Evolutioner

This is a fun filled and exciting camp for children to explore about various animals and their habitats. Children learn interesting facts about animals, mimic and build animal replica's using bricks. This camp has been designed to help children acquire Visual Literacy and learn about, Animal Facts, Habitats and Visual Arts.

Program Activities

Post and Lintel:
Introduction to the basic concept of post and lintel. Children will build a post and lintel house, will identify and record examples of post and lintel construction and sketch their discoveries.

Camel and Lizard in a desert:
This program is an introduction to the desert habitat. Children will construct a camel and a lizard; they will understand about adaptation and howthese creatures adapt themselves to survive in harsh desert conditions.

Lobster and Shark in an Ocean:
This program is an introduction to the ocean habitat. Children will construct a lobster and a whale; they will explore various body parts and prepare a brochure for a "Shark Exhibit".

Monkey and Crocodile in a Tropical Rain Forest:
Children will narrate the story of "the monkey and crocodile", understand the tropical rain forests and play games like, Monkey See -Monkey Do and monkey around with bricks to build these creatures.

Yak and Puma on the mountains:
Children create a poster to save the yak from extinction. They understand the relatives of Yak and Puma, write a short poem on the puma, reason out why weather is different on two sides of the mountain and learn a mountain load of interesting facts.

Giraffe, Elephant and the Grasslands:
Children will explore the hinterland of the African savannahs. They will draw their favorite animal with the legs the size of a Giraffe, create a device that will allow them to trumpet like an elephant and know all the 'Elephantine stories".

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Digitographer

Illusions play and important role in film, television, theatre and video gaming. This camp has been designed to help children understand the emergence of digital technologies to create visual effects. Children use cameras, photo editing software and create various postproduction visual special effects using fun filled activities. This camp is our children's all time favorite and high on the creativity and fun index.

Program Activities

Become The Word:
Children will form letters of the alphabet by forming them with their bodies. They extend alphabets by forming words, photographing those words and assemble a photo book for display.

Patterns and Lively Shapes:
Demonstrate their under- standing of patterns and create patterns to share with others by taking photographs of them with a digital camera. Students will also photograph shapes they see around them and will create power point slides.

Crazy Faces:
Using head and shoulders photograph of themselves, the students will use various photo edit features to transform their face into a crazy looking comic face.

Living Story Book:
Children will create a story about making good choices. They will photograph scenes to go with their story and create a photo storyboard to show the class. Create a Personal Greeting Card: Children will conceptualize, design, shoot for pictures, assemble them, edit them using special effects and create a personalized greeting card.

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Filmographer

Lights, Camera, Action! Considering filming your next family event?During this camp children learn to express their creativity through the visual medium of motion pictures. The camp has been designed to walk through all of the elements of film production, including pre-production planning, camera work and final editing. Children learn the basics of visual arts, project planning and fundamentals of special effects.

Program Activities

Interviews:
Children will interview their friends to understand the basics of movie making. This is a starter for children to create single frame videos without having to write a script or worry about editing.

Make a Silent Movie:
They make two kinds of movies, "show and don't tell "to demonstrate a step by step task without using any words, and "time to mime" where they use their imagination by interacting with imaginary objects.

Broadcast News:
Children will find a local newspaper article and create their own broadcast news from it. They also act as a reporter, write their own story from an event they attended and broadcast it.

Create a Movie:
Children will create a movie based on their normal day in a school or a day at Creya summer camp. Teams are encouraged to come up with titles for their movies, design a plot and act in the movies. They work in multiple teams.

Make a Family Documentary:
Through documentary children learn to capture reality rather than an event. Work with their family to discuss an idea about the documentary and build trust with the family, so all of them are comfortable with the idea. Alternatively Children can also make a documentary on their favorite topic.

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Survivalist

When stranded or lost in the outdoors, the most important goal is survival. Being lost, stranded, or alone in the outdoors can be a very frightening experience, often leading to panic and confusion. Knowing how to survive in the outdoors requires knowledge of how to find food, water, and shelter, as well as dealing with any unforeseen circumstances that arise. This camp has been designed to teach basic "Survival skills" in unfamiliar situations.

Program Activities

Survival:
Children also create a list of few things they would take from a plane crash out of a long list of things available.

Finding a way with the Compass:
Explore the history of compass, understand and learn how it works. Children identify uses for a compass and how one would be useful for survival.

Morse Code:
Children learn the Morse code alphabet, and then work in groups to communicate with each other using Morse code. They discus why SOS is a common Morse code message and write a short sentence in Morse Code.

First Aid:
Children watch a demonstration of the first aid and understand several basic steps to begin a first aid treatment. They do a role-play where one child pretends to have an accident and the other child is administering a first aid treatment.

Building Shelter and Knot Tying:
Practice different types of knots like the bowline, clove hitch and sheet bend. Children create a raft using the learned knots, twine and pieces of stick candy. They also try to construct a shelter without using any twine.

Finding Water and Making Fire:
Children learn techniques to find water in various habitats and conduct a water cleaning activity and build the water-cleaning device. They also learn how to make fire and generate ideas about "Making Fire".

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Carnivalist

Carnival rides are mechanisms designed to create an entertaining experience for riders, and they are found at amusement parks, carnivals, and village fairs. In this camp, children build, improvise, invent and devise these rides and the safety mechanisms for their own ride inventions. This camp has been designed with an emphasis to impart application skills and help the children make "real world" connections to concepts they learn in schools.

