The camp provides an opportunity to experience life on a college campus and interact with alumni from prestigious universities like Berkeley, Stanford, MIT, and Caltech who lead the program.
The DaVinci Camp Summer Institute offers talented and highly motivated middle and high school students (rising 6th – 12th grades, including graduating seniors) an immersive, non-residential summer program at Caltech. The camp integrates social and academic components from the arts and applied sciences, blending mathematics, engineering, science, and art instruction in the spirit of Leonardo da Vinci's concept of a Renaissance scholar. Students engage in hands-on workshops and a variety of activities designed to reinforce instruction and balance their day. The program emphasizes the development of critical thinking and collaborative problem-solving skills. Students learn techniques to understand complex math expressions, reduce them to fundamental parts, and become faster problem solvers. Course assignments include problems with varying degrees of complexity to ensure each participant's success. The camp aims to engage the whole student and direct their imagination towards discovering their diverse talents, providing an environment where students can thrive academically, creatively, and analytically alongside peers who share their interests.
A typical day blends hands-on workshops and other activities to reinforce instruction and balance the students' day, encouraging engagement of analytical and creative potentials in a fast-paced academic environment.
This program is best for talented and highly motivated middle and high school students who enjoy hands-on activities, creative challenges, and discovery-based learning in STEM and the arts.
California Institute of Technology
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