EMSC 2022 - European Mensa Science Camp

Accommodation and Food

• Hotel rooms with 2-4 beds and a bathroom
• Hotel has an outside swimming pool and is located close to the Sazava river and beautiful woods
• Food: full board including two snacks and drinks all day

Programme

• Lectures and workshops focused on science and technology
• Project based learning, teamwork, presentations 
• 3D printers, laptops, measuring instruments, mBot robots, Raspberry Pi with sensors and a lot of other equipment will be available for the project work 
• A sightseeing trip to Prague
• Solving ciphers during a trip to a nearby wood 
• Teambuilding, competitions, board games focused on strategy, reasoning and logic 

Registration and Payment

• Register soon, the number of participants is limited 
• Please make the payment at the same time as you register for EMSC 
• Account no. within Czechia: 2801326157 / 2010, variable symbol: 2072+your phone number without the country code.
• If you pay in EUR, please use our account no. IBAN CZ36 2010 0000 0021 0168 3794, BIC: FIOBCZPPXXX, owner: Mensa Ceske republiky, Spanielova 1111, Prague, CZ
• Early bird price (registration and payment before 30 April 2022) is CZK 6930 (EUR 289), after this date the price will be CZK 7420 (EUR 309)
• All Mensa members have a discount of CZK 200 (EUR 8.30).
• Cancelation policy: cancellations made 60 days or more before the event will receive 100% refund, cancellations made 59-30 days before the event will receive 75% refund, cancellations made 29-7 days before the event will receive 50% refund, cancellations made later will not receive any refund 

Date and Time

• EMSC begins on Saturday, 16 July
• Prague Airport pick-up at 11:30
• Prague Main Railway Station pick-up at 11:30
• Chocerady pick-up at 12:30
• On Saturday 23 July at 10:00, the participants will present their projects and all parents are welcome to see them (if they come to Czechia). The presentations will finish at 12:00. We will take the students to the Prague Airport at 13:30 and to the Prague Main Railway Station at 14:00.

Our Team 

Tomas Blumenstein

• The main co-ordinator, responsible for the programme, lectures, projects and trips
• Tomas has been working with gifted children for many years, he organizes regular seminars focused on science, summer camps, and he also works as an education consultant
• Vice-chairman of Mensa Czech Republic, a member of IBD of Mensa International

Jana Middleton

• Responsible for communication with participants, coordination of their projects, and picking them up 
• Responsible for health and diets 
• Jana works as a university teacher, translator and interpreter, she used to work as a journalist at Radio Free Europe, and she is a mother of two gifted children
• jana.middleton@mensa.cz

Tanja Olear Gojić 

• Responsible for teambuilding, games and projects
• Tanja has worked with gifted children for more than 20 years and holds the title The Best Educator of Serbia, she is the president of the UčenIQ association and an ambassador of Scientix. 

Natalie Kanakova

• Responsible for teambuilding, competitions, games and lectures
• Natalie studies at the Faculty of Education, Charles University, teaches Maths and loves playing chess – she has achieved the Woman International Master

Jessica Morgan 

• Responsible for lectures and projects
• Jessica studies at Berkeley, University of California, and is passionate about data science and applied mathematics. 

Giovanni San José Martínez

• Responsible for games and projects
• Giovanni studies at the Prague University of Economics and Business. He lived in Mexico and New Zealand where he participated in several United Nations and European Union youth model events, he enjoys playing strategy games. 

Xiaoyu Zhao

• Responsible for games and projects
• Xiaoyu studies at the Prague University of Economics and Business. He is Chinese and likes comics, video games, football and origami. 

Lenka Minářová – Psychologist

• Psychologist focused on gifted children
• Lenka will be present at the camp based on the RSJ grant
• She will be involved in activities for children and will organize some team activities, she will be available to children for both individual and group consultations

European Mensa Juniors Camp:

Mensa Germany has scheduled another international youth camp for students of age 12 to 17 from 2022-08-18 to 2022-08-28 in Hamburg. https://www.mensa.de/kiju/camps/emjc/

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