Session 1: June 22-26, 2026   

AI Invations In Sales/Marketing - An Introduction to AI Powered Business Strategies: How can businesses use AI to predict customer needs and craft marketing strategies that truly resonate? Students will dive into the artificial intelligence frameworks, exploring how companies use AI and data, (including theirs) to shape today’s business landscape.

In this hands-on, 5 day course, students will get an interactive introduction to AI’s role in modern business—learning key skills to analyze data, create targeted marketing plans, understand and explore customer behavior. Students will do a deep dive and learn AI techniques that bring customer data to life. By the end of the week, students will work together to create a marketing campaign for a fictional product using AI insights—an exciting capstone project to apply everything they’ve learned.

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Atmospheric Science Lab: Build, Test, & Deploy A Handheld Air Quality Sensor! In this lab, we will build a sun photometer - a sensor sensitive to sunlight - that will allow us to study the amount of pollution in the atmosphere. Typically, the amount of sunlight on a clear day is stable and well-known. If our sensor measures less light than expected, there are likely aerosols, like smoke or dust, floating about in the atmosphere - maybe from Baltimore City, or as far away as Canada! These measurements are important for public health, and also help scientists better understand how pollution impacts our weather, climate, and ecosystem.

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Coding with Emotions: The Science of Empathic AI: In this exciting and interactive course, students will explore how Artificial Intelligence can recognize, understand, and respond to human emotions. From detecting smiles in photos to building chatbots that respond kindly, learners will dive into the world of empathetic technology — where coding meets human connection.

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Create Your College Portfolio-Prepare for the Opportunities Ahead:  Opportunities don’t come to people who are not visible — and you can’t be visible if you don’t have anything to share. That’s why having a strong personal portfolio is one of the most powerful ways for students to stand out. In this future-focused course, high school students will create a polished, professional portfolio that showcases their strengths, achievements, and potential using the help of the latest AI tools.

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CyberSafe is an interactive 15-hour course that introduces middle school students to the world of cybersecurity in a fun and engaging manner. Through this course, which is compiled with real-life examples, group activities, and online safety games, students will be able to learn how to protect their personal information, devices, and digital identity. The course will cover basic yet important topics such as password safety, phishing, malware, digital citizenship, and ethical online behavior. 

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Drawing Portraiture: This course focuses on developing the fundamentals of drawing portraiture through the exploration of charcoal and pencil application, value, facial structure, observational drawing, and understanding proportions. Students will participate in demonstrations, lectures, and discussions designed to support the development of skills needed to create representational and meaningful portraits.

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Earth Science with Satellite Imagery: Satellite images of the Earth from space are some of our best tools to study our weather, oceans, pollution, and changes to our cities, rainforests, and polar caps over time. In this class, you will learn why scientists care so much about measuring the entire Earth from space daily. We’ll also talk about the different kinds of signals we measure from space – specifically, how to identify liquid water from ice clouds, algae blooms from sediment in the ocean, desert dust from wildfire smoke – and all from satellite imagery. You’ll also get hands-on experience with satellite data from an exciting new NASA climate mission called PACE (which stands for Plankton, Aerosols, Clouds, ocean Ecosystem). Image credit: Joseph Knuble/NASA GSFC

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Exploring The Career Of Sonography -“ICN2U” : Most people are intrigued that an ultrasound can visualize a baby before birth. Are you aware that Sonography – or ultrasound – is used to image a multitude of organs from head to toe?

If you have a passion for precision and excellence, a desire to help people, and a hope for a creative and responsible medical profession, consider a career in Sonography! This course will introduce you to Sonography: the most operator-dependent of all imaging modalities. As a sonographer, your knowledge and skill matters. 

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Guitar Fundamentals: A Hands-on Workshop For Aspiring Players- Unleash your child’s musical potential with this engaged, hands-on workshop tailored for aspiring guitarists! Perfect for beginners and those building their skills, this course blends active learning with a collaborative approach to help students develop essential techniques and confidence. From rock classics to fingerstyle and blues, students will explore diverse genres and practice playing in groups under the guidance of an experienced instructor. Upon completion, participants will have made meaningful strides toward mastery and will perform a song they’ve learned during a special presentation for family and friends on the final day.

Students must bring their own guitar to participate in this course.

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Innovation Playground: A Place to Have Fun, Create, & Innovate! Through this course, students will identify problems in their communities and brainstorm different solutions. We'll start with games and activities to warm up our brains and get in the inventor's mindset. Next we'll work together to reflect on our communities - both their needs and their assets. Students will then work in small groups or pairs to play with different materials as they follow our 7-step invention process. By the end of the program, students will have a greater understanding of how the invention process works and how to apply it to their own lives; and they will have all the skills they need to participate in next year's Maryland Invention Convention competition! We welcome all curious and creative minds to our program - no previous experience required. All you need is to be ready to ask questions, explore new ways of looking at the world around you, and of course, have fun!

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Level Up: Mastering The Art of Leadership & Communication: Being a leader isn’t just about having a title; it’s about how you show up, how you listen, and how you move others to action. In this high-energy, week-long intensive, you will gain the skills that are needed to be an aspiring young leader. Whether you’re looking to captain a team, lead a student club, or simply prepare for college, this session is designed to help you level up your influence. 

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Stock Market: Financial Literacy- Students get a chance to try their own hand at what it's like investing money. Students will increase their knowledge of financial literacy by examining investment strategies and advanced stock market topics such as option trading. Students role up their sleeves and jump right in, as they take part in a stock market game competition. To make the competition even more fun, the winners of the stock market game will earn Amazon gift cards!

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Stock Market: Financial Literacy and Investment Strategy:  Students get a chance to try their own hand at what it's like investing money. Students will increase their knowledge in financial literacy by examining investment strategies and advanced stock market topics such as option trading. Students roll up their sleeves and jump right in, as they take part in a stock market game competition. To make the competition even more fun, the winners of the stock market game will earn Amazon gift cards!

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The Power Within: Recharge Your Future with Battery Tech -Have you ever stopped to think about what keeps your phone alive, your wireless headphones playing, or your electric car running?In this one-week STEM adventure, we’ll dive into the fascinating world of rechargeable batteries - the tiny powerhouses that keep our modern lives moving! We’ll start our journey by taking a closer look at the batteries you use every day, the ones that power your TV remote. You’ll learn how these familiar objects store and release energy, and what makes them work. From there, we’ll dive into the fascinating world of electrochemistry through a series of fun, hands-on experiments. You’ll get the chance to create your very own simple batteries using common materials, seeing science in action right before your eyes.But our exploration doesn’t stop there. Beyond understanding how batteries function, we’ll broaden our view to consider renewable energy sources and the future of sustainable power. Together, we’ll discuss different ways of energy generation and usage, and how science and innovation are helping us move toward cleaner, more efficient alternatives.

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Using Light to Sustain Life: This course will contain lecture and laboratory components. Over five years we will discuss absorption and emission of light, illustrated by examples of natural and synthetic pigments, using light to produce clean energy, and application of light in innovative diagnostic and therapeutic procedures. Each of the topics will be illustrated by experiments which students will perform in the lab. The course will combine elements of chemistry and photochemistry, energy science and medicine.

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