Posts Tagged ‘Field Trip’
OPI participants attended The Los Angeles Times Festival of Books
The Education Department within the Optimum Performance Institute proudly presents monthly educational field trips! This is a relatively new opportunity at OPI for participants to attend informational and educational events here in the Los Angeles and surrounding communities. Each month we choose locations and events that are based off of different academic subjects. Recently, OPI…
Read MoreOPI Participants On Galapagos Islands
WOODLAND HILLS, CA—-Three OPI Participants are spending 10 days visiting the Galapagos Islands in Ecuador on a private trip arranged specifically for OPI by Geographic Expeditions, an adventure travel company specializing remote locations and complex logistics. The three are accompanied by Maria Perez, OPI’s Director of Extra Curricular Activities. They began their trip in Quito…
Read MoreParticipants Return from Turkey And Greece
WOODLAND HILLS, CA—-OPI participants described their recent two-week adventure in Turkey and Greece as “Incredible” and “A once-in-a-lifetime experience”. OPI Program Director Katie Mikolyski accompanied them aboard the 65-foot traditional Turkish boat that afforded the Young Adults the opportunity to tour ancient ruins and visit local villages. This private trip was organized for OPI by…
Read MoreOPI Participants Attend Lecture at the Kavli Institute
A few weeks ago some young adults piled into one of our vans to take the 1 ½ hour drive up the California coast to University of California, Santa Barbara, and hear a lecture about how the quantum spin of electrons can be used to convey information and help create the most powerful computers ever…
Read MoreOPI Participants Return from Peru
Woodland Hills, CA- Optimum Performance Institute Participants are back after a dramatic trip to Peru where they spent 10 days visiting the Land of the Incas including Machu Picchu and the Manu Wildlife Center in the Peruvian Amazon Basin. They were be accompanied by Program Director, Joseph Roberson. The customized trip was organized by Geographic…
Read MoreOPI Participants Climb Machu Picchu
For Joseph Roberson, OPI Program Director, the result of his adventure earlier this month in the Land of the Incas was that “we (have been) forever denied the possibility of discounting the power of the human spirit.” For Chris H., one of four OPI Participants who accompanied him on the trip to Machu Picchu, the…
Read MoreOPI Participants Going to Peru
Between 8-10 Optimum Performance Institute Participants will be spending two weeks late this summer in the Land of the Incas: Machu Picchu and the Urubanba Valley and the Manu Wildlife Center in the Peruvian Amazon Basin. They will be accompanied by OPI staff. The customized trip is being organized by Geographic Expeditions, a San Francisco-based…
Read MoreOPI Participants Hear Cutting-Edge Scientific Theories
Students at the Optimum Performance Institute continue to learn about new, cutting-edge scientific theories and techniques at “chalk talks” held at the Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics (KTIP) located on the campus of University of California, Santa Barbara. Recently they attended a lecture by a physicist who won the National Science Foundation’s most prestigious prize…
Read MoreExperiences of the Unconscious: Joining Art and Physics
The following article was written by Jacob, an OPI Participant, after attending a lecture at the Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics in Santa Barbara, California. On March 10, three residents of OPI traveled to Santa Barbara to hear a lecture at the Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics (KITP) on algorithms in art. I was lucky…
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