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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 […]

In Kitchen Chemistry in Summit, campers worked on creating croissants, pudding, and pizza! They were taught about how bread rises, and they also learned about density, mass, and volume and applied those lessons to create lava lamps.

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 […]

This week, our 3D printing beginner class used their creativity and imagination for their unique creations. The campers utilized the software Tinkercad to create their 3D creations. The students learn how to create these 3D models and learn how to use the different tools of Tinkercad. They then send those files to the Ender 3 […]

We had a fun time yesterday! Summit had a wide variety of costumes not just from the teachers, but the students too! The campers had a lot of fun being superheroes, doctors, monsters, and more! For break we went to the playground, and played Gaga ball later in the day. We even had Jeff, come […]

 For all projects, we used Cricut Design Space, an application that has a canvas for users to design their own projects from scratch with thousands of images, shapes, and text options– or users can pick from many pre-set templates and designs. For our last couple of days, we worked on making t-shirts and sweatshirts using […]

The past few days of Week 3 have been very hot and humid, but Short Hills’ campers finally get to enjoy the outdoors during Tropical Day! In addition to the normal outdoor activities like soccer and the playground, campers and counselors alike took part in the tropical-themed activity of the day: the Limbo! There were […]

This week at Short Hills our Newspaper Class published their first edition of The Weekly Herald. The young journalists got the scoop on everything from microbiology to break time games! Students researched, interviewed and wrote their own articles on other classes happening this week. As the week wraps up, students polish their pieces and are […]

To celebrate the campers’ day off on the 4th of July, a relay race was held during morning break time at Short Hills! The campers that participated were split into three teams – Red, White, and Blue – and had lots of fun! The first runner hopped with a balloon between their legs. Two campers […]