Mass Island Summer Camps: "Multimedia Concert Run"

Introduction

Our summer camps primarily target grade 9-12 students with certain levels of music proficiency. Each camp would allow 20 to 40 participating students to take a glance at the fundamentals of music, film, architecture, urban planning, and civil engineering. During the seminars and lectures, students will be introduced to hot topics, such as gentrification, urban hollowing, and homelessness, and be offered opportunities to research, observe, and share their viewpoints.

Depending on the level of difficulty of the camp, students will then either finish up a half-built Minecraft city or build a new Minecraft city together. Students will then write and film an original movie in the Minecraft city. Thereafter, students will compose music scorings for the movie based on a wide range of provided motifs and guidelines, which will further introduce students to worldwide ethnic music elements. Students will then rehearse their music, and finally, live-perform their music as an orchestra, with their movie being played along at the commencement of the summer camp. Throughout the summer camp, ample guidance and assistance will be provided by our instructors to ensure a complete multimedia concert production at the end of the summer camp.

Levels of Difficulty

here at Mass Island, the longer a summer camps lasts, the more challenging it will be, and the more knowledge participating students can learn from it. We currently offer one-week, two-week, and five-week summer camps. Education professionals from local schools and universities may also partner with Mass Island to provide seminars and instructions for the students, but all seminars and instructions will be in understandable languages and with controllable volume and difficulty.

Students are expected to build up to 30 original Minecraft structures per week of summer camp and produce an original Minecraft movie and original music pieces, ranging from 30 minutes to 1 hour in total.

Technology

Students will conduct the summer camp activities based on Mass Island’s Minecraft server. Students are expected to bring a functioning laptop with unmodded Minecraft Java Edition installed. In case of technical failure during the summer camp, a few standby laptops are prepared by us. 

Safety

We partner with and closely work with local first responders, our business partners, and other members of the local community to ensure students’ safety on campus, on the dining table, and on the road. All Mass Island employees must pass a rigorous training course on event safety before being qualified as a summer camp instructor. Special assistance and convenience will be ensured for incapacitated students. 

Tuition 

Depending on the terms and conditions Mass Island set forth with the partnering providers of dining, venue, accommodation, transport, teaching, technology, equipment, and more, each participating student’s tuition will be an equal division of the total cost of the summer camp on our side, plus a fee charged by us. 

The fee charged by us may be up to $50, depending on the circumstances of the community. We waive the fee for families from marginalized communities, such as immigrants, people of color, and all families under federal poverty line.