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This week at Short Hills, aspiring pilots dove into their interest in aeronautical engineering through drone programming. The drone programming course teaches students to program drones and master efficient maneuvering techniques. Student confirming proper drone procedures with manual. When students first opened up their drones, they were excited to get started with flying them around. […]

This week our campers became scientists as they entered the dissection laboratory. In our Anatomy class, our young scientists had the opportunity to dissect their own sheep’s brain! Did you know that a sheep’s brain has all the same parts as a human brain? After opening up their kits, campers read all about how to […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]