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2024 Summer Camp
Note: Half-day camps can be combined as full-day camps from 8:30am-5pm.
Week 4 (07/29-08/02)
07/29 to 08/02 5 half days Monday-Friday 9:00am-12:00pm $250/camp Location: 16100 NW Cornell Road Suite 210 Room 8This is the 4th camp out of 6 Academic Advance camps for grade K-2.
Sunshine Elite Academic Advance Half-Day Camp
Our Academic Advance Camps provide the chance for students to learn more advanced math and reading skills during Summer therefore be more academic success in the next school year. We usually have 6 morning academic camps in Summer. Students can join all of 6 camps to continue their learning journey week after week, or students can join for any week(s) to learn at a customized pace.
The curriculum used in the camp also aligns with the skills required by ITBS/OSAS math and reading for the TAG or SUMMA tests.
(a) Singapore Math
(b) Reading and Vocabulary, Story telling
(c) Creative Writing and Writing Skills
(e) Break and SnackNote: We provide books and materials used in the camp. We will also offer lunch options for students who are doing the full day camp.
Instructor: Shilpa Sharma; Carolina Zhou; Olive Anderson07/29 to 08/02 5 Classes Monday-Friday 9:00am-12:00pm $250/camp Location: 16100 NW Cornell Road Suite 210 Room 4This is the 1st out of 3 CogAt camps for K-2. The camp will work on the 3 Verbal sections: Verbal Anlogy, Verbal Classification and Verbal Sentence Completion.
This is the CogAt fundamental training camp for Kindergarten-2nd grade. The camp will build up the fundation and skills for students to take the TAG test in the next school year.
The Cognitive Abilities Test (CogAT) is a multiple-choice test designed to measure a child's academic aptitude. It is used to measure cognitive development among children and is often used to identify gifted children for admissions into gifted and talented programs across the United States.
The goal of this camp is to have the young students familiarize with the test format. But a more important goal to set up this camp is to improve the cognitive and reasoning abilities by learning the logical and creative thinking behind the materials. The verbal skills and some figure cognitive skills in the CogAt test may take more time to build up, which are the common weak areas for most students.
Instructor: Merveille Musangu; Shilpa Sharma(1 spot left)
07/29 to 08/02 5 half day Monday-Friday 1:00pm-4:00pm $250/camp Location: 16100 NW Cornell Road Suite 210 Room 6This is the second week of Robotics Camp for Grade K-2. We will continue to explore the different ways to build our Robotics and learn how to control it by coding too.
Sunshine Elite Robotics Camp for K-2
We believe that every child is a scientist and that we can help children become even better scientists!
Robotics is a great way to inspire students to learn about math, science, and technology!
This Robotics Camp for K-2nd graders introduces the world's coolest robotics program as listed in Robots from National Geographic KIDS.
Students will be instructed in the basics of robotics before experimenting themselves with the amazing LEGO Creators, LEGO Boost Educational Robots and the new Spike Essential Toolkits. Through hands-on learning, students will have lots of fun and gain exceptional knowledge about design, construction, mechanics, and programming.
Instructor: Tristan Barthel; Jerry Sherrard07/29 to 08/02 5 half day Monday-Friday 1:00pm-4:00pm $250/camp Location: 16100 NW Cornell Road Suite 210 Room 8This is the 2nd out of 2 Speech camps for Grade k-2. The camp is different from the 1st camp, and will continue to build up students' confidence and speech skills by practice more with different topics and different strategies. Students can still join this camp even if they miss the first camp.
This camp is all about building confidence. Your child will learn to confidently discuss opinions and describe the world around them. Participants will get a head start speaking in front of others. We will introuduce the basic speech skills such as eye contacts or voice etc and practice those skills in the camp via different topics.
Instructor: Olive Anderson07/29 to 08/02 5 half days Monday-Friday 9:00am-12:00pm $250/camp Location: 16100 NW Cornell Road Suite 210 Room 6This is the 4th camp out of 6 Academic Advance camps for grade 3-5. The camp is limited to 10 students.
Sunshine Elite Academic Advance Half-Day Camp
Our Academic Advance Camps provide the chance for students to learn more advanced math and reading skills during Summer therefore be more academic success in the next school year. We usually have 6 morning academic camps in Summer. Students can join all of 6 camps to continue their learning journey week after week, or students can join for any week(s) to learn at a customized pace.
The curriculum used in the camp also aligns with the skills required by ITBS/OSAS math and reading for the TAG or SUMMA tests.
(a) Singapore Math/Math Olympiad/Word Problem Solvings
(b) Advanced Reading and Vocabulary by Wordly Wise or Classical Root
(e) Break and SnackNote: We provide books and materials used in the camp. We will also offer lunch options for students who are doing the full day camp.
Instructor: Shilpa Sharma; Carolina Zhou; Olive Anderson07/29 to 08/02 5 half day Monday-Friday 9:00am-12:00pm $250/camp Location: 15320 NW Central Dr. Ste D6 Room 2This is the 1st out of 3 CogAt camps. This week of camp will work on 5 sections: Verbal Analogy, Verbal Classfication, Verbal Sentence Completion, Number Analogy and Number Series
Academic Advance and SUMMA Test Preparation CogAt Camp for Grade 3
This 3 weekly-half-day camp package is to prepare students for the CogAt tests in the coming Fall term.
This is a SUMMA Package for rising 3rd graders in Elementary school who would like to prepare for the SUMMA CogAt tests. The tests can be selected to take in the coming Fall semester. Scoring 99 percentile in CogAt test will qualify for SUMMA in middle school. Or scoring one 99 percentile in ITBS Math or Reading, plus one 97 percentile in another ITBS test or CogAt test will qualify for SUMMA too.
This camp will teach the skills for all 9 sections in CogAt tests and do practice and mock tests. Summer CogAt test preparation are designed to finish by 3 weeks of half-day camps. In the frist 2 weeks, we will work through 9 sections of CogAt: Verbal Analogy, Verbal Classification, Verbal Sentence Completion, Number Analogy, Number Puzzles, Number Series, Figure Analogy, Figure Classification, and Paper Folding. In the third week, we will refine the skills by working on the challenge sections and do more practice tests.
Instructor: Curran Gregory
Note: We will assign an online assessement test for each section along the camp days so that parents will get the student performance report by those online assessment tests.07/29 to 08/02 5 half day Monday-Friday 9:00am-12:00pm $250/camp Location: 16100 NW Cornell Road Suite 210 Room 5This is the 1st out of 3 CogAt camps. This week of camp will work on 5 sections: Verbal Analogy, Verbal Classfication, Verbal Sentence Completion, Number Analogy and Number Series
Academic Advance and SUMMA Test Preparation CogAt Camp for Grade 5
This 3 weekly-half-day camp package is to prepare students for the CogAt tests in the coming Fall term.
This is a SUMMA Package for rising 5th graders in Elementary school who would like to prepare for the SUMMA CogAt tests. The tests can be selected to take in the coming Fall semester. Scoring 99 percentile in CogAt test will qualify for SUMMA in middle school. Or scoring one 99 percentile in ITBS Math or Reading, plus one 97 percentile in another ITBS test or CogAt test will qualify for SUMMA too.
This camp will teach the skills for all 9 sections in CogAt tests and do practice and mock tests. Summer CogAt test preparation are designed to finish by 3 weeks of half-day camps. In the frist 2 weeks, we will work through 9 sections of CogAt: Verbal Analogy, Verbal Classification, Verbal Sentence Completion, Number Analogy, Number Puzzles, Number Series, Figure Analogy, Figure Classification, and Paper Folding. In the third week, we will refine the skills by working on the challenge sections and do more practice tests.
Instructor: Pamela Robinson
Note: We will assign an online assessement test for each section along the camp days so that parents will get the student performance report by those online assessment tests.(2 spots left)
07/29 to 08/02 5 half day Monday-Friday 1:00pm-4:00pm $250/camp Location: 16100 NW Cornell Road Suite 210 Room 5We have 2 writing camps for upper level of elementary school students this Summer. You may attend one of them, or join both. This is the 2nd Writing camp.
