Join us for an opportunity to get your voice heard. Learn aspects of communicating effectively – including voice techniques, body position, eye contact and engaging the audience. Have fun and enjoy expressing yourself as you build self-confidence and self-esteem.

Find inspiration in conversations, friendships, food, nature and popular arts such as music, painting and video for your writing. Use the “sparks” from your daily experiences to trigger exciting poetry and fiction.

Discover the intriguing culture and tradition of Japan through its art and language. You will learn basic greetings and simple expressions, have fun making sushi, participate in art projects including manga and calligraphy, and even listen to authentic Japanese music.

Develop your skills in algebra as you enjoy playing "Mystery Number" and "Mystery Rule” to solve linear and quadratic equations.  Learn graphing and word problems.  See math come alive with many intriguing examples of algebra and geometry in the world around you

Learn to do neat tricks with math and solve challenging puzzles that will strengthen your math skills.  No matter what your math ability, you can become a better math student while having fun learning math tricks, tips and techniques that will help your critical reasoning abilities.

How was our solar system formed?  Join us in our awesome state-of-the-art planetarium to view the stars, galaxies, and life in the cosmos as you find out about the mysteries of the universe.  Come learn about the sun, planets, their moons, asteroids, and comets. 

Explore the fundamental engineering and construction concepts as you learn to build bridges, cars, skyscrapers, etc. in this fun hands-on class.  You will learn torque vs. speed, gravity, friction and truss systems, belt and pulley systems and more.

Be a detective!  Discover the science behind CSI.  You will conduct forensic science experiments to help solve classroom “crimes”!  Learn how to dust for fingerprints, analyze handwriting, identify hair and clothing fibers and use chemistry to identify mystery substances.

Explore the excitement of global–positioning systems!  You will use GPS receivers to navigate, measure speed and distance, find hidden stashes, draw and play games.  Learn to find coordinates on Google Earth and play our versions of geoDashing, geoArt and geoGolf

Get ready to get down and dirty in the science lab!  Find out how science is so much fun!  Explore basic astronomy, biology, chemistry and physics concepts through hands-on ooey, gooey, slimy experiments. 

Combining engineering and alternative energy, you will build solar power cars that race under the sun and a fuel cell car that runs on water, learn to generate power with a windmill and operate cranes, drawbridges and more using alternative energy sources.  Explore the basics of electricity and experiment with a multimeter to measure continuity, resistance and voltage from small circuits with batteries and solar panels.

Discover the excitement of drawing powerful characters and seeing them come to life!  Learn how to create communicative facial expressions and motion, prepare storyboard and animate a 30-second sequence with a soundtrack.

Welcome to the entertaining world of theater arts!  You will participate in fun, and sometimes even outright silly and ridiculous, theater games to learn about vocalization, physical actions, characterization, stage presence and audition techniques.

Discover the art of cartooning including comic storytelling concepts, character design and exciting stories through cartooning games, drawing and activities.  Discover why certain cartoon characters and images are timeless!

Explore your creativity and bring out your inner artist!  Have a blast with hands-on experience in drawing, 3-D sculpture, 2-D art, illustration and painting.

Want to be the next big star on Project Runway?  Here is your chance to learn what it takes to be a Fashion Designer.  Learn how to draw the figure of a model, translate your ideas into designs, and even create a one of a kind outfit!

Explore science through hands-on activities and art.  Have fun creating art out of nature and nature into art.  Discover how to make art grow, move, change color and be transformed.

Have you ever been to the moon?  Well, you can make a picture that looks like you have.  Learn to make your own identity design and transform your pictures into fun and funky forms!

Want to learn to make cool, funky gifts for your friends that they will be proud to own?  Come and learn basic knitting techniques and enjoy the stress-relieving benefits it affords.

Enjoy designing and developing a class movie, starting with the storyboard, and ending with a CD.  Learn and practice all the steps necessary to build the animated story from the storyboard.

Enjoy working in a team of camera operators, dancers, singers, artists and “air-musicians” to produce a whacky fun music video.  Whether you like performing in front of a camera or you just like the technical side, there is something for everyone joining this cast and crew.

Discover what it’s like to be on an exciting TV news crew.  Work as a team to develop and capture stories, shoot on location, edit for broadcast and have it all come together in the multi-camera studio with newscasters, sportscaster, meteorologist and anchorpersons.

Explore, create, and design your personal avatar (customized digital self).  Have fun dressing your avatar with clothing templates and accessories, manipulating its facial and body features, operating it to walk, run, sit, jump, fly and even interact with other avatars via chat, voice, IM and pie menu. 

Have fun programming and developing your own cool computer games.  Discover the strategies and processes of developing computer game code.  Learn to read specification for a computer game.  Work with the hello program, draw graphics, interactions, pong games and simple sprite animations.

Discover Microsoft Windows as you learn to customize your desktop, create, save and move files, and copy files to an external drive.  Explore the basics of the MS Office applications: writing letters and reports in Word, creating spreadsheets, graphs and charts in Excel and designing fun slide shows in PowerPoint!

Want to be better than your friends at basketball?  Start practicing now.  You will improve your dribbling, passing, and shooting skills as you learn offensive and defensive strategies.  Tennis shoes are required.

Get out in the fresh air, get some great exercise and release all that extra energy!  Participate in flag football and other fun field games that promote team cooperation and good sportsmanship. 

Come learn the basics of indoor volleyball in a fun, game-oriented program.  Learn the rules of volleyball, bump passes, setting, serving, rallying, scorekeeping, rotations and conditioning.  Once you master the skills, you will play in an exciting mini-tournament.  Non-marking sneakers are required.  Kneepads are recommended.

Join us in this great physical education class that teaches self defense skills, respect, self-control and discipline.  Learn blocks, strikes, kicks and simple self-defense techniques.  You will acquire greater self-confidence and benefit from the fun physical exercise.

Want to learn how to play tennis and enjoy this strategic game? Learn and practice the proper forehand and backhand techniques, serving, volley, and the rules of the game while you practice your footwork. Please bring a tennis racket and a can of tennis balls to class and wear tennis or appropriate athletic shoes.