Students express their artistic talents – whether they are interested in painting an artistic masterpiece, directing a short play, or composing a musical sonata – using a variety of arts, crafts, and performance arts supplies.

Students compete in structured team-building challenges – such as the completion of obstacle courses, logic puzzles, and minute-to-win-it challenges – that emphasize the utilization of communication, cooperation, and collaborative thinking skills.

Students use their imagination to play in whatever way that they like, as long as they are not endangering themselves or others.

Students participate in recreational activities – such as capture the flag, freeze dance, and kickball – focused on fair play, mobility, and skills that transfer to sports, dance, and related activities.

Students explore freely the possibilities of play with building blocks, logic puzzles, science/engineering kits, and other educational toys and games.

Students participate in structured engineering challenges – such as designing a new type of amusement park ride or building a better mousetrap – that draw upon a variety of skills, including designing, building, planning, presenting, and working cooperatively in teams.

Students give back to their school community in a tangible, meaningful way by orchestrating a fundraiser for school supplies, writing thank you notes for faculty and staff, or organizing a school beautification project.

Students present their STEAM research in an oral, visual, multimedia, or performance-based format for their classmates, parents, and teachers at the end of each semester.

Students complete their homework independently and in a quiet learning environment while extended learning staff assist students as needed.

Students participate in a self-directed research program designed to teach students how to conduct and present a research project on a topic of interest.