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Fun-filled Summer Camps
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New, exciting,
awesome camp
sessions await your
child this summer at
MMI Preparatory School
in Freeland!
Summer is on its way, so start planning today to make your child’s
break enjoyable and educational at the same time. Join MMI’s
outstanding faculty, Sciensational Camps and Box of Light for a
unique summer experience.
All camps are $150 for the week. Campers staying all day should
bring a bag lunch and will be supervised over the lunch break.
Morning and afternoon snacks are provided.
Space is truly limited, so register by June 1, 2017. Just fill out
the form at the end of this publication and send it in with your
payment to: MMI Preparatory School, Attn: Summer Camp,
154 Centre St., Freeland, PA 18224 or call 570-636-1108
to register by phone!
Week of June 26
Asian Art Camp
Time: 9 am - 12 pm
Ages: 9 - 15
Class Size: 10 minimum
Instructor: Mrs. Christina Spencer
Price: $150
This Chinese Mandarin immersion and Asian Art experience is designed to give
campers the opportunity to learn some Mandarin while participating in culturallyrich activities such as drawing, brush painting, calligraphy, lantern making and
kite making. Each camper will get personalized instruction and care. Campers will
develop cultural awareness and heighten their knowledge of global communities
through fun, interactive lessons and activities.
Week of June 26
Silly Storybook Theater Camp
Time: 9 am - 12 pm
Ages: 6 - 10
Class Size: 10 minimum
Instructor: Mrs. Joanne Oakum
Price: $150
Like to laugh? Silly kids only for this MMI Summer Camp! Campers will produce
and perform amusing plays based on classic storybook tales such as Snow White,
Jack and the Beanstalk, Cinderella, and The Three Little Pigs. The children will
participate in creating dialogue, props, scenery and costumes. Our camp pledge
is fun, fun, fun for all Storybook campers! Families are invited on the last day of
camp to be audience members for our ‘Big Time Production!’
Ooey Gooey Science Camp
Time: 12:30 pm - 3:30 pm
Ages: 6 - 13
Class Size: 10 minimum
Instructor: Miss Amanda Shonk
Price: $150
Get ready to explore the messy side of science in this fun-filled Ooey Gooey
Science camp! Make your own slime and oobleck. Roll up your sleeves, have fun,
and learn some cool science experiments.
Flavors of Asia Cooking Camp
Time: 12:30 pm - 3:30 pm
Ages: 9 - 15
Class Size: 10 minimum
Instructor: Mrs. Christina Spencer
Price: $150
Come explore the flavors of Asia as you help make various authentic dishes using
fun ingredients. Each day, campers will work with different ingredients to make a
dish for sharing. Along the way, they’ll learn about traditional cooking techniques,
flavors, and food meaning. From soup to spring rolls and stir fry, campers will get a
true taste of Asia during this camp! Campers will not be using knives or stoves.
Super Summer Study Camp
Time: 12:30 pm - 3:30 pm
Ages: 10 - 15
Class Size: 10 minimum
Instructor: Mrs. Madison Below
Price: $150
Learning valuable study skills can improve academics and reduce stress. Using
a mix of interactive lessons, fun games, and independent work, students will be
improving their self-esteem while gaining valuable lifetime learning skills. Campers
will discover the methodology of proper study habits while boosting their focus
prior to the upcoming school year in an encouraging, dynamic environment. They
will practice note-taking, organizational, time-management, goal-setting, writing,
and reading skills. By encouraging and reinforcing study techniques over the
summer, students will gain the critical ingredients for success in the classroom
and beyond! Not just for MMI students – all area students welcome!
Week of July 10
Cake Decorating Camp
Time: 9 am - 12:30 pm
Ages: 9 - 15
Class Size: 10 minimum
Instructor: Mrs. Laurie Mele
Price: $150
Attention all would-be artists who have an interest in learning how to decorate cakes
and cupcakes like a pro, this cake decorating camp will give you beginner skills in
piping, icing, leveling and making fondant sculptures. All campers will get their very
own cake decorating kit to keep, and take home a decorated desert at the end of the
week. It’s sure to be a sweet week!
