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Live, instructor-led lab programs that fit your child’s interest with your schedule, your location. Great for schools, libraries, friendship groups, clubs & Scouts
This Term, Your Kids Can…
. . . Build Robots, Code Games, Develop Apps & Websites and Create Cool 21st Century Gadgets. You can find information about our after-school programs for children of all skill levels—beginners to advanced—below. If you have any questions, or need help registering, please contact us at info@littleivyacademy.com, or by phone at 201-444-8400.
Current Offerings @ Our Ridgewood Campus
Registration NOW OPEN for Winter 2024 Afterschool Labs
This term, we will be offering the following programs here @ our Ridgewood Campus! Program information including ages, prices and descriptions can be found below.If you register additional siblings, a 10% discount will be applied for each additional brother and/or sister when we process your credit card.
If you have any questions, or need help registering, please contact us at info@littleivyacademy.com, or by phone at 201-444-8400.
RobotMakers: Robots in Motion!
Your child will put real fun into action, advancing their STEM skills while building & coding a range of moving, spinning robotic devices. . . bringing motors to life. . . setting wheels & gears into action… and more while they become familiar with both the programming language & engineering know-how they’ll need to complete each project.
- Dates: Thursdays, 1/18/24 to 2/29/24
- Time: 3:20 pm – 4:20 pm
- Grades: PreK-1st Grade
- Tuition: $225.00
RobotMakers: Robots at Work!
Robots are changing the way the world works and your child can turn the key to the next great breakthrough when they roll up their sleeves to engineer & code a range of automated, workplace robots with real-world uses.
- Dates: Tuesdays, 1/16/24 to 3/5/24(No Lab: 2/20)
- Time: 4:30 pm – 5:30 pm
- Grades: K-2nd Grade
- Tuition: $225.00
GameMakers: Junior Game Developers
Put your K-2nd grader in control of bringing their imagination to digital life as they create characters & worlds for their own series of interactive video games, all while developing their coding and critical-thinking skills with the age-appropriate Scratch Jr. coding language developed at MIT’s Media Lab.!
- Dates: Fridays, 1/19/24 to 3/1/24
- Time: 4:30 pm – 5:30 pm
- Grades: Kindergarten–2nd Grade
- Tuition: $225.00
GameMakers: Adventures in 3D!
Power Up! Now your Kids Can Create & Code video games where characters charge through 3-D settings, racking up coins as they elude obstacles and overcome hurdles along the way. . . Socialize & Share their games with labmates. . . and Leap Ahead from passive player to engaged creator using MIT’s Scratch coding language to create virtual worlds that whiz past their characters and run up the score! Projects from Beginner to Advanced. No previous experienced needed.
- Dates: Tuesdays, 1/16/24 to 3/5/24
- Time: 4:30 pm – 5:30 pm
- Grades: 3rd–5th Grade
- Tuition: $225.00
VideoMakers Stop Animation: Let's Get Moving!
Animate your child’s fun as they uncover the skills needed to bring inanimate objects to life! Your child will be creating their own series of digital stop-animation videos using a range of materials, including themselves, capturing series of still digital pictures and setting them into motion.
- Dates: Wednesdays, 1/17/24 to 2/28/24
- Time: 4:30 pm –5:30 pm
- Grades: 3rd-5th Grades
- Tuition: $225.00
RobotMakers: Next Generation!
Unleash your child’s imagination with opportunities to deploy LEGO Mindstorms mobile technology and a made-for-robotics version of the age-appropriate Scratch programming language, as they build and program mobile bots that navigate through (and sometimes around) the challenges and obstacles they “sense” along the way!
- Dates: Thursdays, 1/18/24 to 2/29/24
- Time: 4:30 pm – 5:30 pm
- Grades: 3rd–5th Grade
- Tuition: $225.00
DesignMakers: Let's Get Graphic!
Now, your child and their classmates can design their own graphical fun! Let’s Get Graphic! puts the power of the Crita graphic-design software in your child’s hands as they discover new ways of communicating online through the creation of their own digital art. Each lab session will present new opportunities for students of all ability levels to advance their graphical design skills as they create digital sketches, memes and more!
