June 15-19 (Week 1)
the covid-19 situation leads us to replace at least our first three sessions with virtual options (each 10-hours a week). The revised course descriptions will be available as soon as saturday 16 May.
All courses are dependent on minimum enrollment. For more information, please see our Courses page.
Counselors-In-Training (CITs) and Interns do need to register through our CampInTouch system.
When enrollment is within three students from full capacity, we'll indicate the number of remaining spots next to the title of the course or that the class is waitlisted. CampInTouch always has real-time numbers as you move through the enrollment process. The numbers below are current as of 4/17/20.
Here are pdf tools you may find helpful in comparing options across weeks:
- the Course List by Age (e.g. four year olds)
- the Course List by Category (e.g. Culinary, Sports Fun).
- the Course List by Instructor (to see what your favorite teachers are offering throughout the summer)
Happy exploring!
- Wacky Water Week (4-5) | Waitlist
- Nature Lab, Jr. (6-9) | 2 spaces
- Sports Shorts (6-9)
- LEGO Explorers (6-10) | Waitlist
- Cruising the Sea of Melodies (6-10)
- Cooking through Hispanic Culture (7-10)
- Harry Potter and Company (7-11) | Waitlist
- Paint Explosions (7-11)
- Art and Folktales of Asia, Mexico, and Africa (8-12)
- Outdoor Adventure Skills (9-14)
- Camp Music Video (9-15)
- Comic Design (9-16)
- Treat Yourself (9-16)
- Act It Out (10-14)
- Sports Action (10-15)
- Sous Chef (11-15) | Waitlist
- Leadership Challenge (12-15)
- Dungeons and Dragons: Delving Into Design (12-18) | Waitlist
- Summer Film Studio (13-18)
Wacky Water Week (4-5) | Waitlist
Tuition: 320
Course: Water, water, everywhere! Activities will revolve around exploration with water, science experiments, and adventures in small pools and our on-campus creek. Children create beaches, relax, and have fun!
As a pilot, during Weeks 1 and 2 two experienced Summer Programs early childhood teachers (rather than the usual one) will serve a larger number of four and five-year-olds (closer to the school-year population of our Campus Early School).
Co-Instructor: Williette Zigbuo graduated in 1997 from Berea College in Berea, Kentucky with a bachelor’s degree in Child and Family Studies with an emphasis in Early Childhood Education. She received her Master’s degree in Special Education from Bay Path College in Burlington, Massachusetts and has over 15 years of teaching experience with children in Liberia, West Africa and in the United States, including now at the CFS Campus Early School. She especially enjoys working with pre-k to second grade.
In addition to her passion for teaching, she finds personal fulfillment by helping educational programs in Liberia; Williette has been instrumental in mobilizing others to help obtain donations and school supplies for orphanages and schools in Liberia. Whenever she returns from Africa, she finds that sharing her pictures and discussing her trip is rewarding for herself and also for her students, to help them understand and see the world outside their community, neighborhoods, and the United States.
Co-Instructor: Carly Chapman has been a teacher of young children for almost 20 years. In 1999, she earned a degree in Human Development and Family Studies and B-K teaching licensure from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. Upon completing her studies, she spent several years dedicated to her interest in developmental research and to her intimate work with infants, toddlers, and their families. She humbly joined the CFS staff in 2000. Carly's love for teaching coupled with her dedication to learning about the development of young children, continue to bring a wealth of joyful inspiration to her work.
A Chapel Hill native and CFS graduate herself (1994), she and husband Mike are the proud parents of three amazing children, Jonah, Julia, and Jason, who are among the smaller members of the CFS community.
Nature Lab, Jr. (6-9) | 2 spaces
This course is offered in multiple weeks:
Week One / June 15-19
Week Six / July 20-24
Tuition: 295
Course: Help ignite a lasting interest in the most beautiful things our planet has to offer. During this exciting week-long program of activities we’ll see, hear and feel nature first hand. Fresh discovery awaits our young explorers through games, art, observation and adventuring. This introductory course is based on the Scandinavian Forest School model where direct outdoor experiences help to foster social skills, confidence, creativity, problem solving and much more.
