After School Programs
Middle School
Explore Health Care
Health Care is a vast field that offers a range of diverse opportunities. There are more great careers in the health care field than you can count! Students will explore several of those careers each month with local professionals and hands-on activities.
- Each After School program is one day per week for a month.
- Explore Health Care activities are on Mondays.
- Grades 6-8
Explore Trades
The trades are in high demand! Students can start earning money doing something they love right out of school, avoid student loan debt, and learn on the job. The After School Trades Program provides hands-on exploration of a different trade career each week.
- Each After School program is one day per week for a month.
- Explore Trades activities are on Tuesdays.
- Grades 6-8
Explore Innovation
Advanced manufacturing is defined as “the use of innovative technology to improve products or processes.” Some areas that would be included in advanced manufacturing would be CAD and CAM, advanced robotics, automation, sustainable and green processes and technologies, Information Technology, rapid prototyping to name a few.
In a world utilizing technology in more and more things, CareerTek provides hands-on exploration of careers that will apply innovative technology to manufacturing in creative ways.
- Each After School program is one day per week for a month.
- Explore Innovation activities are on Thursdays
- Grades 6-8
Girls Who Code
Girls Who Code is a national non-profit organization working to close the gender gap in technology.
Clubs are free after-school programs for 6-8th grade girls to use computer science to impact their community and join our sisterhood of supportive peers and role models.
Sisterhood. Club girls join a safe and supportive environment of peers and role models and learn to see themselves as computer scientists. Beyond the Club, girls can tap into an alumni network of tens of thousands of girls across the country who are using computer science to solve problems they care about.
Code. Clubs learn the concepts of loops, variables, conditionals, and functions that form the basis for all programming languages –– whether they want to build a website, an app, or a robot. Returning Club girls can deepen their programming knowledge through extended activity sets.
Impact. Club girls work in teams to design and build a Computer Science “CS” Impact Project that solves real world problems they care about through code. (girlswhocode.com)
Scrubs
Held in the Summer SCRUBS is a six week, on-site immersive nursing experience that will provide hands-on healthcare activities at Beloit Memorial Hospital.
Middle School Medical Academy
Grades 7 & 8
Participants interested in a career in health care are invited to apply for one of 12 seats in the middle school health care academy. Set yourself up for success and join this amazing summer experience. Participants will engage in the following:
- Introduction to medical terms along with basics of anatomy and physiology
- Experience a variety of pathways within the healthcare profession
- Gain valuable experience with hands-on medical scenarios using SIM manikins
- Build foundational skills necessary to be successful in health care
Lego Mindstorm Robotics
Join us for a six week course where we will learn about building and programming robots using the Lego Mindstorm EV3 System (with Expansion Sets). Robotics offers exposure to mechanical design, electronics and programming. Grades 6 – 8
FAQ
Program Registration & Attendance:
(registration submission does NOT guarantee acceptance)
Beginning with our September 2024 After School Program we are implementing a lottery system for program registration.
- No more waking up early worrying about having to be first in line to register! Registration will announced, open and available for several weeks. You will see the open dates on the event pages.Anyone (that falls within the correct age/grade) is able to register during that time.
- After the close of registration student names will be randomly selected for the programming that they registered for until the class list is full. Remaining students will be randomly selected for waiting list order. We will then contact the chosen participants. If we’re unable to receive confirmation of participation after three days we will move to the first person on the waitlist.
- Please keep in mind that if your student is registered for something and cannot make it, there are usually other students that want to come, so please let us know asap so we have the time to contact other students.