URJ 6 Points Sci-Tech Academy
Innovate. Connect. Explore!
Grades
5th - 11th
Jewish Affiliation
Reform
Contact this Camp Directly
Phone: 857-246-8677
Website: http://www.6pointsscitech.org
Email: scitech@urj.org
Sponsoring Organization
URJ (Union for Reform Judaism)
Special Needs
Full Inclusion Program (with Professional Staff)
Food Information
Kosher
Kosher-style
Gluten-Free Accommodations
Vegetarian Accommodations
Allergy Accommodations
Description
At URJ 6 Points Sci-Tech Academy, scientific inquiry meets fun! Campers entering grades 5-11 develop hypotheses, perform experiments, and test out new technologies in a supportive, vibrant Jewish community. Our campers ask big questions, and discover real answers.
Located at a pristine boarding school just outside of Boston’s science and technology corridor called Governor’s Academy, we offer a top-quality educational program along with access to the best and brightest minds in the Jewish science and technology community.
Our staff members create and use incredible curricula, created in partnership with education experts, to guide campers in bringing to life the questions that capture their imaginations. Using a hands-on, project-based approach, campers learn and create in a collaborative environment. Campers choose one primary track, or “Workshop,” where they spend a total of 2½ hours throughout each day, in addition to exploring the world through our amazing counselor-led chugim (electives) and outdoor recreational periods like Sababa and Kinesthetic Sciences. There’s no place quite like Sci-Tech!
Director
Jayme Dale Mallindine
Jayme has spent her career and education poking at the intersections between technology and community. Before coming to the URJ, Jayme was, at various points, the education coordinator for Temple Beth Shalom in Austin, TX, an afterschool program coordinator and summer camp director at Rhode Island for Community & Justice, a high school teacher for the JCC of Greater Rhode Island, an ethnographer studying religious communities who used video games as part of their religious practice, and a site lead for Girls Make Games and Girls Who Code, summer camps that teach middle and high school girls video game design and computer programming.
Jayme grew up in the Appalachian region of North Carolina, and dual-majored in Psychology and Religious Studies at the University of North Carolina in Greensboro. She earned a Masters at the University of Texas at Austin after writing a dissertation on gender, environment, and communal memory in video games.
She also cultivates her own community of “broadbeans” on her website, GamingBroadly.com. There, she writes and podcasts about the ways people relate (or don’t relate) to games and the cultures surrounding them. She’s enthusiastic about sharing her love of technology and Judaism at her home at Sci-Tech Academy!
Rabbi Dan Medwin
RABBI DAN MEDWIN, MAJE – Co-Director, Growth and Innovation
Before becoming one of the directors of camp, Rabbi Dan Medwin worked at the Central Conference of American Rabbis for over a decade as the Director of Digital Media. This position involved creating digital liturgy, such as Visual T’filah, apps, and ebooks, as well as providing general technology and media guidance for other Reform rabbis and the broader Reform Movement.
Rabbi Dan is honored to have helped launch camp as a member of the founding Camp Council, and has been at camp practically every summer since on faculty.
Rabbi Dan is married to Rabbi Lydia Medwin, an expert in relational engagement and small groups, and they live in Atlanta, Georgia with their three children: Zimra, Gavriel, and Jasmine.
Learn More About Camp!
Grades
5th - 11th
Jewish Affiliation
Reform
Contact this Camp Directly
Phone: 857-246-8677
Website: http://www.6pointsscitech.org
Email: scitech@urj.org
Sponsoring Organization
URJ (Union for Reform Judaism)
Special Needs
Full inclusion program (with professional staff)
Food Information
Kosher
Kosher-style
Gluten-Free Accommodations
Vegetarian Accommodations
Allergy Accommodations
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