We
invite your child on an adventure of a life-time - an adventure in living and learning.
Life-TECH Ventures offers a non-competitive
community in which children learn and grow as individuals. Children play, live and learn
- or more importantly, discover a desire to learn.
Choose A Core
More than twelve hours each week are
dedicated to a CORE AREA, which the children choose to study. Core areas are designed to
appeal to the particular interests of each child.
Core
Areas Include:
Physical
Science
Natural Science
Performing Arts
Sports
Adventure Challenge
Robotics
Fine Arts
Natural Science
You'll never know what you will find (or what will find you) neck deep in a bog. So, let's go and get dirty! Learn about nature by scraping it off your shirt and pulling it out of your hair!
Performing Arts
To be or not to be in Performing Arts? That is the question! Is it better to stand on stage and entertain or to lurk in the shadows, unheard, unwatched, unapplauded?
If it burns, glows, moves, shocks, gets really cold, emits photons or other things, then it is Physical Science. What are we going to do in Physical Science? The sky's the limit!
Physical Science
Find your more extreme side by challenging yourself with ropes course, hikes, and wilderness activities. Each week will boast an off-site field trip
Adventure Challenge
Sports
What makes the difference between a mere participant and a Sports Core participant? A variety of games await to tempt you from the mundane and the couch!
Robotics at its most basic: Make it, control it, compete against other robots, fix it and try again. What better way to learn the fundamentals of Robotics than through brutal, balloon popping competition?
Robotics
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Fine Arts
Some people see a stick. You see a snake dancing with a very thin penguin. Some people see dirt. You see a cool way to give finger paint a new texture. Some people see trash. You see something hanging in a museum! Then you should see yourself in Fine Arts!
Discoveries
In
addition to Core classes, your child will participate in Discovery activities each day. Expanding your child's Life-TECH experience are fun Discovery activities such as:
Rockets
Hot Air Balloons
Mission Impossible
Eat-the-World
Mask Making
Tye-Dye
Parachutes
Pond
Probe
Boomerangs
Paper Marbling
Invent-a-Beast
Batik
Bubble Bubble
Geodome
Balancing academics
with equally valuable activities, LTV offers recreation periods in crafts, hiking,
swimming, sports or this time may be used simply to chat with friends.
The older
children are given a great deal of freedom based on their ability to take responsibility for that freedom.
Recreational facilities include a pool, two playing fields, a volleyball court, 2 half-court basketball areas, and a sports complex which
houses a full size basketball court or a large recreational space when weather is inclement.
At Life-TECH
Ventures we understand that learning to make decisions is a part of the growing up process. We want kids to learn to live,
work and play together, not through forced conformity to rules, but rather through understanding individual responsibilities in a social
setting. We want to help kids learn to honestly appreciate the individual differences in people that are fostered in the development
of a harmonious community.
The housing is
extraordinary! It consists of the Center and the Lodge, which comfortably hold 4-6 children per room, and the
Ranger Building.
CORES are instructed on a 1:10 ratio while DISCOVERIES are taught on a
1:12 ratio.
The dormitories are staffed on a 1:12 ratio assuring around the clock supervision.
