Advantage Courses
2012 Advantage Primary Courses (Choice courses scroll down)
All Sports/Tennis
Choose to play organized outdoor games including kickball, soccer, team races and many other fun activities, or join our tennis program and get lessons from the pros at Squire!
Computers
Work with Kidpix, Powerpoint, Publisher, and Word Art to enhance your creative skills on the computer. Using basic programming and word processing, campers creat slide shows and projects with their new skills in out state of the art computer lab. Some class time is devoted to internet games.
Cooking
Learn to be an adventurous chef while practicing how to cook meals safely. Follow recipes to prepare a variety of dishes. Begin with kitchen basics and move on to more creative dishes while exploring the art of healthy cooking.
Crafts
Make classic camp crafts like tie dye, beads, paper art, paintings and more! If you love to create cool crafts, this is the course for you!
Jr. Builders
Build cars, boats, houses, planes, and many other fun things out of wood. Once assembled, paint and decorate your kit any way you want. If you are a budding craftsman or just like to build things, then get ready to create!
Legos
Challenge yourself to build the best Lego structure you can dream up. Weekly contests and prizes are awarded for the most wacky and creative designs. Build a car, spaceship, or landscape....whatever you can imagine!
Music
Learn how to play the guitar. Basic chords and songs are taught by our very own music teacher. Receive a guitar to take home and perform what you have learned!
Science
Explore the world through fun games such as Dinosaur Discovery, Sea-life Observation and Wacky Physics. Do hands on experiments in your very own science lab every day!
Swimming & Swim Instruction
This is a double period course from 9:15 to 11:10am. Lessons are taught by our Water Safety Instructor. If you can pass the deep end test, then you can free swim as well as have fun with the instructor!
Splashy/Water Games
Enjoy our 50 foot long inflatable dinosaur water slide! If you like to get wet and have fun, but don’t want to go swimming, then this big friendly monster is waiting for you!
Theater
Singing and dancing, improvisation and storytelling.....all in a days work in this course! Learn how to do all of those things while having fun. Bring out the Broadway performer in you!
All Sports
Who cares what the weather is as long as you have a ball in your hand and you're running, leaping, or soaring across a green field?! If you love to be outside and want to play a different sport every day, then you are the perfect camper for this course. Soccer, Sonic Baseball, Capture the Flag, Kickball, and more. Each day is different!
Art Design
In this course you use many different mediums to express your artistic abilities. Watercolors, oil based Tempera paintings, chalk and charcoal, and more are all at hand for creating your very own masterpiece!
Fee: $65
Baseball
If you dream about becoming the next Derek Jeter, you have to learn the basics and practice. Learn hitting, fielding, running bases, and the strategies of hte game. Instruction involves drills, skills, and lots of fun!
Basketball
Do you want to be like Lebron? Sign up for this course and you'll be on your way! Drills teach the basics of foul shooting, dribbling ,passing, and having lots of fun! Finish off the period with a game!
Center Stage
Learn techniques of improvisation, dance, singing, and acting. Games, skits, and much more are part of the agenda for this course. Even if you never thought of yourself as more than a good audience member, you can find your inner star here!
Crafts A to Z
It’s crafts galore and more! Explore classic camp crafts such as lanyards, beads and clay, découpage, paper maché and even tie-dye. From Apple prints to Zebra stripes. Campers take home new creations at the end of every week. Fee: $65
Digital Photography
Develop your skills by snapping pictures around The Masters School campus, producing portfolios and T-shirt designs from your photos. Instruction in photographic techniques and editing your work with Photoshop and Microsoft Paint. Fee: $25 Must have a digital camera.
Electronics Wizards
For the young inventor who wants results. Hands-on electronic kits that involve building and soldering are part of the agenda. Take home choices may include a flashlight, a strobe light, an automatic police siren, a secret alarm kit, or even an AM/FM radio! Fee: $95
Flying Aces
In this course each camper will receive a remote control plane to build, customize, and fly. In addition, each camper will also use a computer based flight simulator program to travel to various destinations all over the world! Fee: $125
Fun With Computers
Have you ever heard the expression “sometimes a computer has a mind of its own?” The truth is that the mind of a computer is only able to function because of the mind of the programmer. Learn to program popular computer games such as Tetris, Snake, Rock Paper Scissors and many others. Be the mastermind behind the computer!
