Events

Summer Session 1 American History and Literature Through Baseball. Mon-Fri, 9:00-12:00 ($350) Poet Walt Whitman compared the game of Baseball to the US Constitution and determined it to be "just as important to the sum total of our American life." Indeed, the story of baseball is the story of American democracy and progress. Students will…

Financial Literacy with Rapunzl. Mon-Fri, 10:00-4:00 (FREE: paid for by sponsors) In this free financial literacy program, operated by GCE partners Dreams for Kids and Rapunzl, students will learn about asset and wealth management while working daily with industry professionals. Each day will include classroom instruction in the morning and conferencing with professionals in the…

Animation: Introduction to Character Design. Mon-Fri, 11:00-3:00 ($200) A picture is worth a thousand words; a character can live a thousand lives. What fundamentals enable an artist to bring a character to life? Students in this course will learn skills to elevate their draftsmanship to create their own palette of characters. Skills such as proportion,…

Summer Session 1 ReDesigning the Future. Mon-Fri, 12:30-3:30 ($350) We will use design thinking to imagine solutions to grand climate challenges. How do we design cities for efficiency and sustainability? How do we build urban environments to have minimal impact on natural ecosystems? How can we reimagine cities as ecosystems that mimic the Earth? In…