Workshops

This course will review the important topics of Algebra 1 to get students ready for Geometry or Algebra 2 in a week. It is best if students have completed Algebra 1 and want to strengthen their concepts through applications of algebraic principles. The course will have lessons, activities and projects to reinforce algebraic equations and their use in the real world.

Campers will spend their week overcoming a series of challenges using basic materials, simple machines, and tips from famous inventors like Thomas Edison, Leonardo Da Vinci and Rube Goldberg. They will use a little bit of ingenuity to create catapults, forts, and construct working light sticks to take home. Thomas Edison said, “Invention is 10% inspiration and 90% perspiration." Campers will say, “This camp is 100% FUN!”

The Girls Leadership Program at Marlborough aims to empower and encourage young women to use their strong voices and leadership abilities to make a lasting difference in the world we all share. Rising 6th and 7th graders  will participate in intellectual, physical and artistic activities geared towards developing leadership competencies fueled by the following values: *Authentic Communication, *Courageous Growth, *Empathy and Equity, and *Play.

The Girls Leadership Program is devoted to equipping every girl with the courage, skill, and Marlborough community to exercise the power of her voice, and to have fun along the way.

This one-week intensive coding workshop will introduce students to computer graphics programming using the Processing language (a simplified version of Java). No coding experience is required. However, if you have coding experience, we will build on what you know and you can use this workshop to launch a larger project.

You will create your own interactive animations and video games. You will also learn about standard programming concepts such as variables, functions, conditionals, and loops. Motivated students can use this workshop as a crash course for AP Computer Science A, and this will give you a good start on your summer project for the class.

Let's code!

This exciting class for 4th-8th graders is dedicated to teaching young people how to merge their unique qualities to act. Students will be exposed to an expanded knowledge of acting techniques and will learn to use their body, voice, and imagination to make a character come to life. This class is designed to enhance an actor’s ability to be creative, confident, and better prepared for auditions and plays. Actors will participate in scene work with props, improvisation, monologue work, creative drama, audition techniques, story creation, and pantomime.

The premise is simple; students will work together in a small group to design, build, program, and compete with a robot similar to those found in the FIRST Technical Challenge. 

Students will leave camp with a working knowledge of robot parts, basic robot subsystems (such as object manipulators), the REV Robotics control system, and the Java programming necessary to operate their robots. 

The camp will culminate in an exciting head-to-head robot competition.

 This camp is best suited for rising 7th-9th grade students who want to participate in Marlborough Robotics, and serves as an alternative to the Intro to Robotics elective during the regular school year. 

This camp is also well suited to any student looking for an introduction to robotics competitions, particularly the FIRST Technical Challenge.