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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, […]

Here at Chatham, we take Theme Thursday super serious. And we couldn’t have been more excited when we found out that our first Thursday of the summer was Sports Day!! Campers dressed up in all types of jerseys, shirts, and other gear. We saw so many sports represented such as football, soccer, baseball, and even […]

This week in Chatham we have chemical engineering! In chemical engineering, the students combine different materials to create something new!  Today, the students were making bouncy balls! They made these bouncy balls by combining glue, borax, and water. Campers were experimenting on the ratio of their ingredients to see what made their ball the bounciest.  […]

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 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 […]

Happy Tuesday! Today was the second day of week 7 at International Ivy Short Hills. In the morning, students were eager to continue their learning and projects they started yesterday. In class this morning students are learning to create and build fun obstacle courses in Minecraft, testing their innovation and design skills in Youngsters Engineering, […]

Today, we’re excited to showcase our Youngsters – We Do Robotics class. Campers picked out a fun creation of their choice and built it in Legos. After building completion, they used their newly learned knowledge about coding to program their robots! By paying close attention to the core principles of the engineering design process, students […]

This week we hit a home run at International Ivy in Short Hills! Today is our weekly Theme Thursday, and our MVP campers were enthusiastic to participate! The theme this week is sports day, where campers get to wear their favorite sports attire to camp in exchange for an Ivy point! Hockey, soccer, baseball, and […]

We’re back at it again with another exciting STEAM class at International Ivy in Short Hills! Today we are featuring our Virtual Reality class. Campers were absorbed in creating their own roller coaster on CoSpaces Edu, a state-of-the-art virtual reality creation tool. This application allows campers of all ages to create their own 3D and […]