Program Overview

Curriculum

SYSC is a week-long program from June 23rd to June 28th. The regular program duration is from 10:00am to 2:30pm (with lunch and snacks provided) everyday, excluding the orientation on June 23rd and the closing/award ceremony on June 27h. Every student will learn a different subject every day, with them divided into two main groups based on their grade levels - one elementary and one junior high group - to ensure that the lectures and materials taught are best tailored to their skill levels. Thus, at the end of the week (5 days), each student will have had classes with each of the 5 subjects offered in this program (Math, Physics, Chemistry, Biology, and Environmental Science). We do not have fixed teams within each group of student across the week, because we aim to encourage maximum socialization by giving the students the opportunity to meet and work with new students in SYSC everyday.

Morning

• Interactive lectures with small group experiments and labs that expands the students' understanding of the subject at a more advanced level than taught in elementary and middle schools, while still keep the material engaging and understandable.

• Quiz review used to ensure that the students truly understand the material in the lecture. It serves as a review while also encourages friendly competition between students as they compete to answer the questions correctly and obtain small awards for their active learning and participation.

Lunch

• Lunch is provided by MCS.

• SYSC asks for generous snack donations from the parents that the students may share throughout the program (more details on the sign-up and parent volunteer forms).

• We will display fun visual scientific experiments and play educational and STEM-themed videos during lunch time, while giving all the students in the program to interact and socialize with one another.

Afternoon

• Main hands-on project/activity that allows the students to apply what they learned in the morning lecture in real life through the design and creation of projects.

Schedule/Calendar (June 23-27)