Brainia Mania =
interactive and educational camp
for bright & talented kids in
Grades 4-6 (school year 16-17), August 7-11, 2017
Monday – Friday, 8 am – 5pm
Held at Great Falls College MSU, 2100 16th Ave South
To apply online or for the application, please visit:
http://sgiz.mobi/s3/BM2017App
For more information go online
http://www.gfcmsu.edu/lifelonglearning/brainiamania.html
or call: 406.268.3734
Brainia Mania is presented
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WORKSHOP DESCRIPTIONS
August 7-11, 2017
Fun with Fotos and GraFix, Instructor: Katie Kotynski
A picture is worth a thousand words, so bring your camera (or not) have some fun editing photos and creating fun graphics. We will learn
to use some free tools to spruce up your photos. Our final project will be to design some fun memes that you can upload to a webpage
or use to jazz up your homework assignments. Stock photos will be provided for those without cameras.
Candy Budget, Instructor: Summer Red
Discover the sweet rewards of financial planning with the Candy Budget, where you'll use chocolate treats to pay your bills. Challenges
abound as players navigate major life events, but the ending is guaranteed to be delicious!
HAVEN, Instructor: Summer Red
Are you brave enough for HAVEN? It’s a long and perilous trail from the plague ridden town of Nightcap to the promised safety of Haven.
Along the way you'll have to battle zombies, ghosts and werewolves, but with careful planning and smart decision-making, you'll reach
your destination with enough money to start a new life!
Bloxels: Building Video Games & Animations, Instructor: Holly Kincaid
This course will encourage exploration, experimentation, and hands-on learning while building STEM skills with Bloxels. Bloxels is a
hands-on platform that allows you to build, collaborate, and tell stories through video game creation. You will design you own video
game in this course and place it on the Infinity Wall for others to view and play.
Building Our Own Website, Instructor: Denise Jackson
Web pages are one of the best ways to communicate to the outside world. Let’s work together to learn the ins and outs of visually
stimulating and appropriate information to create a webpage for Brainia Mania Camp and ourselves.
Music Appreciation, Instructor: Tim Bass
You will get acquainted with the elements of music and the primary musical periods of traditional Western European classical music. You
will have a brief overview of the major composers and their music.
Music Theory, Instructor: Tim Bass
You will get acquainted to Basic Music Theory. You will have a brief overview of terminology, notes and clefs, treble and bass clef note
names, rests, and more.
Ballistics Study with Medieval Machines, Instructor: Michael Walker
You will work as a team to assemble a trebuchet. Using this machine, your team will study ballistics by changing one of five different
variables. You will measure how far the trebuchet flings a projectile, collect the data, analyze it, and assemble it into a simple report.
Paper Sculptures, Instructor: Sherry Tuss
Can you create a "sculpture" out of colorful papers? Let’s learn about what makes a sculpture, a sculpture. Then with your "imagination"
you will begin scoring, folding, twisting, gluing and building your own beautiful 3-dimensional sculpture to take home and display.
Fun in French, Instructor: Kathy Jackson (supported by HS French Students)
Parlez-vous français? If not, take advantage of this opportunity! Come and learn some basic French, play French games, sing songs in
French and eat crepes! We’ll spend two fun mornings immersing ourselves in the French language and culture.
Playing with Probability & Statistics, Instructor: Tom Oakberg
This workshop will have fun, hands-on activities designed to illustrate the fundamental concepts of probability and statistics. Students
will also learn how to use technology such as calculators and computers to create graphs and perform basic statistical analysis.
A Brief History of Aviation: Why does my airplane look like that? Instructor: Ben Donnelly
"A Brief History of Aviation: Why Does My Airplane Look Like That? We will study how airplanes have developed, from the Wright
Brothers to the Stealth Bomber. Why do some jets have their engines under the wings and some have them in the tail? How has warfare
shaped our airplanes? How did we go from two or three wings to one? Students will learn the history of aviation and why airplanes are,
in fact, awesome."