Educational Success
Our educational programs assist youth in becoming more successful in school by offering homework assistance, educational support programming and developing a love for lifetime learning. In an average month 135 members get help with their homework and an additional 286 members participate in other educationally based activities.
Learning Center
Power Hour promotes academic success and helps Club members become more successful in school by providing homework help and tutoring and encouraging members to become self-directed learners. The program develops homework helpers and tutors, and tracks participation by the minute to reward each participant’s progress.
Project Learn reinforces and enhances the skills and knowledge young people learn at school during the hours they spend at the Club. This comprehensive program strategy is based on Dr. Reginald Clark’s research showing that students do much better in school when they spend their non-school hours engaged in fun, but academically beneficial, activities. Through Project Learn, Club staff use all the areas and programs in the Club to create opportunities for these high-yield learning activities, which include leisure reading, writing activities, discussions with knowledgeable adults, helping others, homework help, tutoring and games like Scrabble that develop young people's cognitive skills. Project Learn also emphasizes parent involvement and collaboration between Club and school professionals as critical factors in creating the best after school learning environment for Club members.
Sport Stacking
Sport Stacking (also known as cup stacking or speed stacking) is an individual and team sport which involves stacking specialized plastic cups in specific sequences. Students learn the 3-3-3, the 3-6-3 and the cycle and are then judged on accuracy and speed. Sport stacking helps students develop bilateral proficiency which develops a greater percentage of the right side of the brain, the area which houses awareness, focus, creativity and rhythm. Sequencing and patterning are also elements of sport stacking, which can help with reading and math skills. In recent studies, students who participate in sport stacking on a regular basis have shown increases in test scores, hand-eye coordination, reaction time and levels of concentration.
Tech Center
Skill Tech is a basic computer skills program that develops Club members’ proficiency with word processing, spreadsheet and other productivity software through fun, hands-on, engaging lessons and projects for four age groups. Skill Tech II teaches advanced yet practical technology skills to Club members. Using animated, interactive tutorials on courseware developed exclusively for Boys & Girls Clubs, as well as hands-on, instructor-led group activities, the program introduces members to hardware and networking skills and technology-related career opportunities.
