Mathematics (Combinatorics & Number Theory)
General Information:
Students will take an assessment prior to the camp and will be grouped into 2 groups: Pythagoras group and Fermat group. The Pythagoras group will cover teaching material similar to the AMC8 level. The Fermat group will cover teaching material similar to the AMC10/12 level. Both groups will take combinatorics and number theory courses, each for 5 lectures (2 hours each) in week 1 afternoon.
Students will take an assessment prior to the camp and will be grouped into 2 groups: Pythagoras group and Fermat group. The Pythagoras group will cover teaching material similar to the AMC8 level. The Fermat group will cover teaching material similar to the AMC10/12 level. Both groups will take combinatorics and number theory courses, each for 5 lectures (2 hours each) in week 1 afternoon.
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Combinatorics
Dr. Tri Lai will lead the Combinatorics course.
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Number Theory
Dr. Pavlo Pylyavskyy will lead the Number Theory course. Number theory is the mathematical study of integers; it is one of the major areas of mathematics. For this course, students will be split into two levels based on their existing knowledge: Pythagoras Level and Fermat Level. Topics include:
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Business for Youth
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This summer session of “MBA for Youth” Program (M4Y) will focus on fundamental knowledge of business operations. The content will be an extended version of O002 (Global Supply Chain) class and a review of B001 (Business Concepts). The complete M4Y program is designed especially for students from Grade 6 to 12, which aims to help students systematically build fundamentals of business operations and applications, promote collaboration with other team members, improve negotiation skills, understand advertising and marketing in a consumer-driven market, analyze business operations, design business strategy, and master their business tools and skill sets.
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Dr. Jingwei Meng will lead the O002 course. O002 is one of the advanced courses of the M4Y program, focusing on understanding of business operations and tools used in operation strategy through online simulations, case studies, 1-on-1 meetings, group discussion, and personal evaluation. Students will apply the techniques learned from O002 to expand their own successful business from the original location to another country. This class has 6 lectures (4 hours each) in week 2 afternoon.
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Economics
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Dr. Ni will introduce the principles of economics and elaborate several topics with simulations. The class will include individual and group work. This class has 6 lectures (4 hours each) in week 2 afternoon.
Note: The course is open to high school students (including rising 9th graders). It requires basic academic literacy practices, especially writing summaries, analyses, and critical essays in response to assigned texts. It also requires an intermediate level of Algebra. Calculus is not required but preferred. |
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Photography
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Dr. Bin Zhang will teach a photography course. This course is designed to introduce the fundamental concept of photography, including photography history, how to appreciate the artwork of photography, basic rules of capturing a photo, and how to take good photos. This class has 5 lectures (3 hours each) in week 1 morning.
Since photography stepped into the digital age, taking photos for recording and sharing our lives are way easier than in the old times. Unfortunately, the smartphone and modern camera itself can’t automatically generate good photos. There were so many times we missed the important moment of our lives, such as blurred imagines with the very important someone or moments, beautiful sunrise but with a crooked horizon line…… The goal of this course is designed to deeply understand how imagines are generated, what factors will affect your photos, and how to avoid making common mistakes when you take a photo. Hope after this class, we know how to appreciate a good photo and also able to take beautiful photos to memory the details of our own journey. |
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Honor Physics
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Dr. Yi Zhou will lead the physics course. This course is designed to introduce high school-level physics to students with little to no background in the subject. Honors Physics is a course that introduces the fundamental language, ideas and tools used in the study of physics.
Emphasis will be placed on introducing and developing concepts, skills, and methods necessary to excel in physics, thus providing the foundation for more advanced study of physics. Through in class experimental work, students will learn to understand physics concepts better. This class has 5 lectures (3 hours each) in week 1 morning. |
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Introductory Machine Learning and AI
Prerequisite: Algebra 1, Algebra 2, Geometry, Basics of Python (variables, if/else, loops, functions)
Do you want to gain direct experience with the world’s best AI tools? Do you want to learn to build your own machine learning models? Then join us this summer at AoS. Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence are getting more and more powerful every day and have a lot of important applications. Strong machine learning language models can generate fluent text and even coherent computer programs, prediction models, which are used widely in various recognition and detection tasks, and generative models, which can create high-quality and realistic images from arbitrary text descriptions.