Creative Engineering Camp
Time: 9 am - 12 pm
Ages: 7 - 12
Class Size: 10 minimum
Instructor: Sciensational Workshops
Price: $150
Work with an advanced three-dimensional construction kit that is yours to keep
and take home. Design and build simple or complex models of a vehicle, a robot or
buildings. You will also get your own 3-volt geared motor to power up a moveable
Radar Surveyor. Learn the many ways you can make your motor run. Hands-on is the
only way, so prepare to build from directions and from your own imagination!
Drawing Camp 1
Time: 12:30 pm - 3:30 pm
Ages: 9 - 15
Class Size: 10 minimum
Instructors: Ms. Gabriella Moustardas
Price: $150
Bring your love of sketching and grow your drawing skills! In this camp you will learn to
see like an artist and improve your artistic confidence. Learn about, and enjoy working
with, a variety of drawing media, both dry and wet. Drawing II camp will expand on
these explorations.
Amazing 4-in-1 Robot Camp
Time: 12:30 pm - 3:30 pm
Ages: 6 - 10
Class Size: 10 minimum
Instructor: Sciensational Workshops
Price: $150
Build your own interchangeable robot to take home with four unique modes. It is truly a
four-in-one motorized robot kit. Learn how the different gears work as you are building.
You will be building the Cricket--a joy on six legs. Build the Beast. It is a master of
bi-pedal movement. You better not get in its way! You will also build the Trailer--the
little engine that could move forward thanks to its motorized transmission. Finally, the
best of all, Grandpa-Bot Robot. It has huge eyes and is everyone’s favorite bobbleheaded, gear-driven family member. It is easy transforming between the four modes.
Gain confidence, self-esteem, and celebrate as you are the architect that built it. Plus,
have fun building a wide range of additional robotic designs with the Robotic Building
System--Sumo wrestling matches, races, and much more. (Robots built in this portion
of the workshop are not taken home.)
Week of July 17
Lego Maniacs/Claymation Camp Time: 9 am - 12 pm
Ages: 7 - 14
Class Size: 10 Min./15 Max.
Instructor: Box of Light
Price: $150
Make an inanimate world come to life as you use Legos, clay and other found objects
to create stop motion, animated films. Learn stop motion filmmaking including adding
sounds, credits, and putting the finishing polish on your film until it shines. This camp
is great for those who love Legos, art, and want to create films!
Minecraft Film Camp
Time: 9 am - 12:30 pm
Ages: 9 - 12
Class Size: 10 Min./12 Max.
Instructor: Box of Light
Price: $150
We’ll take you through the process used to create computer-generated films you see
in theaters. You will write a script, define characters, record voiceovers, create your
digital world using computer software (this is where the Minecraft comes in!), record
the action (while playing Minecraft), score the film, and add the credits. Wow!
Superhero Film Camp
Time: 12:30 pm - 3:30 pm
Class Size: 10 Min./12 Max.
Ages: 9 - 14
Instructor: Box of Light
Price: $150
Calling all mutants and superheroes! Our way of life is threatened and only you can
save the day. Learn to create special effects, work with a green screen, and film and
safely choreograph a fight scene. Develop your superhero character, choose your
superpower, film, edit, and perform. This is a film camp where you will do it all.
Minecraft Medley Camp
Time: 12:30 pm - 3:30 pm
Ages: 7 - 12
Class Size: 10 Min./12 Max.
Instructor: Box of Light
Price: $150
Expand your Minecraft skills beyond vanilla! Work at your own pace and hang with
your Minecraft tribe. Learn how to install mods, build maps, create cool structures with
other Minecraft fanatics, and have more than a few Minecraft adventures. This camp
is designed around your skills and desires. The Star Wars Texture pack? WE have it!
Not enough items? (Parents: this is a popular mod) No problem. Just need to learn the
basics, like how to survive the night? We can help with that too. Minecrafters will have
a great time at this camp!
Week of July 24
Chemical Magic Camp
Time: 9 am - 12 pm
Class Size: 10 minimum
Ages: 6 - 11
Instructor: Sciensational Workshops
Price: $150
Learn to make batteries from fruits and/or potatoes. Make a fantastic crystal tree.
Work with invisible ink. See the happy and sad balls. Work with our powerful magnets.
Look at our prepared slides using our microscopes. Learn about the different types of
rocks and minerals from our interesting rock and mineral collection. Be a chemical
detective. Make glob from glue. Use paper chromatography to separate colors. Make
dirty pennies turn clean and clean pennies turn green. Everything will be explained to
you so you can go home having learned some interesting science. Hands-on science
is the best way to learn!