Program Activities

Boom and Super Boom Rides:
Understand the concept of levers and create a simple carnival ride, based on a first class lever. They stretch their imagination and engineering skills to build the longest and highest lever ride possible.

Pendulum Rides:
Explore the principles behind rides like Pirate ship, Tidal wave and Sea Dragon. Design an Ultimate pendulum ride to let swing participants to various angles including inversion and different levels of angular momentum.

Carousels:
Introduction to the compound machine to children by asking them to identify various simple machines on the Carousal. Children will discuss how to make their own Flying Horse Carousel Ride designs.

Centrifuge and Suspended Centrifugal Ride:
The NASA training missions were instrumental inspiration in designing this class of rides. Children will design a centrifugal ride with a twist, which involves a moveable seat.

Designing for Safety:
Safety is a critical feature of carnival design. Rides, spin, rotate, swing and move at high altitudes creating situations that can be lethal. Children will discuss various safeguards like harnesses, lap bars, safety gates etc. and work as a team to brainstorm and list out new ideas for an even safer rides.

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Transformator

Engineering plays a critical role in the modern world. Elements of engineering can be found in nearly every device we use from toasters to roller coasters. In this camp children invent and build their own extreme machine that can draw inspirations from "Beluga super transporter" or build a car that is 101ft long and 28 wheels to stake a claim at the world's largest car.

Program Activities

Trebuchet:
Trebuchet was the application of a first class lever back in the 12th century, to hurl boulders over castle walls. Children will build a modified trebuchet to maximize the distance of throw.

Block Flinger:
A variation of the lever, the children will construct a block flinger. They keep improvising on the design to achieve a maximum throw distance.

Tow Truck:
The children will design a simple wheel and axle tow truck and improvise by adding weight for the tow truck to lift and catch on the front of the truck.

Shop Crane:
Children begin by building and understanding a single pulley to a pulley system, comprising of various pulley's and then move on to designing a new shop crane pulley design. The challenge for them is to build the shop crane to lift the load as high as possible.

Block and Tackle:
The children set out to design a block and tackle system by using a combination of fixed and moveable pulleys. The challenge for them is to design a block and tackle pulley system to make it moveable.

Inclined Plane and Windmill:
Construct and experiment with a windmill model. Make it workable, i.e moving the windmill when the child blows at it.

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Claymator

Claymation is one of the many forms of stop motion animation. Each animated piece, either character or background, is deformable, made usually of clay. It is engaging and brings in creativity and exploration into the group. It is a fun and relevant way for children to demonstrate their knowledge and abilities. The camp has been designed with an objective to provide a purpose and a stage, so every child can be a star.

Program Activities

Idea Mapping and Scripting:
Begin with a brainstorming session and do "idea mapping". Use the idea mapping to write a script for the animation movie based on the concept developed. Children will also practice writing different synopsis samples for their favorite movies or TV shows.

Initial Scene and story elements:
Children structure the first few moments of the story around its plot and primary characters. They understand several aspects of movie making through a trial and error approach.

Middle and Endings:
Working in groups the children will structure the middle and endings on the movie. They learn how to generate a series of important events in their story and then construct a series of scenes that will carry the audience from point to point.

Storyboarding:
The story is divided into scenes and the process of storyboarding begins. Storyboards will dictate visual effects and camera angles and also help children create a blueprint of every shot of the animation.

Production Roles:
Children work together to assign specific roles to every team member. Director, Scene Designer, Character Designer, Cameraperson, editor etc. They start working on creating backgrounds for the shoot based on their script and storyboard. Teams will create characters and scene elements out of clay based on their storyboard.

Filming and Software:
The software provided will allow children to take a series of pictures or snapshots and allow them to build an animation. Once the movie is ready, they will go back to look at their storyboards, review their work and edit to get the movie ready for a release.

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Robotist

Robotic technology plays a critical role in the modern world. Elements of robotics are found in every day objects like cell phones and kitchen toasters. Through participation in challenge projects, children will discover and apply the underlying principles of robotics. This is a camp designed for launching your children into the stratosphere of higher learning. This is a perfect camp to help cultivate a future scientist, engineer or an inventor all the while creating an experience that is balanced with challenge and enjoyment.

Program Activities

Ed the Robot:
Children will understand the origin and history behind robots. Students create a list of as many robots as possible and attempt to identify any similarities that the robots on their list share. Children will construct a simple model "Ed the Robot".

Power Ed the Robot:
Robots will need a power system. One type of power system is the belt drive that is used to transmit rotary motion. Children understand the belt drive systems before they embark on building one.

Robot Toy:
Children brainstorm a list of repeated activities that a robot could perform. Children will construct a robot toy model and motorize their model.

Robot Arm:
Children learn, explore and discuss Cartesian, Cylindrical, Polar and Jointed type Robot arms and construct an extended robot arm. They change their model for it's maximum extension.

Moving Robotic Vehicle:
The ability to move is an important feature for many robots. Children will explore different types of robot movements that include walking, tracked and wheeled robots and construct one model of their choice.

Program the Robot:
After briefly exploring their programming interface devices and how they work. Examples of how traffic lights, automatic doors and microwaves work are discussed. Children start with imagining the tasks they want their robots to do and set about programming the robot to achieve their imagination.

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