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.

Aeromodeling

Instructor: Mark Allison; 12:25-1:45 pm;  Additional $25 fee per student for supplies. 
Learn how full size airplanes and model airplanes fly.  Build a high performance rubber band powered model airplane for flying in large indoor areas like gymnasiums or outside in large, treeless fields.  Learn how to adjust the model for long flight times.  Be introduced to modeling skills and plan-reading so you will be able to build more complex planes later and know how to adjust them.  Basic skills of coordination, ability to listen and to follow instructions are required for maximum benefit from this class.

Art of Improvisation

Instructor: Rod Davidson; 10:40 am - noon  
Join popular professional actor Rod Davidson as you think on your feet, explore your creativity and imagination, improve your presentational skills, become more comfortable speaking in front of others, strengthen your abilities working with a group; all while having fun. 

Cartoon Crazy!

Instructor: Jordan Terriere; 9:15-10:35 am
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!

Creative Computing

Instructor: Joe Crop & Sheela Surisetty; 9:15-10:35 am and 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.

Drawing and Design

Instructor: Mark Allison; 9:15-10:35 am 
Draw animals, people and landscapes. Draw buildings in correct perspective and create beautiful designs using geometric shapes. Have fun “seeing” in the special way that the best artists do so you can draw anything you can see. This class is for everyone, especially students who feel limited in drawing experience or skill. Take this class and be surprised!

Experience Engineering

Instructors: Engineering Personnel; 10:40 am - noon and 12:25-1:45 pm
Experience a different aspect of Engineering each week. Participate in cake coring and cookie mining. Spend one Saturday in the LEGO lean lab. Test your skills with construction engineering activities, a wind/tidal activity, and more new projects for 2013.

Explore Your Universe

Instructor: Tom Carrico; 10:40 am - noon
Journey from Earth to the edge of the Universe. Travel through the solar system to investigate the great Red Spot of Jupiter and the rings of Saturn. Rocket by the Cometary cloud beyond Pluto to explore the rest of the 200 billion stars in our galaxy. Don’t miss the brilliant nebula, quasars, pulsars and globular star clusters on your way to intergalactic space. Learn how to use a telescope, binoculars and a planisphere to enjoy the night sky. Weather permitting, there will be a star party.

Fantasy Land: Fantastic Fantasy Writing----cancelled

Instructor: Molly Dorris
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! 

Introduction to Barbershop 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.

Introduction to Flash Animation

Instructor: Keri Taff; 9:15-10:35 am and 10:40 am - noon
Make frame by frame and tweened animations using Flash software.  Learn to make short animations and create your own short animated movie. This course is for students with no prior experience with Flash software, but basic computer skills are required. Bring your creativity and ideas for this class.  

 

LEGO® Robotics

Instructor: Tim Lykins; 9:15-10:35 am 
Whether you have played with LEGO® kits all your life, or never built a thing, you will love LEGO® Robotics.  Using LEGO® RCX kits, combined with your skills of building, problem solving, and engineering create and program a LEGO® robot to do just about anything.  Build a Bumper-Bot and be amazed the first time you watch your programming spring to life as your robot turns in a circle, solves a maze, or uses a light sensor to follow a colored path.  No previous experience required -- only an enthusiasm for learning and enjoyment of hands-on experiences.

Marimba

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

Minute to Win It: Science Version!

Instructor: Kristin Rorrer; 12:25-1:45 pm
Do you like a challenge? Participate in “Minute to Win It” activities based on physics or chemistry concepts.  Then find appropriate games or activities on the internet or design your own, and (following instructor approval) set up the challenge and have your peers try it out! The science-related task will be expected to be completed in a minute or less. Examples: “Paper Scraper” where the player builds a tower of index cards, or “Go the Distance” where the player transports a ping pong ball down an extended tape measure into a cup. 

Mixed Media Sandwich Bag Books----cancelled

Instructor: Tonya Gainey; Additional $10 fee per student for supplies. 
Complete a different art project each Saturday to be assembled into a keepsake book for you to treasure.  Possible projects include wood burning, stamping, quill pen ink work, and more . . . .

Motion comMotion

Instructor: Theresa Desaulniers; 9:15-10:35 am; 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!  

Play Bridge--The Greatest Card Game Ever-----cancelled

Instructors: Certified Bridge Teachers
Good bridge players are competitive, enjoy a challenge, and like to have fun with others. No one masters bridge; many have enjoyed hours and hours of trying, including a Winter Wonderings participant. Planning, deduction, logic, partnership and cooperation skills.  Give it a try.

Shakespeare for a Day---Your Version----cancelled

Instructor: Jordan Terriere
"To be or not to be? That is the question!" Be Shakespeare for the day in this awesome class! Start by investigating one of Shakespeare's plays and then write your own version. Use your creativity to create your own characters and the world they live in. Your imagination is the limit! At the end of the class your finished plays will be printed and bound so you can proudly show friends and family your awesome work!

The Magic of Italy

Instructor: Angela Cail;  9:15-10:35 am; Additional $4 fee per student for supplies. 
Move over, Harry Potter, as we discover the magic of Italy-----the Italian culture, customs, legends and superstitions of this ancient land. Speak some Italian, make your own gelato, and experiment with Italian food! Learn how to play Briscola, an ancient card game dating back over 500 years...make your own Italian sodas, and find out what other kids from Italy like to do. Learn fun facts in Italian history, food, and culture as we take a virtual trip through different regions of this magical land.

What's so Special about GEOspatial???

Instructors: OSU Geosciences Personnel; 9:15-10:35 am 
Join us on a whirlwind exploration of geospatial technologies!  Come explore our beautiful earth with the amazing spherical Omniglobe.  Then locate yourself spatially with GPS technology as we geocache around the OSU campus.  Continue our exploration of digital mapped data with ArcGIS Explorer as we map our community!