Upper School Intersession 2025

Student sign-up timeline:

Monday, November 18 @ 3:15 – 12th Grade
Tuesday, November 19 @ 3:15 – 11th Grade
Wednesday, November 20 @ 3:15 – 10th Grade
Thursday, November 21 @ 3:15 – 9th Grade
November 21-30 – Sign-ups/changes open to all. After December 1, schedules will be frozen.

8:55am PST

Advanced Chess Training - How To Learn Chess TBASteven Zierk Hot Glass - Cool Designs TBADouglass Brown How To Sell a TV Show TBAMichael Kramer Intro to Metalworking & Jewelry Making! TBASophia Hoermann Introduction to Cultural Anthropology TBASarah Ives Landscape Design & ArchitectureChungpo Fang Movie Makeup: Burns, Bruises, Scars! Special Effects Makeup TBAElizabeth Fox Movie time in Spanish! TBAGisella Castronovo Roman Thoughts On War: Caesar And Vergil TBAChristopher Krebs Singers: Healthy Belting Workshop TBARocío Guitard Testing (and Troubleshooting!) Electrical Systems TBACraig Fedor Topics in Fractals & Chaos TBASteven Chanan What is Fair Pay and How Do I Get It? TBAYuki Horiguchi

12:35pm PST

Artificial Intelligence in Chess TBASteven Zierk Baking Arts: French Macarons Baking ArtsBaking Arts Cartoonapalooza: A Hands-On Workshop Celebrating Comics, Graphic Novels, Cartoon Strips and Political Cartoons TBADavid Horsey Conservation Ambassadors: Animal Behavior TBAConservation Ambassadors Corporate Scandal: What Would You Do? TBAYuki Horiguchi Dorm Snack Hacks! TBASan Mateo Supper Club Hot Glass - Cool Designs TBADouglass Brown Intro to Metalworking & Jewelry Making! TBASophia Hoermann Knitting for Beginners and Beyond TBADebbie Kitani & Lisa Ma Makeup: Creative Self Expression for All TBAElizabeth Fox The Crescent's Journey: Exploring Islamic History, 622-1258 TBAMarwan Hanania Topics in Fractals & Chaos TBASteven Chanan Understanding Martial Arts and Self Defense TBACody Alan

8:55am PST

Advanced Chess Training - Making the Most of Each Piece TBASteven Zierk Beeswax Collage on Canvas TBAElaine G. Chu Bugs, Bots and Dark Patterns: Responsible Innovation in App and Website UX Design TBAAshlie Beringer Computing like it's the 80s! TBAGiovanni Iachello Dive into Dermatology with iTS-CORE! Stanford UniversityDawn Siegel • Kavita Sarin Hot Glass - Cool Designs TBADouglass Brown Intro to Classic Card Games – Learn to Play Hearts, Spades, Euchre and Oh Hell! TBADan Bomze Intro to Impact: Self-Defense Basics TBAIMPACT Bay Area Introduction to Criminal Justice TBAElizabeth Raffaelli Neuroscience Crash Course: How Brains Perceive and Interact with the World...and What Happens When Things Go Wrong TBARyan Jones What the Body Knows: Experience and Arts and Body Oriented Psychotherapy Interventions Including EMDR TBATina Mizukami When It All Goes Wrong! An Intro to Crisis Communication TBAWilliam Moss Zombies, Zombies, Zombies TBAElizabeth Fox

12:35pm PST

1AMsf, Freedom of Speech and Public Art in Action TBA1AMsf Baking Arts: Neapolitan Style Pizza Baking ArtsBaking Arts Classic Card Game Tournament – Hearts, Spades, Euchre and Oh Hell! TBADan Bomze Computing like it's the 80s! TBAGiovanni Iachello Conservation Ambassadors: Animal Behavior TBAConservation Ambassadors Culinary Explorations: Insights into the World of Restaurant Hospitality and Fine Dining TBARussell Jong Designing Die Cut Stickers: Digital Illustration TBAChristina Krzaszczak Designing Storytelling Games TBARandy Lubin From Hostage to Healer: Sarah Shourd's Journey to Rejecting Mass Incarceration TBASarah Shourd Hot Glass - Cool Designs TBADouglass Brown Learn to Make Cheese TBAGillian Chao Movie Makeup: Burns, Bruises, Scars! Special Effects Makeup TBAElizabeth Fox