Do you want to gain direct experience with the world’s best AI tools? Do you want to learn to build your own machine learning models? Then join us this summer at AoS. Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence are getting more and more powerful every day and have a lot of important applications. Strong machine learning language models can generate fluent text and even coherent computer programs, prediction models, which are used widely in various recognition and detection tasks, and generative models, which can create high-quality and realistic images from arbitrary text descriptions.
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Mr. Daniel Li and Mr. Yiwei Lyu will co-teach this 6 full day camp. This class has 6 lectures (7 hours each) in week 2 both morning and afternoon sessions.
This course aims to provide a basic introduction to the fundamentals of machine learning. It is specially designed for high school students (or strong middle school students) and does not require college-level math or computer science concepts. In this course, students will learn the basics of building various neural networks and training a neural network from data, and they will gain hands-on experience by training their own machine learning models using PyTorch. Moreover, they get to directly experience the world’s best machine learning models (such as directly chatting with the world’s most advanced language models, or creating images using state-of-the-art text-to-image models). In the last two days of the course, students will work on a project where they need to design, implement and train a machine learning model for a specific task, and awards will be provided to the team that builds the best model. It will be a very fun and rewarding experience. |
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Creative Sound Design
Required Equipment:
- Laptop with 16GB RAM GPU or Desktop with 8GB RAM GPU or M1 Mac with 8GB Memory GPU.
- Professional monitor / headphones can be borrowed for an extra charge of $75 per pair.
- 14 days free trials of Pro Tools.
- A Cell Phone that can record sound.
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Mrs. Tara Gaoyang will teach the Creative Sound Design Course. This course is designed to introduce the fundamental concept of the art of sound as well as a sound designers’ perspective to the film industry. The course will briefly introduce the workflow of the film production and the key elements of the sound design art. This class has 5 lectures (4 hours each) in week 1 afternoon.
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Honor Biology
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Dr. Bing Ye and/or Ms. Zhishan Wang will lead the biology course. This course is designed to introduce high school-level biology to students with little to no background in the subject. Students will learn the fundamentals of biology and gain an understanding of how biology shapes the world around us. Through lectures and simple in-class experiments, this course will help students prepare for advanced biology classes/competitions, such as AP/IB Biology, and hopefully spark an interest in biology that continues beyond the class. This class has 6 lectures (3 hours each) in week 2 morning.
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July 16-18 by Ms. Wang:
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Introduction to Python
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Mr. Timothy Alexander will lead the Introduction to Python course. Programming is an immensely powerful tool that is useful in nearly every area of education and life, and especially STEM areas. The goal of this course is to introduce the foundations of what programming is and provide students with the basic skill set to use programming to solve problems. It is designed for students with little to no prior coding experience to build a foundation for them and get them excited about the possibilities this skill enables. The course will outline foundational topics for the first week and then apply them to tackling different questions and problems in the second week. The goal is to teach not only the technical details of coding, but also the overarching thought processes. The course will include both a lecture and workshop component where students get practice applying what they learned. This class has 11 lectures (3 hours each) in both week 1 and week 2 morning sessions.
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Baking
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Mrs. Misha will lead a course on baking. This course is designed to introduce the fundamental concepts and practice of baking, including how to apply different types of flours, how to master the use of an oven, how to appreciate desserts, and how to bake a variety of after dinner treats. Students will learn proper planning and preparation skills to see a task through while contributing in a positive way throughout the course. The goal of this course is not only to have students acquire some basic baking skills which they can apply in their daily life, but also to practice and enhance kids’ motor functions, control, and strength. Additionally, students will be able to learn how to express their artistic skills. This class has 6 lectures (4 hours each) in week 2 afternoon.
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Reading
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Mr. Jonathan West will teach Reading Narratives. Stories are photos of the soul. In this class, students will learn how stories work by examining the techniques authors use to capture images of humanity. This analysis will add more meaning to the process of reading and help students with their English classes. The class will include individual and group work. This class has 5 lectures (4 hours each) in week 1 afternoon.
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