Game Room
Are you interested in Wii and Ping Pong tournaments, Foosball, Pool and other games? Then this is the course for you! Join in the fun and play in the Game Room.
Grand Prix Racers
Get ready to start your engines, junior racers! Design and build your own remote control race car, and work together to complete the track on which to race it. Take home your car at the end of the session!
Fee and Vehicle: $195
International Cooking
Do you like to try different types of food? Does your palate crave French, Indian, Chinese or Japanese cuisine? This is the course for curious chefs and adventurous foodies! Learn to prepare and cook foods from these cuisines and others around the world. Fee: $65
Italian Cooking
Buon Appetito! Are you a fan of pizza, pasta, and anything Italian? Learn to cook an array of Italian favorites while investigating the culture of this beautiful country. Fee: $65
Jewelry Design
Create bracelets, necklaces, and earrings using beads and found materials. Make one-of-a-kind jewelry pieces to dazzle your friends and family. This is a course for creative designers who love to work with their hands, use their imaginations, and share their art.Fee: $60
Lego Design & Games
Design and build amazing structures out of Legos! Create your own buildings, never-before-seen creatures,and impressive moveable objects. Other days, challenge your mind with strategic board games such as Risk, Chess and Connect Four. Let your mind run wild!
Lights, Camera, Action!
Ever want to produce your own media - a movie, tv show or commercial? As a group you will write, act, direct, and produce a film project of your own resulting in a DVD to take home and enjoy throughout the year.
Pinewood Derby
Build your very own Pinewood Derby Cars! Use your engineering skills to create and design the fastest and coolest racers you can imagine. Race and time them against other campers and win great prizes. Fee: $60
Project Runway
Do you have a fabulous sense of style? Are you interested in fashion and design? Just as on the show, each week you are given a fashion challenge to complete based around a theme or idea. Design handbags, t-shirts and more using new materials, found items, and recycled clothing. Campers from other courses help judge the most creative creations, but don’t worry there are no any eliminations! Fee: $60
Polymer Clay
Polymer clay is the generic name for a relatively new form of plastic-based clays known popularly as “Sculpey” or “FIMO”. The detailed effects that can be achieved with this medium are truly amazing. In this class campers fabricate miniature crafts, including pens, candle holders, jewelry and imaginative sculptures, vases and picture frames. Working with polymer is so much fun! Fee: $85
Robotics
In today’s world it is becoming more common for robots or machinery to complete tasks formerly done by humans. However there must always be a person behind the machine! This course gives campers the opportunity to build fantastic robots of their own robots, including the Lego Mindstorms. Fee: $95
Rocketry
Maybe you think that life on earth is just a bit too normal and boring? Maybe the idea of exploring space seems amazing but impossible? Not to worry, rockets are real and have been taking man into space for decades.Construct, spray paint and launch your very own rockets into the atmosphere. Blast Off!!! Fee: $70
Squire Daily News
For the young writer who wants to explore the world of journalism. Help produce the weekly camp newspaper....interview campers and instructors about their courses and experiences at camp, or write a column about current events. Extra! Extra! Read all about it!
Soccer
Are you passionate about the game of soccer? Want to learn the strategies of the world’s most popular sport? Join in the fun and hone your soccer skills. Drills, skills and games make for a fun-filled session.
Swimming & Swim Instruction
Our resident Water Safety Instructor will teach you how to become the champion swimmer you know you can be.Those who pass the deep end test can join in free swim fun! Transportation is provided to the Chemka Pool in Hastings.
Tennis
You can be the next Roger Federer or Venus Williams! However, you have to start somewhere. In this course, campers will receive instruction in serve, volley, backhand and forehand. Games and tournaments are organized according to age and ability.
Wacky Science
Web Design
Design and create your very own website. Step by step instructions will be given to help you combine your artistic and computer skills into the most personalized and exciting web page ever!
Yoga and Dance
Stregthen, stretch and move to the beat! Our instructor will teach you all you need to know to have fun and learn the basics of modern dance, while gaining flexibility and focus through yoga.
FYI
Courses that do not have enough campers signed up will not run for that session. This decision is made at the discretion of the camp directors. An alternate course will be chosen to fill the spot. Parents will be notified if a course has been cancelled due to lack of enrollment or if a course has been filled because the enrollment has reached its maximum level. No fee refund for a changed course except if the course is closed due to lack of enrollment.
