Prime Time's work is embedded in a wide body of research demonstrating that quality
out-of-school time (OST) programs lead to substantial academic, social, and emotional benefits for youth.
The benefits to high quality afterschool programming:
- reduced crime rates and substantial improvements to academic outcomes
- more fair academic outcomes for children who do not have access
- fosters a sense of belonging while supporting emotional regulation
- significantly enhance parents'/guardians focus and productivity at work
Expanded Learning Opportunities (ELOs)
A hands-on learning activity provided by an expert provider to afterschool and summer programs at no cost to the program or family. ELOs are offered in a multi-session format of specialized content in supporting the school-day academic learning, caring for the whole child, discovering arts and culture, leadership and career pathways and exploring technology.
Prime Time strives to provide children and youth with a wide range of ELOs, to eligible afterschool and summer programs, by partnering with local content expert organizations shown below.
Prime Time's youth providers offered 235,203 learning experiences that impacted 32,829 youth between October 2023 and September 2024.
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If your OST program has already registered your program with Prime Time and you have received confirmation of approval from Prime Time, you can begin scheduling ELOs by contacting the organization with contact information provided below.
If you have not registered your program, please click on " Process and Requirements" button to the right.
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Expanded Learning Opportunities
Below is a list of 2025-2026 expanded learning opportunity providers offered to afterschool and summer programs at no cost to the program or participants.
Arts and Culture
Center for Creative Education
C.A.D.R.E Creative Arts Designed to Reinforce Education
Center for Creative Education CADRE (Creative Arts Designed to Reinforce Education) is an arts integration program offered by the Center for Creative Education to allow children to explore their creativity and learn about art and its many forms while reinforcing skills, knowledge and concepts related to traditional classroom subjects during out-of-school time. These sessions will allow children and youth to develop their skills in creativity and the arts while simultaneously supporting growth in relationship skills, self-awareness, self-management, social awareness and responsible decision-making.
Marsha Bhagwansingh
Director of Arts Integration
561-805-9927
Divinity Dance
Let’s Dance & Create
Divinity Dance’s “Let’s Dance & Create” ELO is a fun, engaging, collaborative, and hands-on creative learning experience that introduces school-aged students to the art form of dance. Students do not need to have prior training; dance movement is taught in an inclusive environment for all abilities. The ELO provides students the space to creatively explore dance, movement, and music through a variety of dance genres as well as supporting SLL, well-being & resiliency, and 21st Century skills. Upon completion of the ELO, students will develop confidence in their movement & ability to express themselves, create collaboratively with their peers, and demonstrate a foundational understanding of dance structure.
Sonja Kelly
Founder & Artistic Director
561-331-1342
KidzArt Palm Beach
KidzArt Palm Beach
KidzArt is a drawing-based expanded learning opportunity (ELO) that teaches youth to draw a new project each week while also enhancing their confidence, creativity and problem-solving skills. The goals of each class are that youth learn to draw something new, learn to use a new artist medium, experience a confidence-boosting lesson, enhance their creativity and implement essential problem-solving skills while engaging in the activity. The best part is that every child leaves each class with a complete, original masterpiece!
Lake Worth Playhouse
Curtain’s Up at the Lake Worth Playhouse
Lake Worth Playhouse provides performing arts education through introductory workshops to underserved youth in out-of-school time programs. Participating youth will learn acting, dancing and improvisational skills; gain performance experience; and, most importantly, build a sense of community and individual empowerment with the bonus of fun. Some themes to be explored are friendship, learning, leadership, commitment, conflict resolution, empathy, respect, diversity and courage.
Christopher Ombres
Education Director
561-586-6169 X217
Resource Depot
Creativity for Conservation & Change
Resource Depot provides hands-on environmental art series that creates awareness, responsiveness and activism among today’s youth regarding how the cycle of waste, which they as human beings actively participate in, can be affected by their conscious, positive actions toward the environment. Youth will discover several strategies, specifically reuse, that can help reduce the number of materials coming and going into the waste stream cycle. Youth will be able to communicate and demonstrate how, with a little thought, effort, and compassion, small actions can make positive changes in their homes, schools and the larger community.
