Courses for 2013. 

Each course meets for 80 minutes on each of the six Saturdays: January 26; February 2, 9, 23; March 2, 9, 2013.

Boggle Your Mind!

Instructor: Gail York; 9:15-10:35 am & 10:40 am-noon.
Stretch your mind. Use clues to solve problems. Work with others to conquer dilemmas. Solve perplexing puzzles. Participate in games. Hunt for clues. Have fun while teasing your brain. Surprise your peers. Amaze your family. Each class day is guaranteed to be a fun and enlightening adventure. 

Cartoon Crazy!

Instructor: Jordan Terriere; 10:40 am-noon & 12:25-1:45 pm.
Create your own amazing cartoon strip! Use your creativity to write and illustrate your own cartoon! Start by learning to cartoon faces with different emotions. Then practice drawing friends, family, animals and favorite things! Bring your imagination to this awesome class!

Chem-and-Phys-Busters

Instructor: Steph Walker; Additional $10 fee per student for supplies; All sections full; send an email message to winter@oregonstate.edu if you wish to be put on a waiting list.

Get ready to get messy, make flying machines, build spy supplies, make some noise, and see some sparks, all while learning important science concepts! We picked the most exciting hands-on science projects so you can see the what, why, and how of chemistry and physics. Come explore electricity, slime and fizz, light tricks and floating in thin air and see what it's like to be a mad scientist! 

Creative Computing

Instructors: Joe Crop; 10:40 am-noon & 12:25-1:45 pm.

Use Scratch, a fun computer programming language, to make art, animated stories, music, and time permitting even games! Scratch allows participants to think creatively, reason, and work collaboratively.

Creative Computing 2

Instructor: Sheela Surisetty; 10:40 am - noon.
Students who participated in the 2012 Winter Wonderings "Creative Computing" course have opportunity to continue working with Scratch at a more advanced level. This course will explore more advanced topics such as advanced animations, music creation, and advanced game design.

Design Your Future House

Instructor:  Kaisa Laukkanen; 10:40 am-noon & 12:25-1:45 pm; Additional $4 fee per student for supplies.
How do you want people to live in your house? Does it have special features? Your imagination is the limit! Work with an architectural designer to design and draw a house, and perhaps even build a model.   How many rooms and stories will your house have?  What will be the character of your house?  Historic, Gothic, Victorian, Rustic, Classic, Modern?  Consider furniture layout as well!

Draw What You Like

Instructor: Kaisa Laukkanen; 9:15-10:35 am; Additional $4 fee per student for supplies. 
Express yourself through visual art.  Choose and bring topics you are interested in drawing  - animals, landscapes, mythological creatures, characters from books/movies/games, or a story you have written, etc. Draw items to look surreal or original, dramatic, proportional, three-dimensional, and beautiful.  At the completion of the class you will have improved your drawing ability and learned tools or methods that will continue to improve your drawings. This class uses lots of imagination. All skill levels welcome, especially students who feel limited as artists.

Dynamic Theatrics

Instructor: Diane Allen; 9:15-10:35 am & 10:40 am-noon; Additional $5 fee per student for supplies. 
Do you wonder what it takes to be an actor?  Have you ever had an interest in creating your own theatrical production?  Explore and create a scene from a different show each week - starring you!  Discover the skills needed to bring a story to life on stage!  Try your hand at talking with a cool accent, getting "into character," improvisation, putting together costumes, creating props, preparing for an audition, writing a script, memorizing lines, building scenery, and much more.  No previous experience necessary! Just bring your creative self!

Fantasy Land: Fantastic Fantasy Writing

Instructor: Molly Dorris; 9:15-10:35 am.
Werewolves, magic, far-away lands--it's all up to you!  Explore brilliant worlds, brave and courageous characters, and mysterious adventures, all at your finger tips!  Inspiration for writing can be found anywhere.  Make up a short story based on music.  Use nature to illustrate and describe any perfect, make-believe world you can imagine. Engage in writing and illustration through inspiration and exploration! Bring yourself and your imagination--the writing will do itself! 

Go----cancelled

Instructor: Robert O’Malley; 9:15-10:35 am.
Learn to play the game that is as old as Ancient China.  With plenty of fun challenges and puzzles, you will be playing within 15 minutes of the first class.  Starting with an empty board, and black and white stones, you enter the world of Go.  The rules are simple, but the twists and turns of the game will delight you.  No two games are alike, and the more you understand, the better you play.  Learn the basic techniques, then try them on the board and see what works for you.  With hours of fun, the more meaning you put into your moves, the better you will learn to "talk with stones".  Come enjoy this introduction to the game of Go. 

