The 2026 Summer Enrichment Program is shaping up to be an action-packed five weeks. Here are some of the fun and exciting things happening this week on our Summer Enrichment campuses!
Time Traveler’s Workshop
Students in the Time Traveler’s Workshop are beginning their summer in Rome!
Sabrina Grimes and her students explored the Roman legacy of engineering, architecture, and art by recreating Roman mosaics. As ancient artisans would have done, the students began their project by sketching out their design. For some of them this was their first time drawing geometrically, creating the fun challenge of how they would turn the curved things they wanted to design (a dolphin for example) into something they can make with the square or oddly shaped tiles. Students got their hands dirty puzzling the mosaic pieces together before pressing them into clay slabs to make the physical tile.
Documentary Filmmaking
Bringing their filming visions into reality!
Zack Stroff’s students have taken their first steps into their big summer projects. Filming has already begun as students grabbed their cameras and started to experiment with what they want to film. From faking fight scenes, to exploring different exposure settings on their cameras, these future filmmakers are excited to bring their cinematic aspirations to life.
Dungeons and Dragons
A new set of adventurers boldly sets foot into the unknown!
The middle schoolers of Dungeons and Dragons at Sierra Madre Middle have started their quest with the important first step of creating their characters. John Clark guided students, many of them new to the world of tabletop games, through the process of creating the characters they’ll be using for the summer. From player classes to the math behind ability scores, students were quickly drawn into their new characters. Now they are ready to set off on their quest over the coming weeks.
STEAM 360
Robots take the runway as students build their dream robot prototypes!
From imagination to reality, David Earnhart’s kids created their own mini robot prototypes. In a two part project, students used clay, paint, and other materials to design miniature robot prototypes. Once the designs were set stage two began, the robot runway! Students picked their own building suppilesl from a massive pile of raw materials to bring their mini prototypes to a larger scale. Empty oatmeal containers, cardboard boxes, tin foil, and plastic toys were only some of the resources students went wild with to bring their robotic creations to life. At the end of the week the students showed off their robots to each other, having them “strut down the runway”.
