Summer Program 2023: Exploring Ideas
The 2023 WISE Summer Camp: Exploring Ideas is a 7-week kids and teens program on the semi-tropical Izu Peninsula. Included are classroom-based, experiential, hands on learning projects, activities, sports, & outings, The program is locationally & experientially diverse. It emphasizes communication, skills building, engagement and problem solving.
The WISE Summer Program offers youth a fun, challenging, and unique educational experience that runs from mid July to late August. The activities focus on helping participants develop greater confidence, judgment, spontaneity, and inquisitiveness. Participants develop their capacities for respect, friendship, teamwork, and collaboration through practical learning experiences: engineering, technology, arts and crafts, performance skills, drama, dance, martial arts, cultural activities, field trips, and more. Students make models, build bridges, race cars, launch rockets, learning pottery, compete in an international soccer tournament and a camp Olympiad, fly drones, make robots, showcase themselves, visit international embassies, climb mountains, raft down rivers, swing from trees, participate in water sports, learn to orienteer, and more. They are immersed in active and engaging activities every day. Topping it off, each year we change, improve, and add to the kinds of experiences available to the camp participants. As with everything else we do, we want our Summer Program to inspire people, and perhaps affect a little change in the world as a result.
| Week | Details | From | To |
| Week 1 | Society, Culture, & Communication: The focus of the week is society, culture, and communication and participants will work with ideas that help create open mindedness and culture. Among the many related learning objectives, by the end of the week, each student will have participated in the development and delivery of a presentation of their experiences.. | July 17, 2023 | July 21, 2023 |
| Week 2 | Technology & Design: The goal of the second week will be to learn how to capture, design, and create. Using photography, video, and editing technologies, the participants will apply their skills in collecting, creating, modifying, and presenting information, and ultimately presenting it in the web portals they completed during the first week. | July 24, 2023 | July 28, 2023 |
| Week 3 | Remote, Virtual, & Real Flight: Students focus on technologies used to capture media that include aeronautics, ballistics, manual, and assisted flight technologies using rocket & drone technology combined with video and photography. They learn the basics of drone flight and video capture for media content development. Their skills at media capture, production, and presentation will be complete, and the emphasis shifts to using their skills to capture those activities throughout rest of the Program. In the following week they participate in a rocket launch competition on the white sands of Shirahama beach. | July 30, 2023 | August 4, 2023 |
| Week 4 | Community Building: The focus of this week turns to social, cultural, geographical, and international awareness learning. Program participants will look closely at those things that make people believe and behave differently from one another in terms of language and culture, and equally at those things that make us similar in terms of popular culture, international fashion, and common human endeavour. They will look at how geography and climate affect people differently, and how natural environments impact lifestyle, thought, and behavior. | August 7, 2023 | August 11, 2023 |
| Week 5 | Minami Izu Coastal Discovery: Week 5 happens during the traditional annual summer holiday “Obon.” During this week, all of the participants and teachers spend the week involved in learning about the Minami Izu area. They meet prominent local figures involved in woodcraft, agriculture, & social development, and they experience the outdoors, including scientific & ecological experiences. | August 14, 2023 | August 18, 2023 |
| Week 6 | Eco-Environmental Studies: This part of the Summer adventure ranges from learning about renewable energy sources to learning about agriculture and farming, to learning about natural environments and ecosystems. The participants create their own eco-systems, energy sources, and environmental conservation projects. They look at how societies use resources, and how to deal with waste products using efforts and technologies such as land reclamation, waste to energy processes, recycling, and reprocessing. | August 21, 2023 | August 25, 2023 |
| Week 7 | Making a Community: This week, the participants will join in a learning adventure with the local community, participate in cultural, creative, and athletic experiences. Throughout, they guided by representatives from the Arts, Music, Technology, Media, and Sports. In teams, we work on internationally relevant projects about the environment, sustainability, community, & more. Before summer ends, we present what we learned to an audience representing the Minami Izu Community. | August 28, 2023 | September 1, 2023 |
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