Education & Community Services

Join us for “Building Bonanza!” STEM and Creativity Summer Camp! Our camp offers an engaging and immersive experience delivered in four 8-hour days. Campers will be challenged to develop teamwork, communication, and problem-solving skills in mixed-grade and mixed-age hands-on project-based learning. Campers will learn STEM concepts and work to solve challenges with creative solutions. We offer fun but focused learning, giving campers daily opportunities to experience engineering and creativity projects using a mix of standard LEGO and LEGO TECHNIC parts, Apple iPads and stop-motion animation apps, LEGO Mindstorms robotics, competition games, and more. Students will be provided an opportunity to eat a packed lunch and packed snacks with their fellow campers. Students should bring a water bottle, a bag lunch, and snacks for morning and afternoon breaks. Students should leave their own LEGO at home. All other supplies are provided. There are no take-home projects. Please let us know if your child has a latex allergy on your registration, as a project uses a latex balloon. Grades: K - 6th

Summer off-season training program for middle and high school students interested in preparing for the upcoming cross-country seasons. This program will follow a training progression of running and strength training to prepare athletes for the upcoming season.

Jump start is a two-day camp focused on making the transition from elementary to middle school as positive, exciting, and productive as possible. The camp will teach students organization techniques, study skills, and effective technology use as well as help them to identify disrespectful/inappropriate behavior, handle difficult situations, and cope with stress. Additionally, they will learn the layout of the middle school campus, how to read their schedules, and what to expect on a typical middle school day. They will also get an overview of their opportunities to "join in" at STMS. Ideally, each student will come away from this camp with the skills and ability to choose a leadership role in maintaining an excellent learning environment at their school. Instructors are STMS Teachers: Shelley Kniffen, Alison Yadon, and Ashley Fauss

Jump start is a two-day camp focused on making the transition from elementary to middle school as positive, exciting, and productive as possible. The camp will teach students organization techniques, study skills, and effective technology use as well as help them to identify disrespectful/inappropriate behavior, handle difficult situations, and cope with stress. Additionally, they will learn the layout of the middle school campus, how to read their schedules, and what to expect on a typical middle school day. They will also get an overview of their opportunities to "join in" at STMS. Ideally, each student will come away from this camp with the skills and ability to choose a leadership role in maintaining an excellent learning environment at their school. Instructors are STMS Teachers: Shelley Kniffen, Alison Yadon, and Ashley Fauss

Level Up: High School Edition, a 4-Day Confidence Culture Experience For Incoming 9th Grade Girls After an incredible response from our middle school girls, we’re bringing Level Up back, this time for incoming high school freshmen girls. Level Up: High School Edition is a powerful mind-body-soul journey designed to help girls walk into 9th grade feeling grounded, confident, and clear on who they are. Through a mix of journaling, somatic practices, group discussion, and creative exploration and activities, girls will: - Build strong self-worth and confidence - Learn emotional regulation tools - Reframe discipline and failure as self-love - Understand leadership, boundaries, and relationships - Connect with intuition, identity, and future vision Each session blends real talk with real tools, from body image and social life to personal style and mindset. This isn’t just a prep course for high school, it’s a launchpad into womanhood. Let’s give them the sisterhood, wisdom, and inner power we all wish we had at 14.

Lunch Bunch provides lunch supervision from 12:00 PM to 12:30 PM (for a student not enrolled in sunrise and/or sunset Kid's Club childcare). If your child is registered for sunrise and/or sunset childcare, there is no need to enroll in Lunch Bunch (fee included). Students are required to bring a non-refrigerated lunch each day. Hot lunches are not provided during the summer. Please include a water bottle for your child and nut products are prohibited due to allergies.

Enroll in POSITIVE to give your students the head start they need to succeed in the new year. This engaging and interactive course will help students develop and practice strong executive functioning skills. Students will learn how their brain functions best and why these skills are important to thrive in school and life. What are executive function skills? We use the POSITIVE acronym to learn, practice, and grow these essential life skills: Planning, Organization, Self-Initiation, Time Management, Inhibition, Vision and Goal Setting, Evaluating priorities

In this creative class, students will learn how to build a play from the ground up! Starting with the writing process, students will find out what it takes to go from brainstorming, to writing, to editing and revising an original play. As an ensemble, students will then audition, cast, rehearse and perform in their own short piece. Explore the world of theatre through every angle with this fun-filled class! There will be a short performance on the last day of class. More details will be sent to enrolled families.

This project is Shakespeare like you've never experienced it before! Learn about acting techniques and character analysis through a staged production of “A Midsummer Night’s Dream.” Students will be studying Shakespearean text, character analysis, and more. Whether or not you’re new to performing Shakespeare, this is a great opportunity to learn and add to your artistic resumé.This adaptation will culminate in a modern-day, music festival in the desert feel. in two showcase performances in the CSHS Lecture Hall. The schedule is: M-F, 10AM-2PM, July 14-August 1 M-F 2:15-4PM, August 4-7 Showcase #1 8/8 @7PM, #2 8/9 @ 7PM