Creative Writing: Making Stories Together for 3rd-5th Grade
Make stories using all of your senses. This writing workshop emphasizes children's ideas. They will build, sketch, and cut and paste their ideas using unconventional creative materials; then find the words and writing conventions that support what they really want to say. Children will learn new techniques for getting inspired and bringing their ideas to paper. At the end of this week-long creative writing workshop, children will hand-make a bound book to bring home.We will use the https://stonesoup.com/ website for inspiration, submit writing for publication or contest, and if all goes as planned, we will do some publishing of our own.Instructor: Addison Lopiccolo07/29 to 08/02 5 Monday-Friday 9:00am-12:00pm $250/camp Location: Online10This is the 4th out of 4 camps for learning PreAlgebra in summer. This camp will learn PreAlgebra Chapter 9-11.
PreAlgebra Camp for Rising Grade 6-7
This Summer Camp is for students who want to learn PreAlgebra or refine their PreAlgebra skills so that they are ready to learn Algebra 1.
Each Lesson gives several examples and explanation of the math topic, and have 10-20 practice questions as assignments. Students will be able to complete the PreAlgebra in 6-week of half day PreAlgebra camps.
Instructor: Janani Maheswaran07/29 to 08/02 5 half day Monday-Friday 1:00pm-4:00pm $250/camp Location: 16100 NW Cornell Road Suite 210 Room 4This is the 2nd out of 2 week of middle school science bowl camps. The 2-week of camps will work on different topics and practice questions. It's the best if students can join both of camps but it's also ok to join any week.
Middle Science Bowl Camp
Launched in 1991, the National Science Bowl (NSB) is a highly competitive science education and academic event among teams of high school and middle school students. Students will face off in a fast-paced, question-and-answer format, and to be tested on a range of science disciplines including biology, chemistry, earth and space science, physics, energy, and math. The winner of the academic portion of the Regional Science Bowl wins an all-expenses-paid trip to Washington DC to compete in the National Science Bowl.
This is a great opportunity for students who are passionate about science and engineering to show off their talents in this academic competition. In preparing middle school Science Bowl Competition, schools will select students to form teams in fall and train the teams for regional competition in February.
We designed 2-week of middle school Science Bowl Summer Camp which will lead students going through several STEM Texts and practicing middle school sample questions provided by National Science Bowl® (NSB), preparing students for their schools’ Science Bowl team selection in fall.
Instructor: Kyle Golden; Christopher Dupuis07/29 to 08/02 5 Classes Monday-Friday 1:00pm-4:00pm $250/camp Location: 16100 NW Cornell Road Suite 210 Room 4AFA CyberCamps are designed for high school and middle school students who are just getting into cybersecurity or who have cybersecurity knowledge and want to learn more. Camps are hosted by approved organizations and institutions that register with the CyberPatriot Program Office.
TYPES OF CAMPS
STANDARD CAMP ($1,200) ADVANCED CAMP ($1,500) Intro to CyberPatriot YES NO Intro to Virtual Machines YES NO Cyber Ethics YES YES Windows 10 Security PoliciesAccount ManagementFile ProtectionsAuditing & MonitoringGraphical Utilities WindowsCommand LineSysinternals SuiteUbuntu 18 Terminology & ConceptsBasic User Interface SecurityBasic Command LineIntermediate SecurityInit SystemsAdvanced Command LineProcesses and Scheduled TasksSecurity Policies and PAMNetworkingCisco NetAcad NO YES Competition Day YES YES Standard Camp Schedule
Standard camps are designed to teach beginner students the basics of cybersecurity. No prior cybersecurity knowledge is required for participants. The following is an outline of the curriculum for the Standard CyberCamp.
- Monday: Introduction to the CyberPatriot National Youth Cyber Defense Competition, introduction to cybersecurity & careers, cyber ethics, online safety, how computers work, virtual machines, and cyber threats .
- Tuesday: Cybersecurity principles, basic Windows security policies and tools, account management, windows file protections, and auditing and monitoring. Students will follow along and work with the Windows 10 demonstration image.
- Wednesday: Introduction to Linux, Ubuntu 18 terminology and concepts, basic GUI security, and intro to CLI. Students will follow along and work with the Ubuntu 18 demonstration image.
- Thursday: Basic command line security and intermediate Ubuntu security. Students will follow along and work with the Ubuntu 18 demonstration image.
- Friday - CyberPatriot competition day. Students will compete against their fellow campers on Windows 10 and Ubuntu 18 competition images.
Week 5 (08/05-08/09)
(2 spots left)
08/05 to 08/09 5 half days Monday-Friday 9:00am-12:00pm $250/camp Location: 16100 NW Cornell Road Suite 210 Room 8This is the 5th out of 6 Academic Advance camps for grade K-2.
Sunshine Elite Academic Advance Half-Day Camp
Our Academic Advance Camps provide the chance for students to learn more advanced math and reading skills during Summer therefore be more academic success in the next school year. We usually have 6 morning academic camps in Summer. Students can join all of 6 camps to continue their learning journey week after week, or students can join for any week(s) to learn at a customized pace.
The curriculum used in the camp also aligns with the skills required by ITBS/OSAS math and reading for the TAG or SUMMA tests.
(a) Singapore Math
(b) Reading and Vocabulary, Story telling
(c) Creative Writing and Writing Skills
(e) Break and SnackNote: We provide books and materials used in the camp. We will also offer lunch options for students who are doing the full day camp.
Instructor: Carolina Zhou; Merveille Musangu08/05 to 08/09 5 Classes Monday-Friday 9:00am-12:00pm $250/camp Location: 16100 NW Cornell Road Suite 210 Room 7This is the 2nd out of 3 CogAt camps for K-2. The camp will work on the 3 Figure sections: Figure Analogies, Figure Classifications, and Figure Paper Folding
This is the CogAt fundamental training camp for Kindergarten-2nd grade. The camp will build up the fundation and skills for students to take the TAG test in the next school year.
The Cognitive Abilities Test (CogAT) is a multiple-choice test designed to measure a child's academic aptitude. It is used to measure cognitive development among children and is often used to identify gifted children for admissions into gifted and talented programs across the United States.
The goal of this camp is to have the young students familiarize with the test format. But a more important goal to set up this camp is to improve the cognitive and reasoning abilities by learning the logical and creative thinking behind the materials. The verbal skills and some figure cognitive skills in the CogAt test may take more time to build up, which are the common weak areas for most students.
(1 spot left)
08/05 to 08/09 5 half day Monday-Friday 1:00pm-4:00pm $250/camp Location: 16100 NW Cornell Road Suite 210 Room 6This is the 3rd week of Robotics Camp for Grade K-2. We will continue to build the different Robotics and learn how to control it by coding too.
Sunshine Elite Robotics Camp for K-2
We believe that every child is a scientist and that we can help children become even better scientists!
Robotics is a great way to inspire students to learn about math, science, and technology!
This Robotics Camp for K-2nd graders introduces the world's coolest robotics program as listed in Robots from National Geographic KIDS.
Students will be instructed in the basics of robotics before experimenting themselves with the amazing LEGO Creators, LEGO Boost Educational Robots and the new Spike Essential Toolkits. Through hands-on learning, students will have lots of fun and gain exceptional knowledge about design, construction, mechanics, and programming.
Instructor: Tristan Barthel08/05 to 08/09 5 half days Monday-Friday 1:00pm-4:00pm $250/camp Location: 16100 NW Cornell Road Suite 210 Room 8Chess is a classic game that develops spatial thinking and strategies and builds focused concentration. Often known as a game for the intellectually gifted, chess is the best sport to exercise the most important organ in our bodies: the brain. It promotes brain growth; raises your IQ; teaches planning and foresight; sparks your creativity; increases problem-solving skills and optimizes memory improvement
This camp will teach more about basic opening strategies and more advanced tactical tricks and patterns.
The class is going to cover STRATEGY - the long-term structural considerations that reveal the depth and inner logic of chess! Students will learn about harder and more complicated checkmate patterns too.In this camp, we will run USCF-rated Chess Quads on Friday, the last day of the camp.
Instructor: Jerry Sherrard08/05 to 08/09 5 half days Monday-Friday 9:00am-12:00pm $250/camp Location: 16100 NW Cornell Road Suite 210 Room 5This is the 6th camp out of 6 Academic Advance camps for grade 3-5. The camp is limited to 10 students.
Sunshine Elite Academic Advance Half-Day Camp
Our Academic Advance Camps provide the chance for students to learn more advanced math and reading skills during Summer therefore be more academic success in the next school year. We usually have 6 morning academic camps in Summer. Students can join all of 6 camps to continue their learning journey week after week, or students can join for any week(s) to learn at a customized pace.
