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Build-It-Yourself provides playful workshops that inspire and empower kids to create, design, and invent. 1. Be safe. Build-It-Yourself has developed a program in collaboration with MIT that teaches kids to use technology constructively in a unique global laboratory. Specialists from the Harvard and MIT community and from around the world will inspire and guide campers on-site and/or via live Webcasts leading them toward an enriched understanding of the way things work. Information about the staff and details of each week's projects are posted at www.build-it-yourself.com click on “Workshop Headquarters.” |
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Build a Soap Box Derby Racer This wildly exciting workshop is back again this summer, following a fun-filled world premiere in 2007 check out the pictures! Project of the Week - design and build the fastest, badest soap box derby hot rod in the land. Your mission is to build a low-emissions, hot rod from wood, boxes, and local hardware store parts. This mission requires team work. Paint and decorate your invention so it looks great on camera. Then climb aboard and test your racing skills. Race your creation around the Gran Prix obstacle course. You must be fast and look cool! |
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Friendly Dragons The Problem: Your mission: |
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Music Machines The problem is that many people are mad, unhappy and in a funk about life and the world around them. Our mission is to build a band of hip hop robot music makers who will turn a frown into a smile. |
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Money Making Machines Build-It-Yourself is looking for some hot shot inventors to fix the global economy. Your mission is to design a machine that creates value, entertains, offers a service, puts people to work, and pays its inventors handsomely! |
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Digital Graphic Design July 21 25 Boys and Girls ages 8 13 • Cost: $575 The Problem: The Mission: |
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Computer Game Design Introduction
July 28 August 1 Boys and Girls ages 9 13 • Cost: $575 Do you like computer games and dream about making your own? If you want to be a hot shot game designer, this is the place to start. The Mission: |
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Build-It-Yourself Instructors Former Build-It-Yourself students are attending Harvard, MIT, Yale, Concord Academy, Choate, and BB&N. Build-It-Yourself brings a variety of expertise into the classroom via a live Webcast platform. Workshop leaders for 2008 will be posted in the spring of 2008. Please Note: It is essential that campers who enroll in one of the Build-It-Yourself programs come eager to build and willing to work on teams of two or three. Campers must respect their teammates and their laboratory. Campers must be prepared to focus intently on tasks such as drawing, documenting ideas in a lab book, using tools safely, building complex projects, programming computers, and presenting their work. Space is limited in all Build-It-Yourself programs register early! For more information visit www.build-it-yourself.com. |
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HOME | Camp Info | Register Now | Download Forms | Directions | Jobs | Transportation | Contact 166 Main Street, Concord MA, 01742 | Phone: (978) 402-2284 | camp@concordacademy.org |
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