- Dates: Fridays, 1/19/24 to 3/1/24
- Time: 4:30 pm – 5:30 pm
- Grades: 6th–8th Grade
- Tuition: $225.00
VideoMakers Stop Animation: Let's Get Moving!
Animate your child’s fun as they uncover the skills needed to bring inanimate objects to life! Your child will be creating their own series of digital stop-animation videos using a range of materials, including themselves, capturing series of still digital pictures and setting them into motion.
- Dates: Wednesdays, 1/17/24 to 2/28/24
- Time: 4:30 pm –5:30 pm
- Grades: 6th-8th Grades
- Tuition: $225.00
RobotMakers: Next Generation!
Unleash your child’s imagination with opportunities to deploy LEGO Mindstorms mobile technology and a made-for-robotics version of the age-appropriate Scratch programming language, as they build and program mobile bots that navigate through (and sometimes around) the challenges and obstacles they “sense” along the way!
- Dates: Thursdays, 1/18/24 to 2/29/24
- Time: 4:30 pm – 5:30 pm
- Grades: 6th-8th Grade
- Tuition: $225.00
Current Offerings @ A School Near You!
Registration NOW OPEN for Winter 2024 Afterschool Labs
[Update for This Term: We’re currently in process of scheduling Fall 2023 afterschool labs at your local schools. Check below to discover whether registration is now available for labs at your school– More schools will be added and those listed below will be updated!
Please CLICK HERE to join our mailing list (include your school’s name in the message field) and we’ll keep you updated. If you’d prefer not to wait, your child & their friends can join us for afterschool labs @ our nearby Ridgewood campus (see above). . .]
This term, we will be offering the following programs at these schools! Program information including ages, prices and descriptions can be found below. If you register additional siblings, a 10% discount will be applied for each additional brother and/or sister when we process your credit card.
If you have any questions, or need help registering, please contact us at info@littleivyacademy.com, or by phone at 201-444-8400.
Join Us At. . .
East Brook School, Park Ridge, NJ
Hawes School, Ridgewood, NJ
WebDeveloper: Let's Get Graphic!
Now, your child and their classmates can design their own graphical fun! Let’s Get Graphic! puts the power of the Crita graphic-design software in your child’s hands as they discover new ways of communicating online through the creation of their own digital art. Each lab session will present new opportunities for students of all ability levels to advance their graphical design skills as they create digital sketches, memes and more!
- Dates: Thursdays, 10/20/22 to 12/15/22 (no lab 11/10, 11/24)
- Time: 3:00 pm – 4:10 pm
- Grades: 3rd–5th Grade
- Tuition: $225.00
Haworth School, Haworth, NJ
Travell School, Ridgewood, NJ
Wandell School, Saddle River, NJ
RobotMakers: Start Making Sense!
Now your child can build & code a collection of robots that use sensors to make sense of what they encounter in the world around them…. and respond with good sense to what they’ve encountered. They’ll animate Robotic Snakes, Watchful Security Systems & more, discovering big dun as they engineer, program and “road test” these are appropriate robotics projects.
- Dates: Mondays, 2/6/23 to 3/27/22 (No Lab 02/20)
- Time: 2:45 pm – 3:55 pm
- Grades: K-2nd Grade
- Tuition: $0 (Offered at no cost to Wandell families from the benefit of grant funding.)
DesignMakers: Makin' Marvelous Comics!
Your child will marvel at how they can fire up their imagination as they discover how to create their very own virtual comics! They’ll unleash the power of the popular Krita graphic-design software to develop new ways to power-up their digital story-telling skills. Each lab session presents new opportunities for students of all ability levels to craft their own unique characters, design worlds, and create their own digital art comic strips!
- Dates: Mondays, 2/6/23 to 3/27/22 (No Lab 02/20)
- Time: 2:45 pm – 3:55 pm
- Grades: 3rd-5th Grade
- Tuition: $0 (Offered at no cost to Wandell families from the benefit of grant funding.)
West Ridge School, Park Ridge, NJ
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