Does your child love high-tech, writing or specialty arts? Attending a summer camp with this focus is a perfect way for them to explore and to experience. Look through our selection and find the perfect fit for your child.

ID Tech Summer Camps

We’re trusted and hosted by the world’s top learning organizations. The right instructor changes everything. With personalized learning, your child will progress at their own pace. Your child can level up to Grade 10, standing out to colleges and future workers. We can’t wait to welcome your child to our community of 500, 000+ students.

Summer Academic Youth Programs

Summer is the perfect time for pre-college students to explore their career interests. Our programs provide opportunities for students to experience college life while expanding their knowledge and exploring their interests. There are many opportunities including overnight camps and class credit opportunities.

Independent Lake Camp

It is an overnight summer camp offering impressive activities due to our quality facilities (设备), and talented staff. Started as a non-traditional summer camp, we focus on promoting creativity within each camper and the community and developing individual growth with our personalized scheduling — each camper chooses their own activities.

Virtual Live Creative Writing Camp

Creative writing is taught live online by experienced teachers. Great for ages 7+ and divided into age-based groups, this camp has a limited class size so students can learn fun new skills. Videos will be made available to all creative writing campers. So with several camps to attend, your child will never miss a beat!

Christine Rowsey didn’t know how she would go on. The last three years had been hard, but she still felt that she was making progress toward her goal of becoming a nurse. “I didn’t have any money. I didn’t have anything—just a dream,” she recalled.

That dream came out of the loss of her son, who was born 3 weeks in advance. Unfortunately, after a whole month in the intensive care unit, the boy left her. Christine’s main source of support during that ordeal had been the hospital’s nursing staff. “I really loved the way they helped me,” she said. That’s when Christine had a realization:She wanted to do something with her life that mattered. Christine became determined to become a nurse and help people the way she had been helped.

She was able to learn in Oakland University’s one-year licensed practical nursing (LPN)program. She took out loans (贷款)and worried about how she would repay them. She became the star student but struggled to take care of her family and study at the same time. With scholarships, she was able to cover about half of her costs. For the rest, she couldn’t find a way out. That’s when Christine found out about a VOA program, which not only paid for her study but offered to cover gas and food. “The VOA program was a real blessing,” said Christine. “I wouldn’t have been able to continue if VOA hadn’t been there for me.”

Christine now works as an LPN in Detroit, where she cares for patients. Through VOA, she gives talks to young people about the nursing profession. “Nursing school was the hardest thing I’ve ever done, and VOA helped me through it,” said Christine. “All these people helped me rewrite my life, the way I wanted it to be written.”

Heading soccer balls seems to take greater injuries on women than on men, according to a new study which focused on the brains of soccer players.

Head knocks can really hurt the brain. Female athletes tend to suffer more brain damage than males do after injuries, the study points out. But until now, no one had directly compared damage in men and women after heading balls.

Michael Lipton, a brain-imaging expert at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in NewYork City, led the research. He noted, “It’s important to figure out how males and females might be different after brain injury. Hopefully, determining how the sexes differ after brain damage will help choose better treatments for each.”

Researchers chose 98 soccer players from amateur teams. The players estimated how often they had headed a ball in the past year. The average headers among men were 487 while women 469. The researchers then studied the brain scans of each player looking for signs of damage. They used a special type of scan to highlight changes in the brain’s white matter. White matter is made up of fibers (纤维), which carry electrical signals from nerve cells in one part of the brain to those in another. So damage to white matter affects how well the brain works. The scans turned up more widespread brain damage in the female players. In women, eight regions showed potential damage linked to frequent headers. In men, only three regions did.

The brain changes studied here weren’t big enough to cause brain damage. But repeated blows to the brain can contribute to memory loss, depression and other problems. One bigger concern is CTE, which can lead to confusion, trouble remembering things and emotional outbursts. Researchers don’t know why women’s brains appear at greater risk. Differences in their heads and necks may play a role. So might genetics and hormones.