Chelsea Odum
Director of Education & Artist Relations
561-882-0090 ext: 102
Young Singers of the Palm Beaches
Prime Time Young Singers Choirs
Young Singers of the Palm Beaches is an inclusive vocal music community that values and celebrates the unique qualities of people of diverse backgrounds and cultures. Young Singers transform lives in our community by breaking down barriers, developing life skills, and fostering good citizenship while providing an outlet for creativity through music. Youth enrolled in the choirs will learn various aspects of musicianship, including instrumentation, movement, musical theatre, spoken word, world cultures, linguistics, emotions and vocal performance. Through music and teamwork, youth gain communication and problem-solving skills, appreciation for other cultures, self-esteem and pride in oneself, in the group and one’s community.
Youth Speak Out International
Lights, Camera, Action, AI
Youth Speak Out International provides an innovative enrichment program that empowers children and youth in elementary and middle school to use generative artificial intelligence (AI) safely, ethically and creatively. Developed in response to growing concerns about digital safety and over-reliance on AI, the program equips youth with the tools to think critically about AI while building crucial collaboration and communication skills.
Health and Wellness
Digital Vibez
Fitness Jamz
Digital Vibez programming is designed to combat childhood obesity by fostering a love of fitness by teaching youth at an early age how to incorporate physical activity and healthy behaviors into their everyday lives. The Fitness Jamz program will engage youth in fun physical activities that keep them safe, active and healthy. Youth who engage in at least 60 minutes of physical activity daily reduce their risk of obesity and diabetes, increase self-confidence and have a better outlook on life.
FLIPANY – Florida Introduces Physical Activity and Nutrition to Youth
Recipes and Roots: Growing Healthy Habits
FLIPANY connects youth with healthy food by teaching them how to prepare healthy, tasty, low-cost snacks and meals. FLIPANY delivers Cooking Matters, an evidence-based course. The sessions work toward preventing obesity by providing youth with experiences related to nutrition, cooking, healthy eating habits and physical activity. The curriculum is designed to be learner-centered and is primarily hands-on.
FAU Pine Jog Environmental Education Center
Teaching Empathy Through Nature
FAU Pine Jog presents Teaching Empathy through Nature, connecting children in kindergarten through fifth grade with nature. It builds empathy by using innovative instructional practices for developing well-being and life skills in combination with nature-based activities. Youth will participate in outdoor natural areas, play interactive nature-themed games, explore empathy for nature and plug into the forest's magic with facilitated explorations.
Florida Fishing Academy
Angling for a Healthy Future
Florida Fishing Academy’s Angling for a Healthy Future empowers youth with positive life skills and introduces children in kindergarten through fifth grade to fish and boat with a focus on water and boating safety. The program also provides hands-on conservation education.
Literacy Coalition of Palm Beach County
Read, Create, Connect
Read, Create, Connect brings literature and art-based lessons that promote emotional well-being to children in out-of-school-time programs. Through high quality texts, engaging discussions and hands-on, interactive art activities, children and youth will learn about and practice mental wellness strategies and activities. The sessions are developed to engage students in recognizing, naming and managing emotions, and to provide them with tools and strategies they can use to promote emotional well-being, including mindfulness, gratitude and creative expression. The sessions are also designed to excite children about literacy as they make connections between the text and their own lives.
Lauren Pedic
Read, Create, Connect Program Manager
561-574-6309
SER-KALLAI Inc.
Ser-Kallai’s Health and Wellness Program
SER-KALLAI, Inc. educates youth on well-being and life skills, including self-awareness and self-management, which will be the topics of the modules provided through this expanded learning opportunity. Self-awareness includes exploring identity, self-concept, self-perception, self-esteem and self-efficacy. Self-management involves exploring emotions and feelings, self-control, willpower, flow and peak performance, and emotional relearning.
Soccer Shots Southern Palm Beach & North Broward County
Soccer Shots – Youth Soccer Enrichment Program
Soccer Shots is designed to provide engaging soccer experiences to children in afterschool settings. Through expert curriculum, the program focuses on character development, soccer fundamentals and promoting a healthy lifestyle and the idea that soccer is a powerful vehicle for positively impacting youth both on and off the soccer field.
Lucia Carcieri
Assistant Director
305-484-9143
Surf Skate Create Inc.
Surf Skate Create
Surf Skate Create Inc. is an engaging and structured initiative designed to foster gross motor skill development, confidence building, and active youth engagement. This program offers a structured sequence of learning modules that introduce youth to skateboarding fundamentals while integrating creative expression. Through interactive sessions, participants will gain valuable skills in safety, balance, coordination, perseverance, and self-expression, culminating in a final project that blends physical activity with artistic creativity.