Introduction to Barbership Singing----cancelled

Instructor: Robin Reimer
Learn to sing barbershop-style harmonies! Sing tags and simple songs in four parts a capella style. The American folk music known as barbershop singing is not taught in school music programs nor in Heart of the Valley choruses. You do not have to read music, as a learning CD and sheet music will be used. Add some choreography and a flashy costume piece, too. A few minutes of the last class will be devoted to a performance for family and friends.  

Kitchen Chemistry

Instructor: Molly Dorris; 10:40 am-noon & 12:25-1:45 pm; Additional $4 fee per student for supplies.    
Is the kitchen just for cooking? Come and explore the ways everyday kitchen items can turn into a fun science experiment!  Learn how play-dough works and even make your own!  What happens when water and sugar are allowed to sit together for long enough?  Each class will explore a fun, new, hands-on activity exploring the chemistry and science right in your own kitchen!  Science can be anywhere, and can be learned by anyone! 

 

Marimba

Instructor: TBA; 10:40 am-noon.
Learn to play a new instrument. More details coming about this exciting opportunity.

Motion comMotion

Instructor: Theresa Desaulniers; 10:40 am-noon & 12:25-1:45 pm; Additional $10 fee per student for supplies  
Design and create objects that GO! From cars to boats to balloons and beyond----experiment with different methods of propulsion. Wind, fire, water and earth provide energy to get your objects moving. Build simple devices that use one or combinations of energy sources that challenge your individual designs!  

 

Science Smorgasbord

Instructors: OSU Scientists; 9:15-10:35 am & 10:40 am-noon.
Bugs, diseases, salamanders, and corals!  Did you know that some people get paid to study these things?  Discover the types of research being done in different science fields.  Each week a different OSU science researcher will share their topic in a fun and interactive way.  Participate in hands-on activities as you discover lots of cool information about plants, animals, and more!

Snowflakes and Snow Crystals----cancelled

Instructor: Amy Valentino; Additional $4 fee per student for supplies 
Navigate the realm of snowflakes. Investigate various aspects related to snowflakes. Make your own using origami and quilling. Delve into poetry about snowflakes. Each Saturday's project will be based on the theme of snowflakes.

Soprano Recorder----cancelled

Instructor: Anne-Lise Olsen; Student supplies their own recorder and book, or purchase from Winter Wonderings for $13.00

Learn to play the recorder!  Start with the basics as we learn to play many fun and familiar songs.  Students need their own soprano recorder and the book "Best in Class: Recorder" at each and every class. Plan for a short "concert" for family and friends at the final class.  Hope to see you there! 

Take a Trip to Italy

Instructor: Chiara Aquino; 9:15-10:35 am; Additional $3 fee per student for supplies 
Are you ready for a fun, interactive adventure into the warm and colorful lands of Italy? Guided by a vibrant, native Italian, explore the world through the eyes of your same age Italian friends. Make real Italian pizza (from scratch!) for your friends & family, discover the secrets of ancient castles, play tombola (a Christmas game with prizes), travel back in time to the Roman empire, listen and enjoy legends, songs and local tales. During this trip all your skills and curiosity will be engaged learning about the Italian language, culture and food, in a way that is fun and unforgettable!

Weird Science

Instructor: Emily Carver; 9:15-10:35 am & 10:40 am-noon; Additional $6 fee per student for supplies.   
Have you ever walked on water? Rolled up hill? What about bending light? Test science principles with fun hands-on experiments that challenge so-called laws of science by doing weird things like defying gravity, rolling uphill, melting in the cold, and many more puzzlers. While doing fun experiments that boggle the mind, we can predict and discuss why these experiments are different from others, and the real science behind these crazy activities.

Winter Wonderings Bulletin----cancelled

Instructor: Carol Cadwell
Would you like to write articles for a magazine? Maybe a sports magazine? Maybe a fashion magazine?  Or would you like to write newspaper articles? How about a comedy routine? Do you wonder what it takes to encourage people to buy items that are advertised in a magazine or a newspaper?  Join the Winter Wonderings Bulletin staff and share your love of writing to produce this first edition of the Winter Wonderings Bulletin.