Register now for SENG’s exciting two-day children’s and teens’ programs at our 2012 Conference in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, July 13-14, 2012!
Children’s and Teens’ Program Activities At a Glance
| Children’s Program (ages 8-13) | Teens’ Program (ages 14-17) | |
| Friday |
Optional yoga to start the day Breakfast and lunch Mathematical wizardry led by Wholemovement Excursion to Harley Davidson Museum |
Optional yoga to start the day Breakfast and lunch A full day of hands-on making, thinking, and tinkering led by Tinkering School Chicago at Fox Brook Park |
| Saturday |
Breakfast and lunch A full day at Discovery World, including a science-based lake water excursion led by expert curators and the exciting Tesla Lives! exhibit |
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By Jacquie Rogers, Children’s Program Coordinator
The SENG Milwaukee Children’s and Teen Programs are two exhilarating days that engage the curiosity and creativity of gifted learners ages 8 to 17.
The following activities are lovingly and specifically handcrafted for our group of learners by the museums, curators, educators, workshop leaders, services, supporters and coordinators of this event.
Our Excursions
Students from Milwaukee and all over the country are invited to explore the aquatic wilds of the city waterfront with Discovery World’s cracker-jack curators, aboard a shore line cruise where the chemistry, ecology, biology and geology of the Great Lake Michigan are investigated.
Our bright learners encounter, “2 million volts of roaring, crackling, sizzling electricity” and the genius that brought it all to life in a live theater show introducing Nikola Tesla and his hair-raising experiments. Tesla Theater producers proudly assert that this illuminating experience is sure to “inspire SENG students to look for the genius within themselves.”
History and applied physics have never been more thrilling a chase than on tour through the Harley Davidson Museum. Motorcycles are just the beginning. From treasure hunts through WWI and WWII, the Great Depression, support for veterans, ecology, engineering, design and innovation, to the craziest collection of leather jackets on the planet, the patented roar of the engine born in a Milwaukee garage and heard around the world is loud and proud.
Our Workshops
Shifting gears, our program activities are balanced between exciting-active and quiet-active pursuits.
With power tools and salvaged materials, teens tinker, design, engineer and create structures of fantastic, functional form lead by the nationally renown Tinkering School at Brookfield’s beautiful Fox Brook Park:
Lead by the nationally celebrated Wholemovement, young students perform mathematical wizardry in three dimensions and create forms of intricate beauty while learning about the infinite possibilities found in a circle.
We invite students to bring their cameras and record the special events of the weekend so that we may incorporate them into a memorable CD of their two days with SENG.
Students and volunteers are welcome for yoga class lead by magnificent Dr. Marcy Enos, a PhD, from the Orthogenic School at University of Chicago, at the hotel on Friday morning to prepare for the day.
Beverages will be served between meals to ensure students are sufficiently nourished. Bright minds use a lot of energy!
Note: Due to the unique nature of this program, space is limited and registrations will be accepted on a first-come, first-served basis. Only registrations for children with a parent attending the general conference will be accepted.
A graduate of the Master of Arts in Learning Disabilities Program at Northwestern University, Jacquie is in private practice with children and their families to optimize student therapeutic and educational opportunities. She is a trained SENG Model Parent Group Facilitator and an accomplished artist. As a learning specialist, she has supervised hundreds of tutoring dyads at the Montgomery Ward/Cabrini Green Tutoring Program. A Life Governing Member of The Art Institute of Chicago, she has experience in program development for other institutions such as the University of Chicago Booth School of Business, the Latin School of Chicago, Near North Montessori, and St. Chrysostom’s Day School. Raising two young adult daughters, she has traveled the world and is conversant in Spanish. Jacquie enjoys working with students of all ages, as she states, “I love the spontaneity, creativity and joy with which children engage the world. They are born scientists, and it is our work to help them explore, inquire and reach for the BIG ideas, freely.”
Sarah Kasprowicz, past president and current secretary of the Wisconsin Association for Talented and Gifted (WATG), has been an intermediate classroom teacher and resource for the gifted and talented for nearly 16 years at the Merton Community School District in Waukesha. Sarah holds a Master’s Degree in Education from Carroll University, and wrote her thesis on services to support gifted children in the regular classroom. She is also a trained facilitator for SENG Model Parent Groups.
Sarah and her husband are the proud parents of an inquisitive six-year-old boy who loves to read and play on the Waukesha Warhawks hockey team. Sarah enjoys reading, writing and traveling in her spare time. She has enjoyed coaching teens on the volleyball team, and working with them at WATG conferences. She looks forward to coordinating the young adult program for the SENG 2012 conference, and sees a challenge for gifted teens is “to learn to advocate for themselves in a school setting where understanding and resources for gifted education may be limited.”