Program Sessions Days
Nature’s Playground
Students participate in ecologically themed games that help build interpersonal relationships, collaborative skills and curiosity of the natural world.
Wildlife Detectives
On this fun day out, participants will learn some of the basics field skills needed for experiencing nature. We’ll learn how to use camouflage, stealth and listening skills to get up close and personal with those woodland creatures.We’ll look at tracks and signs and undertake the bird olympics challenge.
Creative Creatures
Through a variety of artistic methods, this arts-based day will use nature to inspire and encourage students to explore and celebrate their unique sense of creativity.
Micro-adventures
Students set out on a small adventure designed to cultivate basic outdoor skills (shelter building etc) and to encourage local nature exploration and a continued curiosity in the natural world.
Life aquatic
We will explore the creeks around school and use nets and tanks to catch amphibians, crustaceans, insects and other aquatic life.
Instructor: Mike Werndly (or Ranger to his friends) introduced our popular Nature Lab environmental education classes in Summer 2017. He is a lifelong birder and practiced field biologist and outdoor educator with a passion for sharing environmental experiences that promote awareness and respect of the natural world. Working and traveling in remote areas around the globe has given Mike a wide knowledge of the Earth’s habitats and ecosystems.
He’s been hooked on wildlife since a chance encounter with an owl when he was eight and hasn't looked back. He studied Ecology and Outdoor Environmental Education at university and has worked for numerous conservation organisations, including the Aigas Field Centre, Royal Society for the Protection of Birds, and Scottish Natural Heritage. Mike’s wildlife encounters have been numerous, but some memorable ones include being followed home one night by two otters and being covered head to foot in smelly seabird guano!
He moved from Scotland in 2016 and now lives in Hillsborough with his wife and daughter, and their friendly food-crazy labrador, Fogo :0)
Sports Shorts (6-9)
This course is offered in multiple weeks:
Week One / June 15-19, Kyle Lewis
Week Two / June 22-26, Leslie Atherholt (Girls Zone)
Week Three / June 29-July 3, Markeith Gary
Week Four / July 6-10, Will Anderson (Let’s Play Soccer!)
Week Five / July 13-17, Markeith Gary
Week Six / July 20-24, Natasha Anderson
Week Seven / July 27-30, Markeith Gary
Week Eight / Aug 3-7, Natasha Anderson
Week Nine / Aug 10-14, Leslie Atherholt
Tuition: 295
Course: An active, fun-filled week of sports adventure just for you! We learn how to play a variety of sports, focusing on skills and learning the rules. We work on team building and create some crafts that go along with our new indoor and outdoor games! We concentrate on learning how to play, building confidence, keeping in shape, and receiving guidance and encouragement from our coach. An excellent class for the active or wannabe active camper!
Instructor: Kyle Lewis graduated from Durham School of the Arts with a focus in Visual Arts and Spanish. He is currently in his second year attending Durham Technical Community College with a plan to transfer to North Carolina State to study Parks and Recreation Management in the Fall of 2020.For the past four years, Kyle has been working in Duke Recreation and Physical Education teaching courses for the Aquatics and Outdoor Adventures departments. Among these, he teaches Red Cross Lifeguarding/First Aid/CPR/AED as well as Red Cross Water Safety and belay classes for climbing. Kyle is also trained in Wilderness First Aid and leads a variety of trips for Duke Outdoor Adventures.
Born and raised in Durham, he enjoys writing, reading, running, climbing, and spending time with his dogs outdoors.