The curriculum used in the camp also aligns with the skills required by ITBS/OSAS math and reading for the TAG or SUMMA tests.
(a) Singapore Math/Math Olympiad/Word Problem Solvings
(b) Advanced Reading and Vocabulary by Wordly Wise or Classical Root
(e) Break and SnackNote: We provide books and materials used in the camp. We will also offer lunch options for students who are doing the full day camp.
Instructor: Carolina Zhou; Merveille Musangu08/05 to 08/09 5 half day Monday-Friday 9:00am-12:00pm $250/camp Location: 16100 NW Cornell Road Suite 210 Room 4This is the 2nd out of 3 CogAt camps. This week of camp will work on 4 sections: Number Series, Figure Analogy, Figure Classification and Figure Paper Folding.
Academic Advance and SUMMA Test Preparation CogAt Camp for Grade 5
This 3 weekly-half-day camp package is to prepare students for the CogAt tests in the coming Fall term.
This is a SUMMA Package for rising 5th graders in Elementary school who would like to prepare for the SUMMA CogAt tests. The tests can be selected to take in the coming Fall semester. Scoring 99 percentile in CogAt test will qualify for SUMMA in middle school. Or scoring one 99 percentile in ITBS Math or Reading, plus one 97 percentile in another ITBS test or CogAt test will qualify for SUMMA too.
This camp will teach the skills for all 9 sections in CogAt tests and do practice and mock tests. Summer CogAt test preparation are designed to finish by 3 weeks of half-day camps. In the frist 2 weeks, we will work through 9 sections of CogAt: Verbal Analogy, Verbal Classification, Verbal Sentence Completion, Number Analogy, Number Puzzles, Number Series, Figure Analogy, Figure Classification, and Paper Folding. In the third week, we will refine the skills by working on the challenge sections and do more practice tests.
Instructor: Pamela Robinson
Note: We will assign an online assessement test for each section along the camp days so that parents will get the student performance report by those online assessment tests.08/05 to 08/09 5 half day Monday-Friday 9:00am-12:00pm $250/camp Location: 16100 NW Cornell Road Suite 210 Room 3This is the 2nd out of 3 CogAt camps. This week of camp will work on 4 sections: Number Series, Figure Analogy, Figure Classification and Figure Paper Folding.
Academic Advance and SUMMA Test Preparation CogAt Camp for Grade 3
This 3 weekly-half-day camp package is to prepare students for the CogAt tests in the coming Fall term.
This is a SUMMA Package for rising 3rd graders in Elementary school who would like to prepare for the SUMMA CogAt tests. The tests can be selected to take in the coming Fall semester. Scoring 99 percentile in CogAt test will qualify for SUMMA in middle school. Or scoring one 99 percentile in ITBS Math or Reading, plus one 97 percentile in another ITBS test or CogAt test will qualify for SUMMA too.
This camp will teach the skills for all 9 sections in CogAt tests and do practice and mock tests. Summer CogAt test preparation are designed to finish by 3 weeks of half-day camps. In the frist 2 weeks, we will work through 9 sections of CogAt: Verbal Analogy, Verbal Classification, Verbal Sentence Completion, Number Analogy, Number Puzzles, Number Series, Figure Analogy, Figure Classification, and Paper Folding. In the third week, we will refine the skills by working on the challenge sections and do more practice tests.
Instructor: Curran Gregory
Note: We will assign an online assessement test for each section along the camp days so that parents will get the student performance report by those online assessment tests.08/05 to 08/09 5 Monday-Friday 9:00am-12:00pm $250/camp Location: 16100 NW Cornell Road Suite 210 Room 2Literary reading skills are above basic reading skills (outline meaning) and key reading skills (summary scanning) to the point where we are grasping complex texts in all their complexity during reading. It is reading between lines in order to discover levels of meaning and develop complex interpretations.
In this class, students will:
(1) Review Basic Reading (imagining, responding, skimming)
(2) Learn Reflective Reading (selecting, scanning, tracking)
(3) Learn Analytical Reading (Interpreting, analyzing)
(4) Write a critical analysis style essay
(5) Build up vocabulary throughout reading
(6) Form up their unique critical essay writing style with correct logical structure and grammar.
In this one week camp, the instructor will lead students to read at least one book, plus shorter pieces or chapters from books in a variety of genres.For essay writing, the first step of critical writing is to take notes on evidence, document quotes and paraphrases while reading. The purpose of critical analysis is not merely to inform, but also to evaluate the worth, utility, excellence, distinction, truth, validity, beauty, or goodness of something from the books that students are reading. We will instruct students to write those notes down on a notebook.
The second step of critical writing is to design a clear logical structure of an essay. Students need to design/plan their essay with clear logical flow before start writing critical essay.
During the revising process, we will check the logical structure, information, interpretation, evaluation of the text, and eliminate grammar errors.
Text Books (Free Rent from Sunshine Elite Education or student purchase)
(1) The Pearl By John Steinbeck
(2) Animal Farm by George Orwell
(3) A World of Ideas: Essential Readings for College Writers By Lee A. Jacobus, 9th EditionClass Plan:
Monday:
Discuss and practice critical reading strategies on the Pearl, including active reading, pre-reading, turning headings or titles into questions, 20 questions after reading chapter 1, embracing confusion, note taking, double entries, ?nding the main ideas, author’s techniques, rhetorical strategies, evidence, underlying assumptions and biases, vocabulary in context, mapping, making inferences, second draft reading, soaps (subject, occasion, audience, purpose, speaker), paying attention to diction (contrast 2 articles), logos, ethos and pathos, re?ecting on what it means to the student’s life and society at large (circles of re?ection), paraphrasing, what does it not say, statistics, why does it matter, evaluationA World of Ideas: p. 1: Evaluating Ideas: An Introduction to Critical Reading Example/Practice: Machiavelli/Frederick Douglass Homework: Read civil disobedience and map it
Tuesday:
Discuss Civil Disobedience and The Pearl practicing critical reading
Discuss Critical Analysis Paper
Homework:
Read Animal Farm. Pick a topic and ?nd 3 quotes and thesis statement
Wednesday:
Discuss Animal Farm practicing critical reading
Discuss crediting sources and analyzing quotes within paragraphs
Model Essay Work on Drafts
Homework:
Draft 1 Critical EssayThursday:
Work on Critical Essay Drafts in Class
Read additional Essays from "A World of Ideas" : James Madison, de Tocqueville
Homework:
Final Drafts Due
Read Jean-Jacques RousseauFriday:
Instructor: Julie Hlad
Read Essays from "A World of Ideas" of authors
Hannah Arendt, Friedrich Nietzsche, Virginia Woolf(full)
08/05 to 08/09 5 half day Monday-Friday 1:00pm-4:00pm $250/camp Location: 16100 NW Cornell Road Suite 210 Room 1Science Olympiad Elementary Division - Grade 3-5
This camp will introduce the Science Olympiad Division A events to students. https://www.soinc.org/programs/elementary
This class will build up our young students’ curiosity and keen insight towards physical science and chemistry around our day to day life, the fundamental ability for the love of science.
During this 5-days Camp, Students will go through the Science Olympiad events and complete several projects. Below are the sample projects we may work on:
- Aerodynamics Aloft (How an airplane works)
- Straw Tower (Build the tallest, most stable tower possible using drinking straws)
- Operation Egg Drop (Pack and drop a raw egg from 2+ floors without breaking it)
- Gunk (Chemistry: learn from experiments making the best glue)
- Cool it (Heat transfer and insulation)
- Building Bridges Event (Build a bridge using fixed amount of materials)
Text book:
Elementary Science Olympiad Club Lesson Plans
Elementary Science Olympiad Rules Manual
Instructor: Kyle Golden(1 spot left)
08/05 to 08/09 5 half days Monday-Friday 9:00am-12:00pm $250/camp Location: 15320 NW Central Dr. Ste D6 Room 1This camp is limited to 10 students.
This camp will teach the basics of Python programming by solving small problems through hands-on projects.
The camp will also briefly introduce students to the ACSL Junor computer programming contest.
