Middle School Programming

Grab your paintbrushes and pour the paint! Get inspired by painters from around the world while you create animal portraits from Australia and Fold art from Mexico. learn how to use impressionist techniques to create your own Leaning Tower of Pisa!

Battle it out with the best Pokémon trainers Geneva has to offer and truly become the best Pokémon trainer there ever was! Pokémon The Card Game takes all the fun and fantasy of the classic cartoon and video game universe. It lets you “battle” other collectors in a turn based game of strategy, skill, and just a little bit of luck. Experience the video game classic like never before. No experience necessary. Demo decks available for new players. Instructor: Danes Games Staff

Kids will have the slime of their life creating seasonal Grinch inspired slime. We will develop the skill of perseverance as we take the steps and patience needed to form stretchy slime. Our concoction lab will include all the colors of Christmas, Grinch hearts, seasonal mix ins, along with winter scents that will make you feel like you are in the Grinch story! Imagine your slime smelling like a holiday firepit, fragrant pine trees, candy canes, or a box of holiday chocolates. We will also play a slimy game to catch the Grinch before he steals our Christmas. This is crazy FUN to blow off some steam as kids get excited for winter break to arrive. Every participant will go home with the slime they made. Instructor: Lisa Lombardi Coaching Inc., www.lisalombardi.com. Drop your child off class.

Bundle up! We are playing with winter and socializing with new friends! No snow on the ground? No problem! We will make our own fluffy science snow that looks just like the sparkling snow scene in the Grinch movie. Color it, scent it, add in snowballs, and make a bubbling SNOWCANO! Winter in Whoville truly is an avalanche of wild and wacky fun! Class will culminate with making an edible snowman with marshmallows. Kids keep the faux snow they make and will learn 15 creative projects they can do at home with their fluffy pile. Bonus hidden self-esteem life coaching lesson: How is snow like us? Instructor: Lisa Lombardi Coaching Inc, www.lisalombardi.com. Drop your child off class.

Perform like a mini Mozart with this rewarding class. Students will learn basic piano or keyboard skills, techniques, music theory, note reading and fun popular songs. Instructor: Sounds Like Music Staff

Play loud! Play proud! Your rock dreams await you! Students learn basic strumming techniques, music theory, note reading and chords while playing fun popular songs. Instructor: Sounds Like Music Staff

This fun, hands-on class covers babysitting basics. child care techniques, safety and rescue skills, first aid, and tips for running a successful babysitting business. Students should bring a lunch, snack and water bottle.

This course is for kids who may be staying home alone or caring for younger siblings. Students build confidence, practice safety skills, learn how to handle emergencies and make smart decisions. Students should bring a snack and water bottle.

Students enter the world of medical science, investigating the body's major systems through the lens of evidence-based inquiry. Drawing on observational skills and basic scientific methods, they learn to analyze clues, interpret data, and reason toward conclusions—just as real clinicians do. This course establishes the critical connection between scientific thinking and human health, introducing students to the systematic logic that underlies medical diagnosis.Instructor: Ready Set Code

Students get their first look at the mathematics and history of secret communication, trying their hand at decoding and creating encrypted messages using a classic cipher. Through a focused pattern-recognition challenge, they begin to see the logical and mathematical thinking that underpins the way we protect information. This workshop introduces cryptography as a creative puzzle—and reveals that mathematics has always been at the heart of keeping secrets.Instructor: Ready Set Code

Young creators step into the world of computer programming, discovering that they can bring their own ideas to life on screen by giving a computer simple instructions. Through playful exploration, students begin to understand that games and animations are built from logical sequences—and that anyone can learn to write them. This course opens the door to computational thinking by showing students that coding is a creative, imaginative act.Instructor: Ready Set Code

Students get their first look at how the web is built, writing a small piece of markup language to create something that lives on a page. Through a focused activity, they begin to understand the structure behind every website they visit and experience what it feels like to be a creator rather than just a consumer of digital content. This workshop introduces the web as both a technical and creative medium—and shows students that building it is within reach.Instructor: Ready Set Code