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Slashdot Asks: What Will You (Or Your Kids) Learn This Summer?

Posted by timothy on from the shameless-plugs-are-welcome dept.

For those in the northern hemisphere, summer is rapidly approaching, especially for those with kids. Camps, educational programs, and other activities are enrolling now, in advance of the long summer vacation. (Particularly long for Americans!) Aside from conventional sleepaway options for kids, there are science and technology courses, space camps, survival adventures, and more. Whatever your age, and whether on your own or as part of a formal group, do you have any specific learning activities planned for the summer, whether as participant or parent? Are there summer education opportunities you'd like to recommend to others, or ones you'd rate as not worth the price? (Naming details helps, in this context -- which space camp? How much does it cost?)

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  1. country by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Interesting

    We live in the city so I'm going to dump our kids at my parents over the summer, country style. The kids will get to roam around freely in fields, forests, lakes, watch the stars in the night and all of it.

    1. Re:country by ShanghaiBill · · Score: 3, Interesting

      We live in the city so I'm going to dump our kids at my parents over the summer, country style.

      Same here. My kids will be staying with their grandparents on my wife's side, who live in Zhejiang, and speak zero English. In addition to tending to the chickens, and learning how to plant rice, I expect that they will considerably improve their Mandarin vocabulary.

  2. School is Year Round and Life Long by pubwvj · · Score: 3, Interesting

    School is never out. We homeschool. We're always learning. It's not classroom sit down book learning much of the time but real world things to a large degree. Projects are multi-discipline.

    The latest project our family is almost finished with:
    Building a USDA / State inspected modern meat processing facility (a.k.a. butcher shop)

    History, government, regulations, economics, business, math, engineering, material sciences, architecture, construction, plumbing, electrical, water supply systems, heating, ventilation, refrigeration, meat cutting and so much more...