Instructor: Shilpa Sharma(waiting-list)
08/05 to 08/09 5 Classes Monday-Friday 1:00pm-4:00pm $250/camp Location: 16100 NW Cornell Road Suite 210 Room 4MathCounts is a national middle school mathematics competition that builds problem-solving skills and fosters achievement through four levels of fun, in-person "bee" style contests. Some students love math. Other students fear math. MATHCOUNTS is the place for both. It provides engaging math programs to U.S. middle school students of all ability levels to build confidence and improve attitudes towards math and problem-solving.
The American Mathematics Competitions (AMC) 8 is a 25-question, 40-minute, multiple-choice examination in middle school mathematics designed to promote the development and enhancement of problem-solving skills. The contest is held in November every year and for students in grades 8 and below.
We designed 2-week of summer camps for students to learn the common problem-solving strategies for both competitions and also working on the previous years of tests for practice. The 2 camps will focus on different topics and use different practice materials. It's best that students can join both camps, but it's also ok to join one of them.Prerequisites: Students have at least completed PreAlgebra; It's better if students have completed or learning Algebra I and Geometry.
Textbook:
Instructor: Peng Lin
Week 6 (08/12-08/16)
08/12 to 08/16 5 half days Monday-Friday 9:00am-12:00pm $250/camp Location: 16100 NW Cornell Road Suite 210 Room 8This is the 6th out of 6 Academic Advance camps for grade K-2.
Sunshine Elite Academic Advance Half-Day Camp
Our Academic Advance Camps provide the chance for students to learn more advanced math and reading skills during Summer therefore be more academic success in the next school year. We usually have 6 morning academic camps in Summer. Students can join all of 6 camps to continue their learning journey week after week, or students can join for any week(s) to learn at a customized pace.
The curriculum used in the camp also aligns with the skills required by ITBS/OSAS math and reading for the TAG or SUMMA tests.
(a) Singapore Math
(b) Reading and Vocabulary, Story telling
(c) Creative Writing and Writing Skills
(e) Break and SnackNote: We provide books and materials used in the camp. We will also offer lunch options for students who are doing the full day camp.
Instructor: Carolina Zhou; Merveille Musangu08/12 to 08/16 5 Classes Monday-Friday 9:00am-12:00pm $250/camp Location: 16100 NW Cornell Road Suite 210 Room 7This is the 3rd out of 3 CogAt camps for K-2. The camp will work on the 3 Number sections: Number Analogies, Number Series, and Number Puzzles
This is the CogAt fundamental training camp for Kindergarten-2nd grade. The camp will build up the fundation and skills for students to take the TAG test in the next school year.
The Cognitive Abilities Test (CogAT) is a multiple-choice test designed to measure a child's academic aptitude. It is used to measure cognitive development among children and is often used to identify gifted children for admissions into gifted and talented programs across the United States.
The goal of this camp is to have the young students familiarize with the test format. But a more important goal to set up this camp is to improve the cognitive and reasoning abilities by learning the logical and creative thinking behind the materials. The verbal skills and some figure cognitive skills in the CogAt test may take more time to build up, which are the common weak areas for most students.
08/12 to 08/16 5 half days Monday-Friday 1:00pm-4:00pm $250/term Location: 16100 NW Cornell Road Suite 210 Room 8Chess is a classic game that develops spatial thinking and strategies and builds focused concentration. Often known as a game for the intellectually gifted, chess is the best sport to exercise the most important organ in our bodies: the brain. It promotes brain growth; raises your IQ; teaches planning and foresight; sparks your creativity; increases problem-solving skills and optimizes memory improvement
This camp will teach more about basic opening strategies and more advanced tactical tricks and patterns.
The class is going to cover STRATEGY - the long-term structural considerations that reveal the depth and inner logic of chess! Students will learn about harder and more complicated checkmate patterns too.In this camp, we will run USCF-rated Chess Quads on Friday, the last day of the camp.
Instructor: Jerry Sherrard08/12 to 08/16 5 half days Monday-Friday 9:00am-12:00pm $250/camp Location: 16100 NW Cornell Road Suite 210 Room 5This is the 6th out of 6 Academic Advance camps for grade 3-5. The camp is limited to 10 students.
Sunshine Elite Academic Advance Half-Day Camp
Our Academic Advance Camps provide the chance for students to learn more advanced math and reading skills during Summer therefore be more academic success in the next school year. We usually have 6 morning academic camps in Summer. Students can join all of 6 camps to continue their learning journey week after week, or students can join for any week(s) to learn at a customized pace.
The curriculum used in the camp also aligns with the skills required by ITBS/OSAS math and reading for the TAG or SUMMA tests.
(a) Singapore Math/Math Olympiad/Word Problem Solvings
(b) Advanced Reading and Vocabulary by Wordly Wise or Classical Root
(e) Break and SnackNote: We provide books and materials used in the camp. We will also offer lunch options for students who are doing the full day camp.
Instructor: Carolina Zhou; Merveille Musangu08/12 to 08/16 5 half day Monday-Friday 9:00am-12:00pm $250/camp Location: 16100 NW Cornell Road Suite 210 Room 3This is the 3rd out of 3 CogAt camps. This week of camp will work on refining the CogAt skills by more practice tests and also focus more on the challenge sections to improve.
Academic Advance and SUMMA Test Preparation CogAt Camp for Grade 3
This 3 weekly-half-day camp package is to prepare students for the CogAt tests in the coming Fall term.
This is a SUMMA Package for rising 3rd graders in Elementary school who would like to prepare for the SUMMA CogAt tests. The tests can be selected to take in the coming Fall semester. Scoring 99 percentile in CogAt test will qualify for SUMMA in middle school. Or scoring one 99 percentile in ITBS Math or Reading, plus one 97 percentile in another ITBS test or CogAt test will qualify for SUMMA too.
This camp will teach the skills for all 9 sections in CogAt tests and do practice and mock tests. Summer CogAt test preparation are designed to finish by 3 weeks of half-day camps. In the frist 2 weeks, we will work through 9 sections of CogAt: Verbal Analogy, Verbal Classification, Verbal Sentence Completion, Number Analogy, Number Puzzles, Number Series, Figure Analogy, Figure Classification, and Paper Folding. In the third week, we will refine the skills by working on the challenge sections and do more practice tests.
Instructor: Curran Gregory
Note: We will assign an online assessement test for each section along the camp days so that parents will get the student performance report by those online assessment tests.08/12 to 08/16 5 half day Monday-Friday 9:00am-12:00pm $250/camp Location: 16100 NW Cornell Road Suite 210 Room 4This is the 3rd out of 3 CogAt camps. This week of camp will work on refining the CogAt skills by more practice tests and also focus more on the challenge sections to improve.
Academic Advance and SUMMA Test Preparation CogAt Camp for Grade 5
This 3 weekly-half-day camp package is to prepare students for the CogAt tests in the coming Fall term.
This is a SUMMA Package for rising 5th graders in Elementary school who would like to prepare for the SUMMA CogAt tests. The tests can be selected to take in the coming Fall semester. Scoring 99 percentile in CogAt test will qualify for SUMMA in middle school. Or scoring one 99 percentile in ITBS Math or Reading, plus one 97 percentile in another ITBS test or CogAt test will qualify for SUMMA too.
This camp will teach the skills for all 9 sections in CogAt tests and do practice and mock tests. Summer CogAt test preparation are designed to finish by 3 weeks of half-day camps. In the frist 2 weeks, we will work through 9 sections of CogAt: Verbal Analogy, Verbal Classification, Verbal Sentence Completion, Number Analogy, Number Puzzles, Number Series, Figure Analogy, Figure Classification, and Paper Folding. In the third week, we will refine the skills by working on the challenge sections and do more practice tests.
Instructor: Addison Lopiccolo
Note: We will assign an online assessement test for each section along the camp days so that parents will get the student performance report by those online assessment tests.08/12 to 08/16 5 half days Monday-Friday 1:00pm-4:00pm $250/camp Location: 16100 NW Cornell Road Suite 210 Room 3Visual Art Camp
The art camp is aimed to foster young student's general appropriation toward arts and to learn basic skills for their artistic expressions such as painting and sketching.
This camp will teach students observing the real world in fine drawing and quick sketches from life. The camp will introduce basic concepts of shapes and forms, volume, textures, values of shades basic design, 1-3 Prospective, basic color theory, and many more. Trying to complete a piece of work in each day. Further their interests and knowledge in art making.
