Category Archives: Summer Programs

Darkroom Photo

Posted on July 29, 2013 by Nobles

Nobles Day Camp darkroom instructor Bob teaches campers how to process film. Pictured here, Bob shows a photo that’s half fixed and half unfixed.

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Achieve Open House

Posted on July 24, 2013 by Nobles

Achieve students talk with a visitor at the open house. Attendees visited classes and attended a Q&A with new director Nora Dowley-Liebowitz.

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Cooling Off

Posted on July 19, 2013 by Nobles

Campers take a popsicle break after coming back from the pool. With temperatures in the high 90s today, counselors are working hard to keep the little ones cool.

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Chemistry Lab

Posted on July 18, 2013 by Nobles

Upward Bound students work in pairs to calculate how many moles of NaHCO3 are in an Alka-Seltzer tablet in chemistry class today.

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Learning to Sew

Posted on July 17, 2013 by Nobles

There are so many activities offered at Nobles Day Camp that there’s something for everyone. Pictured here, campers and counselors work on a sewing project.

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Achieve Speaker Series

Posted on July 12, 2013 by Nobles

Joy Haywood Moore, former deputy head of the Oprah Winfrey Leadership Academy for Girls (OWLAG), visits Achieve as part of the Friday Speaker Series. Moore talked about her experience working in South Africa and inspired Achieve students to get out their … Continue reading →

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Canoe Time

Posted on July 10, 2013 by Nobles

Campers use teamwork to canoe around the Charles River.

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My Dream, My Future

Posted on July 8, 2013 by Nobles

Achieve students “pack their suitcases” for the future.  The “My Dream, My Future” project helps students identify their short-term and long-term goals and think of steps to accomplish their dreams.

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Pottery Project

Posted on July 5, 2013 by Nobles

There’s something very therapeutic about working with clay. After a morning of vigorous activities, campers cool down and settle into the ceramics studio to work on their pottery projects.

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Music Summer Camp

Posted on July 3, 2013 by Nobles

The Boston Youth Symphony Orchestras’ Intensive Community Program is hosted at Nobles this week. The rigorous string instrument training program challenges more than 60 students from underrepresented communities to learn the violin, viola, cello or bass.

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