Workshops 2020
Workshops at Virtual Sigma run in a similar format as in the in-person Sigma, on Monday, Tuesday, and Thursday. Workshops are 45 min - 1 hour activities on various subjects designed to broaden horizons and let you learn about and experience something new. Although most workshops will require little to no materials, some will require in-advance preparation, and are listed with an asterisk (*).
This year, workshop sign ups are done by filling out a preference form 24 hours in advance. Although it will not be possible to satisfy your first choice every time, we will make sure everyone gets an equal opportunity to attend their favorite workshop.
The day's workshops and sign-ups will be posted one day in advance, with exception for workshops which require materials to participate, which are posted before Sigma starts to give campers a chance to procure the necessary materials.
Check your assigned workshop for today in "My Schedule".
Thursday sign up here (deadline Wednesday, 10 pm).
Monday
- Oobleck! An Introduction to Non-Newtonian Fluids* by Andrey Khesin
- Hands on science experiments!* by Sophia Abanov
- Building Virtual Worlds by Bolor Amgalan
- What are the 10 most important discoveries in human history? by Alex Place and Daniil Lukin
- SQL: the database query language by Stan Mach
- Introduction to limits. Do we use limits in real life? by Mitya Panov
- Version control 101 by Rajat Kumar
- Japonisme and the influence Japanese woodblock prints had on European artists by Sasha Kuznetsov
Tuesday
- Camera Obscura* by Vicka Bershadsky
- Potato Science* by Alex Suponya
- Learn to create 3D models in Fusion 360 by David Bershadsky
- grep: finding the lines you need by Stan Mach
- Predatory plants by Misha Zorya
- Aumann agreement theorem, or history as an exact science. Episodes 1 to 5 by Mark Lukin
- Fascination of artists such as Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Amadeo Modigliani and others with African and tribal art by Sasha Kuznetsov
- Building Virtual Worlds* by Bolor Amgalan
- What are the 10 most important discoveries in human history? by Alex Place and Daniil Lukin
Thursday
- Fun with Watercolors* by Natalie Butkevich
- Oobleck! An Introduction to Non-Newtonian Fluids* by Andrey Khesin
- The case for Cubism. Prioritizing geometric shapes, from Paul Cézanne to Pablo Picasso by Sasha Kuznetsov
- Computer Vision by Arina Nikitina
- Color Theory 101 by Luigia Than
- Building Virtual Worlds* by Bolor Amgalan
- A mystery of the covalent bond by Mark Lukin