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Children’s Technology Workshop

Since 1997, the Children’s Technology Workshopä (CTWorkshop) has been developing and delivering applied-technology curricula to children in both academic and recreational settings.  We’re pleased to be able to offer our latest programs to school-aged children throughout Palm Beach County. 

Our team is comprised of educators, scientists, engineers and technology professionals who are passionate about teaching children technological concepts through hands-on activities. 

Our programming focuses on the following technology related streams:

§  Construction & Engineering (Robotics)

§  Video Game Creation (Computer Programming)

§  Digital Animation (Stop-Motion and 2D Digital Animation)

§  Digital Art (Graphic Design)

 To learn more about us, feel free to visit online at www.ctworkshop.com.  For further information regarding this program offering, please contact Shane VanderKooi, CT Workshop, at 561-630-6549 or sinaires@comcast.net.

Junior Achievement of the Palm Beaches

JA Dollars and $ense (Grades 3–5) Teaches personal financial and business skills through activities that focus on earning, sharing, saving, and spending money. 

JA It’s My Business!  (Grades 6-8)  Teaches entrepreneurship skills through activities that focus on filling a need, knowing your customer and product, being creative and innovative, and believing in yourself.

JA Biz Camp (summer) is a five-day experience for middle schoolers, ages 10 to 14.  Campers examine their strengths and skills and then interview for jobs in one of 12 businesses.  They start and run a business with staff assistance to sell products and services in the mini economy of JA BizTown.  Campers receive paychecks and use a personal checking account.  Hands-on learning covers customer service, marketing, computer skills, accounting, negotiating, healthy life choices, and more. 

JA Junior Biz Camp is the same as JA Biz Camp, but modified for 3^rd & 4^th graders.

NOTE:  Students in JA afterschool programs are taught on-site by identified staff facilitators trained by JA.  Students in JA Biz Camp are taught at JA BizTown in West Palm Beach.  Transportation is the responsibility of the youth provider.  The youth provider staff is required to assist in the program and is trained by JA.

For further information regarding these program offerings, please contact Susanna Palomares or John Nowak at 561-242-9468.

Kravis Center for the Performing Arts

The Kravis Center is committed to making the power of the performing arts accessible to afterschool youth in our community through a diverse array of educational offerings.  This season’s performances feature Tales & Scales, new musical version of The Pied Piper, Childsplay’s Tomas and the Library Lady, based on the book by the same name, and Mermaid Theater of Nova Scotia’s inventive puppetry production of The Very Hungry Caterpillar and Other Eric Carle Favorites (in Spanish). Special workshops for youth will also be available to travel to your afterschool site, including Tales & Scales Imagine That! Music Workshop Series; Metro Theater Company’s Creative Dramatics Workshop; a Pan Pipe Making Workshop led by musicians from Andes Manta, a native Ecuadorian instrumental music ensemble, and David Parker’s American Sign Language and Music Workshop.  Professional Development Workshops will be offered for afterschool staff to prepare them and their youth for S*T*A*R Series performances and to expand their own professional experience.  Additional workshops, led by master teaching artists from around the country, will also be offered.  They will focus on arts integration and include the following titles: Poetry in Motion, Rindin’ the Rails: Bringing the Underground Railroad Alive, Musically-Moving Math! and Finding Your Theme Song: Reflection on Teaching from the Heart.  This season, we will introduce a new eight-week Youth Ballroom Dance Series led by internationally recognized ballroom dance instructor, Angelo Caruso.  Once again, for the third successful season in a row, we will host the two-week ISH Institute in April 2008.  Finally, in July 2008, we will offer a one-week Audition Preparation Camp at the Kravis Center to prepare youth for Bak Middle School of the Arts auditions.

For further information regarding these program offerings, please contact Tracy Butler at 561-651-4243 or Butler@kravis.org.

Palm Beach Community College

Community Youth Programs

Summer Youth College (SYC) is a six (6)-week program for youth ages 8 – 14.  Youth may enroll in a variety of “classes,” most of which are two (2) hours long and meet once a week. The design of the program is that of college course scheduling versus a camp allowing, both parents and children the flexibility to customize their own schedule based on interest, instead of one size fits all program.

Youth enjoy the “college format” with many fun and exciting classes such as Animal Art, A Taste of China (cultural), Imaginative Mask Designing (art), Yoga for the Young People, Power Point Presentations with Pizzazz, Poetry, Potpourri and many more.

For more information, please visit Palm Beach Community College online at: www.pbcc.edu/syc .

Palm Beach County Literacy Coalition

The Palm Beach County Literacy Coalition’s After School Reads provides training to staff in afterschool programs throughout Palm Beach County using the research-based KidzLit curriculum. The trainings consist of a series of workshops designed to give hands-on strategies for reading aloud to children. The children will hear and read stories full of characters, settings and issues that they can relate to readily. Staffs learn to use the KidzLit guidebooks which provide ideas and directions for role-playing, writing, creating music and art, even playing physically active games while building vocabulary, learning discussion skills, gaining insight into different cultures, and connecting to their own communities.

Each afterschool site is given a selection of KidzLit books and guidebooks for their teacher resource file. Also, each site receives approximately 350 books for the afterschool site library.

In addition to the read aloud training, the staff is provided with ideas for practicing sight words. After School Reads uses hands-on games and play activities with the staff. They, in turn, can practice sight words with the children through fun easy to learn activities. Similar training is provided for fluency activities, ways to increase children’s fluency and comprehension and using materials created for staff to easily work with children in need of extra reading help.

For further information regarding the program offerings of the Palm Beach County Literacy Coalition, please contact Gloria Allin, Manager, at 561-279-9103 or gloria@pbcliteracy.org.

