The Luminary Project is a three-week residential program held on campus for mature 8th-11th graders. Students focus on one intensive course of study for six hours a day that is an equivalent to one full year of honors level high school content or one semester of college content. Many schools consider these courses for high school credit, although CBK cannot guarantee this transfer. As much as students think hard in the accelerated courses, they play hard in this deepened residential experience. Many students find that life-long friends are made during this program, and full community weekend activities and trips are part of an energetic, structured residence life program.
STUDENTS: Students entering grades 8-11 in fall 2010
DATES: July 4-24, 2010
MATH/SCIENCE ADMISSION HUMANITIES ADMISSION
SAT-M 540 SAT-CR 510
ACT-M/S 20 ACT-R/E 22
or portfolio application
2010 Luminary Project Courses
NAND to Tetris: Modern Computer Science
Experimental and Generative Poetics
Winning Games with Code: C++ and Artifical Intelligence
The Writing Community: A Writers Workshop
Cryptology: Codemaking and Breaking
Design, Deploy, and Detect: Programming Wireless Sensor Networks
Student Housing and Supervision
Students will be housed in an air-conditioned residence hall tower, which is locked at all times to outsiders. We are the only program in this building during the summer. Students live in wings of no more than 14 participants per Residential Assistant. Girls and boys live on separate floors in suites of 1-5 rooms, and each suite has two bathrooms and showers. Students will be assigned a roommate in the same course or area unless they have made specific requests—both students must request one another on their applications. Our oldest students may be placed in a single room within a multi-room suite. Roommate requests cannot be guaranteed to be filled and roommates are not reassigned. In this program, students begin to have some supervised independence on campus, navigating to their courses in groups following orientation. Residential Assistants are screened and selected for their ability to relate to students of this age and participate in a rigorous pre-program training that includes other campus personnel. Access to e-mail and phone calls will be available on a limited basis only for student safety and attention to the program. Students may not bring personal computers, PDAs, or cell phones. Students are required to live on campus and to participate in both the academic and residential life of the program. This may mean that students will miss sports practices or other extracurricular commitments at home. CBK is unable to accommodate specific physical training regimens or lessons schedules. CBK operates as a closed campus and visitors are not allowed at any time during the program for student safety.
Daily Schedule
| Morning wing time and breakfast |
7:30am-9:00am |
Morning Instruction |
9:00am-11:30am |
Lunch |
11:30am-12:30pm |
Afternoon Instruction |
12:30pm-3:00pm |
Afternoon Activities |
3:00pm-5:00pm |
Evening Instruction |
5:00pm-6:00pm |
Dinner |
6:00pm-7:00pm |
Evening Activities |
7:00pm-9:00pm |
Wing Meetings |
9:00pm-9:30pm |
Quiet Time on Wings |
9:30pm-10:30pm |
Lights Out |
10:30 pm |
The schedule for this program is not as structured as younger students’ programs. We have a wide range of activities planned for afternoons and evenings for students to choose from as part of the community life of the program. However, in this program, students will have more unstructured time to schedule as they choose. Students are expected to adhere to the outlined schedule, regardless of how it may differ from life at home, for the safety and well-being of all students. Students are still held accountable for their whereabouts and personal responsibility at all times.
Activity Periods
During each activity period, residential staff offer a variety of options from which students choose to participate. From athletics to academics to fine arts, these opportunities give kids a chance to do something they love or try something new, and to take a well-deserved break from class. They also are a great time to meet other kids in the program from different courses and wings as the community learns more about one another. All activities are supervised and vary each day and each period. Due to the intensity of The Luminary Project, down time is nearly always an offered choice. Some activities are held in or near the residence hall, while many activities take place at the award-winning Mines Student Recreational Center, such as dance, yoga, weight- and cross-training, swimming, jogging, basketball, indoor soccer or the 4000sq.ft. climbing wall. Finally, due to our proximity to the foothills, activities may also take place in the near vicinity at parks or on marked hiking paths. Weekend trips, community, and individual activities are part of the two weekends falling during this three week experience.