The camp will also introduce students the history of Art - Students will learn the different styles of famous artists while learning basic art history.
08/12 to 08/16 5 half days Monday-Friday 9:00am-12:00pm $250/camp Location: 16100 NW Cornell Road Suite 210 Room 5Writing can be fun! This camp is for both those who love to write and those who are intimidated by writing but want to improve in a supportive atmosphere. All students who sign up should love reading and want to learn about writing. We focus on content and creativity, not grammar or “strict rules.” Each day will have different kinds of writing exercises. We use all of our senses to explore creative nonfiction, genre fiction (fantasy, romance, sci-fi, etc.), poetry, and the short story. We’ll also discuss publications that accept submissions from young writers. With individualized attention, your child will become clear and confident in their written communication.
Instructor: Addison Lopiccolo(2 spots left)
08/12 to 08/16 5 half days Monday-Friday 9:00am-12:00pm $250/camp Location: 16100 NW Cornell Road Suite 210 Room 6This camp is limited to 10 students.
This camp will teach the basics of Python programming by solving small problems through hands-on projects.
The camp will also briefly introduce students to the ACSL Junor computer programming contest.
Instructor: Shilpa Sharma08/12 to 08/16 5 half day Monday-Friday 1:00pm-4:00pm $250/camp Location: 16100 NW Cornell Road Suite 210 Room 6This is the 3rd Robotics Camp for Grade 3-6. We will continue to explore the different ways to build Robotics and learn how to control it by coding too. Students who missed the 1st and 2nd Robotics camps are still ok to join this camp.
Sunshine Elite Robotics Camp for Grade 3-6
We believe that every child is a scientist and that we can help children become even better scientists!
Robotics is a great way to inspire students to learn about math, science, and technology!
Sunshine Elite Robotics Camp for 3rd-6th graders introduces the world's coolest robotics program as listed in Robots from National Geographic KIDS.
Students will be instructed in the basics of robotics before experimenting themselves with the amazing LEGO EV3 Robotic Toolkits and the latest Spike Prime Toolkits. Through hands-on learning, Students will have lots of fun and gain exceptional knowledge about design, construction, mechanics, and programming.
We are using LEGO Mindstorms Education EV3 Comprehensive Solution in this classroom, plus the latest Spike Prime Toolkits which is used for FLL Challenge Team competition.
Instructor: Tristan Barthel08/12 to 08/16 5 half day Monday-Friday 1:00pm-4:00pm $250/camp Location: 16100 NW Cornell Road Suite 210 Room 5This camp is designed to prepare students to compete in interscholastic debate competitions. Units will cover common formats of individual and partnered debate. Building on fundamental skills introduced in earlier speech and debate courses, this camp introduces students to the research, preparation, and strategy requirements of competitive debate.
Unit 1: Introduction to Debate
1. Introduce students to some basic concepts and terms.
2. Involve students in an informal debate.Unit 2: Expanding on the concept of debate
1. Observe a live or videotaped debate.
2. Take part in an informal debate.Unit 3: Affirmative Structure
1. Gain an understanding of the Affirmative philosophy.
2. Examine the speech of the first Affirmative.Unit 4: Overview of Negative Strategy
1. Understand negative strategy.
2. understand the job of the first Negative speakerUnit 5: Overview of Debate
1. Second Affirmative Constructive Speech
2. Second Negative Constructive Speech
3. The Break
4. Rebuttal by First Negative
5. Rebuttal by First AffirmativeUnit 6: The Great debate (Discussion, Preparation, Presentation)
Provide students an opportunity to prepare and debate in a formal style.
Debate is an excellent way to develop critical thinking skills. The process of researching a debate is one of examining the pros and cons of an issue, determining what the problems are and considering alternative solutions. The research and presentation of a debate is clearly a team effort, and participation in activities like debate explicitly develops the skills needed to work in teams.
Instructor: Julie Weindel08/12 to 08/16 5 Classes Monday-Friday 1:00pm-4:00pm $250/camp Location: 16100 NW Cornell Road Suite 210 Room 4AFA CyberCamps are designed for high school and middle school students who are just getting into cybersecurity or who have cybersecurity knowledge and want to learn more. Camps are hosted by approved organizations and institutions that register with the CyberPatriot Program Office.
TYPES OF CAMPS
STANDARD CAMP ($1,200) ADVANCED CAMP ($1,500) Intro to CyberPatriot YES NO Intro to Virtual Machines YES NO Cyber Ethics YES YES Windows 10 Security PoliciesAccount ManagementFile ProtectionsAuditing & MonitoringGraphical Utilities WindowsCommand LineSysinternals SuiteUbuntu 18 Terminology & ConceptsBasic User Interface SecurityBasic Command LineIntermediate SecurityInit SystemsAdvanced Command LineProcesses and Scheduled TasksSecurity Policies and PAMNetworkingCisco NetAcad NO YES Competition Day YES YES Advanced Camp Schedule
The Advanced Camp curriculum is designed to allow instructors to pick and choose which areas of interests their students might best learn from. There is more information made available than will fit in a four-hour camp day -- instructors have the option to pick the topics which are best suited for their session. Friday must be reserved for the CyberPatriot competition.
- Windows 10 Module -- Windows Graphical Utilities, Windows Command Line, optional Sysinternals Suite.
- Ubuntu 18 Module -- Init Systems, Advanced Command Line, Processes and Scheduled Tasks, optional Security Policies and PAM, optional Networking.
- Cisco NetAcad -- Networking Modules 1-3.
Sample Schedule :
- Monday - Cyber Ethics Module, Windows 10 Module
- Tuesday - Windows 10 Module, Ubuntu 18
- Wednesday - Ubuntu 18 Module
- Thursday - Cisco Networking
- Friday - CyberPatriot competition day. Teams of students compete against each other on advanced Windows 10 and Ubuntu 18 images.
Week 1-6 (07/08-08/16)
(full)
07/08 to 08/16 6 term By Schedule 9:00am-5:00pm $0/term Location: Online13Volunteer Opportunity for 8th graders and high school students
Sunshine is seeking enthusiastic 8th graders and high school students to join us as volunteer teacher assistants for our Sunshine Elite summer camps or afterschool program. We offer flexible volunteer hours, allowing you to choose slots that fit your schedule once your application is approved.
To volunteer at Sunshine, you must meet the following requirements:
1. Be a rising 8th grader or high school student with a GPA of 3.8 or above.
2. Commit to volunteering for at least 15 hours during the summer or once a week during the school terms.
Why Volunteering Holds Value for You:
1. Gain Valuable Experience: Participating in our volunteer program offers an opportunity to acquire working and tutoring skills. Through a comprehensive 3-hour in-person training session led by our professional educators, volunteers will develop essential communication and mentoring abilities crucial for working with young children. These skills will be put into practice during your volunteer activities.
2. Contribute to Your Community: Your involvement as a volunteer allows you to share your strengths with the community. Many children are still grappling with learning gaps, especially in the aftermath of COVID-19. By dedicating your time, you're making personalized learning more accessible for numerous families. Your mentoring efforts have the potential to positively impact and motivate countless young individuals within our community.
3. Opportunity for PVSA Prestigious Recognition: Engaging in volunteer work also presents the chance to earn the President’s Volunteer Service Award (PVSA), a distinguished national honor that acknowledges volunteer dedication. This award celebrates the most exceptional volunteers and highlights the significant difference you're making through your contributions.
4. Qualify for Sunshine Elite Scholarship: Volunteering hours at Sunshine Elite can help students qualify for various levels of the Sunshine Elite Scholarship.Application Process:Instructor: Shilpa Sharma; Connor Nelson
1. Begin by registering for the "Sunshine Volunteer Signup" on the Sunshine website. Upon signing up, you will gain access to the course "Sunshine Volunteer Application" within your Sunshine account.
2. Proceed to complete your application by following the instructions on the "Class Page" assignment labeled "Submit Application Material". This entails submitting your most recent school transcript along with an essay about yourself covering the specified topics.
3. Sign up volunteer slots. Upon receiving the approval email from Sunshine, you can proceed to schedule your volunteer slots using the scheduling interface available in your Sunshine account.Week 1 (07/08-07/12)
(full)
07/08 to 07/12 5 half days Monday-Friday 9:00am-12:00pm $250/camp Location: 16100 NW Cornell Road Suite 210 Room 8This is the 1st camp out of 6 Academic Advance camps for Grade K-2. The camp is limited to 10 students.
