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Chess

Playing chess is known to increase IQ, promote critical thinking, and teach core math and verbal skills. It also helps kids retain information, improve test scores, solve problems, remain calm under pressure, and perform well in school

Organization or Teacher: Premier Chess

Ages/Days: Monday (K - 2nd 4:10-5:10pm, 3rd - 5th 3:00-4:00pm )

Price: $600

Dance

Dance Party classes are designed exclusively for kids to combine movement, music and community in a class for children. The class is a rockin’, high-energy dance party packed with specially choreographed, kid-friendly routines (hip-hop, reggaeton, cumbia among others) and all the music kids love. In addition, Dance Party classes inspire kids to express themselves through movement and play while effectively improving their overall health and well-being.

Organization or Teacher: Kids In the Game

Ages/Days: Thursday (K - 2nd 4:10-5:10pm, 3rd - 5th 3:00-4:00pm)

Price: $560

Engineering a Metropolis

Help us discover the inner urban planner in your child as we engineer a metropolis! Over the course of the semester, kids explore what it takes to create a metropolitan area with the goal of developing skills to design their own city of choice. From street layouts and building placement to power source identification, students learn about the challenges that architects, engineers, and urban designers face when building cities from scratch. How will we light our street lamps? Let’s learn about hydroelectric power and build a working model of a dam out of clay! How will we cross the rivers that surround our island city? Let’s use popsicle sticks and glue to simulate bridges that traverse these wide spans. By the end of the class, Launch kids use teamwork combined with the knowledge they’ve gained to design their own simulated city!

Additional Topics Include: Engineering Design Process, Machines and Materials, Building Types, Transportation Systems, Building Codes / Environmental Considerations

Organization or Teacher: Launch

Ages/Days: Wednesday (3rd - 5th 4:10-5:10pm)

Price: $640

Fencing

Fencers will gain a basic understanding of movement, tactics, rules, and etiquette of the sport of fencing. More importantly, fencers will have a strong idea of what fencing is and its three different weapons. Training is geared toward developing hand-eye coordination, speed, endurance, confidence, focus, self-control, and teamwork. All skills that help children do well not merely in fencing, but in school and in other organized sports.

Organization or Teacher: New Amsterdam Fencing

Ages/Days: Tuesday (1st - 2nd 4:10-5:10pm, 3rd - 5th 3:00-4:00pm)

Price: $600

I Wanna Be... An Astronaut

Three, two, one…blast off! It’s time to fall in line for astronaut training! Launch students dive in by earning their helmets and jet packs as they discover what it takes to make it in outer space. Next up: Escape Earth’s gravity to explore the Sun, the Moon, and many of the solar system’s interesting features. Stand clear as we replicate the moon’s topography with our crater drop experiment! Then let’s kick it into warp drive to study the stars and build pipe cleaner constellations! From launching Alka-Seltzer rockets to creating satellite spinners, Launch’s budding space explorers learn the ropes as they prepare to take off to infinity and beyond!

Additional Topics Include: Orbit, Propulsion, Rockets, Space Shuttle, Phases of the Moon, Satellites, Stars, Space Station, Rovers

Organization or Teacher: Launch

Ages/Days: Wednesday (K - 2nd 3:00-4:00pm)

Price: $640

Karate

Karate lies in the heart, not the hands. We believe Karate is not for fighting, but rather for character development. Physical fitness is a primary focus, followed by detailed subject matter to stimulate the mind. We work on our feelings and behaviors as they power our strong Karate Spirit. Our class aims to build fearless and compassionate students and equip them with tools that they can use outside of the classroom. Of course, students will learn to defend themselves physically, but more importantly they will learn to defend themselves emotionally as well. Students will learn the history of the art, basic self-defense, anti-bullying techniques, how to stop attacks, and more. We strive to make classes fun and jam-packed with a combination of both serious and playful activities.

Organization or Teacher: Roy Kamen

Ages/Days: Thursday (1st - 2nd 3:00-4:00pm, 3rd - 5th 4:10-5:10pm)

Price: $640

Soccer

Our main focus is to provide a safe and fun learning environment in which every child is able to leave a better soccer player than they came in. The clinics will be organized in a progression from basic dribbling and passing skills, to more advanced defensive and offensive skills. Your child will have ample opportunities to learn new skills, as well as improve upon their current skills. All participants will learn the importance of teamwork, sportsmanship, and what it means to be a part of KING.

Organization or Teacher: Kids In the Game

Ages/Days: Monday (K - 2nd 3:00-4:00 pm)

Price: $520

Spark Art

Since 2015, we have created an incredible and innovative programs combining creativity through art, yoga and meditation. Taught by a Teaching Artist, students will make art in different mediums learn art history while also incorporating mindfulness into all our lessons.

Organization or Teacher: SPARK

Ages/Days: Friday (K - 2nd 4:10-5:10pm, 3rd - 5th 3:00-4:00pm)

Price: $560