Growing Brains Activities

Overview of Initiatives

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Leadership/Obstacle Courses

•Team building

•Problem Solving

Skills

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Moot Trials

•Law

•Debating

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Skills

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Spaghetti Bridge Building

•Team building

•Problem Solving

•Physics

Skills

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Tinker Lab

Skills•Problem Solving

•Confidence Building

•Manual Skills

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Deconstructing Appliances

Skills• Engineering

•Manual Skills

• Science

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Skills• Engineering

•Manual Skills

• Science

Rocketry

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Learning Farms

Skills•Earth Sciences

•Confidence Building

•Manual Skills

•Food Education

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Cooking

Skills•Sciences

•Confidence Building

•Manual Skills

•Food Education

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Forensics

Skills

•Sciences

•Team Building

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Animation

Skills•Communications

•Team Building

•Manual Skills

•Writing

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Skills• Communication

• Team Building

• Writing

Film Academy

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Music

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Skills•Design

•Team Building

•Manual Skills

•Communication

Fashion/Design

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Programming

Skills•Programming

•Team Building

•Mathematics

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System Dynamics

Skills• System Thinking

• Mathematics

• Programming

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Dinner Conference Show

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Summer Programs

SkillsPossible Partners•Academics

•Foreign Languages

•Career Orientation

• Academic Institutions

•Professional Organizations

•Corporations

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Summer Programs

• Counselling/Services on existing programs

• Taylor made programs with different

degrees of outsourcing

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Design LodgingTravel Location &Materials

Staff

Catalogue

Type of Courses

Custom Made

Self Produced

Several Production Options Available Example

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HistoryArchaeologyLiterature

Art HistoryPolitics/Current Affairs

Law

Creative WritingFilm Academy

AnimationDesignArts

Achitecture

PhysicsRobotics

Computer ProgrammingVideoGamesChemistryForensics

MathematicsRocketry

Earth Sciences

Humanities Sciences Creativity

Sample Topics

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Summer Programs can be structured as Themed Trips

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or Themed Cruises

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Already tested!

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

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

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

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

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Science Fair

Skills•Communications

•Research

•Manual Skills

•Science

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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

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“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

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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

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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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