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!”

Girls Leadership Program I

At Marlborough, the future has always been female. We put girls first. 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.

Through various activities such as public speaking, self-defense, improvisation, rock climbing, visual arts, community outreach, and woodworking, girls will investigate a variety of leadership styles and identify their own personal leadership qualities and attributes.

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

Girls Leadership Program II

Leadership II is open to girls entering 7th or 8th grade and students who will have completed Leadership I by the time of the program. In Leadership II, the girls will apply the skills they gained from Leadership I as they create an action plan to affect change in their community. 

Girls will start each day discussing a leadership challenge and work in teams to determine how they will address that challenge. They will then participate in skill-based workshops to hone their public speaking, collaboration, and advocacy skills.

The girls will develop a plan to make a change in their community and end the week by presenting a pitch on how they plan to impact change. Students will also reflect on their own leadership style and think about who they would like to be as a leader. They will have the opportunity to interview female leaders in Los Angeles and learn from real-world leaders as they develop their goals and skills.

In Leadership II, girls will be leaders throughout the week and walk away inspired and prepared to continue on a path of leadership. 

This one week intensive coding workshop will introduce students to computer graphics programming using the Processing language.  Students will learn how to create their own interactive animations and video games that run as desktop applications in web pages, or on mobile devices.  The workshop will introduce students to standard programming concepts such as variables, functions, conditionals, and loops. Students who are interested in taking AP Computer Science A (Java) in the Fall may take this workshop as a "crash course" in coding, and they will be given supplementary exercises. 

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.