Sunshine Elite Academic Advance Half-Day Camp
Our Academic Advance Camps provide the chance for students to learn more advanced math and reading skills during Summer therefore be more academic success in the next school year. We usually have 6 morning academic camps in Summer. Students can join all of 6 camps to continue their learning journey week after week, or students can join for any week(s) to learn at a customized pace.
The curriculum used in the camp also aligns with the skills required by ITBS/OSAS math and reading for the TAG or SUMMA tests.
(a) Singapore Math
(b) Reading and Vocabulary, Story telling
(c) Creative Writing and Writing Skills
(e) Break and SnackNote: We provide books and materials used in the camp. We will also offer lunch options for students who are doing the full day camp.
Instructor: Shilpa Sharma; Carolina Zhou; Olive Anderson07/08 to 07/12 5 half day Monday-Friday 1:00pm-4:00pm $250/camp Location: 16100 NW Cornell Road Suite 210 Room 5Sunshine Elite Life Science Camp for Grade K-2
We believe that every child is a scientist and that we can make children grow and become even better scientists!
Our life science camp adopts New Jersey standard for elementary science education plus unique Sunshine Elite style to foster creative thinking throughout hand-on experiences and research topics.
We will discuss and work on the following topics:
Life Cycle, Ecosystem
Understanding of the life-cycles of various creatures and plants in order to understand the world around us and to connect ourselves with nature
Understanding of the interdependence of living organisms in their environment
(1) Understanding of the impact of human activities on the environment
(2) Plant genetics and field trips to Natural Park/Greenhouse(3) Research Topic: How animals, such as Monkey, Elephant, mice communicate?
(4) Human Body Systems - various organs, systems and their fuctions in human body
(5) Study Human body cells under microscope : To Understand that all living organisms are composed of cells; understand that cells grow and divide to form many cells which perform specialized functions
Instructor: Kyle GoldenLearning basic building blocks of conducting scientific research (HOW TO THINK LIKE A SCIENTIST):
- Aims : choosing the right question or aim of the investigation
- Hypothesis: Make a guess on the outcome of the results
- Experiments or literature review: planning how to collect information or data
07/08 to 07/12 5 half days Monday-Friday 9:00am-12:00pm $250/camp Location: 16100 NW Cornell Road Suite 210 Room 6This is the 1st out of 6 Academic Advance camps for grade 3-5 in Summer. This camp is limited to 10 students.
Sunshine Elite Academic Advance Half-Day Camp
Our Academic Advance Camps provide the chance for students to learn more advanced math and reading skills during Summer therefore be more academic success in the next school year. We usually have 6 morning academic camps in Summer. Students can join all of 6 camps to continue their learning journey week after week, or students can join for any week(s) to learn at a customized pace.
The curriculum used in the camp also aligns with the skills required by ITBS/OSAS math and reading for the TAG or SUMMA tests.
(a) Singapore Math/Math Olympiad/Word Problem Solvings
(b) Advanced Reading and Vocabulary by Wordly Wise or Classical Root
(e) Break and SnackNote: We provide books and materials used in the camp. We will also offer lunch options for students who are doing the full day camp.
Instructor: Shilpa Sharma; Carolina Zhou; Olive Anderson07/08 to 07/12 5 half day Monday-Friday 9:00am-12:00pm $250/camp Location: 16100 NW Cornell Road Suite 210 Room 2This is the 1st out of 3 CogAt camps. This week of camp will work on 5 sections: Verbal Analogy, Verbal Classfication, Verbal Sentence Completion, Number Analogy and Number Series
Academic Advance and SUMMA Test Preparation CogAt Camp for Grade 3
This 3 weekly-half-day camp package is to prepare students for the CogAt tests in the coming Fall term.
This is a SUMMA Package for rising 3rd graders in Elementary school who would like to prepare for the SUMMA CogAt tests. The tests can be selected to take in the coming Fall semester. Scoring 99 percentile in CogAt test will qualify for SUMMA in middle school. Or scoring one 99 percentile in ITBS Math or Reading, plus one 97 percentile in another ITBS test or CogAt test will qualify for SUMMA too.
This camp will teach the skills for all 9 sections in CogAt tests and do practice and mock tests. Summer CogAt test preparation are designed to finish by 3 weeks of half-day camps. In the frist 2 weeks, we will work through 9 sections of CogAt: Verbal Analogy, Verbal Classification, Verbal Sentence Completion, Number Analogy, Number Puzzles, Number Series, Figure Analogy, Figure Classification, and Paper Folding. In the third week, we will refine the skills by working on the challenge sections and do more practice tests.
Instructor: Curran Gregory; Shilpa Sharma
Note: We will assign an online assessement test for each section along the camp days so that parents will get the student performance report by those online assessment tests.07/08 to 07/12 5 half day Monday-Friday 9:00am-12:00pm $250/camp Location: 16100 NW Cornell Road Suite 210 Room 5This is the 1st out of 2 CogAt camps.
Academic Advance and SUMMA Test Preparation CogAt Camp for Grade 5
This 3 weekly-half-day camp package is to prepare students for the CogAt tests in the coming Fall term.
This is a SUMMA Package for rising 5th graders in Elementary school who would like to prepare for the SUMMA CogAt tests. The tests can be selected to take in the coming Fall semester. Scoring 99 percentile in CogAt test will qualify for SUMMA in middle school. Or scoring one 99 percentile in ITBS Math or Reading, plus one 97 percentile in another ITBS test or CogAt test will qualify for SUMMA too.
This camp will teach the skills for all 9 sections in CogAt tests and do practice and mock tests. Summer CogAt test preparation are designed to finish by 3 weeks of half-day camps. In the frist 2 weeks, we will work through 9 sections of CogAt: Verbal Analogy, Verbal Classification, Verbal Sentence Completion, Number Analogy, Number Puzzles, Number Series, Figure Analogy, Figure Classification, and Paper Folding. In the third week, we will refine the skills by working on the challenge sections and do more practice tests.
Instructor: Shilpa Sharma; Pamela Robinson; Addison Lopiccolo
Note: We will assign an online assessement test for each section along the camp days so that parents will get the student performance report by those online assessment tests.07/08 to 07/12 5 half day Monday-Friday 1:00pm-4:00pm $250/camp Location: 16100 NW Cornell Road Suite 210 Room 6This is the first Robotics Camp. We will start to build the Robotics and learn how to control it by coding too.
Sunshine Elite Robotics Camp for Grade 3-6
We believe that every child is a scientist and that we can help children become even better scientists!
Robotics is a great way to inspire students to learn about math, science, and technology!
Sunshine Elite Robotics Camp for 3rd-6th graders introduces the world's coolest robotics program as listed in Robots from National Geographic KIDS.
Students will be instructed in the basics of robotics before experimenting themselves with the amazing LEGO EV3 Robotic Toolkits and the latest Spike Prime Toolkits. Through hands-on learning, Students will have lots of fun and gain exceptional knowledge about design, construction, mechanics, and programming.
We are using LEGO Mindstorms Education EV3 Comprehensive Solution in this classroom, plus the latest Spike Prime Toolkits which is used for FLL Challenge Team competition.
Instructor: Tristan Barthel; Jerry Sherrard07/08 to 07/12 5 Monday-Friday 9:00am-12:00pm $250/camp Location: 16100 NW Cornell Road Suite 210 Room 7This is the 1st out of 4 camps for learning PreAlgebra in summer. This camp will learn PreAlgebra Chapter 1-2.
PreAlgebra Camp for Rising Grade 6-7
This Summer Camp is for students who want to learn PreAlgebra or refine their PreAlgebra skills so that they are ready to learn Algebra 1.
Each Lesson gives several examples and explanation of the math topic, and have 10-20 practice questions as assignments. Students will be able to complete the PreAlgebra in 6-week of half day PreAlgebra camps.
Instructor: Janani Maheswaran07/08 to 07/12 5 Camp Monday-Friday 9:00am-12:00pm $250/camp Location: 16100 NW Cornell Road Suite 210 Room 4This is the 1st out of 2 camps for SSAT/HSPT Vocabulary/Reading/Essay test preparation in summer.
