Summer at NCS: Recent Episodes
Summer Camp Institute
Summers at National Cathedral School offer outstanding enrichment courses and exciting sports camps.From Climbing, Creative Writing, Digital Photography, and Soccer, to Robotics and Cooking with Math, Summer at NCS is a learning adventure.
For the second week we explored the engineering concepts concerned with water filtration system, wind turbines, the immune system, and human error.
We made water filtration systems and explored the...
Summers at National Cathedral School offer outstanding enrichment courses and exciting sports camps. Here, you will be able to follow the weekly activities at the NCS Summer Institute.
From Climbing, Creative Writing, Digital Photography, and Soccer, to Robotics and Cooking with Math, Summer at NCS is a learning adventure.
During the last session of Light, Camera, Podcast! the students have been working on making a short movie. They wrote a script, made a storyboard and learned the basics of video editing. They learned...
Summers at National Cathedral School offer outstanding enrichment courses and exciting sports camps. Here, you will be able to follow the weekly activities at the NCS Summer Institute.
From Climbing, Creative Writing, Digital Photography, and Soccer, to Robotics and Cooking with Math, Summer at NCS is a learning adventure.
The three campers in the Mysteries of the Cathedral class spent almost all of their time on-site exploring and learning about the art and architecture of Washington National Cathedral. They are now...
Summers at National Cathedral School offer outstanding enrichment courses and exciting sports camps. Here, you will be able to follow the weekly activities at the NCS Summer Institute.
From Climbing, Creative Writing, Digital Photography, and Soccer, to Robotics and Cooking with Math, Summer at NCS is a learning adventure.
The campers began their second week of Discovering Wildlife in DC by creating a field guide for the class. We spent Monday touring the Close identifying various tress and animals that live in the...
Summers at National Cathedral School offer outstanding enrichment courses and exciting sports camps. Here, you will be able to follow the weekly activities at the NCS Summer Institute.
From Climbing, Creative Writing, Digital Photography, and Soccer, to Robotics and Cooking with Math, Summer at NCS is a learning adventure.
In our final week of camp, the Books to Movies class finished reading Matilda- which the girls loved! Upon completion of the book, we spent a morning watching the movie of Matilda and then the next...
Summers at National Cathedral School offer outstanding enrichment courses and exciting sports camps. Here, you will be able to follow the weekly activities at the NCS Summer Institute.
From Climbing, Creative Writing, Digital Photography, and Soccer, to Robotics and Cooking with Math, Summer at NCS is a learning adventure.
During week 2 the students took their new knowledge of color and applied it.They created some fantastic finger paintings, and also reproduced portraits by Degas and Van Gogh to combine their color...
Summers at National Cathedral School offer outstanding enrichment courses and exciting sports camps. Here, you will be able to follow the weekly activities at the NCS Summer Institute.
From Climbing, Creative Writing, Digital Photography, and Soccer, to Robotics and Cooking with Math, Summer at NCS is a learning adventure.
Our second week of Cooking with Math proved to be a delicious one. We began the week making banana bread and brownies, and again experimented with measurements and ingredients to see how even a...
Summers at National Cathedral School offer outstanding enrichment courses and exciting sports camps. Here, you will be able to follow the weekly activities at the NCS Summer Institute.
From Climbing, Creative Writing, Digital Photography, and Soccer, to Robotics and Cooking with Math, Summer at NCS is a learning adventure.
This week we discovered many different types of engineering. This week we did projects that allowed us to be aerospace engineers, mechanical engineers, chemical engineers, civil engineers, material...
Summers at National Cathedral School offer outstanding enrichment courses and exciting sports camps. Here, you will be able to follow the weekly activities at the NCS Summer Institute.
From Climbing, Creative Writing, Digital Photography, and Soccer, to Robotics and Cooking with Math, Summer at NCS is a learning adventure.
In Discovering the Wildlife of DC, the girls have spent time investigating the various plants and animals that live in our neighborhood. The girls have created nature journals spending time outside...
Summers at National Cathedral School offer outstanding enrichment courses and exciting sports camps. Here, you will be able to follow the weekly activities at the NCS Summer Institute.
From Climbing, Creative Writing, Digital Photography, and Soccer, to Robotics and Cooking with Math, Summer at NCS is a learning adventure.
During the first week of Session 3, students spent time building a TriBot. The students are working on programming the TriBot to move forward, backwards, turn and change acceleration. The Tribot also...
Summers at National Cathedral School offer outstanding enrichment courses and exciting sports camps. Here, you will be able to follow the weekly activities at the NCS Summer Institute.
From Climbing, Creative Writing, Digital Photography, and Soccer, to Robotics and Cooking with Math, Summer at NCS is a learning adventure.
Last week we began with a creation called a "youtube." The students were to communicate the essentials about themselves through different mediums all attached somehow to a cardboard tube. The results...
Summers at National Cathedral School offer outstanding enrichment courses and exciting sports camps. Here, you will be able to follow the weekly activities at the NCS Summer Institute.
From Climbing, Creative Writing, Digital Photography, and Soccer, to Robotics and Cooking with Math, Summer at NCS is a learning adventure.
Cooking with Math has been so much fun! This week we’ve put our math skills to work as we’ve whipped up some of our favorite traditional treats. Pizza, blueberry muffins and fruit smoothies are...
Summers at National Cathedral School offer outstanding enrichment courses and exciting sports camps. Here, you will be able to follow the weekly activities at the NCS Summer Institute.
