College Exploration Curriculum Partners

San Diego Youth Symphony & Conservatory

Since 1945, San Diego Youth Symphony (SDYS) has given thousands of musicians the opportunity to study and perform classical repertoire at a highly advanced level. It is the sixth oldest continuously operating youth orchestra in the United States and the resident youth orchestra in the City of San Diego's historic Balboa Park. SDYS' program has grown during the thirteen-year tenure of Artistic Director Jeff Edmons from one orchestra to three advanced symphony orchestras and four large ensembles for students at the intermediate and introductory levels. In addition, the organization now trains over fifty students of all levels in chamber music, including string quartets and octet, wind and brass ensembles, advanced percussion, and jazz.
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San Diego Supercomputer Center

Summer 2011 promises to be a summer of fun and learning at the San Diego Supercomputer Center. We are offering an array of workshops from digital art and media to digital photography to animation to Matlab to Maya and 3D Modeling and our new Biotech Academy. Workshops are open to students in middle and high school but please see each individual workshop description as some workshops are specific to high school students only.
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Fab Lab San Diego

The Fab Lab is an advanced digital design and fabrication laboratory that allows community members access to high-tech tools in order to actualize ideas through design and fabrication. The Fab Lab in San Diego is one of over thirty in the Global Fab Lab Network, and the only on the US West Coast. Around the globe, people have utilized the tools associated with the Fab Lab to create the things that they desire or need. This has ranged from innovations related to communications technologies to arts and handicrafts. Most of these have been created by newcomers to such technologies, many by youth.
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