Summer at Vohra
Achieve inspiring, strategic goals this summer.
Create Your Own Video Game
This is a hands on introduction to video game creation, using modern platforms and current technologies.
Part instruction, part club, part Harkness seminar. This seminar will guide you through the process of creating video games. This is a practical course. We will discuss theory and history as needed, but the focus is hands on work in game development.
By the end of this course, you will be on your way to building games. This is a first stepping stone: even a simple game can take months to build, and big huge blockbuster games can take even longer and involve large teams.
However, this is also the best time ever for indie games. Youtubers and twitch streamers are actively promoting niche and independent games.
Commercial Value of This Skill: Extremely High.
College Strategy Value: High
Cost: $200 for the complete seminar
Dates:
June 21 @ 5:00pm-6:00pm
June 28 @ 5:00pm-6:00pm
July 12 @ 5:00pm-6:00pm
July 19 @ 5:00pm-6:00pm
Tech Requirements: Mac or Windows computer with 8GB ram, OR a Mac/Windows computer with 4GB ram + a cell phone. You will use the cell phone for Zoom. Requires headset or professional mic.
You must complete a Tech Consultation in advance. You can book that here.
Recommended Reading: Ready Player One
Write Your Own Mystery
Mysteries have long been the most commercially in demand stories. Agatha Christie remains the best selling novelist of all time. As entertainment demand spikes across the world, the works of writers like Harlan Coben are being cranked out as Netflix miniseries. Demand for mystery stories is so high that even mediocre ones are often turned into miniseries!
The great news is the secret code of mystery writing is entirely learnable and accessible. In this four week intro course, you will learn about the following levels of mysteries:
Basic whodunits (e.g. The Westing Game, Hardy Boys)
“True” Mysteries that involve exposing the underbelly of a community (Most of Agatha Christie’s and Harlan Coben’s works)
“Literary” Mysteries that include character defining dilemmas (e.g. The Orient Express).
This course is a first step for students who are already interested in mysteries, or students who are curious about mystery writing.
Commercial Value of this Skill: Extremely High
College Strategy Value: Low
Cost: $200 for the complete seminar
Dates:
June 23 @ 8:15-9:15 PM
June 30 @ 8:15-9:15 PM
July 14 @ 8:15-9:15 PM
July 21 @ 8:15-9:15 PM
Tech requirements: Headset or professional mic setup. You must complete a Tech Consultation in advance. You can book that here.
Recommended Reading: The Westing Game
Give Great Speeches & Interviews (Beginner)
In our Mixed Rhetorical Arts program, you will learn real-world public speaking. You will learn the introductory techniques for the kind of public speaking used in politics, political interviews, media interviews, and college interviews. The focus is the skills used for impromptu public speaking, which is around 99.9999% of actual public speaking.
Commercial Value: Extremely High
College Strategy Value: Extremely High
Cost: $360 for the complete seminar
Dates:
June 24 @ 8:15-9:15 PM
July 1 @ 8:15-9:15 PM
July 8 @ 8:15-9:15 PM
July 15 @ 8:15-9:15 PM
Meet in: Lifesize + Mumble. You will have total privacy as you learn these basic methods. No one can see you except the instructor. No one can hear you except the instructor.
Tech Requirements: You must complete a Tech Consultation in advance. You can book that here.
Launch Your Political Career Early
Many students have serious aspirations in electoral politics. The problem is that most political science and public policy courses focus on the academic, ethical, or otherwise boring parts of politics. They don’t talk about how to move up inside established organizations, how to create political havoc to get recognition and support, how any actual politics actually works. Thus, political science majors work in either law or tedium, and rarely have any involvement in the exciting, brutal jungle of American politics.
Politics 1 is a course for students who want to benefit themselves, who want to realize their own personal political ambitions, and want to understand the practical reality of American politics. We will discuss the structures of political parties, structures of political movements, and various entry points into politics.
By the end of this course you will have various roadmaps on how to get yourself personally involved in politics, and how to help your own personal self get ahead in politics.
Commercial Value: High
College Strategy Value: Extremely High. These techniques can be used in conjunction with unique extracurriculars to make an application stand out.
Early Bird Pricing: $100 for the complete seminar
Dates:
July 26 @ 8:15-9:15 PM
August 2 @ 8:15-9:15 PM
August 9 @ 8:15-9:15 PM
August 16 @ 8:15-9:15 PM
Tech requirements: Headset or professional mic setup. You must complete a Tech Consultation in advance. You can book that here.
Songwriting and Music Theory
Our new Music Theory and Songwriting program, developed by Megan Hastie and Kimya Jamasbi, is designed to teach the fundamentals of music theory and then lead into the basics of songwriting.
this program is designed to go past the limits of an ordinary education. To most of us, songwriting borders on magic. Many famous and accomplished instrumentalists regard songwriters in awe, and often express that as their dream ambition. A decent percent of the population simply believes the skill is inborn and cannot be learned.
Thus, while millions learn the piano, almost no one learns songwriting, or even music theory close to that level. Whether you want to boost your college application, or you want to pursue a career in songwriting or music production, or you just want to be a rock god, this program is the first step.
Commercial Value: High
College Strategy Value: High
Pricing: $100/hr