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How the time flies during the summer. What seemed like the start of a fun new year has transitioned into the final week of International Ivy in 2025. As some sites have already ended the year off with a light-hearted goodbye to the campers and faculty, Basking Ridge preps to do the same. But before […]

During our break today, we went outside to play one of Somerset’s favorite outdoor games! The Pirate Ship! The campers were excited to play! Congrats to our Somerset winners doing the Rowboat!!!! The game requires campers to form either a lookout, a rowboat, or a dinner table. The rush to find partners for a rowboat!!!! […]

Our Digital Art class has been bursting with color, creativity, and imagination this week! Campers have been diving into the world of modern art, learning all about Pablo Picasso and his signature abstract style. After exploring the bold shapes, vibrant colors, and unique perspectives that define his work, the artists took on an exciting challenge: […]

As usual, Somerset rocked Halloween in July on Thursday. Campers dressed in some cool costumes. We even had our own doctor on hand! The Somerset Staff decided on being m&m’s this year! Canva extraordinaire JD was able to recreate the m&m’s advertisement to match the colors of the staff members. We all had fun and […]

Our youngest campers had a hands-on, high-energy morning in Youngster Chemistry Experiments, and their excitement for science was impossible to miss. The day began with a fan favorite: oobleck. Using just water, cornstarch, and green food coloring, campers created this strange substance that’s both a liquid and a solid depending on how you interact with it. […]

It was an awesome morning filled with lots of fun, big smiles and learning. In Environmental Science, our campers are learning about symbiosis and have prepared a banana with added yeast to demonstrate decomposition. The youngsters in We-do robotics are learning about direction and speed with cars to understand how they can program their robots. […]

This week at International Ivy, our Financial Literacy class turned numbers into adventures as students learned the ins and outs of budgeting, saving, and planning—all through the lens of real-world travel! This isn’t your average math class. Here, students dove into the practical (and fun!) side of finance by planning dream vacations, crunching numbers, and […]

This week at Basking Ridge we have some Picasso’s and Da Vinci’s in the making! Our artists today learned about using masking tape on their canvases to create shapes and have precise lines. Our artists have become very creative with their works, using gradience and different colors to make each of their works so unique! […]

Many classes today decided to wrap up with a final project! Between lemonade stands, competitions, debates, and more, there was a lot of fun! Our Lemonade Stand Entrepreneurs sold their prized drinks! They worked very hard this week conducting market research by asking others about their lemonade preferences. Then, they taste tested all of the […]

Today at camp, Youngster’s We Do Robotics was a big hit as campers built their own LEGO racecars! They spent the week learning how to design, build, and program their cars, where they each added their own creative spin. They presented their racecars to the rest of the camp and held a fun, competitive RoboRace. […]