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This week in creative writing workshop campers got to explore writing and poetry skills, word choice, figurative language, and short story structure and creation. Campers have suggested that their favorite exercises so far in class are quick writes, ode writing, rhyming, and our Greek mythology debates. Our younger creative writers listed their favorite genres as […]
This week in Short Hills, it’s color wars week! All week campers have been earning points for their team. To celebrate color wars week, campers wore their designated team color for theme Thursday and participated in fun relay races during break! Campers got to participate in Kam Jam, ping pong ball and spoon race, hopping […]
The Shark Tank Entrepreneur class combines facets of engineering, finance, and marketing into one awesome project! Campers start by considering how existing products may be improved or if there is a brand new invention that fills a need. They each develop their own product through sketches and 3D digital models. They also conduct market research […]
Our campers have been training hard in Math Competition Training! Today’s opening question was “How can you use eight 8s and only addition to make exactly 1000?” Can you figure it out? Scroll down to check your answer! The campers compete to solve a variety of math problems, sometimes using a Bingo board like one […]
It is week 6 and that only means one thing…Color Wars! This week, Site Director Kenny put the Green Team vs the Purple Team to see which team would be the ultimate winner. Each day, they participate in friendly competitions during break time. Green Team Captains are Sarah and Kathy and Purple Team Captains are […]
The Youngsters Engineering Exploration class gives campers aged 5-7 the chance to dip their toe into the engineering design process with a series of challenges that they complete as teams. So far, the group has been challenged to create the longest index card bridge that they can. Teacher Sara does a phenomenal job guiding the […]
Celine is back for another week of Electrical Engineering w/Makey-Makey! The students are having a great time engineering and creating circuits. They are using playdough as a conductor to keep the electricity flowing and to keep the circuit working correctly. We talked to the campers and they had a few things they wanted to share […]
This week in Short Hills, it is the biggest week of the summer! This is our week with the most campers! We have so many fun classes to offer campers. Our morning classes consist of Biomedical Engineering, Digital Art, Drone Programming, two Ice Cream Shop Entrepreneur classes, Mock Trial, Virtual Reality. Youngster Programming Scratch, and […]
Our campers in War and Peace Games had so many great things to say for our blog! War and Peace Games is a fun interactive experience where we all have our own countries to control. We can interact with other nations and make choices about things like our military and economy. It is enjoyable because […]