturyMedia.com Looking for Chinese Language Immersion Program? Look no further Creating Chinese language immersion environment Chicago North Shore Chinese Center was founded in 2017. We are located in Wilmette. From our Chinese immersion summer camp to our Chinese immersion after-school program, we have just the language immersion program to fit your needs. Our past summer camp programs are really a big success. Parents came to us by word of mouth. The center aims to create lifelong language learners through encouraging the development of exceptional Chinese language skills early in life. To this end, the center offers a rigorous 10- week language immersion experience for students between ages of 3.5 and 16 years old. Speaking in Chinese while engaging in meaningful cultural exploration projects, students make unrivaled strides in language acquisition in only 10 weeks. Through the learning experience, students become linguistically proficient and culturally versed, gaining the language skills and global awareness to succeed in school and beyond. We will group children based on their language level and give them different assignments. The key difference between our organization and others is that we advocate the full language immersion concept. Our teachers are experienced and authentic Chinese native speakers. We create an authentic Chinese speaking classroom. We also request our students to communicate with our teachers and between them in Chinese. Our immersion program focuses on improving learners’ writing skills, reading skills, conversation skills and listening skills of Chinese, expanding their Chinese vocabularies, and providing them in-depth exposure of Chinese culture. Our Chinese language immersion camp is a place for both fun and knowledge where we advocate learning through play and by doing. We have five themes: Exploring Nature, Rising Stars, Time to Shine, Chinese Brush Painting and Little Chef. Each theme runs two weeks. In the past two years’ summer camp, students learned and improved their Chinese through singing, dancing, performing, writing, reading, cooking and brush painting. Students choose their favorite weeks to sign up. One-week sign up is permitted. Our immersion summer camp possesses the following characteristics: • Camps run June 15 - Aug. 21, 9:00 a.m.- 3:00 p.m. • Extension camp: Aug. 24 and Aug. 25 • Before and aftercare available • No minimum week sign-up requirement, can sign up for one day or one week • Lunch is included in the summer camp tuition ($325 per week) • A $25 discount per week is available for a sign-up before Mar. 15 • Your cost with us is tax deductible • A 1:6 teacher-to-child ratio or less, with the most experienced Chinese teachers imaginable • We accept children between 3.5 and 16 years old • Students will be grouped based on their proficiency levels and given different assignments For more information, contact us at info@chicagochinesecenter.com, or visit us at https://www.chicagochinesecenter.com. Submitted by Chicago North Shore Chinese Center, 3220 Big Tree Lane, Wilmette, (847) 380-0018 June 8-July 10 and July 27-July 31 Ages 7 and up
22ndCenturyMedia.com camp guide part two 22nd century media | March 5, 2020 | 11 Phones down. Tools out. The summer camp that unlocks creativity and sparks wonder is here When we first began running summer camps at BitSpace, Chicagoland’s premier youth-only makerspaces located in Wilmette and Lincoln Square five years ago, our goal was to inspire kids to be producers, not just consumers of technology. As parents started coming back to us and relaying stories of children who were forgoing screen time to continue building rocket ships, robots, and forts in their living rooms, and we watched kids not want to leave our camps at the end of the day, we knew we were on to something. Then came the local area schools who noted the depth and breadth of technologies in our makerspaces - and the expertise of our world-class guides - and wanted to bring students in for field trips. As the maker ed movement began to take root in Chicagoarea schools, teachers asked us to help train them on the tools and apply the maker mindset to help them achieve classroom goals. 6,000 students and 100+ schools later, we remain obsessed with unlocking creativity and sparking wonder and awe in students. We do that by providing immersive experiences directly to young people in the Chicago area based on the absolute best practices that we’ve honed over time in the form of summer camps, day-off camps, and enrichment programs. And, we support teachers in their quest to revolutionize education and integrate maker ed into their school days by facilitating field trips, providing professional development, offering enrichment programs at schools, and helping schools to design and build their own makerspaces. Having seen the heights that children go to when they are given the opportunity (and just enough support) to lead the way with no agenda at the table aside from creation for the joy of it, this year we have decided to double down on what we know works and level up the camp experience. Our week-long immersion experiences into design-thinking, collaboration, and making spark curiosity in our campers and help them flex their creative muscles like never before. This year, our campers are supported by an unprecedented camper- to-guide ratio of 5:1. In small groups, they go through the process of dreaming up ideas, moving through the kind of planning stages that architects, engineers and designers go through and then they engage in authentic design experiences using virtual reality, 3D printing, laser cutting, and so much more. By the end of the week our campers have turned their vision into a tangible product. And without even realizing it, they will have developed critical thinking and time-management skills, have learned a ton of new technology, and explored inquiry- based design thinking on a level that will set them up for a future they’ll be ready for. Submitted by Bit Space, 1131 Greenleaf Ave., Wilmette, (224) 408-8133
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