Learn to use your creativity to express yourself and improve your writing skills.  We will cover grammar usage and sentence structure and focus on writing descriptively through stimulating activities.  Be ahead of your class in the upcoming school year!

Have a knack for writing?  Want to learn the skills of fantastic article writing, practice interviewing skills, and delight yourself and others with sumptuous food critiques?  We will help develop your writing and investigative flair.  Topics will include travel writing, food reviews, current events, and interviews.

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.

Join the Anime Drawing rage!  Develop your unique style of anime drawing or Japanese cartooning.  Learn character development and enjoy creating story content.  Have fun designing different heads, hair and costume for your character as well as various poses and expressions.

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.

Knitting is all the rage!  Get ready to master knitting techniques to make funky, cool projects that you can take home!

Learn basic water and acrylic coloring and explore interesting styling effects.  Learn to shade your color and work with textured paint for image depth, paint with different light direction, shadow and mix color into different value.  If you take the Anime Drawing class, you may bring your drawing to paint in this class.

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.  Build hangouts, meeting areas and endless creative possibilities.

Learn basic math concepts in a fun-filled summer session where you play fast-paced games as you learn pre-algebra concepts.  Get a jump-start and wow your friends with your new math skills.

Do you know where the word “Algebra” came from?  Ever watch Star Trek and wonder what are the “coordinates” and “quadrants” that they talked about?  Learn algebra in a fun way!!

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.

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.

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.

Customize your desktop by adding your pictures.  Learn to organize your files, create folders, move, delete and copy files to a removable drive, create and print envelopes, labels and set up a mail merge.  Gain skills in creating, editing, formatting and printing basic MS Excel worksheets to track your allowance and expenses!

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.

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.