Explore the world’s most popular language! Discover the splendid ancient and modern Chinese history and get a taste of the culture as well. Have fun learning the history of Chinese characters, numbers and famous landmarks, as well as every-day expressions through interactive games and art projects, all leading up to preparing and eating traditional Chinese food!!

Writing is an excellent way of expressing yourself, especially when it is centered on creativity. In this class you will use your creativity to improve your skills as a writer. We will cover grammar usage and sentence structure and focus on writing descriptively through stimulating activities. You will be more prepared for the upcoming school year!

Make a photo without a camera? Shoot in the dark without a flash? Why do we throw a picture into really hot water? In this hands-on digital and film photography class, you will have fun with metering, composition and understanding the camera’s menus and modes while exploring these concepts through still-life, portraiture, outdoor shooting, printing and alternative processes. A camera is not required but bring it if you have one.

Learn to play the guitar and impress your family and friends with chords and songs you learned. Must bring a guitar (guitars can be rented at local music stores).

Design and develop a movie as a class, starting with the storyboard, and ending with a CD. Learn and practice all the steps necessary to build the animated story from the storyboard.

Up on your feet and act out those stories and zany characters in your head! You will learn to communicate characters through their movements, rhythms, objectives and relationships to each other. You will improvise stories, fracture fairy tales, and play and perform with others, learning how to access your imaginations in a spontaneous and confident way. Learn valuable “partnering” tools in small and larger groups to create a sense of space and character through pantomime activities. Come away from this class with fun acting and improvisation skills and greater self-confidence, poise and ease with yourself and others.

This popular class starts with a story or fable drawn from Greek myths or hero tales, Jewish folklore, or international fairy and folk tales. You will analyze the story, and draw sketches from your analysis of themes, character or setting, learn perspective and figure drawing and assemble a portfolio of your sketches. You will eventually design costumes and sets for the story of your choice and present a production concept from your classroom sketches and swatches.

Explore the fine arts, drawing, painting and sculpture. Have fun creating exciting projects that range from charcoal sketching, color theory, watercolors and 3-D projects include funky recycle art, a simple pop-up book, metal tooling and more. You will be guided through the basics of each creative lesson. No prior art experience required.

Discover unique, exciting and fun ways to solve problems we face in the real world through interesting experiments and projects. Experience real life math discovered through the sciences, arts and other life skills. Uncover many math mysteries. Strengthen your math skills. No matter what your math ability, you can become a better math student.

Refresh and develop your skills in algebra and enjoy the beautiful abstract world of mathematics through fun and challenging projects. Operating on numbers, applying linear and quadratic equations and calculating radicals and logarithms, we will work on different projects to solve real life math problems, including building a bridge that can carry certain loads.

Explore the excitement of using GPS receivers to navigate, measure speed and distance, find hidden stashes, draw and play games. Learn the fundamentals of marking waypoints and finding locations and set up scavenger hunts on our lovely campus, make puzzles that can only be solved by finding clues and location. Learn how to geocache and play our versions of geoDashing, geoArt and geoGolf. Find coordinates on Google earth, change coordinate formats, download and upload tracks and waypoints and you have got the perfect technical/physical combination!

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

Slap on some safety goggles, snap on some gloves and get ready for this incredible journey into the science lab. Uncover the secrets of chemistry as you grow a crazy crystal garden, build a giant bubbling potion and transform regular liquid into an oozing batch of slippery slime. Transform the classroom into a forensic science lab as you learn about detective science and use your newfound knowledge to become a Crime Scene Investigator (CSI)!

Discover how engineers use shapes and structure to make things strong. Explore the science of circuits and energy which will power us forward into the world of robots. Learn about the uses of robots and experiment with super-cool “bots” that do all kinds of neat things (maybe even design a robot to make your bed and clean your room!). Build your very own robot to take home with you.

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

You will learn how to customize your desktop, 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 Microsoft Office Excel worksheets to track your allowance and expenses!

Learn amazing tips and tricks on your computer. Enhance your keyboarding skills as you type an exciting story while learning various short-cuts using Microsoft Word. Use your creativity to design and create invitations, cards, certificates, flyers, newsletters, brochures and more using Microsoft Publisher. Amaze your friends, family and teachers by designing an entertaining presentation using Microsoft PowerPoint. Learn to create slides, apply word art, insert clip-art, pictures and sound effects and enhance your presentation with exciting animations!

Want to be in the NBA or the WNBA or improve your basketball skills? Start practicing now. You will improve your dribbling, passing, and shooting skills as you learn the strategies of offense and defense. If you enjoy basketball, this is the class is you! Tennis shoes are required.

Join us for a great physical exercise that builds self defense skills and teach respect, self-control and discipline. Learn blocks, kicks, strikes and simple self-defense techniques. You will acquire greater self-confidence in addition to the physical benefits.