Program areas at Kips Bay Boys and Girls Club
Social recreation and cultural arts: all service sites have dedicated space or movable facilities for game rooms where programming called social recreation takes place. Social recreatio activities include pool, ping pong, bumper pool, checkers, chess, etc. Programming is both informal, where Club members partner up themselves for specific activities, and more formal, where staff organize tournaments and competitions. The organization maintains arts programs that include crafts and visual arts, and vibrant performing arts programs, featuring dance instruction in latin, african, hip-hop, ballet, and modern. Dance and drama instruction culminate in an annual recital.
Fitness and health department: fitness and sports programming include tackle football, flag football, hockey, ice skating, roller skating, swimming instruction, swim team, lifeguard training, rbi baseball, winter instructional baseball, Girls softball, field hockey, tee ball, and basketball. The palmaro clubhouse contains the bronx's only ice rink and the organization's swimming pool. Youngsters from other sites make visits to the palmaro clubhouse to use the ice rink and swimming pool. Nutrition education and obesit prevention is being incorporated into fitness programming in an activity called get fit-get light.
Educational and Club services: service sites emphasize education programming including homework help, academic tutoring, academic skill testing and progress assessment, journal and essay writing, project learning, sat prep, and private high school admissions prep, college awareness and exploration, etc. Most sites include dedicated computer labs for computer literacy, language arts and mathematics computer games, virtual college visits and career exploration, and internet research assignments. The organization maintains a program of private high school scholarship assistance. Club services includes the civic and leadership activities that are called keystone Club and torch Club, and a very large summer youth employment program (syep) enrolling more than 700 teens each summer. Junior staff is both a real part-time job and a carefully supervised career exploration experience for approximately 15 older Club members annually.
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