Wednesday, July 3, 2013

Spend your vacation creatively

Jisha Surya

Thiruvananthapuram: This summer, you don’t need to drag your child to boring hobby classes or personality development sessions. Vacation will be a thrilling experience for the students as a number of organisations are ready with a variety of summer camp sessions, ranging from robotics for your curious kid or a trekking for the little prankster?

For the robot-fans, Percogman Robotic Academy in Kesavadasapuram, is ready with summer training camp on robotics. Registration for students from Standard V to XII will begin by the first week of April. “There will be three sessions, each lasting for two and half hours, per day. There will be 16 sessions where they will be trained to design, build, program and run robots. Cost is Rs 3500,” said L M Rajesh of Percogman. “Our objective is to bring out at least one team from the state to participate in Indian Robotic Olympiad expected to be held in Coimbatore in June,” said Rajesh.

Parents who are planning to bring out a healthy kid during the vacation can opt for kids aerobics and yoga, offered by Power Gymnasium at Vellayambalam. The classes will commence on April 3. Children aged between 4 to 14 age group can attend the aerobics and yoga sessions, which costs Rs 4000.

For the adventurist in your child, Academy for Mountaineering and Adventure Sports is organising summer camps in every district. There will be five-day camps in Government Youth hostels in Thiruvananthapuram, Kochi and Kozhikode, which respectively begin on April 4, April 7 and April 15. The residential camps will have separate sessions for boys and girls aged between 10 and 17. Trekking, adventure sports, disaster management training are some of the programmes

The highlights of the summer camp at Goethe-Zentrum will be sessions to equip students make short film, design newspaper and capture sounds. Summer camp will be held between April 3 and May 11 at the Goethe-Zentrum, Palayam. The various sessions include film and video workshop, (where they students will be equipped to make a short film by themselves), newspaper production, Sound scaping (help to capture sounds of prominent locations), Animation, puppetry and German cooking. In an interesting session titled, My pets, children will be trained on how to deal with pets, mainly dogs.

The creative science workshop at Kerala State Science and Technology Museum will give students lectures and practical sessions on mathematics, chemistry, physics and biology. Also they will be exposed to astronomy, space science, environment, agricultural practices, communication techniques, nanotechnology, biotechnology, robotics etc. Fee is Rs 1500.

For older kids, Kerala state chalachitra academy is organizing a 10-day acting workshop in May. The admission is for college students aged 18 to 23 years. Stalwarts from Mollywood led by director Murali Menon will impart acting lessons to selected participants.

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