Summer camp: Making learning fun
Minerva opens up an avenue for children to explore creativity with education.
ISLAMABAD:
Focused primarily on learning, enterprise and social change, a summer camp was launched at Minerva on Monday. Even though the organiser’s prime purpose is to offer tuitions to O and A levels students, this new experiment revolving around art is the summer fad.
“I want to promote different ideas and the arts in Islamabad,” says Sana Khalid, Chief Executive Officer of Minerva. “Apart from Kuch Khaas we don’t have anywhere else where classes or tutorials are available and I have taken the initiative to launch arts and crafts summer camps.”
With children ranging between ages 5-15, the camp includes workshops and classes in paper craft, clay work, and painting, drawing and playing games. As the camp constitutes of relatively younger group, the teachers also comprise of students and fresh graduates.
“It is easier for children to relate to younger faculty.” The interesting part of the camp is not the classes it offers but rather the flexibility that the consumer has in selecting the timeframe they would like to attend the camp for.
Starting from one week, a child can enroll for the month-long duration of the camp. “Each day has a different activity so even if one camper hasn’t been around for previous weeks, they will be able to join in at any time,” continues Khalid, “we have had students enrolling only for a week and others have enrolled for a month.”
Minerva provides a fun new way to beat the heat for kids, allowing parents breathing space during the sweltering months of June and July.
Published in The Express Tribune, June 28th, 2011.
Focused primarily on learning, enterprise and social change, a summer camp was launched at Minerva on Monday. Even though the organiser’s prime purpose is to offer tuitions to O and A levels students, this new experiment revolving around art is the summer fad.
“I want to promote different ideas and the arts in Islamabad,” says Sana Khalid, Chief Executive Officer of Minerva. “Apart from Kuch Khaas we don’t have anywhere else where classes or tutorials are available and I have taken the initiative to launch arts and crafts summer camps.”
With children ranging between ages 5-15, the camp includes workshops and classes in paper craft, clay work, and painting, drawing and playing games. As the camp constitutes of relatively younger group, the teachers also comprise of students and fresh graduates.
“It is easier for children to relate to younger faculty.” The interesting part of the camp is not the classes it offers but rather the flexibility that the consumer has in selecting the timeframe they would like to attend the camp for.
Starting from one week, a child can enroll for the month-long duration of the camp. “Each day has a different activity so even if one camper hasn’t been around for previous weeks, they will be able to join in at any time,” continues Khalid, “we have had students enrolling only for a week and others have enrolled for a month.”
Minerva provides a fun new way to beat the heat for kids, allowing parents breathing space during the sweltering months of June and July.
Published in The Express Tribune, June 28th, 2011.