Pine Jog Environmental Education Center

Pine Jog Environmental Education Center/College of Education/Florida Atlantic University partners with Prime Time Palm Beach County, Inc. to provide an environmental education unit of study to Palm Beach County afterschool programs.  This year’s unit, Energy and Me, focuses on the energy resources we all depend upon everyday to make our lives “go.”  It consists of four 90-minute lessons presented in four separate visits to each afterschool site and facilitated by Pine Jog instructors.  Each lesson is hands-on, highly interactive and aligned to the Florida Sunshine State Standards in science, math, language arts and social studies.  The educational unit targets students, ages 8-14.  Students from each of the participating sites will then be selected to attend, free of charge, a one-week “sleep-away” camp at Pine Jog’s Everglades Youth Conservation Camp during the summer of 2008. 

For more information or to apply to participate in this educational program, please contact Christopher Hill at Pine Jog, 686-6600 or chill38@fau.edu.

School District of Palm Beach County

Community Service Learning

Through Community Service Learning experiences the youth will not only be empowered and excited to make real change in their communities, but to see their worth as contributing members of society, thereby strengthening their feelings of civic responsibility and efficacy. This sense of empowerment and importance is a powerful tool in developing youth leadership in our agencies and our communities.

For further information regarding this program offering, please contact Beth Lefler, Service Learning Coordinator, Department of Safe Schools, School District of Palm Beach County at 561-982-0923 or Leflerb@palmbeach.k12.fl.us.

School District of Palm Beach County,

Afterschool Newspaper Project

“Chit Chat Times”

The “Chit Chat Times” Teen Newspaper is a multi-cultural newspaper created by teens for teens. This innovative project is a collaborative effort between Prime Time, The School District of Palm Beach County, The Center for Art & Media Literacy, and community-based middle school afterschool organizations. The goal of this project is to change adolescents from passive consumers of visual information to active viewers and creators of their own teen newspaper. All youth participants learn to ask questions about what they see, hear and read, as a means of empowering them to make wise informed decisions in life.

For further information regarding this program offering, please contact, William King, at 561-632-6303 or williamaking@yahoo.com.

South Florida Science Museum

Offerings for Prime Time – Palm Beach County Middle School Youth:

Shark Tooth Lab – This life science laboratory will enable children to learn about sharks and their relatives through examination of real shark jaws, sorting and identifying fossil shark teeth, and making their own fossil shark tooth necklaces.

Chemical Concoctions Lab – This physical science laboratory will teach children about the four states of matter by using a sequence of experiments and hands-on activities.  To further engage all students, each will participate in making rubbery-flubber that they can keep.

Mineral ID Lab - The earth science laboratory will offer students an in-depth discovery of rocks, crystals and minerals.  Children will examine 18 different minerals while identifying unique physical properties and special properties such as magnetism, taste and smell.  Each student will then receive several mineral specimens to take home, enabling them to continue the hands-on learning experience by sharing with others. 

Basic Dissection -  The dissection laboratory will engage children with hands-on learning through the direct dissection of specimens providing an opportunity to learn anatomy along the way.  All equipment, specimens, and materials are provided by our expert science instructors.

Crime Scene Sleuths – Children will become junior detectives as they solve a forensic mystery through the use of microscopes, examination of fingerprints, hair and fiber samples.  Children will also learn about blood types and experiment with synthetic blood. 

For further information regarding program offerings, please contact Gabrielle Grundy at 561-832-1988.

The Arc of Palm Beach County

The Arc’s After School Inclusion Program provides a disability specialist to afterschool programs in Palm Beach County. The mission of the program is to support and facilitate the full inclusion of children with special needs in the community with their age appropriate peers during out-of-school time programs.  The role of the After School Inclusion Specialist is two fold; first to provide global trainings to staff on inclusion practices, specific disabilities and the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and second, to provide more direct training and support to afterschool and summer camp program staff on the accommodations which may be necessary to meet a child’s individual needs.  This insures that children with special needs have the same access to programs and activities as any child in Palm Beach County. 

To request trainings and services, you may contact Christin Martin at 561-804-4912 or cmartin@arcpbc.org. 

The Center for Creative Education

CADRE Program

CADRE is the centerpiece of afterschool arts and cultural programming throughout Palm Beach County and the largest program the Center for Creative Education provides. Through a partnership with Prime Time Palm Beach County, CCE has created different programs in all arts areas (Visual, Dance, Music, Cultural, Communications, and Theater) to afterschool providers throughout the county at no charge. These programs move beyond a traditional arts-and-crafts approach incorporating various educational, arts-integrated themes into aesthetic sensibilities so that the educational and emotional experience is richer while still maintaining a sense of fun.  CCE’s online catalog of services can be downloaded at: http://www.cceflorida.org/services/index.html   

For further information regarding Center for Creative Education, contact Michael Yannette, Program Director at (561) 805-9927 or michaely@cceflorida.org.

YMCA of South Palm Beach County

The YMCA of South Palm Beach County and Prime Time of Palm Beach County have joined in partnership to strengthen and expand sports programming in the Afterschool hours.  In creating this partnership, the YMCA is working with the staff of Prime Time to ensure that the program’s high standards are maintained and continued.   Calling upon the experiences of both Prime Time and the YMCA, this project will ultimately benefit children at more than 100 after school sites from throughout Palm Beach County.   To see the list of sport modules offered currently through the YMCA please click here.  Requests for modules for Fall 2009 will be accepted after September 8, 2008. A new form is in the process, old forms will not be accepted.  New form will be posted in September 8, 2008.