AWANA Clubs International is a Bible-based club, similar to Boy and Girl Scouts. AWANA was developed by two pastors. The first thought it might help to mature young Christians to learn about Jesus more than twice a week, on Sundays and maybe Wednesdays, so he and another pastor formed AWANA. AWANA Club consists of three parts: Game Time, where AWANA members play special games with beanbags, lightweight bowling pins, balloons, Velcro strips, and more; Council time, where they learn lessons about the Bible; and Handbook Time, where they memorize and quote verses from the Bible and do activities to complete sections.
Mensa "provides a forum for intellectual exchange among members. Its activities include the exchange of ideas by lectures, discussions, journals, special-interest groups, and local, regional, national, and international gatherings; the investigations of members' opinions and attitudes; and assistance to researchers, inside and outside Mensa, in projects dealing with intelligence or Mensa." [Mensa Constitution]
Young Mensa is a part of the Central Florida Mensa group and includes members and children of members between the ages of 4 and 18. Members must live in Orange, Seminole, Lake, Polk, Osceola, and Volusia counties. Members get together monthly for various activities such as game days, parent workshops, museum visits, and teen movie nights.
Kids Care Clubs provide children, families, schools, and religious groups with meaningful opportunities to help others in their local and global communities. You can sign up your family, or create a new club. Membership is free, and the website provides numerous ideas for charitable projects, both locally and internationally.
Mathematical Circles are a form of education enrichment and outreach that bring mathematicians and mathematical scientists into direct contact with pre-college students. These students, and sometimes their teachers, meet with mathematical professionals in an informal setting, after school or on weekends, to work on interesting problems or topics in mathematics. The goal is to get the students excited about the mathematics, giving them a setting that encourages them to become passionate about mathematics
Continental Mathematics League (CML) experiences are designed to maximize student opportunities to participate and improve problem solving capabilities. Students participate with other students in the same grade level from schools acrossthe United States. These activities may be conducted in class during regular school hours without any additional time or transportation requirements.
This organization provides teenagers a communication outlet for addressing important issues in their lives. It helps them develop their reading, writing, thinking, and reflection skills by: training teens in journalism, publishing a number of teen-written publications and providing a public forum. There are a number of resources for educators related to reading and writing, and many of the articles are gifted-related.
Harvard Model Congress strives to inspire high school students to participate in civic life by creating a dynamic environment where students learn from one another through their interactions with American democracy.
This curriculum allows children to explore science through creative and interesting experiments while enhancing reading, writing, and mathematics skills.
This is a website for girls only! Pen pals, diaries, classes, advice, books, contests and much more. It is fun and free. aGirlsWorld.com has over 60 page editors and 30 advice editors from around the globe.
This foundation is an offshoot of the cartoon series, Captain Planet. Funding for youth projects comes from a combination of grant awards, partnerships with local and national organizations, and an annual holiday fundraiser. CPF gives children the opportunity to become active participants in discovering lasting solutions to issues that affect their entire community.
The Northeast Sustainable Energy Association (NESEA) is the nation's leading regional membership organization focused on promoting the understanding, development, and adoption of energy conservation and non-polluting, renewable energy technologies. They work to bring clean electricity, green transportation, and healthy, efficient buildings into everyday use in order to improve the environment, protect human health, and nurture local economies. NESEA works to bring hands-on, project- and problem-based learning experiences to K-12 teachers and students by providing teachers with resources, professional training on using energy and transportation issues in the classroom, and opportunities for networking with fellow teachers.
This is the first and original penpal club for kids by kids and we make sure you are safe in here.
Roots & Shoots enables young people from the pre-school to university level to continue to coordinate projects locally that promote care and concern for the environment, animals, and human communities. Through constructive activities, the participants of Roots & Shoots groups all over the world become more aware of how their actions that affect their local community and the environment as a whole. Roots & Shoots provides resources with suggestions for starting a club, for appropriate projects at different grade levels, encourages activity reports and portfolio submissions, celebrates club projects in their newsletter, and offers to connect clubs in different parts of the world to promote cultural understanding.
This is an interactive "live" website where users and guests create a drawing to represent themselves as they move around "Whyville." In Whyville, they interact with other participants, as they learn about science topics in an open-ended, exploratory way, invent things and have the ability to do hands-on activities at home and post their results on the site.
A club where kids can talk about the books they like. Features reading lists for many ages, study guides and discussion questions
BookCrossing is a global book club that crosses time and space. It's a reading group that knows no geographical boundaries. Do you like free books? How about free book clubs? According to BookCrossing's web site, their goal is to make the whole world a library.
LeadAmerica is the nation’s premier leadership education organization. We support the efforts of middle and high school students in achieving their leadership potential. LeadAmerica offers conferences for middle and high school students in a wide variety of subject areas. Innovative curriculum, exceptional faculty, and dedicated staff ensure that every student receives the very best experience possible.