LEGO Explorers (6-10) | Waitlist
This course is offered in multiple weeks:
Week One / June 15-19
Week Three / June 29-July 3
Week Five / July 13-17
Tuition: 295
Course: LEGO camp is just around “the block” for us! We’re going to have a fun-filled week of challenges building with LEGO. Imagine you are floating on the LEGO Coast Guard Station fishing and watching for sharks. Be Emmet or Wyldstyle, a figure from the LEGO movie, and look for the piece of resistance...it’s there somewhere. Become a Star Wars spaceship and zoom around with the enemy fighters. Into super heroes? You can enjoy building with Captain America, Batman, and Superman as you battle in Smallville. Feeling animal-like? Create cool battles with the Chima Scorpion Stinger or the Spider Stalker. Ninjago anyone? Be a master builder with the Ninjagos as they try to bring order to the LEGO environment. We can create our very own LEGO City and invite all the action figures to join in the fun. New sets appear each year- from Mindcraft to Star Wars, playgrounds to monster trucks that fly apart, builders will have fun creating and playing. Come and Play and Build!
Instructor: Sherry Wilshire-Eshelman lives in Orange County and is a graduate of Virginia Tech (VPISU) where she received a B.A. in Russian Language and a minor in chemistry and math. Sherry home-educated two sons and received her teaching certificate from UNC-CH. She taught third grade at Duke School for 10 years and then became an academic tutor in the Lower, Middle, and Upper Schools at CFS.
Sherry loves to build and create with LEGO. This is her fifth year as LEGO teacher; she always hopes to ignite master building in the students. Everything is awesome in LEGO camp!
Cruising the Sea of Melodies (6-10)
Tuition: 295
Course: Welcome aboard the CFS Cruise Line! Passengers will learn to play their favorite songs on ukulele, guitar, bass, keys, or percussion, all while taking part in fun and often hilarious dockside games. Limbo, snowball fights, popsicle making, arts and crafts, exploring, and more will have us smiling as we set sail to our marvelous musical destinations.
Instructor: Leites Chiong has been playing guitar for almost 30 years and teaching guitar for over a decade, with stints in various bands along the way. He's a father of four, including two children at CFS.
Leites teaches all styles of music for acoustic and electric guitar, as well as bass guitar and Ukulele (including in CFS’ after-school music program for children AND adults). He helps beginner through advanced students learn how to play and how to write songs. Leites enjoys working with children and seeing the love of music grow within them.
Cooking through Hispanic Culture (7-10)
Tuition: 310
Course: Spend a week in a Hispanic cooking adventure! We’ll enjoy the flavors of Argentina, Chile, El Salvador, Guatemala, México, Perú, and more. We’ll create our own grocery store with recycled materials. Along the way, students will have the opportunity to learn Spanish vocabulary or improve their Spanish skills and to explore Hispanic culture with a native of Perú.
Instructor: Kelly Yupanqui is from Perú and moved to the United States in 2005. She earned her B.S. in Elementary Education and her M.Ed. in Educational Administration at Universidad Nacional de Trujillo, Perú. She got her certification as a Montessori Teacher from the American Montessori Society.
She has taught different levels of students for 22 years in public and private settings in her native country and in the USA (including now at Carolina Friends School). She loves to dance, sing, play the guitar, and be outside--and to share all her talents and her native language, Spanish, during Summer Programs.
Harry Potter and Company (7-11) | Waitlist
This course is offered in multiple weeks:
Week One / June 15-19
Week Three / June 29-July 3
Tuition: 295
Course: Celebrate your love of all things Harry Potter as you create themed crafts, play wizard games, and whip up tasty snacks. During camp you will be sorted into a house so that you can mix and mingle with Gryffindors, Slytherins, Hufflepuffs, and Ravenclaws. Then, you'll spend your time immersing yourself into the world of Harry by making memorabilia and creating memories that you can enjoy for years to come. Activities include creating your own wand, making "potions," and enjoying playing the game of Quidditch!
Note: Previous knowledge of the Harry Potter series is helpful when participating in this course.
Instructor: Cyrise Davis holds a B.A. in Art Education K-12 and a B.S. in Commercial Art and Photography. In addition to her freelance photography, she worked 10 years as an art and photography teacher at The Hawbridge School in Saxapahaw, as a site coordinator and lead teacher for a middle school after-hours program, and as a YMCA summer camp counselor.
