e-cubed: experience, explore, educate

Voting results for 2023-2024 Year.

Please note, these are not set in stone and are subject to change.

Repeating activites:

Sports and Games (potential leaders: Violet, Vivian, Nathaniel) -

Gaga ball
Hide and seek
Manhunt
Schoolyard Games
Relay Races and Obstacle courses
Capture the Flag
Games form Other countries
Badminton Tournament.

Book Club: Books Made into Movies (potential leader: Viv and Lella)

Choice Day/Open (potential leader: Violet):

Talent show (Viv)
Self-care/mindfulness day (Cheyenne)
Debate
Karaoke (Viv)
Improv Games (Viv)
Charades (Viv)
Tech Skills - technology day, how things work, tinker day (Violet)
Photography (Violet)
Psychology Day - perform fun social experiments, ice breakers (Chey, Viv)
Scavenger Hunt (Chey, Viv)
Park clean up

Movie Club (potential leader: Frankie)

Arts and Crafts (potential leaders: Julia, Violet and Myra) -

Japanese Brush Paining
Polymer Clay
Drawing Exercises
Pour paintings
Sun Art
Friendship bracelets
Exploring watercolors
Tie dying (Lacey)
Leaf crowns (Viv)
Christmas Sweater (Viv)
Making stuffies
Caricature portraits of your friends.

Engineering Challenge (potential leaders: Violet, Cheyenne).

Cream puff catapults
Popsicle stick bridge
Egg drop
Rube Goldberg
Paper plane obstacle course
Suspension bridge
Bouncy polymer putty chemistry
Catapults and trebuchets: marshmallow shooters
Tallest paper tower challenge
Gingerbread house building

Card and Board Games (potential leaders: Violet and Oscar)

Strategy Games
Chess
BYO board/card game (Myra)
Chess/checkers/backgammon
Brain teasers
Game show games
Bingo with prizes

Culinary Skills (potential leaders: Nathaniel, Em).

Guacamole
Sushi
Salsa
Acai Bowls
Ice Cream
Edible Cookie Dough (Viv)
Granola bars
No-bake baking
Chocolate bark
Tacos
Cookie and cake decorating
Best sandwich

Survival Skills

Outdoor fire cooking - wine box oven, propane stove, foil pockets, solar oven, campfire
Build a shelter
Edible plants
Knife skills (Brian)
Basic first aid
Compass skills
Water purification
Worst case scenario game

Field Trips (potential leaders: Vivian, Oscar, Lella)

Ikea
Escape room
Bowling
Trampoline Park
Picnic at Rutgers Gardens
Roller skating/Ice skaing
Boardwalk
Theater
Movies
Petting Farm
Color Me Mine in Princeton
NYC - The Met, Central Park, Natural History Museum
Canoeing/Kayaking
Grounds for Sculpture
Haunted house
Axe throwing
Ren Faire

Theme Days

Cosplay/Costume Day (Halloween)
Bring a friend day
Pillow Fort Day (Brian, Viv)
Carnival Day
Country Day
80s Day
Market Day
Holiday Party
Halloween Party
Water day (Viv, Lacey).

2023 Spring Term Voting Results

1. Arts and Crafts (Tie dye, Chalk Art, sun art, clay creations, sewing, etc.) Volunteer Leaders: Lella, Margie, Violet, Julia, Lacey

2. Sports and Games (gaga ball, relay races, scavenger hunt, etc.) Volunteer Leaders: Nathaniel, Vivian, Violet

3. Fun Engineering Challenges (Cup tower stacking contest, marshmallow catapults from plastic spoons and rubber bands, building the strongest bridge from popsicle sticks, etc.) Volunteer Leaders: Violet

4. Escape Room. Voluneer Leaders: Lacey, Violet and Vivian.

5. Movie Club - like a book club, but with movies. Volunteer Leaders: Cheyenne, Frankie, Margie

6. Life Skills (putting together a resume and working on our interview skills). Volunteer leaders: Margie

7. Yearbook and Photography (combining the two because it makes more sense!). Volunteer Leaders: Violet, Vivian, Margie, Lacey, Lella

9. Cooking: Fresh Vietnamese Spring Rolls. Volunteer leaders: Nathaniel and Lacey

10. Active Games (Musical chairs, capture the flag, Gaga pit, etc.): Violet, Vivian, Nathaniel

11. Storytelling

12. Jewelry Making

13. Field Trip (location tbd)

14. Field Day (including a water balloon/water gun fight)

15. A summer hike

Spring Term Activities

4/26: Making dream boards and games of choice.

