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🎙️ Join Our Summer Debate Accelerator! 📢 Sharpen Your Skills. Start the Fall school year with confidence. Is your middle-schooler curious about competitive debate and loves the idea of trying it in a less stressful, summer environment that still offers the opportunity to compete? Highest Speak is thrilled to offer a Virtual two-week Public Forum debate camp starting on Monday, July 7! Whether you are interested in seeing what debate is like or want to practice your skills over this summer, this evening camp will offer a crash course in the ins and outs of debate. Our Debate Tournament Prep Class is a focused, high-energy program designed for middle school debaters and aspiring debaters. Whether you are interested in trying debate or want to go to your first debate competition in the Fall, this camp has something for everyone. 📅 Program Dates: July 7-July 18, Monday to Friday, 6-8 pm Online ** MUST BE RISING GRADES 6-8 TO PARTICIPATE! Through hands-on training students will learn debate, argument strategies, and effective public speaking, all while practicing and being coached by experienced Debate coaches/experts with over ten years of experience. Oh, and we will have a BLAST! :) What You’ll Gain: 🧠 Argument Techniques 📚 Case Writing & Research Strategies 🏅 Tournament Simulation & Practice Rounds Amp up your debate skills from the comfort of your home! (Optional Tournament in August. Info available during the program.)

Let’s all be creative together! Every 2nd Monday in September through May, I will offer a guided acrylic painting on canvas for students and their families both in-studio and virtually. You can drop off your student or stay and paint ;)

Let’s all be creative together! Every 2nd Monday in September through May, I will offer a guided acrylic painting on canvas for students and their families both in-studio and virtually. You can drop off your student or stay and paint ;)

In Drawing/Painting Class we will create a variety of fine art projects focusing on technique and style, composition, brushwork, and systematic practice. KVArteest will give input on our subject matter, as we together decide what we want to learn.

Join the adventure as you build your own world, fight mobs, and explore different landscapes. Minecraft is a video game with limitless possibilities. Virtual Lego as they say, Minecraft usually had been described as the game with no rules. This class will tackle the world of Minecraft but with a twist! We will explore the game with a little bit of CODING! Classes will be taught online! Students will explore Minecraft from the comfort of their home!

Join the adventure as you build your own world, fight mobs, and explore different landscapes. Minecraft is a video game with limitless possibilities. Virtual Lego as they say, Minecraft usually had been described as the game with no rules. This class will tackle the world of Minecraft but with a twist! We will explore the game with a little bit of CODING! Classes will be taught online! Students will explore Minecraft from the comfort of their home!

Format: Live instructor-led sessions + hands-on projects Tools: Python, Jupyter Notebooks, Scikit-learn, Google Colab ⸻ 🔍 Course Objectives By the end of this course, students will be able to: • Understand the basics of Machine Learning and its real-world applications • Write Python code to implement basic ML models • Work with datasets to perform predictions and classifications • Build simple ML projects using tools like Scikit-learn ⸻ 🗓️ Week-by-Week Outline ⸻ Week 1: Introduction to Machine Learning & Python Foundations Goals: Understand what ML is and get comfortable with Python. • What is Machine Learning? (Supervised vs. Unsupervised) • Real-world examples of ML (YouTube, Netflix, self-driving cars) • Python basics refresher: variables, loops, functions • Intro to Google Colab & Jupyter Notebooks • Mini Project: Predicting student grades using simple logic ⸻ Week 2: Data Handling & Visualization Goals: Learn to clean and visualize data effectively. • What is a dataset? Structure, features, labels • Loading data using Pandas • Data cleaning: handling missing values, normalization • Visualization with Matplotlib & Seaborn • Mini Project: Visualizing COVID-19 cases or weather patterns ⸻ Week 3: Building Your First Machine Learning Models Goals: Understand core ML models and their application. • Introduction to Scikit-learn • Supervised Learning: Linear Regression & K-Nearest Neighbors • Classification vs. Regression • Training vs. Testing sets, accuracy • Mini Project: Predicting house prices or classifying iris flowers ⸻ Week 4: Real-World Projects & Next Steps Goals: Apply everything learned to complete a hands-on ML project. • Decision Trees and Random Forest (brief intro) • Building a complete ML pipeline (data → model → evaluation) • Final Project: Students choose between: • Predicting movie ratings • Identifying handwritten digits (MNIST) • Classifying animals from features • Introduction to Next Steps: Deep Learning, AI Ethics, Kaggle ⸻ 🎓 Outcomes & Extras • Certificate of Completion • Nexclap access: tutorial videos, assignments, and tracking • Verified profile via NexGenKlick • Optional: Share final project in a demo day or blog

Join us in a fun 5 day course to learn secrets of the world's most popular puzzle toy! By the end of our week long camp, your child will build confidence, improve spatial thinking abilities, improve patience, and have fun! Decision making techniques taught through the Rubiks cube course can help improve your child's thinking in other academic subjects. Let's connect and learn this valuable skill.