Flavors of Spain Cooking Camp
Time: 9 am - 12 pm
Class Size: 10 minimum
Ages: 9 - 15
Instructor: Señora Syra Dewar Price: $150
Campers go on a tasty journey of typical Spanish dishes while being immersed in
the Spanish language. Gain skills in beginner Spanish and leave with an introductory
knowledge of Spanish dishes such as paella valenciana, tapas, tortilla de patata, or
pan tomaca.
Drawing Camp 11
Time: 9 am - 12 pm
Ages: 9 - 15
Class Size: 10 minimum
Instructors: Ms. Gabriella Moustardas
Price: $150
What improves our confidence as an artist? Knowing how to use drawing media
effectively, practicing techniques and learning to look at the world the way artists do.
Bring your love of drawing to this camp and enjoy a week of creativity. We will work
with both black and white and color. While this camp expands on the themes from
Drawing I, it is not a pre-requisite.
Spanish Craft Camp
Time: 12:30 pm - 3:30 pm
Ages: 6 - 11
Class Size: 10 minimum
Instructor: Señora Syra Dewar
Price: $150
Campers will be immersed in beginner Spanish while learning to make a colorful
Piñata using hands-on techniques. The Piñata is yours to keep! Campers will also play
traditional Spanish games and learn basic Spanish. Olé!
Week of July 24
Can you dig it? Fossil Hunt...Do you Dig Dinosaurs?
Time: 12:30 pm - 3:30 pm
Ages: 6 - 11
Class Size: 10 minimum
Instructor: Sciensational Workshops
Price: $150
Each child will partake in a simulated fossil excavation, uncovering the different
bones of a dinosaur. Each child will then assemble the bones to form a completed
3-dimensional dinosaur to be taken home. We will bring the excavation tools, labels,
and specimen bags. We will use our geological time and fossil charts. You will make
a plaster fossil replica of an ammonite, Tyrannosaurus rex tooth or choose from other
moulds. You’ll identify 20-million-year-old shark’s teeth and see other fossil replicas
such as a cave bear tooth, an ammonite, a Tyrannosaurus rex tooth, or a dinosaur
egg. See and work with our rock and mineral collection. Be a rock hound and identify
different rocks and minerals. See and hold our giant pumice rock specimen - it’s from
Mount St. Helens.
Week of July 31
Messy Art Camp
Time: 9 am - 12 pm
Ages: 6 - 11
Class Size: 10 minimum
Instructor: Mrs. Lisa Ferry
Price: $150
Get ready to get messy! Messy Art camp is for boys and girls who want to celebrate
getting messy while creating one-of-a-kind artwork and having a blast. Campers use
a variety of art mediums such as watercolors, acrylic paints, pastels, shaving cream,
water balloons, and lots more! Messy Art Camp promises to be gloopy, gloppy, and
awesomely messy. Campers need to be dressed in clothes and shoes that they don’t
mind getting dirty.
3D Illumination Electronics Camp
Time: 9 am - 12 pm
Ages: 7 - 12
Class Size: 10 minimum
Instructor: Sciensational Workshops
Price: $150
Experiment, have fun and take home your own 3D Illumination Electronic Kit; the first
of its kind, and it’s fantastic! There will be exciting light effects. See a three-color light
tunnel. Activities include building your own security house. No one will enter as the
alarm sounds and color LED flashes. Play button ball or hole ball. Build a projector
that will show six cool images. Use your 3D color glasses. Build a house with lights.
This is STEM!
Arcade Electronics Galore Camp
Time: 12:30 pm - 3:30 pm
Ages: 7 - 12
Class Size: 10 minimum
Instructor: Sciensational Workshops
Price: $150
Get ready to build and play your own arcade games and more. You will have at your
disposal resistors, switches, wires, LED diodes, transistors and more. Do not get
overwhelmed, building with electronics is fun! You will program a spinning light fan to
display different sayings. Build and play a Home Run Derby game. See who gets the
most home runs before getting 10 outs. A winning song will cheer. Build circuits to test
your memory. Build an electronic circuit that plays the card game 21. You can learn
to program the circuit board to emit different funky sounds. Play with the disco ball,
sirens, or a light show. Learn the effects of the different electronic components. Learn
what amps, volts, resistance, and power are. This is STEM!
