Khan Academy, pioneers in online mass contact program, are into summer camps and have gathered the various results of each camp that develops the IQ in the kids and teens. The summer camps are ideal for kids who are just out of fifth grade to the campers going to eighth class.
Khan Academy Summer Camps for kids and teens has a variety of activity that shall solve the campers query which probably would remain as question for ever. The summer camp titled Discovery lab is sure to have a giant impact on the camper.
The interesting camps organized by the academy included various activities like, during the (June – August) 2012. :
- Reverse engineering of household items: Campers were allowed to break the unused domestic appliances like anything from clocks to costly iPhones. They are asked to identify the contents of each item.
- Statistics and Economics Simulations: Campers were made to understand supply, demand and frequency stability through live innovate ways
- Hands-On Mathematics: Campers were asked to draw Sierpinski’s triangle (a beautiful fractal) in a 2D format and later were encouraged to do the 3D version
- Robotics: Campers used Lego NXT kits to make different robots that did a variety of activity
- Computer Science: Campers were taught Java script and amazingly that resulted in them trying to create Dancing Androids, Tweety Bird and cat, Minecraft-inspired art, Brickbreaker and many more.
A small group of 66 campers were chosen for the above camps and the various results achieved by this group have been listed for camp organizers world wide to understand the dynamics of summer camps.