YMCA of South Palm Beach County
YMCA Physical Activity & Wellness
YMCA Physical Activity & Wellness endeavors to create a healthier generation by providing well-rounded programming that integrates wellness education that reinforces healthy experiences for youth in elementary and middle school. A menu of options is available, such as spike ball, four square, ultimate Frisbee, hockey, yoga, soccer, aerobic dance, hip hop, step dance, basketball, tennis, speed stacking and Double Dutch.
Sara Jones
Director of Community Wellness
561-573-0773
Yoga 4 Change
Evidence based self-regulation skills for youth.
Yoga 4 Change will deliver health and wellness resources such as physical movement, breathing exercises, mindfulness practices, and self-inquiry as part of the curriculum. This includes inclusion of trauma-informed best practices: choice and permission language, verbiage modifications, thematic teachings, and knowledge of adaptive yoga practices. The resources delivered can be used in daily life and will be reinforced through take-home materials.
STE(A)M
The Brain Workout Academy
Brain Builders
The Brain Workout Academy engages children in exciting, hands-on science, technology, engineering, mathematics (STEM) activities, promotes active learning of core concepts in physics, engineering, and geometry, and encourages collaboration, communication and critical thinking skills. Activities are designed to be purposeful and relatable to students' real lives. Each session incorporates reflection questions, inquiry and problem-solving to deepen understanding.
Teresa Thomas
Program Operations & Development Coordinator
561-262-0771
Cox Science Center and Aquarium
STEAM Powered
Cox Science Center and Aquarium STE(A)M education and enrichment activities introduce core concepts in STEAM disciplines and engage youth in hands-on activities demonstrating skills used by animal scientists, electrical engineers, astronomers, and physicists while learning about various aspects and career options in each field. Youth learn critical STEAM skills like observing and recording data, identifying and classifying animals based on anatomical structures, building electric circuits and analyzing data from research satellites.
Florida Fishing Academy
Mobile Marine Lab
Florida Fishing Academy’s Mobile Marine Lab is a mobile out-of-school time program, where children in elementary school will learn environmental awareness, problem-solving, and other life skills that use scientific processes and other activities as a means for self-improvement and well-being and life skills.
Green Mouse Academy
STEAM: Technology Arts/Techno Sports Discovery
Green Mouse Academy’s (GMA) utilizes a proprietary, blended instructional model, each session integrating professionally produced, video-guided modules, and delivered through direct facilitation by experienced, highly trained GMA program specialists. Carefully selected STEAM modules include cutting-edge activities such as augmented reality esports (HADO Discovery), drone piloting missions (Drone Legends: Little Legends for children in grades K-3 and STEM Fundamentals for children in grades 4-8), robotics explorations (BeeBot and Sphero), coding, digital animation, innovative technology sports and more.
Literacy Coalition of Palm Beach County
Stories and STEM
Literacy Coalition’s Stories and STEM program brings literature-based science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) lessons to youth in afterschool and summer camp programs. Through hands-on activities, youth can make tangible connections between the topic and the text, both fiction and non-fiction. The sessions are developed to excite youth about STEM, build on prior knowledge, promote curiosity and help youth learn critical investigative skills. Youth will explore and investigate freely and creatively and learn that STEM is a way of thinking and exploring the world, not just a collection of facts.
Toni Bassett
Stories and STEM Program Manager
561-767-3365
Nexplore USA
ELO STEAM Innovators
Nexplore USA presents a transformative opportunity for youth through three meticulously designed science, technology, engineering, arts, and mathematics (STEAM) enrichment programs: "Robotics with Edison," "Makers Club," and "Electronic Game Design." These programs aim to ignite a passion for STEAM among school-age children, leveraging hands-on learning experiences to foster foundational skills in these critical areas.
Jaylimar Gonzalez
Regional Excellence Coordinator
561-866-5002
Train the Trainer
The Arc of Palm Beach County
Community Inclusion Program
By integrating young people with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD) into existing activities and settings, the program will enhance the overall experience for all participants. Through effective inclusion strategies, the program ensures that youth with IDD are actively engaged, supported, and provided with the same opportunities for growth, learning, and socialization as their peers. At the same time, practitioners are coached in techniques that will equip them with tools to support all youth, creating lasting benefits for the community.
Leadership and Career Pathways
Zeus Consulting Services Corporation
Zeus Boss Kids Entrepreneur Camp
Zeus Consulting Services presents Zeus Boss Kids, a dynamic, year-round entrepreneurship and leadership development program designed to equip elementary-aged youth in Palm Beach County with real-world skills in financial literacy, business creation, communication and confidence.