Ooey Gooey Science Camp
Time: 12:30 pm - 3:30 pm
Ages: 6 - 13
Class Size: 10 minimum
Instructor: Miss Amanda Shonk
Price: $150
Get ready to explore the messy side of science in this fun-filled Ooey Gooey
Science camp! Make your own slime and oobleck. Roll up your sleeves, have fun,
and learn some cool science experiments.
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Asian Art Camp
Silly Storybook Theater Camp
Ooey Gooey Science Camp
Flavors of Asia Cooking Camp
Super Summer Study Camp
Cake Decorating Camp
Creative Engineering Camp
Drawing Camp I
Amazing 4-in-1 Robot Camp
Lego Maniacs/Claymation Camp
Minecraft Film Camp
Superhero Film Camp
Minecraft Medley Camp
Week of June 26
Mrs. Christina Spencer
Mrs. Joanne Oakum
Miss Amanda Shonk
Mrs. Christina Spencer
Mrs. Maddie Below
Week of July 10
Mrs. Laurie Mele
Sciensational Workshops
Ms. Gabriella Moustardas
Sciensational Workshops
Week of July 17
Box of Light
Box of Light
Box of Light
Box of Light
Week of July 24
Time
Age
Cost
9:00 am - 12:00 pm 9 - 15
$150
9:00 am - 12:00 pm 6 - 10
$150
12:30 pm - 3:30 pm 6 - 13
$150
12:30 pm - 3:30 pm 9 - 15
$150
12:30 pm - 3:30 pm 10 - 15
$150
9:00 am - 12:30 pm 9 - 15
$150
9:00 am - 12:00 pm 7 - 12
$150
12:30 pm - 3:30 pm 9 - 15
$150
12:30 pm - 3:30 pm 6 - 10
$150
9:00 am - 12:00 pm 7 - 12
$150
9:00 am - 12:30 pm 9 - 14
$150
12:30 pm - 3:30 pm 9 - 14
$150
12:30 pm - 3:30 pm 7 - 12
$150
Flavors of Spain Cooking Camp
Señora Syra Dewar
9:00 am - 12:00 pm 9 - 15
$150
Drawing Camp ll
Ms. Gabriela Moustardas
9:00 am - 12:00 pm 9 - 15
$150
Chemical Magic Camp
Sciensational Workshops
9:00 am - 12:00 pm 6 - 11
$150
Spanish Craft Camp
Señora Syra Dewar
12:30 pm - 3:30 pm 6 - 11
$150
Can you dig it? Fossil Hunt Camp
Sciensational Workshops
12:30 pm - 3:30 pm 6 - 11
$150
Week of July 31
Mrs. Lisa Ferry
Sciensational Workshops
Sciensational Workshops
Miss Amanda Shonk
9:00 am - 12:00 pm 6 - 11
$150
9:00 am - 12:00 pm 7 - 12
$150
12:30 pm - 3:30 pm 7 - 12
$150
12:30 pm - 3:30 pm 6 - 13
$150
Messy Art Camp
3D Illumination Electronics Camp
Arcade Electronics Galore Camp
Ooey Gooey Science Camp
Total for all camps $
Check the camps you want above, complete the form on the opposite
page, then detach the two pages and return to MMI with payment by
June 1st.
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NOTE: Please fill out BOTH SIDES of this form, detach and return to MMI with payment.
Student’s Name: _______________________________________
Date of Birth: _______________________________________
Grade in Fall 2017: __________________________________ Sex: M F
Student’s Mailing Address: ______________________________________________________________________
City/State/ZIP: __________________________________________________________________________________
Parent/Guardian Name: _________________________________________________________________________
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• In a medical emergency, I hereby authorize the school to seek emergency medical assistance for
my child if I cannot be reached.
Yes________ No________
• If the situation warrants, authorized MMI personnel have permission to give my child:
Tylenol________ Antacid________
• I hereby give permission to MMI to take and use photographs and video of my child on its website,
social media accounts and in future camp publications.
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Parent/Guardian Signature: ________________________________________________________
Notice to all interested campers and their parents:
Space is limited. Please return this completed registration form with payment by June 1.
MMI Main Office
Attn: Marci Hosier
154 Centre Street
Freeland, PA 18224
Please make all checks payable to MMI Preparatory School.
154 Centre Street
Freeland, PA 18224
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