Bicycle Engineering is a rapid growth are within the Green agenda and CMA are delighted to announce this new offering (for the older cohort of students to start with) at CMA Summer Camps. Students will enjoy fascinating hands on bicycle wheel building, exploring key mathematical and scientific concepts when contemplating rim dimensions, diameters, spoke tensions and optimum spoke lengths among…

Students get to explore different instruments like electric guitars, acoustic guitars, bass, drums, keyboards and just about anything that can make music, form a band and perform together. Loads of fun and very loud!    

Exploring the key concepts of motion, speed, distance and time through interactive and highly engaging workshops whether, for example, calculating speed of flying objects such as drones and planes, or the speed of an arrow in archery or your own speed while running or indeed surfing using GoPro cameras. Students also use iPads to record and analyse flight paths of…

The ever-popular Karaoke night. Students can enjoy a wonderful evening of Karaoke with great spot prizes and loads of fun.

Writing, recording and producing podcasts of various themes and topics, while also exploring which microphones, cables, software packages and mixing desks etc are best suited for different situations.   

Creating and producing stop motion animations using models, plasticine, drawings, graphics and other methods. Stop Motion movies are shown at the ever popular Movie Awards night with great prizes on offer.   

Teams story board, produce and shoot short movies, which are screened at the Movie Awards night. Students apply concepts explored from workshops such as applying Fibonacci patterns and the Golden Ratio to the visual compositions used in the productions of the movies. Great prizes on offer such as CMA Hoodies and Caps.

Using Green Screen Technology, students create news broadcasts of their activities. Students can embed footage they’ve taken from surfing for example, when producing their news broadcasts.  Video from Summer Camp 2019 Green Screen Workshops

Students create musical tracks using sequencers such as Garage Band and Logic Pro, and can sample sounds and record live instruments to add to the tracks. Tracks can also be used as soundtracks for their movies and Green Screen Productions.   

Teams are asked to come up with new inventions or business ideas which they then pitch to the judging panel. Great prizes on offer such as CMA Hoodies and Caps.

Students wear GoPro video cameras to record their adventure sports activities, and which can also be used to calculate speeds.

Using tiny handheld programmable computers that can create musical instruments and robots among others. These workshops are complimented with Coding & Robotics workshops.   

Students explore designing and assembling propulsive devices for flight including planes, helicopters, drones and rockets.     

Students explore shapes and properties of light while using iPhones to create holograms.  

Exploring what sound is, how it’s produced and discovering sound waves, frequencies, vibrations and visual patterns created by Chladni plates and drums and different instruments.    

Exploring various patterns and ratios evident in nature, art, film, and music such as Fibonacci, The Golden Ratio and wave machines. Game Theory is also explore. These concepts are applied to other creative workshops such as sound production, music technology, 3D printing and film production.   

Exploring, designing and building water rockets using compressed air. Looking at Newton’s Third Law and ratios.

Exploring how drones work and flying model drones through various courses using hand sensors. Calculating speeds and distances using drones.

Using programming languages such as scratch in conjunction with Raspberry Pi Technology to remotely control robots through various mazes and other challenges.   

Exploring and manipulating programming languages such as drag and drop software like Scratch or other languages like Python to get computers to behave and create content such as animations or music. Scratch can also be used to analyse the flight paths of the water rockets built in the Flight workshops. 

Exploring how wind energy works and then assembling model Wind Turbines and demonstrating what energy can be produced by the wind. Measurements are taken to see the power in the wind on any particular day. 

Designing and creating 3D models and representations in x,y,z planes which are then scaled appropriately to be printed on a 3D Printer. How a 3D Printer works is explored and students take their 3D Printed models with them.    

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