After School Adventures (ASAs)

After School Adventures (ASA’s ) is a great program put together by professionals throughout the community who offer their time and expertise to give students a fun learning experience after school.

During the Fall, Winter and Spring semesters, we offer a variety of programs (adventures!) for students to take part in after school. Each program cost varies, and descriptions of each adventure. can be found below.

IMPORTANT: One volunteer parent is required to be present for each class session. If no parent is present, the class date will be cancelled, and no refunds will be given. Please review all of the ASA POLICIES prior to signing your child up for a program.

SPRING 2024 Adventure Programs

Registration is currently closed.

Spring ASA’s begin Monday, April 1st and end Friday, May 17th. There are no classes on 4/8 or 4/26.

MONDAYS

French (NEW!)

Instructor: Madam Sarah from Cultured Kids Club

Are you ready to speak French? Right from the beginning the French Beginners I class teaches students to ask and answer everyday questions. French classes are designed to make learning fun and entertaining, setting the foundation for life-long language retention. Let's all get together and have fun learning French!

Grade: K-5

Dates: 4/1,4/15,4/22,4/29,5/6,5/13

Time: 3-4 pm

Cost: $110

Drawing (NEW!)

Instructor from Young Rembrandts

Young Rembrandts is a 35 yr old worldwide art enrichment program that helps children build a strong foundation in the fundamental skill of drawing. Over the course of our programming children will learn about spatial reasoning, project management skills. cartooning and so much more.

Grade: K-5

Dates: 4/1,4/15,4/22,4/29,5/6,5/13

Time: 3-4 pm

Cost: $100

TUESDAY

Fashion Runway Production:

Instructor: Priscila Teixeira

Classes are 1.5hrs long (3-4:30pm) for 6 weeks. It wraps up with a fashion show event with VIP guests. Each week, kids experience playing various roles in a fashion show production and create looks using upcycle fashion clothes and accessories.

Grade: K-5

Dates: 4/2,4/9,4/16,4/23,4/30,5/7

Time: 3-4:30 pm

Cost: $205

Chess (advanced): 

Instructor: Mike Dixon

For kids who have learned how to play.

Grade: K-5

Dates: 4/2,4/9,4/16,4/23,4/30,5/7

Time: 3-4 pm

Cost: $70

WEDNESDAY

Brush Crazy

Instructor: Lisa Lofland

We offer the students the ability to work with clay, wood, ceramics, mosaics, and an artist led experience on canvas! We help them create the projects of their choice while encouraging their artistic expression! A free shirt will be included. Kids will do a tie dye and a free shirt will be included!

Grade: K-5

Dates: 4/3,4/10,4,17,4/24,5/1,5/8

Time: 3-4 pm

Cost: $160

LEGO Robot Building and Coding Class (NEW!)

Instructor from Robot Academy

Love Robot Wars? Love LEGOs? Gather together with other LEGO fans to build LEGO robots and then learn to program in Scratch programming language using sensors and logic for epic robotic challenges such as BattleBot and Mazes. Utilizing the STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Math) framework, LEGO Fans will learn valuable fundamentals in engineering and programming.  Students build LEGO Robots to compete in a BattleBot championship and other friendly  competitions to win prizes. No experience is necessary. We teach children everything they need to know to put together a winning BattleBots. Opportunity to buy the LEGO robot to take home that your child built and programmed.

Grade: 1-5

Dates: 4/3,4/10,4,17,4/24,5/1,5/8

Time: 3-4 pm

Cost: $130

THURSDAY

Nature Skills (NEW!)

Instructor: Ben

We all know outside time is good for kids… but what should they do out there? What if they could understand what birds are saying? (Really!) What if they could learn how to save the world with flowers? (Seriously!) Join local naturalist Ben as he guides explorers through weeks of nature skills they can take outside and use right away!

Grade: K-5

Dates: 4/4,4/11,4/18,4/25,5/2,5/9

Time: 3-4 pm

Cost: $160

Soccer

Instructor: Luca Nogueira 

Future Stars Soccer is a competitive learning environment for soccer players of all skill levels. In it, players will work on their fundamental skills while also focusing on larger athletic themes such as leadership, creativity, and teamwork. The class is taught by a current Olentangy United head coach, who has taught the same course in Spring of 2022 and Fall of 2022. Also, a free shirt will be included.

Grade: K-5

Dates: 4/4,4/11,4/18,4/25,5/2,5/9

Time: 3-4 pm

Cost: $100

FRIDAY

Debate (NEW!)

Instructor: Kavitha Kotha

Does your kid like listening to podcasts- this after school activity is based on the podcast ‘Smash Boom Best’. It is a debate show for families that pits two cool topics against each other,  teaches listeners to defend their opinion and in the end decides  which is best. Debate is a classic art teaching the values of patience, listening and respect along with skills in organization, sentence formation and language usage.

Grade: 3-5

Dates: 4/5,4/12, 5/3,5/10,5/17

Time: 3-4 pm

Cost: $50

Kung Fu Panda!

Instructor: Sen Gao

This six-week introductory class will teach the basic techniques of Kung Fu/ Wushu (Chinese Martial Arts) including hand works, leg works, basic stances, and basic forms. A  free shirt will be included!

Grade: K-5

Dates: 4/5,4/12,4/19,5/3,5/10,5/17

Time: 3-4 pm

Cost: $75