From Climbing, Creative Writing, Digital Photography, and Soccer, to Robotics and Cooking with Math, Summer at NCS is a learning adventure.
The campers have been reading Matilda in the books to movies class. Throughout the week the girls have discussed the book with one another and drawn pictures demonstrating how they each pictured...
Summers at National Cathedral School offer outstanding enrichment courses and exciting sports camps. Here, you will be able to follow the weekly activities at the NCS Summer Institute.
From Climbing, Creative Writing, Digital Photography, and Soccer, to Robotics and Cooking with Math, Summer at NCS is a learning adventure.
During the first week of this multimedia class, students learned how to use Photoshop for creating and editing digital graphics. They made a self portrait and learned how to use the main Photoshop...
Summers at National Cathedral School offer outstanding enrichment courses and exciting sports camps. Here, you will be able to follow the weekly activities at the NCS Summer Institute.
From Climbing, Creative Writing, Digital Photography, and Soccer, to Robotics and Cooking with Math, Summer at NCS is a learning adventure.
Summers at National Cathedral School offer outstanding enrichment courses and exciting sports camps. Here, you will be able to follow the weekly activities at the NCS Summer Institute.
From Climbing, Creative Writing, Digital Photography, and Soccer, to Robotics and Cooking with Math, Summer at NCS is a learning adventure.
Summers at National Cathedral School offer outstanding enrichment courses and exciting sports camps. Here, you will be able to follow the weekly activities at the NCS Summer Institute.
From Climbing, Creative Writing, Digital Photography, and Soccer, to Robotics and Cooking with Math, Summer at NCS is a learning adventure.
During the last week the multimedia class also created a video podcast about the Robotics class. Many of the students who took multimedia class also took robotics and they prepared this special...
Summers at National Cathedral School offer outstanding enrichment courses and exciting sports camps. Here, you will be able to follow the weekly activities at the NCS Summer Institute.
From Climbing, Creative Writing, Digital Photography, and Soccer, to Robotics and Cooking with Math, Summer at NCS is a learning adventure.
Olivia, Camilla, Jamie and Ben worked on making a movie this week. Special video and sound editing effects are the main focus of this fantastic movie. Enjoy!
Summers at National Cathedral School offer outstanding enrichment courses and exciting sports camps. Here, you will be able to follow the weekly activities at the NCS Summer Institute.
From Climbing, Creative Writing, Digital Photography, and Soccer, to Robotics and Cooking with Math, Summer at NCS is a learning adventure.
Celeste, Sophia and Jane made this movie to show off their editing skills. They worked hard turning 12 minutes of footage into a one-minute of movie, they added special video and sound effects as...
Summers at National Cathedral School offer outstanding enrichment courses and exciting sports camps. Here, you will be able to follow the weekly activities at the NCS Summer Institute.
From Climbing, Creative Writing, Digital Photography, and Soccer, to Robotics and Cooking with Math, Summer at NCS is a learning adventure.
This week we focused on food preservation. There are lots of ways to keep microorganisms from growing on food - freezing, drying, heating, etc. We experimented with all of these techniques and ended...
Summers at National Cathedral School offer outstanding enrichment courses and exciting sports camps. Here, you will be able to follow the weekly activities at the NCS Summer Institute.
From Climbing, Creative Writing, Digital Photography, and Soccer, to Robotics and Cooking with Math, Summer at NCS is a learning adventure.
The Bible Stories class studied the Joseph story from Genesis during the first week. We made a coat of many colors, and dressed in nomadic costumes in our tent. The second week we focused on the...
Summers at National Cathedral School offer outstanding enrichment courses and exciting sports camps. Here, you will be able to follow the weekly activities at the NCS Summer Institute.
From Climbing, Creative Writing, Digital Photography, and Soccer, to Robotics and Cooking with Math, Summer at NCS is a learning adventure.
Grades 7–8 • Session 2: July 6–July 17
To begin their study of geography, students were introduced to the five themes of geography; location, place, region, movement, and human-environment...
Summers at National Cathedral School offer outstanding enrichment courses and exciting sports camps. Here, you will be able to follow the weekly activities at the NCS Summer Institute.
From Climbing, Creative Writing, Digital Photography, and Soccer, to Robotics and Cooking with Math, Summer at NCS is a learning adventure.
During this week, students have been learning the basics of video editing, using iMovie. Students started with this collaborative exercise. They learned how import video, trim clips, and add music...
Summers at National Cathedral School offer outstanding enrichment courses and exciting sports camps. Here, you will be able to follow the weekly activities at the NCS Summer Institute.
From Climbing, Creative Writing, Digital Photography, and Soccer, to Robotics and Cooking with Math, Summer at NCS is a learning adventure.
Last, but not least. Celeste's intro.
Summers at National Cathedral School offer outstanding enrichment courses and exciting sports camps. Here, you will be able to follow the weekly activities at the NCS Summer Institute.
From Climbing, Creative Writing, Digital Photography, and Soccer, to Robotics and Cooking with Math, Summer at NCS is a learning adventure.
Grades 4–8 • Morning Class Session 2: July 6–July 17
Over the past week, some of the fun things we’ve done in acting camp include: • Doing improvisation (acting without a script) to cover acting...
Summers at National Cathedral School offer outstanding enrichment courses and exciting sports camps. Here, you will be able to follow the weekly activities at the NCS Summer Institute.
From Climbing, Creative Writing, Digital Photography, and Soccer, to Robotics and Cooking with Math, Summer at NCS is a learning adventure.