5/3: Engineering Challenge (Rube Goldberg Machines) (led by Violet and Cheyenne) and Life Skills (Writing Resumes)

5/10: Photography and Yearbook (led by Cheryl, Lella, Cheye/Vietnamese Spring Rolls (led by Nathanial and Vivian).

5/17: Active Games (led by Viv and Charlotte, Emilia)/Movie Club (Cheye, Lella, Frankie and Margie)

5/24: Arts and Crafts Day (Tie Dye) Lacey, Mar and Lella/Build a house of popsicles/paint. Potentially led by Jay, Viv and Lella/Jewelry and Keyrings Making (Mar and Violet)

5/31: E-cubed Commercial/Film Screening by Frankie/Birthday Party

6/7: Field Day/Sports and Games (outdoors only as we don't have the use of our usual space).

6/14: Field Trip

6/21: Hike

2023 Winter Term Voting Results

1. Arts and Crafts (Jackson Pollack Painting, Pour Paintings, sun art, clay creations, sewing, tie dying, etc.) Volunteer Leaders: Nathaniel, Emily, Ash, Julia, Lacey

2. Sports and Games (sledding, gaga ball, relay races, scavenger hunt, etc.) Volunteer Leaders: Vivian, Emily, Edward,

3. Fun Engineering Challenges (Cup tower stacking contest, marshmallow catapults from plastic spoons and rubber bands, building the strongest bridge from popsicle sticks, etc.)

4. Cooking (Cookie decorating, Guacamole making, Build Your Own Taco, etc.) Volunteer Leaders: Nathaniel, Emily, Julia,

5. Movie Club - like a book club, but with movies. Volunteer Leaders: Cheyenne, Frankie

6. Country Day

7. Earth Care Day (volunteer to clean up the park and beautify the area). Volunteer Leaders: Julia, Emilia

8. Survival Skills (building shelters, making a first aid kit, etc.) Volunteer Leaders: Emily,

9. Psychology Games

10. Strategy Board Games

11. Debate

12. Photography

13. Music Appreciation

14. Carnival Games Day

Winter Term Activities

1/25: Ice breakers, psychology games/Engineering challenge: paper bridge or egg drop.

2/1: Arts and Crafts/Sports and Games.

2/8: Fun Engineering Challenge/Cooking.

2/15: Movie Club and Fire/Stories around a fire pit.

2/22: Strategy Board Games/Debate

3/1: First Aid Kits/Improv Comedy in Teams

3/8: Arts and Crafts/Line Dancing

3/15: International Country and Culture Day/Music Appreciation

3/22: Carnival Games/Photography

3/29: Survival Skills/Earth Care Day

4/5: Off

4/12: Off

4/19: Field Trip To Color Me Mine, 12 to 2 pm.

Fall Term Activities

9/28: Film and Art

10/05: Film and Art

10/12: Film and Survival Skills
August, September, October Birthday Celebrations

10/19: Stone Soup

10/26: Sports and Games: Indoor Childhood Games
Halloween Costume Competition
Halloween Party at HEC

11/02: Photography - Presentation by Lacey and Mar, photo walk through the park

11/09: Art - Pour Paintings; Photography - continued

11/16: Salsa making (led by Emily), Game and Board Day

11/30: Market Day with HEC

12/7: HEC and E-cubed Holiday Party

12/14: Holiday activities: Ugly sweater making and contest, Gingerbread house building, holiday gift exchange.