Five years ago Cyrise joined the CFS family as the Extended Day (AfterHours) Director, substitute teacher, and Summer Programs instructor. Cyrise employs her child-centered style of teaching (and passion for art, engineering and science) to help CFS summer students and Lower and Middle Schoolers learn to explore and create.
Paint Explosions (7-11)
Course: Our perennially popular art camp! A spectrum of fun and active painting activities will fill our week as each day we learn a new technique like sponge painting or water coloring. We’ll work together with various paint media and have free time as well to embark on own own creative explorations in paint. We’ll also make sure we have lots of time for outside play. Be ready to get messy!
Instructor: Melody Smith teaches Spanish in the CFS Upper School and Middle School. After receiving a B.F.A. from UNC Greensboro, she spent three years in Central America as a language teacher and academic coordinator for a non-profit that connected education and sustainable farming. Melody then moved to Wisconsin where she taught Spanish at a Waldorf high school and also worked as the programming director for Driftless Folk School. She has also spent significant time in India and teaching Spanish in a Montessori school.
Her extensive international background deepened her beliefs in environmental integrity, local and global interconnectedness, and the incredible importance of education. In her free time, Melody enjoys exploring nature and collecting new hobbies.
Art and Folktales of Asia, Mexico, and Africa (8-12)
Tuition: 295
Course: Hear the ancient stories. Dive into the arts. Make Mexico’s fiesta toritos: paper crafts to wear on your head! Try Asian dip dye & sumi-e drawing. Create African block prints & masks. Taste the cultures! Sugar skulls, fortune cookies, couscous. How do foods fit into the folktales? What’s the same about the stories and the art? What’s different? Why so? Let's find out together!
Instructor: Rowena Bowman grew up in New Orleans surrounded by a culture steeped in exotic influences where everyone is an artist. She made the transition from college to commercial graphic design and on to photography, film and video with ease, while earning advanced degrees in education and communications from Loyola University.
Her career in Washington D.C. brought opportunities to study at the Corcoran School of Art and the Torpedo Factory. She pursued digital graphics at the Graduate School USDA. She held studio space at Glen Echo Park and taught digital design at Capitol Hill Arts Workshop. A recent move to Chapel Hill has refreshed her spirit and passion to combine art with storytelling.
Outdoor Adventure Skills (9-14)
This course is offered in multiple weeks:
Week One / June 15-19
Week Seven / July 27-30
Week Eight / Aug 3-7
Tuition: 295
Course Description: Here's a chance to build up your wilderness survival skills! Learn how to (safely) build and cook over a campfire, put up a tent or build a shelter, recognize local trees, plants, and animals, and explore the amazing trails and rivers in the state parks in our area. We’ll complete a series of hikes, some easy and some a little more challenging, and spend lots of time playing in the Eno River. For the hardy, the adventurous, the nature lover, and the fun-seeker. Prepare to get wet!
Instructor: Abby Obando has been teaching summer camps at CFS almost every year since 1998. She also taught in schools in Durham, Chapel Hill and Florida as well as at Carolina Friends School. A graduate of Western Carolina University with a Bachelor’s degree in both Special Education and Spanish, Abby speaks fluent Spanish and knows a bit of sign language. She loves to listen to music, dance, read, camp, ride horses, blow glass, weld, cook, and inspire young learners to continue to enjoy engaging with the world around them.
As a result of MANY years of active girl scouting, summer camping, and working with kids, she has an easygoing personality, great rapport with kids, and a WIDE range of knowledge and experiences over a broad area of topics and activities. She will be sure to keep your young adventurers busy having fun, building interests, and actively learning more about the world around them.
Camp Music Video (9-15)
Tuition: 295
Course: In this week long camp, students will be in groups to learn how to write, produce, direct, edit (and don’t forget, be the star in!) their very own music video. Family and friends will be invited on the last day to watch the finished music video with the students.