The San Diego County Water Authority has an unusual plan to use the city’s scenic San Vicente Reservoir (水库) to store solar power so it’s available after sunset. The project could help unlock America’s clean energy future.

Perhaps ten years from now, if all goes smoothly, large underground pipes will connect this lake to a new reservoir, a much smaller one, built in a nearby valley about 1100 feet higher. When the sun is high in the sky, California’s abundant solar power will pump water into that upper reservoir. It’s a way to store the electricity. When the sun goes down and solar power disappears, operators would open a valve (阀门) and the force of 8 million tons of water, falling back downhill through those same pipes, would drive machines capable of producing 500 megawatts of electricity for up to eight hours. That’s enough to power 130, 000 typical homes.

“It’s a water battery!” says Neena Kuzmich, Deputy Director of Engineering for the water authority. She says energy storage facilities like these will be increasingly important as California starts to rely more on energy from wind and solar, which produce electricity on their own schedules, without considering the demands of consumers.

Californians learned this during a heat wave this past summer. “Everybody in the state of California got a text message at 5:30 in the evening to turn off their appliances,” Kuzmich says. The sun was going down, solar generation was disappearing, and the remaining power plants, many of them burning gas, couldn’t keep up with demand. The reminder worked:People stopped using so much power, and the grid (电网) survived.

Yet earlier on that same day, there was so much solar power available that the grid couldn’t take it all. Grid operators turned away more than 2000 megawatt hours of electricity that solar generators could have delivered, enough to power a small city. That electricity was wasted. There was no way to store it for later, when operators desperately needed it.

Kyler Nipper has a disease preventing his heels from touching the ground while walking. To walk, he usually places his _________ on his front tiptoes, and his different way of walking _________ his shoes to bend in the middle and often come apart. His parents would get him new ones, _________ they’d wear out in weeks. Because his shoes were always worn out, some kids _________ him.

Kyler didn’t want anyone else to _________ it for having old shoes, so he made a shoe donation _________ . “Please donate shoes for the _________ kids,” He wrote on the box. He _________ to give the donated shoes to anyone in his school who needed a new pair of shoes.

Moved by Kyler’s story, Lady Gaga’s Born This Way Foundation has partnered with Kyler and now _________ donate wonderful pairs of shoes to his charity(慈善机构). “I’m so proud and ____________ with his work. Young people like Kyler are the key to building a kinder, braver world for us all,” said Maya Smith, director of the Foundation.

Now Kyler has set up several “Kyler’s Closets” at local ____________ and students can come in private to ____________ any pair that they like. Kyler also regularly brings shoes to the Las Vegas Rescue Mission for those ____________ people during evening meals.

Kyler believes in ____________ for others and he likes to say that we should not only tell people to be kind, but also ____________ it. “We’re spreading it along the way, so that to me is a success,” said Kyler.

In the heart of modern Beijing is the Forbidden City. It served as the political center of ancient China between 1420 and 1912 and now it is     36     world famous museum.

The Forbidden City     37     (build) by Emperor Yongle, the third Ming ruler,     38     moved the capital from Nanjing to Beijng in 1403. Sources say it took a million     39     (worker) to build it between 1406 and 1420. Legend has it that the Forbidden City was redesigned to have 9, 9991/2 rooms. Half a room is missing to avoid     40     (upset) the God of Heaven. The maincolors of the Forbidden City are yellow and red. The walls, doors, and windows were     41     (most) painted in red, a symbol of     42     (happy) in Chinese culture.

The English name “Forbidden City” is a translation of the Chinese name Zijincheng. In the past, it was forbidden to ordinary people and that is     43     the Forbidden City is so named. After the Qing Dynasty, it was made a     44     (nation) museum-the Palace Museum and was open to the public. As one of the world’s largest cultural museums, the Palace Museum holds more than a million rare and valuable works of art. So do find a chance     45     (visit) it some day!