If you are a parent, you likely know how important education is to your child. When school lets out for the summer, education is often the farthest thing from your child's mind. While a break from school is needed, children are still encouraged to continue their education during the summer. If you want to keep the learning experience alive during the summer, you should consider incorporating education into your summer vacation. Five Fun Ways to Incorporate Learning into your Summer Vacation Many parents wonder if it is really possible to incorporate education into a vacation. It is possible and many vacations are not only filled with learning but fun and excitement. If you are interested in scheduling an educational summer vacation for yourself and your family, you will have to decide on a summer vacation destination. When it comes to educational activities, you have a number of different options to choose from. Look at Summer Camps If you are looking for annual … [Read more...]
Visit Science Central For Your STEM Fix
Science Central is the ideal place to enjoy yourself while learning so many fun things you have never come in contact with before. The Science center provides an avenue for everyone in the Fort Wayne community to experience the most up-to-date technological happenings of the current day. While you can bring over the child for an exciting experience, we had the hardest time dragging out my dad. It is a perfect catalyst for learning and transforming the mind to develop the interests of STEM. Visit Science Central For Your STEM Fix Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math are the fixes of the future and what all employers are looking forward to in all their prospective employees. Also, even becoming an entrepreneur is based on what you know and how well you can cope with what the workforce and society throw at you. Careers in STEM are just about the fastest growing in all industries and at all levels. Across the globe, every status of success depends fully on these mechanisms as they … [Read more...]
What I Did on My Summer Vacation
Today is the first day of Junior High for me, I am now officially an 8th grade college student. One of the assignments every English teacher loves to give at the beginning of the year is an essay of "What I Did on My Summer Vacation". I thought I would jump the gun on it this year and share it with you as I had a busy, but fantastic summer! It started with my week on the University of Iowa campus for the Junior Scholar Institute. I did a writing workshop this year (Last year was Japan) and upped my skills while living in the dorm and connecting with other amazing young adults from across this country. We tried a few new restaurants this time so we hit historic places like the Hamburg Inn #2. After that was my musical theater workshop - which didn't go so well. It cemented my desire to quit dance and move on to something else. (read about it here). The summer heat had really started to kick in by this time and I cringed when I heard we were going camping for the weekend. Wyalusing … [Read more...]
Play at Iowa’s Putnam Children’s Museum
Iowa Putnam Children’s Museum strives to inspire creativity, ideas, interaction, and dialog among people of all ages. The Putnam has been thriving for more than 150 years, offering a hands on learning experience that entertain, connect with history, environment, culture, nature and to connect people to one another through experience. Putnam Children’s Museum exists to educate and preserve the regions treasures. The museum is an affiliate of the Smithsonian which gives access to extraordinary educational programs. We made it! Travel to far off places with in help of the National Geographic giant screen theater, get a little hands on experience in the science center, drop by the FabLab Animation Station to make your very own motion stop movie, unearth Egypt, have you ever thought of becoming an engineer, or taking on an ocean experience. What a cool "tree house" !! The Iowa Putnam Children’s Museum has something for kids, teens, and adults. See Our Blue Planet in 3D on the giant screen … [Read more...]
Make Time For Fun at the Wisconsin Maritime Museum
The Wisconsin Maritime Museum is a great place to visit where you’re able to explore the history of the maritime history, learn, and play with 60,000 square feet of space. The museum gives visitors who come a unique place to learn about submariners that made history, sailors, and shipbuilding; you’ll be surprised how many hours you can spend here checking out the interactive exhibits the museum has to offer, historic maritime engines and vessels, along with the Wisconsin waterways. You’ll learn about how Manitowoc built more than 25 submarines during the war, the importance of US Navy submarines played in World War II, and explore other interesting exhibits. Tour the World War II submarine to get up close and personal with the USS Cobia, you’ll spend 45 minutes learning of the history that was made within the walls of the submarine while it was in service. USS Cobia has been restored from the ground up. You’ll get the true feel of what it was like for the brave sailors when you see … [Read more...]
What I Did on My Summer Vacation
I can safely say this is the best summer I’ve ever hand. Here’s just a few of the things I did on My Summer Vacation: Camp Invention- I was a Counselor In Training at Camp Invention for a week along with two of my friends. It was really great to get to work with all the little kids and I had a lot of fun teaching them new things. Junior Scholar Institute- JSI is a wonderful program in Iowa where kids grades 6-8 stay in the college dorms for a week while taking a class of your choice. It was great feeling like a "real" college student! I took the Japanese course and had a lot of fun. I also made many friends during the week. Bethel Horizons: Rock and River- This camp wasn’t quite as fun as the others (I had a panic attack after almost falling off a high rocky hill) but I still enjoyed myself. We went canoeing on the Wisconsin River, then stayed overnight on a sandbar. We went rock climbing at Devil’s Lake (where I almost fell). It was a pretty good week and I met the … [Read more...]
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