Instructor: Robin B. Pipkin’s background is in Graphic Design, Web Design, Video, and Photography. She also designs and makes jewelry. Robin lives with her family in Chapel Hill and is originally from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. She’s been a resident of North Carolina since 2005.
Robin attended the Art Institute of Pittsburgh for a year, studying website administration. She later transferred and graduated from Duquesne University with a B.A. in Multimedia Technology, minoring in Studio Arts.
Robin’s husband Tarish "Jeghetto" Pipkins, is a well-known local artist and puppeteer. She currently works as his Business Manager, Art Instructor for Chapel Hill Parks and Recreation, and a Substitute Teacher at Carolina Friends School!Comic Design (9-16)
This course is offered in multiple weeks:
Week One / June 15-19
Week Two / June 22-26
Week Three / June 29-July 3 (Advanced)
Week Four / July 6-10
Week Five / July 13-17
Week Six / July 20-24
Week Seven / July 27-30 (Advanced)
Tuition: 295
Course: Addicted to comics? Doodle in class? Come create your own comic book characters and stories. Bring creativity, imagination, and motivation along with your pencil. Exchange ideas, receive input, and work on technique with a professional comic artist. There’s also time for Four Square, games, and Capture the Flag. Oftentimes, campers take multiple sessions. Please bring pencils, erasers, and favorite drawing pens. (Two Advanced Comic Design sessions are available for those who want to expand their skills.)
Instructor: Jamie Charles, a working illustrator, graduated from UNC-G in Fine Arts. Besides exhibiting his own work, Jamie works at CFS as an art instructor for Middle School students. He is also a champion Capture the Flag leader, having coached his workshop groups to many victories (not that he is bragging). Jamie offers private lessons in drawing and art.
Treat Yourself (9-16)
Tuition: 295
Course: The week will begin with learning about different personality styles, doing some thinking about which ones describe you the best, and figuring out what kinds of things give you energy, meaning, and purpose when you’re feeling stressed and down. We’ll spend a few days “treating ourselves” through a variety of experiences in nature, the arts, meditation, physical activity, cooking, service, and time together. The week will end with a self-designed mini-retreat for yourself on Friday, to which you can invite a family member and “treat both yourselves!”
We will be journaling as a way to develop self-knowledge and insight. Bring your favorite journal/notebook and be prepared to get to know yourself!
Instructor: Coco Casey (she/her/hers) graduated from UNC - Chapel Hill this past May in Sociology and History, with a minor in Education. She’s enjoyed getting to know the CFS community through her time working in Extended Day with the Lower School this school year, and is so excited to spend more time there this summer!
She has worked with Student U Durham in a variety of extended educational roles in the past four years, and is also currently a kids’ bookseller at Flyleaf Books in Chapel Hill. When she’s not reading or spending time with kids, you can find Coco cooking and baking, making crafts, and playing with her cat, Pepper (but don’t bring him up around Coco if you don’t want to spend five minutes looking at pictures of him).
Act It Out (10-14)
Tuition: 295
Instructor: Abby Kameny has been involved in Carolina Friends School Summer Programs for 16 years. She started out as a camper, served as a Counselor-In-Training, was hired to work in the Extended Day program, and then became an instructor! She is a graduate of the University of Maryland, College Park, and plans to become a classroom teacher. Before heading to graduate school, she's teaching English internationally.
Abby studied theatre for years and has participated in school plays and a regional improvisational theatre team. She has also had experience singing throughout high school and college in musicals, choir, and a cappella groups.
