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Elementary and Middle School
Register for Fit4Dance Classes
Event: September 2024 through January 2025
Contact: Laci Chisholm/347.921.2404
Fit4Dance has fun, exciting dance classes suitable for all levels. Children and young adults learn from experienced instructors in a warm, caring environment. Ballet, modern, jazz, hip hop, tap, majorette, step, and afro-fusion are all offered. Classes take place at the Fit4Dance studio in Flatbush, Brooklyn. Learn more and sign up on the Fit4Dance website.
Schools are Invited to Enroll in the New York City Spelling Bee Competition
Deadline: October 31, 2024
Event: August 2024 through March 2025
Contact: [email protected]
Have you heard all the Buzz? It’s time to enroll your school in the 2024-25 New York City Spelling Bee! ALL schools—public, charter, private, parochial, and homeschool—are invited to sign up by Thursday, October 31, for a chance to have your student be this year’s champion. The enrollment fee is $185, and Scripps does NOT accept purchase orders; pay by credit card or check. Enrollments submitted after the October 31 deadline will NOT be accepted. Please note the extended deadline on the Scripps website does not apply to New York City schools. During enrollment, schools will be asked to identify a spelling bee coordinator. In addition to other tasks that will be communicated after enrollment, spelling bee coordinators will receive access to www.spellingbee.com which will provide schools with resources for their spelling bee program. Only students in grades 4-8 are eligible to participate in the New York City Spelling Bee, and ALL schools must complete their school's spelling bee by Wednesday, November 27. For more information, visit www.spellingbee.com. Stay up-to-date by following us @thenycbee on Instagram.
Middle and High School
STEM Saturdays at The Cooper Union
Deadline: September 12 through December 12, 2024
Event: October 16, 2024 through March 29, 2025
Contact: [email protected]
The Cooper Union invites students to sign up for STEM Saturdays to master the art of engineering and design. Courses include a class that combines kinetics, motion, power; learning the basics of Arduino; constructing simple machines using tools in Makerspace; and the basics of machine learning, artificial intelligence, including building real-world apps to explore how it really works. In-person classes meet at 41 Cooper Square in Manhattan. Priority is given to high school students with no design or engineering experience and full fee waivers are available. Women and individuals who identify with groups historically excluded from STEM careers, including black, latino/a, LGBTQ+, and neurodiverse people, are encouraged to apply. Learn more and apply on The Cooper Union webpage.
High School
Welcome Back to School with the FREE “Queering New York” Video Series
Deadline: Ongoing
Contact: [email protected]
Event: September through December 2024
Learn LGBTQ history through sites in New York City by exploring “Queering New York.” This fun and informative FREE video series features 20 videos, each under seven minutes, that can be viewed on your computer or smart phone. Each video, focused on sites connected to a person, group, or event, includes such important sites as the James Baldwin Residence, Transy House, Oscar Wilde Memorial Bookshop, Alice Austen & Gertrude Tate Residence, Lorraine Hansberry Residence, and Gay Activists Alliance Firehouse. The videos allow students to explore LGBTQ historic sites on topics related to classroom studies, including humanities and social studies. Teachers can access these FREE resources by visiting the NYC LGBT Historic Sites NYC LGBT Historic Sites Project website website.