American History and Literature Through Baseball
GCE Lab School 9 West Washington St., Fourth Floor, Chicago, IL, United StatesSummer 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…
Financial Literacy with Rapunzl
GCE Lab School 9 West Washington St., Fourth Floor, Chicago, IL, United StatesFinancial 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…
Animation: Introduction to Character Design
GCE Lab School 9 West Washington St., Fourth Floor, Chicago, IL, United StatesAnimation: 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,…
ReDesigning the Future
GCE Lab School 9 West Washington St., Fourth Floor, Chicago, IL, United StatesSummer 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…
Financial Literacy with Rapunzl
GCE Lab School 9 West Washington St., Fourth Floor, Chicago, IL, United StatesFinancial Literacy with Rapunzl. Mon-Fri, 9:00-3:00 (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: From Story to Storyboarding
GCE Lab School 9 West Washington St., Fourth Floor, Chicago, IL, United StatesSummer Session 2 Animation: From Story to Storyboarding. Mon-Fri, 11:00-3:00 ($200) Every film and animation requires a good story. This class introduces the skills of screenwriting and storyboarding. Film techniques such as framing, composition, and environmental lighting are taught to demonstrate the cinematic experience a story deserves, along with understanding how to pitch a film.…
Animation: Intro to The Twelve Principles
GCE Lab School 9 West Washington St., Fourth Floor, Chicago, IL, United StatesSummer Session 3 Animation: Intro to The Twelve Principles. Mon-Fri, 11:00-3:00 ($200) Have you ever wondered how to give life, or at least the illusion of it. We will learn the tools animators use to give emotion and exaggeration, sparking wonder through the screen. Studying the differences of past and modern animations, students will also…