This is the SSAT/HSPT Vocabulary/Reading/Writing test prep camp for Middle school students preparing Private High school entry tests. The class will cover information about the format of the SSAT/HSPT, its timing, scoring, and content, We will learn through the test skills and tips by practice tests for each section.
We will use some printed materials for Vocabulary, Reading and Writing skills, and we will also use online tests for practice and mock the real tests. All materials will be provided in the camp. We will have Ipads in the camp for students doing the online tests.The SSAT score is required by OES, Catlin Cable high school application or it can be used to qualify the talented search program such as Johns Hopkins for talented youth https://cty.jhu.edu/. SSAT tests usually are hosted by some local schools like OES, Catlin Cable. The tests are usually offered in December, January, and February.
The HSPT test is similar to the SSAT test, which is used by the Christian High schools like Jesuit, St. Mary, or Valley Catholic. HSPT test is usually offered in January by the private school like Jesuit.
Instructor: Julie Hlad07/08 to 07/12 5 Classes Monday-Friday 1:00pm-4:00pm $250/camp Location: 16100 NW Cornell Road Suite 210 Room 4MathCounts is a national middle school mathematics competition that builds problem-solving skills and fosters achievement through four levels of fun, in-person "bee" style contests. Some students love math. Other students fear math. MATHCOUNTS is the place for both. It provides engaging math programs to U.S. middle school students of all ability levels to build confidence and improve attitudes towards math and problem-solving.
The American Mathematics Competitions (AMC) 8 is a 25-question, 40-minute, multiple-choice examination in middle school mathematics designed to promote the development and enhancement of problem-solving skills. The contest is held in November every year and for students in grades 8 and below.
We designed 2-week of summer camps for students to learn the common problem-solving strategies for both competitions and also working on the previous years of tests for practice. The 2 camps will focus on different topics and use different practice materials. It's best that students can join both camps, but it's also ok to join one of them.Prerequisites: Students have at least completed PreAlgebra; It's better if students have completed or learning Algebra I and Geometry.
Textbook:
Instructor: Peng LinWeek 2 (07/15-07/19)
(full)
07/15 to 07/19 5 half days Monday-Friday 9:00am-12:00pm $250/camp Location: 16100 NW Cornell Road Suite 210 Room 8This is the 2nd camp out of 6 Academic Advance camps for Grade K-2. The camp is limited to 10 students.
Sunshine Elite Academic Advance Half-Day Camp
Our Academic Advance Camps provide the chance for students to learn more advanced math and reading skills during Summer therefore be more academic success in the next school year. We usually have 6 morning academic camps in Summer. Students can join all of 6 camps to continue their learning journey week after week, or students can join for any week(s) to learn at a customized pace.
The curriculum used in the camp also aligns with the skills required by ITBS/OSAS math and reading for the TAG or SUMMA tests.
(a) Singapore Math
(b) Reading and Vocabulary, Story telling
(c) Creative Writing and Writing Skills
(e) Break and SnackNote: We provide books and materials used in the camp. We will also offer lunch options for students who are doing the full day camp.
Instructor: Shilpa Sharma; Merveille Musangu; Olive Anderson07/15 to 07/19 5 half day Monday-Friday 9:00am-12:00pm $250/camp Location: 16100 NW Cornell Road Suite 210 Room 3Creative Writing: Making Stories Together For Grade K-3rd grade
Make stories using all of your senses. This writing workshop emphasizes children's ideas. They will build, sketch, and cut and paste their ideas using unconventional creative materials; then find the words and writing conventions that support what they really want to say. Children will learn new techniques for getting inspired and bringing their ideas to paper. At the end of this week-long creative writing workshop, children will hand-make a bound book to bring home.Instructor: Addison Lopiccolo07/15 to 07/19 5 half day Monday-Friday 1:00pm-4:00pm $250/camp Location: 16100 NW Cornell Road Suite 210 Room 1This camp is limited to 10 students.
Astronomy Science Camp for Grade K-2
We believe that every child is a scientist and that we can make children grow and become even better scientists!
Our Solar and Earth Science Camp combines knowledge, creative thinking, research projects, and introduces newly advanced technology in space science.
We would like students to know the only limitation in science is your own imagination.We will discuss and work on the following topics:
(1) Solar system and the dream of living on Mars.
(2) Research Topic: The critical work of Katherine Johnson
(3) Earth Rocks and Gems, Field trip to Rock Museum(4) Cutting-edge Technology in Space Science: Introducing A Newly Discovered Solar System: Kepler-90 System Planets
(5) Research Topic: What is the Kepler Space Telescope?NASA and Google announced the newly discovered planet orbits the star known as Kepler-90, eight-planet solar system. The system is about 2,545 light-years away. Researchers have named the planet Kepler-90i. Like Earth, Kepler-90i is the third farthest planet from its sun......
Google used data from NASA’s special planet-hunting device, called the Kepler Space Telescope, to locate Kepler-90i. The company used the data to develop a computer program with machine learning.......
Instructor: Kyle Golden
07/15 to 07/19 5 half days Monday-Friday 9:00am-12:00pm $250/camp Location: 16100 NW Cornell Road Suite 210 Room 6This is the 2nd out of 6 Academic Advance camps for Grade3-5. The camp is limited to 10 students.
Sunshine Elite Academic Advance Half-Day Camp
Our Academic Advance Camps provide the chance for students to learn more advanced math and reading skills during Summer therefore be more academic success in the next school year. We usually have 6 morning academic camps in Summer. Students can join all of 6 camps to continue their learning journey week after week, or students can join for any week(s) to learn at a customized pace.
The curriculum used in the camp also aligns with the skills required by ITBS/OSAS math and reading for the TAG or SUMMA tests.
(a) Singapore Math/Math Olympiad/Word Problem Solvings
(b) Advanced Reading and Vocabulary by Wordly Wise or Classical Root
(e) Break and SnackNote: We provide books and materials used in the camp. We will also offer lunch options for students who are doing the full day camp.
Instructor: Shilpa Sharma; Olive Anderson; Merveille Musangu07/15 to 07/19 5 half day Monday-Friday 9:00am-12:00pm $250/camp Location: 16100 NW Cornell Road Suite 210 Room 5This is the 2nd out of 3 CogAt camps. This week of camp will work on 4 sections: Number Series, Figure Analogy, Figure Classification and Figure Paper Folding.
Academic Advance and SUMMA Test Preparation CogAt Camp for Grade 5
This 3 weekly-half-day camp package is to prepare students for the CogAt tests in the coming Fall term.
This is a SUMMA Package for rising 5th graders in Elementary school who would like to prepare for the SUMMA CogAt tests. The tests can be selected to take in the coming Fall semester. Scoring 99 percentile in CogAt test will qualify for SUMMA in middle school. Or scoring one 99 percentile in ITBS Math or Reading, plus one 97 percentile in another ITBS test or CogAt test will qualify for SUMMA too.
This camp will teach the skills for all 9 sections in CogAt tests and do practice and mock tests. Summer CogAt test preparation are designed to finish by 3 weeks of half-day camps. In the frist 2 weeks, we will work through 9 sections of CogAt: Verbal Analogy, Verbal Classification, Verbal Sentence Completion, Number Analogy, Number Puzzles, Number Series, Figure Analogy, Figure Classification, and Paper Folding. In the third week, we will refine the skills by working on the challenge sections and do more practice tests.
Instructor: Pamela Robinson
Note: We will assign an online assessement test for each section along the camp days so that parents will get the student performance report by those online assessment tests.07/15 to 07/19 5 half day Monday-Friday 9:00am-12:00pm $250/camp Location: 16100 NW Cornell Road Suite 210 Room 2This is the 2nd out of 3 CogAt camps. This week of camp will work on 4 sections: Number Series, Figure Analogy, Figure Classification and Figure Paper Folding.
Academic Advance and SUMMA Test Preparation CogAt Camp for Grade 3
This 3 weekly-half-day camp package is to prepare students for the CogAt tests in the coming Fall term.
This is a SUMMA Package for rising 3rd graders in Elementary school who would like to prepare for the SUMMA CogAt tests. The tests can be selected to take in the coming Fall semester. Scoring 99 percentile in CogAt test will qualify for SUMMA in middle school. Or scoring one 99 percentile in ITBS Math or Reading, plus one 97 percentile in another ITBS test or CogAt test will qualify for SUMMA too.
