Building Creativity in Paramus

It's another exciting week at Paramus International Ivy! Our campers this week are busy building! Whether in the virtual or physical world, campers are creating new structures, friends, and memories.

In Civil Engineering, our campers are learning the physics of tower and bridge-building. Each day, Kristen assigns them tasks that challenge them like professional bridge-builders. They create structures out of everyday materials, and test their structures!

Everyone works together to create bridges in Civil Engineering!

In Minecraft: Advanced, campers test their carefully honed Minecraft skills. Deven gives them challenges, including making their own game-within-a-game. In Minecraft Creative: The Engineer in You, campers use the Minecraft environment to build replicas of famous structures. In Python Programming, campers learn the advanced art of building code in the popular Python language.

In Pre-Architecture, budding designers explore trends in architecture in our world's cities. They also determine their own preferences in home design they see in their daily lives. Our Youngster-Right Brain campers also explore our world. They study foreign countries, and photograph their surroundings to create digital art.

Fun with collages in Pre-Architecture

Silly Tuesday in Chatham

Chatham Week 4

    Today was a fun day here at camp. We have some silly campers with us this week. Between "Dan" chants in Minecraft and karaoke session in Investment Literacy it has been a memorable one. For break time we made our campers into trees for relay races and sang happy birthday to a special little boy! Everyone is enjoying our silly sessions of break from all their hard work. Sometimes, you just need to have a little fun and laughter. 

Dancing while investing

                                  Brendan demonstrating the relay                  A camper being dressed as a tree.

Somerset: Crafting Creative Writers

Somerset is excited to have Michelle teaching Creative Writing Workshop this week! The writers in this class spend time working hard on different creative writing pieces. They have learned about sonnets, odes, poems, and much more. Not only are the students practicing their writing skills, they are also having a lot of fun!

Spotlight on Math Competition Training!!

At Short Hills, we offer many interesting classes including Math Competition Training. The campers who choose to take this class learn useful techniques and play plenty of games! Here is a video of our teacher explaining what the future mathematicians do in class.

Video Game Creation at Oakland!

In Oakland this week, some of our campers are taking our Video Game Creation-Advanced course! In this class, our campers are using coding software to write their own code, and using that code to create their own games. They are having so much fun, while learning in the process!

Ice Breakers at Short Hills!

On the first day of week 4 of Short Hills, the campers played some great games during break. They got to choose between silent interviews, Have you ever...?, and Heads Up!. All of these games gave the campers a great way to get to know each other and become fast friends!

Fun Friday

Chatham Week 3

As another week comes to an end, we say goodbye to some campers and "See you Monday" to those who come back. This week was full of great memories, games, and lots of learning. The campers in drone taught me all about flying and programming sound. The Python, Java, Raspberry Pi, and Cyber Security Campers showed the importance of coding in our new generations. Flight and Aerospace did experiments while Anatomy dissected brains and frogs. Our first group of Youngsters came through, which is always fun and we had a great time eating ice cream and making lemonade. Here is to another great week!

                                                      Raspberry Pi Class creating music!
                                                   

                                               "Selling" Lemonade for Market Research

Showing off Ivy Pride at Somerset

Somerset - Week 3

Friday is always a special day at Somerset for a few reasons. First, students get to pick their prizes from the treasure chest. In addition, during break, we play team games. However, the best part about Friday is that students wear their blue Ivy t-shirt to show off their Ivy pride!

Together, we celebrate the amazing things we have learned and experienced this week. Also, campers have made some new friendships. Although we are sad Week 3 is coming to an end, we look forward to Week 4!

Site Director Kenny and Counselor David with our campers wearing their Ivy shirt!  

Teachers, campers, and counselor David showing off their Ivy pride. 

Meet the Short Hills Head Counselor

At Short Hills we have many amazing staff members! This week two of our campers decided to do an in-depth interview to get to know our Head Counselor. It's safe to say that everyone at Short Hills loves Emma!

Hammer Bots in Chatham

Chatham Week 3 Our Robotics: Vehicles class has been working all week on designing robots to battle each other on Friday! Today our campers built hammer bots and digger bots to serve as a base for their final battle bot, and all of our super students showed us their awesome hammer bot and told us all about it! Check out the video on YouTube to learn all about the hammer bot!

 See the Hammer Bot in Action!