Kids College is a summer program that provides more than 60 classes to students ages 7 through 16. Classes are offered Monday through Thursday during two three-week sessions. Each summer's program has a theme. Kids College classes cover a wide range of topics, such as anatomy and physiology, math, art, foreign language, theatre, science, computer graphics and programming, dance, sports reading writing, music, anthropology, geology, and study skills. There is no academic screening, no tests, no homework.
Kids come here to learn new things, but they also learn about themselves.
They come from all backgrounds, and this brings them together culturally. I pay the instructors very well, and consequently, I am able to pick some super teachers. Instructors in the past have included the dean of mathematics from a local high school, lawyers from the prosecutor's office and from the State Farm Insurance's home office in Chicago, a graduate of the Chicago Art Institute, a specialist in computer science who had received a Lilly Grant, a recipient of a NASA teaching award, a reporter for WYIN, channel 56, and a master magician. Medical artist for the University of Chicago. Psychologist from the Adler School of Professional Psychology, Chicago.