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Camp Legend, a kids summer camp in Cupertino, is designed to actualize your child’s multiple intelligences while building your child’s repertoires in different specialized areas that include Art, Science, Lego-Robotics, Technology, and Writing. Our summer learning activities are framed in ways that point your child to understand how their intelligences contribute to their learning, creating, and problem-solving. The process will also help them make sense out of the productions, projects, and activities they participate in. Most importantly, they will be made aware of their own learning progress and the improvements they have made in each of the intelligences, through assessments, rubrics, and debriefings. All these are done in a supportive and fun-filled summer environment at Camp Legend in Cupertino.
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A summer camp in Cupertino, California for kids enabling the development of multiple intelligences. Schools during the school year tend to emphasize the development of some intelligences more than others. In fact, some intelligences are constantly neglected. Some parents are not aware of their existence nor the importance of their development to their kids. Camp Legend in Cupertino recognizes this fact and offers a summer camp for the younger students in and around the Cupertino area with carefully differentiated programs targeting the development of each of the intelligences. The summer curriculum at Camp Legend is a holistic one, building a child’s repertoires in different areas while developing their intelligences. Don’t wait! Summer is the best time to catch up. Don’t let any of the eight intelligences unattended to.
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The Lego Robotics Program at Legend Learning is a fun and educational approach to STEM learning. Students use popular Lego sets such as NXT robots to understand the value of team work in order to develop a wide variety of projects. Students are encouraged to use Mathematics, Physics and proven Engineering practices in order to achieve their goals. Challenges vary in level of difficulty and are designed to be adaptable to the tastes and personality of the students. The emphasis here is in learning how to best solve a realistic problem while having fun and learning important life skills! Our kids summer program in Lego Robotics is one of the few in Cupertino.
Some examples of projects include:
– Developing and designing an all terrain Mars Rover
– Building a moving human-like android
– Designing a working catapult and trebuchet
– Developing various moving robots designed to follow a set of instructions in a given path and time frame
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Skills Sets Encouraged and Developed:
– Proven Engineering practices such as design, development, testing, QA, and documentation
– Rigorous scientific inquiry and methodologies
– Understanding the difference between required and desired features
– Understanding the dynamic of efficient and productive teamwork to reach a desired goal
– Developing imagination, creativity and flexibility in designing a technical product which fulfills a set of desired features
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