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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 summer, one new teacher at Somerset stands out from the rest…Kathy! She has been at our site all summer long teaching many interesting classes such as Youngster Left Brain, Kitchen Chemistry, Debate and Public Speaking, and Anatomy and Surgical Techniques. Kathy is a super star teacher who is dedicated to making camp fun for […]
A new week calls for new classes. This week, Youngsters at Somerset are unleashing their creativity with 3D Art and Shoebox Theater. In 3D Art, campers are creating various art projects from ocean habitats, to food Play-Doh designs, flower arrangements, and more. During Shoebox Theater, campers learn what it takes to put on […]
As week 6 begins to unfold, the kids in Film Making are certainly hard at work! Despite having only 5 days of time to brainstorm, write, and film their video creations, the campers are happy to tackle the challenge. Beginning on Monday, the kids start to collaborate and share their own ideas in order to […]
As we welcome in the returners and the new camper, we were ecstatic to hear the campers chosen activities and a mini introduction of themselves. All the campers were adjusted to their chosen activities ready to begin the day. It was nice to see more amped campers warming up to each other. During the break, […]
This week our youngsters in our Little Stores class have been hard at work creating their candy store, Candy Cave! Shown above is two campers working at Candy Cave selling candy to customers. Our campers in other classes had the chance to stop in at Candy Cave and buy candy. Here they are getting their […]
Happy Theme Thursday!! And this Thursday we threw it back with the Decades Day theme! We had all sorts of campers dressed up in different decades. We had 60s, 70s, 80s, and even some 2020 quarantine inspired outfits. Our most popular outfit of choice had to be tie-dye!! During drop off in the morning, we […]
This week at Short Hills, our NASA Journey to Outer Space class has featured a myriad of fun, engaging experiments that allows students to simulate the vastness of outer space! Students learn about forces of flight, challenges of space travel, and much, much more! Students are fascinated by an experiment involving dry ice and its […]
This week in Youngster Scratch Programming, our campers are becoming experts on the basics of coding and programming with our mini ipads. Our campers are having so much fun deigning and controlling characters in their programs. This week in Stop Action Animation, our campers are getting the chance to make their very own stop action […]
Cheeky, beaming, and laughing, are the words that sum up the campers’ faces when finding out that they will be on a scavenger hunt, playing Minecraft, or simply learning how to code the Lego blocks into the program. In the Youngsters Left Brain Mix, the campers surprised the teachers, counselors, and the site director with […]