Sports Action (10-15)
This course is offered in multiple weeks:
Week One / June 15-19, Achiri Acha
Week Two / June 22-26, Jochen Wachter (Soccer)
Week Three / June 29-July 3, Achiri Acha
Week Four / July 6-10, Achiri Acha
Week Five / July 13-17, Natasha Anderson (Girls, Goals, & Glory)
Week Six / July 20-24, Jack Crowley
Week Seven / July 27-30, Sports Action
Week Eight / Aug 3-7, Markeith Gary (Basketball)
Week Nine / Aug 10-14, Sports Action
Tuition: 295
Course: Can’t get enough of sports? We totally understand. Some of our students take sports all summer. So we get it. We introduce basic rules, strategy, and techniques of basketball, Frisbee, soccer, and some indoor gym games (as well as Capture the Flag!) for the fun of playing. We focus on technique, skill development, and team building. All activities take place on our outdoor playing fields (using cooler morning temperatures) and in our two air-conditioned gym facilities. Sports experience is absolutely not necessary. Our goal is for you to learn how to play so you’ll feel comfortable knowing the rules, understanding the strategy, and practicing good teamwork. We don’t stress competition. We're here to help you improve your game and have fun.
Instructor: Achiri Acha has been at CFS since he was six years old! He mentored with Jordan Shamp in Sports camp, became a counselor-in-training, and then moved on to become a camp assistant and instructor for the past seven summers. Achiri has worked in Extended Day at Lerner School and School’s Out Camps at the Jewish Community Center and currently works at USA Ninja Challenge during the school year. Achiri's goal is to be an elementary school physical education instructor and coach.
Sous Chef (11-15) | Waitlist
This course is offered in multiple weeks:
Week One / June 15-19, Mary Deb Englund
Week Eight / Aug 3-7, Mary Barber
Tuition: 310
Course: Breakfast, Lunch, Appetizers/Snacks, Dinner, Dessert: What are your favorite meals of the day? Each day this week we’ll feature a particular time-of-day menu, and on that day we’ll prepare a variety of those dishes. Breakfast might include pancakes, grits, or muffins. Lunch could be soups, salads, or a frittata. Perhaps for dinner we’ll have homemade pasta, a stir fry, or burritos. Desserts could include cakes, pies, ice creams, or fruit tarts. And snacks might be guacamole-stuffed tomatoes, crostini, or homemade tortilla chips. The choices will be ours.
We’ll learn some professional techniques and local chefs might even visit us from time to time. We’ll also learn how to work together to choose a dish, read a recipe, prepare our choices, eat and appreciate each other’s efforts, and clean up our workspace. A full day for those who love food and want to learn how to cook it themselves.
Instructor: Mary Deborah Englund has had multiple roles at CFS, including being Head of Durham Early School and teaching at Campus Early School. Mary Deborah has over 30 years of experience in teaching, more than half of those years being in CFS Middle School, and is now in her first year of retirement from full-time teaching.
She is especially known for her skill in the kitchen and her elective cooking courses. Various classes included Put a Little South in your Mouth, Brunch Bunch, Multicultural Cooking, and Cooking with Kindness. Both of Mary Deborah's daughters are CFS graduates.
Leadership Challenge (12-15)
This course is offered in multiple weeks:
Week One / June 15-19, Mary Barber
Week Four / July 6-10, Marshall Wilfong
Week Six / July 20-24, Phil Riddick
Tuition: 295
Course: What makes you a more effective leader and team player? Let us show you some tools. Using group building games, art, theater, movement, discussion, and individual reflection we learn and practice leadership techniques. We will work as individuals and as a group to enhance confidence, cooperation, and communication. The workshop is an excellent exercise in developing leadership skills for jobs and community roles.
If you're interested in being a counselor-in-training in CFS Summer Programs this year or next, this course is a prerequisite. We work through some basic “how to deal with” situations, focusing on conflict resolution and effective ways of listening and responding. And, no, we do not sit in chairs throughout the day listening to lectures! This is an active course culminating in a "shadow day" as a CIT and a certificate of successful leadership training completion.
Instructor: Mary Barber began her work in education before her formal training as a teacher. After college she opted to take a job at SOAR, an outdoor education summer camp and boarding school nestled in the mountains of Western North Carolina.
