The purpose of Growing the Distance Inc., is to promote college readiness by creating mind stimulating activities, providing clubs and promoting character development. Growing the Distance Inc. strives to cater to the interest of each individual child by providing daily activities and learning what it means to give back to our community through service learning and volunteerism. Our goal is to incorporate reading, writing, and STEM activities into our daily routine to help students embrace academics in an exciting way. See below for details!
Academic Enrichment
Lesson plans and activities that are designed to broaden your child's educational experience and encourage advancements in reading, writing and math.
Arts & Crafts
Campers are encouraged to be creative, by using different crafts and resources to create projects, they will be proud of and feel a sense of accomplishment.
Character Education
Campers will learn daily what it means to understand, care about and act on core values such as, honesty, respect, good citizenship, and responsibility. The objective of character education at GTD, is to instill a deep level of good character, so positive behavior is automatic and your campers true character traits shine in the face of adversity.
Health Awareness
Campers will learn and actively promote physical, mental and social well-being through physical activity, daily affirmations, and socials.
Community Service
Engagement in our community, provides campers an opportunity to become active members of our community. Volunteerism allows campers to make a positive impact, acquire life skills and knowledge, as well as providing service to those in need.
Dancing
Every week campers will be introduced to a new genre of dance. In addition to dancing, campers will learn the background of each dance genre.
Cooking
Cooking club will provide an environment for campers to socialize, be creative, learn cooking skills, prepare food and enjoy eating the results.
Sports
Encourages campers and staff to increase their current amount of physical activity in a fun and team building way. With this club, campers will engage in a new sport every week.
Fashion
D.I.Y parties! Campers will have the opportunity to enhance and demonstrate their creative skills using different materials of cloth.
LEGO
Campers will have the opportunity to enhance and demonstrate their creative skills through building.