JOIN us for Mrs. Nic’s  Mini-Camp,  Summer 2012

    Interactive and Interdisciplinary Science Adventures

For Whom:  Budding Scientists, Ages 5 – 7
             Class size:  8 children

By Whom:   Christina Nicolson (Mrs. Nic) and Middle School interns

When:  Two separate weeks…
                   Monday-Friday, June 18 – 22  And/Or
                   Monday-Friday, August 27 – 31
             9:00 AM – 2:30 PM (campers may leave earlier)

Where:  Home of Mr. and Mrs. James Nicolson
                   400 Pleasant Street
                   Belmont, MA 02478-3242
              With outings at Habitat Sanctuary and Winn Brook Playground

Cost:  $75.00 for each individual day (5 and ½ hours)---includes materials.
          $320.00 for all five days ---includes taking home 3 toys and use of lots of materials and tools.

For Questions and Registration Form, email: christinanicolson@comcast.net

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For Mrs. Nic's Academia, happiness this spring is:

--- Hosting events for the Cambridge Science Festival in Belmont,   April 22 and 29…Click on link:  www.cambridgesciencefestival.org ;

---Offering Birthday Party events at Beaver Brook or your home;

---Tutoring three Korean boys, 5, 9, and 12, in STEM and English;

--- Teaching extracurricular classes after school in Belmont and Swampscott, including Wild Animal Planet, Design Squad, Jr., and Egyptian Expedition;

--- NEW: Communicating my students’ feedback for Time-to Invent-Club activities at PBS Kids…receiving requests for YouTube documentation;

--- Writing articles online for elementary science education, including “Our BioTech Hero, Dr. Karp” and “Digitopolis: A Simulated Math Town;”

--- Continuing in my fourth year on the faculty of The Saturday Course, Milton Academy, my quasi-utopian experience;

--- NEW:  Co-teaching a ten-week course, “Science Studio,” with Liz Vance, Director of MuckyKids Art Studio in Cambridge, beginning April 3 with a full class. 

To understand each child in a group setting, Mrs. Nic constantly draws on her years of classroom experience, as well as her work as a technical writer and curriculum designer/evaluator.  She guides intellectually curious students to work collaboratively with peers, siblings and parents.  Her STEM teaching integrates the arts and humanities in order to meet children’s needs.

Beyond this, Mrs. Nic mentors older students and cultivates interns for her workshops.  In order to inspire children about biomimetics and biorobotics, she relishes building relationships with research scientists and professors at MIT, Harvard, and BWH.  This year children ages 7-14 will be hosted by Dr. Jeffrey M. Karp, an award winning biomedical engineer, for the 5th Annual Karp Lab Tour.        Click link: www.karplab.net 

What do parents, educators, and students say?

"Our teacher of Design Squad was amazing....so impressive!  I loved the course....so informative and fun."
--Stevie, 6th grader, 2011

"What really fascinates in Mrs. Nic is her ability to create an atmosphere of curiosity and passion for discoveries. Mrs. Nic made my son’s birthday party full of excitement and happy laughter..."
-- Wellington School parent, 2012

"Your intelligence and astuteness developed and expanded my three children's minds."
-- Parent and supporter since 2006

"Christina has a flair for working with gifted children, yet is as creative and successful with students in need of skills."
-- Head of Eliot Montessori School

"...you are such a great teacher and mentor. Thanks for exciting me about biomimetics and for bringing me to Karp Lab."
-- 6th grader

"She prepared all of us for cutting-edge experiments in MIT research labs."
-- 5th grader

"I thank you from the bottom of my heart (for tutoring my twin boys)."
-- A Korean mother