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The third week of the Short Hills Site is starting strong! The robotics class got straight to work on making their robots, and some finished it in one day. In chemical engineering, the students made balloons inflate with the power of science. They filled bottles with baking soda and put balloon on the rim, and […]

Today was Thursday!!! And you know what that means! Theme Thursday! This week’s theme was red, white, and blue to celebrate Independence Day on Tuesday. Campers were all decked out in all sorts of clothes to represent these colors. During morning drop off, we danced to all sorts of USA themed tunes such as Born […]

Here at Chatham, Wednesday morning went a little differently than expected due to a town wide power outage. But luckily, that didn’t stop the fun here at Ivy! Campers and staff worked together to come up with solutions on how to work through the circumstances. During break time, we played hot potato in the gym, […]

One of our favorite parts of International Ivy is getting to know our new campers and staff members! Here at Chatham we had Maddie join us as a new staff member. Maddie taught Kitchen Chemistry in the morning and Chemical Engineering in the afternoon. In Kitchen Chemistry, Maddie guided campers in making strawberry jam, pizza, […]

This week in Chatham, we have two of the most extraordinary and best teachers in all of International Ivy… Olivia and Jonathan!   Olivia is a true entrepreneur at heart and is teaching Ice Cream entrepreneurship in the morning and in the afternoon channels her inner Barbara Corcoran as she teaches Shark Tank! Olivia was […]

While the week may be coming to a close, that doesn’t mean that we’re letting off the gas here in Chatham, as today, our heroes in training got to participate in a superhero themed scavenger hunt! Each team was equipped with an iPad and was tasked with hunting down various heroes throughout the building like […]

As you all know, we LOVE Theme Thursday here in Chatham, this week was no exception as it was one of our favorites, Superhero week! The day started off with a BANG when all of our campers showed up in their superhero attire! As the day moved on, our heroes in training got to participate […]

As we approach the halfway mark for Week 8, we wanted to highlight one of our favorite classes here at International Ivy, Programming with Scratch! Programming with scratch may be one of our oldest classes but that doesn’t mean it isn’t a whole heap of fun!  This week, our coders have created all sorts of […]