This camp will teach the skills for all 9 sections in CogAt tests and do practice and mock tests. Summer CogAt test preparation are designed to finish by 3 weeks of half-day camps. In the frist 2 weeks, we will work through 9 sections of CogAt: Verbal Analogy, Verbal Classification, Verbal Sentence Completion, Number Analogy, Number Puzzles, Number Series, Figure Analogy, Figure Classification, and Paper Folding. In the third week, we will refine the skills by working on the challenge sections and do more practice tests.
Instructor: Curran Gregory
Note: We will assign an online assessement test for each section along the camp days so that parents will get the student performance report by those online assessment tests.(full)
07/15 to 07/19 5 half day Monday-Friday 1:00pm-4:00pm $250/camp Location: 16100 NW Cornell Road Suite 210 Room 6This is the second Robotics Camp for Grade 3-6. We will continue to explore the different ways to build our Robotics and learn how to control it by coding too. Students who missed the first Robotics camp are still ok to join this camp.
Sunshine Elite Robotics Camp for Grade 3-6
We believe that every child is a scientist and that we can help children become even better scientists!
Robotics is a great way to inspire students to learn about math, science, and technology!
Sunshine Elite Robotics Camp for 3rd-6th graders introduces the world's coolest robotics program as listed in Robots from National Geographic KIDS.
Students will be instructed in the basics of robotics before experimenting themselves with the amazing LEGO EV3 Robotic Toolkits and the latest Spike Prime Toolkits. Through hands-on learning, Students will have lots of fun and gain exceptional knowledge about design, construction, mechanics, and programming.
We are using LEGO Mindstorms Education EV3 Comprehensive Solution in this classroom, plus the latest Spike Prime Toolkits which is used for FLL Challenge Team competition.
Instructor: Tristan Barthel; Jerry Sherrard07/15 to 07/19 5 half day Monday-Friday 1:00pm-4:00pm $250/camp Location: 16100 NW Cornell Road Suite 210 Room 5This is the Speech/Debate camp for Grade 3-5. It helps to build up students' confidence and speech skills by practice with different topics and different strategies.
Public Speech/Debate Camp
This camp focuses on public speech and oral communication. Students will build up confidence and learn communication skills in the camp. We will go through following 5 units
Unit 1: Introduction to Speech
Students will learn essential speech techniques that they will be developing over the course of the class. They will learn the process of writing and prepare a speech and set goals for their learning.Unit 2: Informative
Students will learn the effective public speaking skills through 4 types of informative speeches by practice. The 4 types of informative speeches we will learn and practice in this unit are: Definition Speech, Explanatory Speech, Descriptive Speech and Demonstrative Speech.Unit 3: Persuade
Students will learn the value of and techniques to speak persuasively. They will be able to determine the difference between fact and opinion based argument, and effectively persuade an identified audience using sound reasoning and relevant evidence.Unit 4: Entertain
Students will learn the value of and ways to speak to entertain a specific audience, practising with both ideas of their own and others’. Students will work through the process of developing a speech to inform and presenting with appropriate tone and body language for the audience and purpose.Unit 5: Introduction to Debate
Instructor: Kimberly Bartels
Students will be able to understand opposing viewpoints then choose and defend one viewpoint or the other, using logical reasoning and relevant evidence in the appropriate debate format.07/15 to 07/19 5 Monday-Friday 9:00am-12:00pm $250/camp Location: 16100 NW Cornell Road Suite 210 Room 7This is the 2nd out of 4 camps for learning PreAlgebra in summer. This camp will learn PreAlgebra Chapter 3-5.
PreAlgebra Camp for Rising Grade 6-7
This Summer Camp is for students who want to learn PreAlgebra or refine their PreAlgebra skills so that they are ready to learn Algebra 1.
Each Lesson gives several examples and explanation of the math topic, and have 10-20 practice questions as assignments. Students will be able to complete the PreAlgebra in 6-week of half day PreAlgebra camps.
Instructor: Janani Maheswaran07/15 to 07/19 5 Camp Monday-Friday 9:00am-12:00pm $250/camp Location: 16100 NW Cornell Road Suite 210 Room 4This is the 2nd out of 2 camps for SSAT/HSPT Vocabulary/Reading/Essay test preparation in summer. This camp will use more material to further refine the vocabulary, reading and essay writing skills for the SSAT/HSPT tests.
This is the SSAT/HSPT Vocabulary/Reading/Writing test prep camp for Middle school students preparing Private High school entry tests. The class will cover information about the format of the SSAT/HSPT, its timing, scoring, and content, We will learn through the test skills and tips by practice tests for each section.
We will use some printed materials for Vocabulary, Reading and Writing skills, and we will also use online tests for practice and mock the real tests. All materials will be provided in the camp. We will have Ipads in the camp for students doing the online tests.The SSAT score is required by OES, Catlin Cable high school application or it can be used to qualify the talented search program such as Johns Hopkins for talented youth https://cty.jhu.edu/. SSAT tests usually are hosted by some local schools like OES, Catlin Cable. The tests are usually offered in December, January, and February.
The HSPT test is similar to the SSAT test, which is used by the Christian High schools like Jesuit, St. Mary, or Valley Catholic. HSPT test is usually offered in January by the private school like Jesuit.
Instructor: Julie Hlad07/15 to 07/19 5 Classes Monday-Friday 1:00pm-4:00pm $250/camp Location: 16100 NW Cornell Road Suite 210 Room 4Java Programming Language is one of the most popular programming languages particularly for client–server web applications. Java is high-level, class-based, object-oriented programming language that is designed to have as few implementation dependencies as possible. It is a general-purpose programming language intended to let programmers write once, run anywhere, meaning that compiled Java code can run on all platforms that support Java without the need for recompilation. Java applications are typically
compiled to bytecode that can run on any Java virtual machine regardless of the underlying computer architecture.Fundamental of Java - AP Computer Science A Part 1:
Topics to be covered:
Unit 1: Primitive Types
Unit 2: Using Objects
Unit 3: Boolean Expressions and if Statements
Unit 4: Iteration
Unit 5: Writing ClassesNote: Each class will follow a format: Computer science Concepts, Programming activity, Quiz.
Reference Information:
College Board (collegeboard.org) AP Computer Science A Course and Exam Description, Effective Fall 2019
https://apstudents.collegeboard.org/sites/default/files/2019-05/ap-computer-science-a-course-and-exam-description.pdf
Instructor: Peng LinWeek 3 (07/22-07/26)
07/22 to 07/26 5 half days Monday-Friday 9:00am-12:00pm $250/camp Location: 16100 NW Cornell Road Suite 210 Room 8This is the 3rd camp out of 6 Academic Advance camps for grade 1-5. The camp is limited to 16 students.
Sunshine Elite Academic Advance Half-Day Camp
Our Academic Advance Camps provide the chance for students to learn more advanced math and reading skills during Summer therefore be more academic success in the next school year. We usually have 6 morning academic camps in Summer. Students can join all of 6 camps to continue their learning journey week after week, or students can join for any week(s) to learn at a customized pace.
The curriculum used in the camp also aligns with the skills required by ITBS/OSAS math and reading for the TAG or SUMMA tests.
(a) Singapore Math
(b) Reading and Vocabulary, Story telling
(c) Creative Writing and Writing Skills
(e) Break and SnackNote: We provide books and materials used in the camp. We will also offer lunch options for students who are doing the full day camp.
Instructor: Shilpa Sharma; Carolina Zhou; Merveille Musangu07/22 to 07/26 5 half day Monday-Friday 1:00pm-4:00pm $250/camp Location: 16100 NW Cornell Road Suite 210 Room 6This is the first week of Robotics Camp for Grade K-2. We will start to build the Robotics and learn how to control it by coding too.
Sunshine Elite Robotics Camp for K-2
We believe that every child is a scientist and that we can help children become even better scientists!
Robotics is a great way to inspire students to learn about math, science, and technology!
This Robotics Camp for K-2nd graders introduces the world's coolest robotics program as listed in Robots from National Geographic KIDS.
Students will be instructed in the basics of robotics before experimenting themselves with the amazing LEGO Creators, LEGO Boost Educational Robots and the new Spike Essential Toolkits. Through hands-on learning, students will have lots of fun and gain exceptional knowledge about design, construction, mechanics, and programming.
Instructor: Tristan Barthel