team chatham
This week in Chatham, we have some civil engineers in the morning. They have been learning all about what makes a bridge strong, effective, and being able to sustain a significant amount of weight. These young engineers then put their skills to the test by creating their own bridges with popsicle sticks and wood glue. […]
This week in both the AM and the PM, our future entrepreneurs are putting their brains to the test by learning how to sell, make a valuable product, and market to potential customers. Our older campers are doing this in Shark Tank Entrepreneur in the AM and our younger friends are doing this in Lemonade […]
Week 1 has come to an end and what a week it was! The campers and staff had so much fun in their classes and at breaktime. We launched rockets in NASA and Aerospace. Youngsters did math outside and created 3D art for a puppet show! Minecraft had fun building with their classmates and Leadership […]
This week at Chatham, the campers are taking flight in both Engineering of Flight & Aerospace and NASA Journey to Outer Space. In Aerospace, the students learned all about the dynamics of airplanes through making their own models with paper. The students then got to do trial and error and test their airplanes. They practiced […]
Welcome back to camp in Chatham! It’s been quite a hot week, but we haven’t let that stop the fun! The campers have been having plenty of fun already in their classes and during break inside, especially in classes such as Leadership Games, NASA, Escape Room, and Film. Minecraft Creative has been drawing cool pixel […]
Throughout the week, our civil engineers have been busy building structures such as buildings and bridges using materials like paper and cardboard to test how much weight they can hold and how strong they are. Today, campers created buildings using paper prisms they made with notecards and tested whether or not their design could withstand […]
It’s Week 7 and we are still going strong in Chatham! This morning we had our second round of Anatomy and Surgical techniques. Campers look at different items in a microscope to identify details and learned about parts of the brain by creating a brain hat. Moving over to Robotics, today the campers began their […]
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 […]
This Friday in Chatham we celebrated with water balloons, had presentations in class, and traded for amazing prizes in the treasure chest. Although Chatham Ivy still has three weeks left to go, we also said goodbye to our beloved team member. Ava, our counselor for the last three years is moving to Amsterdam for college. […]
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 […]