Dazzling Decades Island© Part 1
Get ready for some groovy time-traveling fun! You and a STEAM Team of friends will take a STEAMtastic journey to a different decade every week while learning about what it was like to be a kid in the 40’s, 50’s, 60’s. 70’s, and 80’s! You’ll engineer your way around the clock at different dazzling destinations like Bubble Toy Station (1940), Bobsled Slopes (1959), Warhol’s Pop Art Towers (1964), Pet Rock Simple Machines Treehouse (1975) and Ghostbusters Ectoplasm (1984). Every class is a new STEAM build never before used in our after-school programs. This iconic island is sure to be one for the history books!
Challenge Island is a cross-educational STEAM-based (science, technology, engineering, art, and math) enrichment program for kids. All programs are unplugged with no digital technology. Children are taken on unique "island" adventures where they work in collaborative groups (STEAM Teams) to take on high-level thinking challenges on real world issues using only the materials in their treasure chest and their creativity. Kids experience all five aspects of STEAM - Science, Technology (invention & innovation), Engineering, Arts (language & creative), and Math - to successfully complete challenges on real world issues; while also increasing their soft skills / life skills in communication, collaboration, critical and creative thinking, flexibility, sociability, initiative, leadership, and perseverance through difficulty. Challenge Island is dedicated to ensuring a brighter future for our kids and our communities by helping you prepare your child to succeed in the 21st Century and beyond!
GTACS After-School Enrichment
Sept-Nov ~ 5 Classes and 6 lessons
@ Immaculate Conception Elementary
- Immediately after school, Time: 2:30 PM - 4:15 PM
- Wednesdays: Sept 28, Oct 5, 12, 19, Nov 2
- No class Oct 28 (a lesson will be sent home with students for this week)
- Programs are once a week
~ Students are placed in same-grade groups (STEAM Teams) and when class makeup allows, are also placed by gender.
Participation Fee
~ The 5-week program includes five 1-hour and 30-minute sessions, all five aspects of STEAM as well as Life Skills, all materials, and take-aways.
~ There is not class on Oct 26, however a lesson will be sent home for that week.
·In the event GTACS cancels after school classes due to Covid issues OR if GTACS schools go virtual, no after-school activities will be held per school policy. If cancellations happen due to Covid issues, Challenge Island will prorate the classes and refund families for the cancelled classes which will not take place.
·In the event school is closed due to WEATHER, no after-school activities will be held per school policy. There is no guarantee of a make-up date in the case of inclement weather. Missed sessions will be made up if schedules allow (which includes Challenge Island schedules/school room schedules/GTACS schedules). Challenge Island will make all efforts to make up sessions cancelled due to weather when possible.
Registration
· Registration is through GTACS Popsicle site. Click on the registration button on this page for a direct link to the Popsicle site to register.