8:55am PST

American Sign Language TBABill White Beginning Guitar TBAGreg Vaughan Biomimicry: Learn From Nature’s 3.8 Billion Years Of Experience In Good Design TBAZeynep Arhon Crocheted Granny Squares TBAKira Dulaney Effective Communication Across DifferencesKhemnes Fisher From Cover to Cover: A Book Arts Workshop TBANina Osborne Gel Plate Printing Inspired by Nature TBAElaine G. Chu Hot Glass - Cool Designs TBADouglass Brown Insect Innovations: How Insect Adaptations Inspire Human Ingenuity TBAStephanie Dole Intro to Metalworking & Jewelry Making! TBASophia Hoermann Making Change: Counting Finite Things using Infinite Ideas TBAMichael Callahan Song Decoder: Unlocking the Secrets Behind the Music You Love TBAMax Cowan Stand-Up and Deliver: Comedy Writing TBACorey Rosen Startup Pitch Workshop: From Idea to Winning Presentation TBAWayee Chu

12:35pm PST

American Sign Language TBABill White Art and Identity TBAJulie Chang Baking Arts: Kouign Amann Baking ArtsBaking Arts Beginning Ukulele TBAGreg Vaughan Children's Book Writing & Publishing 101 TBASabrina Moyle Consent and Treatment of the Dead in Museums TBAStacy Hackner Conservation Ambassadors: Animal Behavior TBAConservation Ambassadors Get Your Hands Dirty: Learning How to Fix and Tune Up Your Bicycle TBAJoe To Hot Glass - Cool Designs TBADouglass Brown Intro to Aerial Silks Ascend Aerial Arts at IMPACT! Kickboxing FitnessAscend Aerial Arts at IMPACT! Kickboxing Fitness LLC Intro to Metalworking & Jewelry Making! TBASophia Hoermann Introduction to Arabic Language, Culture and Music TBARamzi Salti Song Creator: Crafting Musical Magic TBAMax Cowan Tapestry Weaving TBAKira Dulaney [AI Programming] TBACarlos Guestrin

8:55am PST

American Sign Language TBABill White Anxiety Society: A History of Nervousness from Railway Madness to Coca-Cola TBAFelicia Angeja Viator Beginning Guitar TBAGreg Vaughan Chinese Brush Painting TBAFelix Lim & Bobbi Makani FMRI, Virtual Reality, and the Brain TBATara Srirangarajan Handcarved Blockprints on Paper and Fabric TBAElaine G. Chu Hot Glass - Cool Designs TBADouglass Brown Knitted Cables TBAKira Dulaney Learn to Play Bridge: Competitive Card Play TBAJennifer Kuhn Polaroid Emulsion Lifts: Make Photographs that Look like a Memory Feels TBAKathryn Gentzke Rewiring Reality: Magic, Witchcraft, & the Radical Imagination TBAJoshua Gentzke

12:35pm PST

A History of Haunted Houses TBAFelicia Angeja Viator American Sign Language TBABill White Atomically Thin Crystals: A New Twist on Quantum Materials TBABen Feldman Baking Arts: Croissants & Pain Au Chocolat Baking ArtsBaking Arts Chinese Brush Painting TBAFelix Lim & Bobbi Makani Fun Viral Foods Cooking TBASan Mateo Supper Club Hot Glass - Cool Designs TBADouglass Brown Intro to Aerial Silks Ascend Aerial Arts at IMPACT! Kickboxing FitnessAscend Aerial Arts at IMPACT! Kickboxing Fitness LLC Jam Session TBAGreg Vaughan Knitting for Beginners and Beyond TBADebbie Kitani & Lisa Ma Lead an Intersession for Lower School Students Nueva Hillsborough Campus Needle Felting Soft Sculptures TBAKira Dulaney Personal Writing: Finding and Publishing Your Story TBAMelanie Thernstrom Singers: Get your Riffing On! TBARocío Guitard