Specialty activities are an important mechanism for children to come to know and challenge themselves.  Through specialty activities, children express their sense of self long before they can articulate this sense with words.  It is where work is play, where children are willing to put in more work than they might otherwise in pursuit of their goals and of excellence.  Big obstacles become fun to tackle; kids then learn to think critically about problems, to be creative, to innovate, to problem-solve, to stop at nothing to reach their aims.  They learn and practice grit over and over again.  Their identity begins to form around these efforts and resultant accomplishments, and they develop character and confidence.

In short, specialty activities are a practice arena for life, and they teach children that they can and should keep working and trying because, if they do, they will improve, grow, and possibly even become great.  

We also offer after-school programming in chess, violin, Taekwondo, sports, science, and mental math.