1. Learn tables from 1 to 99 within seconds 2. Mental Addition 3. Mental Subtraction techniques 4. Mental Multiplication multidimensional Advantages of learning: These are tricks and shortcuts are for competitive, regular exams and everyday calculations Increase Calculation Speed and Accuracy Improves Confidence and Concentration Builds interest in Math

Join us in a fun 5 day course to learn secrets of the world's most popular puzzle toy! By the end of our week long camp, your child will build confidence, improve spatial thinking abilities, improve patience, and have fun! Decision making techniques taught through the Rubiks cube course can help improve your child's thinking in other academic subjects. Let's connect and learn this valuable skill.

Join us in a fun 5 day course to learn secrets of the world's most popular puzzle toy! By the end of our week long camp, your child will build confidence, improve spatial thinking abilities, improve patience, and have fun! Decision making techniques taught through the Rubiks cube course can help improve your child's thinking in other academic subjects. Let's connect and learn this valuable skill.

1. Learn tables from 1 to 99 within seconds 2. Mental Addition 3. Mental Subtraction techniques 4. Mental Multiplication multidimensional Advantages of learning: These are tricks and shortcuts are for competitive, regular exams and everyday calculations Increase Calculation Speed and Accuracy Improves Confidence and Concentration Builds interest in Math

1. Learn tables from 1 to 99 within seconds 2. Mental Addition 3. Mental Subtraction techniques 4. Mental Multiplication multidimensional Advantages of learning: These are tricks and shortcuts are for competitive, regular exams and everyday calculations Increase Calculation Speed and Accuracy Improves Confidence and Concentration Builds interest in Math

1. Learn tables from 1 to 99 within seconds 2. Mental Addition 3. Mental Subtraction techniques 4. Mental Multiplication multidimensional Advantages of learning: These are tricks and shortcuts are for competitive, regular exams and everyday calculations Increase Calculation Speed and Accuracy Improves Confidence and Concentration Builds interest in Math

Ready to unlock the magic of numbers? Join our virtual workshops and discover the power of Number Sense Routines! What are Number Sense Routines? Number sense routines are brief, structured math activities designed to build students' intuitive understanding of numbers and their relationships, rather than rote memorization. They focus on developing a strong sense of numbers through activities like quick imagery, visual representations, and number comparisons, allowing students to make connections and build a deeper understanding of math concepts.  Forget endless worksheets! We'll show you how these brief, brain-boosting activities make math make sense. Build your intuitive understanding, see number relationships like never before, and ditch the rote memorization. Get ready for: Quick Imagery: Picture numbers in your mind! Visual Vibes: Explore math through cool visual representations. Number Knockouts: Compare and compute like a pro! Fun Interactive Polls: Data collection and comparison. Stop just learning math, start feeling it! Sign up for our virtual workshop and become a number whiz! What to expect in a Number Sense Routines Virtual Summer Sessions: Sixteen 30-minute virtual sessions, that's 8 hours of learning! fun, engaging, interactive and stress-free environment clear directions communication and participation encouraged and celebrated lots of learning When you register for a Number Sense Routines Virtual Summer Session you will receive the zoom link to use for sessions. 8-week sessions, from Sept. 8 to Nov. 11, meeting twice a week for 30 minutes each. Notice: no virtual classes Oct 7, 9, 14. Join when your schedule permits. If your child misses a session, send us an email for the recording.

Let’s all be creative together! Every 2nd Monday in September through May, I will offer a guided acrylic painting on canvas for students and their families both in-studio and virtually. You can drop off your student or stay and paint ;)

In Drawing/Painting Class we will create a variety of fine art projects focusing on technique and style, composition, brushwork, and systematic practice. KVArteest will give input on our subject matter, as we together decide what we want to learn.

In Drawing/Painting Class we will create a variety of fine art projects focusing on technique and style, composition, brushwork, and systematic practice. KVArteest will give input on our subject matter, as we together decide what we want to learn.

In Drawing/Painting Class we will create a variety of fine art projects focusing on technique and style, composition, brushwork, and systematic practice. KVArteest will give input on our subject matter, as we together decide what we want to learn.

In Drawing/Painting Class we will create a variety of fine art projects focusing on technique and style, composition, brushwork, and systematic practice. KVArteest will give input on our subject matter, as we together decide what we want to learn.

In Drawing/Painting Class we will create a variety of fine art projects focusing on technique and style, composition, brushwork, and systematic practice. KVArteest will give input on our subject matter, as we together decide what we want to learn.