Inquiry and Imagination
After 36 years, College for Kids remains a special summer experience for gifted students
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A teacher assists two students in a lab experiment at College for Kids.
Monmouth College’s popular student enrichment program, College for Kids, will return for its 36th year, June 13-24.
The annual program, which serves the needs of gifted and talented children in the area, is open to qualifying students who will be in third through ninth grades in the fall. Tuition is $155. Registration has been extended through May 27.
Each student takes three classes, choosing from subjects such as fine arts, languages, computers, math, business, literature, writing, communication, logic, science and social studies.
Classes begin at 9, 10 and 11 a.m., and students move on their own from classroom to classroom within the college’s Center for Science and Business. In lieu of final exams, the last day of class is reserved for project-ending activities and an open house for parents.
Included among more than 50 class offerings are “Latin,” “3-D Animation” and “Everyday Physics.” Twenty of the classes are new this year.
The College for Kids program draws more than 400 children annually, challenging students with collegiate experiences that are different from a regular classroom, according to director Kathy Mainz.
“Instructors use teaching methods appropriate to a college classroom, including discussion, inquiry, laboratory and hands-on activities,” she said.
Mainz, who also serves as the college’s biology lab manager, has nearly 25 years’ experience working with gifted/talented students, and has directed Monmouth’s College for Kids program since 2008.
For more information, contact Mainz at 309-457-2361 or kmainz@monmouthcollege.edu or visit www.monmouthcollege.edu/cfk.
The annual program, which serves the needs of gifted and talented children in the area, is open to qualifying students who will be in third through ninth grades in the fall. Tuition is $155. Registration has been extended through May 27.
Each student takes three classes, choosing from subjects such as fine arts, languages, computers, math, business, literature, writing, communication, logic, science and social studies.
Classes begin at 9, 10 and 11 a.m., and students move on their own from classroom to classroom within the college’s Center for Science and Business. In lieu of final exams, the last day of class is reserved for project-ending activities and an open house for parents.
Included among more than 50 class offerings are “Latin,” “3-D Animation” and “Everyday Physics.” Twenty of the classes are new this year.
The College for Kids program draws more than 400 children annually, challenging students with collegiate experiences that are different from a regular classroom, according to director Kathy Mainz.
“Instructors use teaching methods appropriate to a college classroom, including discussion, inquiry, laboratory and hands-on activities,” she said.
Mainz, who also serves as the college’s biology lab manager, has nearly 25 years’ experience working with gifted/talented students, and has directed Monmouth’s College for Kids program since 2008.
For more information, contact Mainz at 309-457-2361 or kmainz@monmouthcollege.edu or visit www.monmouthcollege.edu/cfk.
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