Waverly Summer Session: June 17-August 9, 2024
The Waverly School will offer a range of summer courses for students from June 17 to August 9, 2024. The aim of Waverly’s summer program is to provide students with opportunities to have fun, socialize, and continue their learning. For younger students, summer activities will center around enrichment, and older students will have the option of enrichment as well as the opportunity to accelerate their academic program.
Waverly Summer Camp (Kindergarten-Sixth Grade)
Further Summer Enrichment Opportunities
Middle School Summer Discovery with Maronke Sims
Join middle school teacher Maronke Sims for a three-day experience where students have the opportunity to engage in fun activities and connect with their peers as they familiarize themselves with The Waverly Middle School campus. Students will visit the Farm, participate in off-campus lunch, and travel to a nearby art museum to become inspired and create their own works of art. This three-day, intentionally curated experience is certain to be a springboard for a successful start to the school year.
This course is for rising seventh graders and students new to Waverly.
When: August 7 – 9, 10:00 a.m. — 2:00 p.m.
Cost: $350 (+ $50 registration fee)
Click here to sign up for Middle School Summer Discovery.
Intro to Coding with Aaron Rodgers
The basis of everything within all things in regard to technology begins with coding. This course teaches the perfect starter language for students: Python. This flexible and popular coding language is used by many of the top tech companies (Google, NASA, Microsoft) to develop important software. In this course, students will create several text-based games. Through creating these text-based games, this course will be engaging and fun for everyone.
Intro to Coding will go over many of the basics within the coding language of Python. Students will learn how to create their own trivia bots, learn how to draw by using coding, and create a few more text-based games.
This class is open to all rising, incoming, and current middle school students, including rising ninth graders.
When: July 15 – 19, 1:00 p.m. — 3:30 p.m.
Cost: $375 (+ $50 registration fee)
Click here to sign up for Intro to Coding.
Summer Rock and Bluegrass Band Camp with Waverly Music Teachers Garrett Blackwell and Armaan Biviji
Hone your musical skills by joining a rock or bluegrass band! Practice collaborating with others to create, rehearse, and perform.
The elementary school music camps are for one week and will conclude with a concert that family and friends are invited to attend. Students will pick instruments of their choice, build a set list of songs, pick a band name, and rock out in a week-long band camp! No prior instrumental or music experience is required. This is a great opportunity for your child to further develop their musicality through cooperation and creativity, and most importantly, to have a good time!
Following our afterschool band program style, we’re delighted to offer a middle and high school two-week long, 3‑hour-a-day bluegrass band camp! Students will pick a blue grass instrument of their choice (vocals, guitar, bass, banjo, mandolin, and fiddle). We’ll learn a selection of blue grass songs, explore the genres of bluegrass and folk music, and perform a show at the end of camp.
- Elementary School Music Camps with Armaan Biviji (first through sixth grades)
- June 17 – 22: First through fourth grades preferred (No camp June 19, with the addition of camp on Saturday, June 22) ($425/week, with a maximum of 10 students).
- June 24 – 28: Third through sixth grades preferred ($425/week, with a maximum of 10 students).
- When: 9:00 a.m. — 12:00 p.m.
- Cost per week: $425 (+ $25 registration fee)
- Click here to sign up for Elementary Music Camp.
- Middle/High School Music Camps: Bluegrass with Garrett Blackwell (seventh through twelfth grades)
- Two weeks: June 17 – 21 and June 24 – 28 (No camp on June 19).
- Open to middle school and high school students.
- When: 9:00 a.m. — 12:00 p.m.
- $800 for two weeks, with a maximum of 10 students (+ $100 registration fee).
- Click here to sign up for Middle/High School Music Camps.
AI and Machine Learning Technology (not for credit)
June 17-July 19 (no classes on June 19, July 4, or July 5)
Monday to Friday
12:00 p.m. — 1:00 p.m.
Join us for an unforgettable odyssey into the frontiers of AI and Machine Learning, where innovation knows no bounds and the future beckons with limitless potential. Are you ready to embark on this extraordinary voyage?
This course, designed exclusively for middle and high school students, will delve into the captivating world of futuristic technology trends where AI and Machine Learning hold the keys to unlocking unprecedented possibilities. The focus of the course is to understand the collective intelligence of humans and computers working as a team together. The following area of study is included in the course:
Introduction to AI – Narrow AI, General AI and Generative AI (Super AI)
Machine Learning – Neural Network, Algorithms and Training Data (Alexa)
Natural Language Processing – Machines Understanding Natural languages
AI Automation with Robotics – Self-drive Vehicles and Industrial Labor
AI for Business – Future Workforce, Upgrade Human Skills, Ethical Concerns
Future of AI – Predictions and Technology Upgrade, Coding with Chat GPT
For a fuller description of this class, please click here (PDF).
Course fee: $500 per student
Registration fee (non-refundable): $100 per student
Click here to sign up for AI and Machine Learning Technology.
Math Acceleration Opportunities
These courses will provide credit for Waverly students. If your child is not enrolled at Waverly, please contact your child’s school before registering to learn what is required to receive credit. Each school maintains their own policies for acceleration and credit. Transcripts will be sent to schools upon request.
Geometry — Whole Year Credit Course
June 17-July 19 (no classes on June 19, July 4, or July 5)
Monday to Friday
8:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m.
This course will cover the entirety of the Waverly Geometry curriculum, emphasizing logic, reasoning, exploration, and problem solving through the memorization of formulas, postulates, and theorems. Although classical proofs are very much a part of this class, the thought process behind the proof is emphasized above the systematic structure. Math skills are continually practiced and reinforced. The unity of geometry and algebra is emphasized. The approach of the text and supplementary materials is multidisciplinary and experiential. Geometric applications are explored in areas of art, music, history, and, of course, physical, and biological sciences. Much of the course involves deriving important principles through cooperative explorations. (Prerequisite: Algebra I)
Course fee: $1,000 per student
Registration fee (non-refundable): $100 per student
Click here to sign up for math classes.
Algebra II — Whole Year Credit Course
June 17-July 19 (no classes on June 19, July 4, or July 5)
Monday to Friday
1:30 p.m. to 4:30 p.m.
This course will cover the entirety of the Waverly Algebra II curriculum. This course carefully builds on the sequential approaches to content and learning begun in the preceding texts in the AWSM series. The sequence from variables to equations to functions is extended to using functions as models for a number of applied settings. Geometric and algebraic concepts are extended and connected to topics in probability and statistics, trigonometry, and discrete mathematics. (Prerequisites: Algebra I and Geometry)
Course fee: $1,000 per student
Registration fee (non-refundable): $100 per student
Click here to sign up for math classes.