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The first Theme Thursday at Basking Ridge was Superhero Day! Campers got dressed up as their favorite heroes — from Spiderman to Indiana Jones to a member of the US military — in hopes of getting an extra Ivy Point. Some of our resourceful campers even took a spare towel or T-Shirt from their bag […]

Happy Superhero Theme Thursday! Campers spent the morning fighting crime, saving civilians, and fighting villains…or maybe just dressing up for camp and participating in epic break activities…but that’s besides the point. In the morning, we did drop off on the front lawn and played popular songs from various superhero movies and danced the morning away! […]

Campers were hard at work this week collaborating on a cornucopia of concoctions in Kitchen Chemistry! Earlier in the week, they use their skills with mixing liquids to create Co2 by combining baking soda and vinegar and watching their balloons rise! Later on in the week students tried their hand at creating lava lamps with […]

Today’s theme in Wayne is Superhero Day. The campers came in looking like a hero in their marvelous costume and were ready to avenge the day! They spent the morning coloring books or talking to their campmates about their heroic outfits. During the break, the counselor set up activities for the campers to play. Some […]

This week here in Somerset, we had super fun class called Minecraft Advanced! In this class campers ages 9-12 learn some of the advanced Minecraft techniques to take them from beginners to pros. This week they have been learning about Redstone and how to use it to make various traps to protect their bases. Redstone […]

This week in Somerset the kids had their breaks take place both indoors and outside. They did a wide range of activities like outside the couselers and kids played games like football and basketball .While other kids played a wide variety of games such as Headbanz ,checkers and Uno! Everyone got to choose games they […]

Chatham Week 3 is heating up!! In honor of Superhero Theme Thursday we are hosting our annual Olympics to keep up the excitement! During break time, Counselors hosted games and activities where campers have the opportunity to win medals for their class/team led by a superhero that the class collectively agreed upon. Some of the […]

This week here at Chatham, we have an epic class called War and Peace! In War and Peace, campers not only work together, but use game theory to work against each other as well. Campers work in teams as nation states to simulate foreign relations seen in the real world. War and Peace is one […]

Independence Day has come and gone, but the fireworks continued on this week at International Ivy’s Basking Ridge location! A whole new team of teachers and counselors have arrived to add their talents to the Ivy roster, and a whole new group of campers were eager to meet them! Our site is pretty small compared […]

Today in the Wayne site was a fun, fill with an adventurous activity that students had to partake in. The Youngsters We Do Robotics created their racecars out of blocks and learned how to manufacture their design through coding. Through their hard work utilizing their problem solving skills, (and a lot of excitement!) the campers […]