During her two years there, she was in charge of a summer program for ADHD and LD youth ages 8 - 10. This program had the unique aspect of backpacking with llamas! The campers hiked, whitewater rafted, and rock climbed during their 10-day course in addition to the Llama Trek. She was a field instructor at the boarding school during the Fall and Spring, which meant that Mary and a partner took a group of eight students (ages 12-18) all over the country, and even internationally, to explore the great outdoors. In between rock climbing, whitewater rafting, snorkeling, and canoeing excursions, she taught English, Science, and Math to her students.
After these wonderful adventures, Mary elected to attend Duke University in Durham for her Masters in the Art of Teaching. She had the opportunity to intern for 28 weeks in Durham Public Schools, teaching sophomores and juniors. Because of her internship, Mary was able to take on a long-term substitute position at Riverside High School in the Exceptional Children Department. She worked for over two months leading a sheltered class for students with severe exceptionalities. Working with populations such as these has always been a passion for Mary and she was very grateful for this wonderful opportunity.
Mary came to CFS’ Upper School as a language arts teacher in 2018 from a local charter school. She spent her time there immersing her students in the Project-Based Learning approach to education. A priority for Mary is to make learning apply to the contemporary world, and to her students’ lives, through interactions with texts and experts. Mary’s goal is simple: to bring experiential education into the classroom. Through projects, group work, nature study, and "hands-on" work, she hopes to make subjects come alive for her students.
Dungeons and Dragons: Delving Into Design (12-18) | Waitlist
Tuition: 295
Course: Player's Handbook sales are topping the bestseller lists! Self-published game supplements are breaking commercial records on Kickstarter! Celebrities are live-streaming their game sessions! These days, the classic fantasy role-playing game Dungeons & Dragons is experiencing a major renaissance. And it's no wonder! Playing D&D may activate a wider range of skills than any other game: puzzle solving, critical thinking, statistical analysis, interpersonal negotiation, theatrical performance, creative storytelling, and imaginative worldbuilding. And let's not forget dice rolling!
Students will build characters, play through adventures, and study the fundamentals of role-playing game design to discover what makes the best D&D sessions so memorable. By the end of the week, we'll use what we've learned to craft an original adventure for other players to experience. Whether you're a newcomer to the game or an avid fan, there's a place at the table for you!
Instructor: Jeremy Powell holds graduate degrees in Communication Studies from UNC-Chapel Hill, and in Modern Culture and Media Studies from Brown University. He has taught courses in art history, cinema studies, and cultural theory at the Rhode Island School of Design in Providence, and at Clark University in Worcester, Massachusetts. After returning to the Triangle in the summer of 2018, this CFS parent currently works as a freelance editor and voice-over artist.
Summer Film Studio (13-18)
Tuition: 295
Course: The shortest distance between two people is a story. Learn the essentials of filmmaking and digital media production as we document vibrant stories of our community! We’ll make projects come to life using a minimalist approach focused on available resources for maximum visual storytelling impact (as Ahmed teaches, ‘technology will never replace creativity’). We’ll develop confidence in our individual creative abilities, collaboration, and community-building through film as we embark on our film safaris. And, we’ll have tangible products to premiere at the end of our work together.
Instructor: Ahmed F. Selim is an Egyptian-American educator and filmmaker now based in North Carolina. He joined the CFS Upper School as Language Arts and Film Teacher in 2017, but taught previously with the School as a guest teacher and led the first Summer Programs Film Studio. This May and June, Ahmed will be leading a group of CFS Upper School students on a Family Diplomacy Project, a storytelling and service exchange trip to Egypt.
Before his return to the Triangle, Ahmed spent 15 years teaching and filming in the Middle East. He has a keen interest in using documentary projects to bridge the East-West divide by using film to “turn conflict into discovery.” To that aim, he founded FiLMS for World Peace, where he partners with nonprofits, educational institutions, and social justice activists to empower the will for change. Ahmed has also taught courses at the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University.Contact Us
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