Join Explorer Club, our highly acclaimed before and after school enrichment program providing children with a wide variety of fun and stimulating activities. We offer a safe and dynamic community emphasizing exploration, recreation, ideas, and discoveries. We purposefully integrate arts & crafts, science, sports, cooking, math, technology, wellness, swimming and more into our weekly schedule. Importantly, we also offer quiet, thought-provoking workspace for daily homework and independent study. Spend exciting afternoons making memories and lifelong friendships at the EC.
SPORTS PROGRAMS
Our programs are designed to give each child a positive introduction into sports while fostering a lifelong love for an active, healthy lifestyle.
STEAM PROGRAMS
Race cars, bridges, video games and robots are just a few of the super cool inventions your child can build – all on their own in our hands-on STEAM programs!
BEFORE AND AFTERCARE
EC provides academic support and enrichment activities before and/or after school for students at the elementary and middle school level for a variety of schools
FUN DAYS
When school is out, we are here to serve you. With 25 years of experience, we provide affordable prices, a trained professional staff with CPR & first aid certifications, and fun & structured activities in a safe environment.
EMERGENCY SNOW CARE
When school is canceled due to inclement weather or power outages, EC is here to help! EC provides a safe environment for activities!
Sports Program
EC is committed to providing the best athletic experience for all our campers age 5 to 14. We have a rich history of helping campers improve athletic skills, develop friendships, and learn fundamentals, lessons in leadership, teamwork, and responsibility.
Our coaching staffs and student-athletes offer high caliber skill development.
During our two-week camp sessions, campers develop skills in the sport of their choice – basketball, soccer, tennis, or volleyball. Their daily routine also includes plenty of other sports and camp activities mixed in with the core values of EC summer camp experience.
We schedule on Flag Football, Tennis & Soccer in the morning and Basketball & Volleyball, Cheer in the afternoons. TRY EC SPORTS THIS YEAR!!!!
STEAM Program
STEM + ART + MORE = STEAM
At The Explorer Club, STEAM represents the combination of Science, Technology, Engineering, Art, Math and more. The inclusion of adding Art to the STEM core subjects is essential to encouraging your students’ creative and critical thinking skills.
STEAM activities support curiosity, creativity, innovative thinking and help prepare students for an unknown future.
Scientists, mathematicians, engineers, and leaders all need to develop creative thinking, critical thinking and problems solving skills to be successful in creating new and unique solutions related to their field or industry.
No matter what unknown technologies, industries or careers lay ahead, creative thinkers and problem solvers will be the future innovators, leaders and face it “job getters”.
Our programs teaches your students how to think creatively and how to solve problems. This is how we prepare your children for an unknown future.
SAVE TIME & MONEY:
Encouraging creativity using STEAM activities does not require a lot of time, prep, or fancy materials. We use common household items to stretch and grow your students’ natural curiosity.
Before and After Care
School Aged
The Explorer Club fosters connections between home, school and community. The curriculum emphasizes the integration of thought and experience. We utilize the center learning system which focuses on themes and projects that are fun and relate to life. Each program has been designed to meet the needs of the unique and varied developmental levels and ages of the child.
Fun Days
(School Vacations)
Explorer Club offers parents the option to register their children for "Fun Days." Fun Days are scheduled days when your child either (1) does not report to school all day or (2) has a half day. Our fun day calendar is based off of South Arbor and East Arbor Academic Calendars. These days consist of activities in the arts, sciences, sports, games, field trips, and more. See rates page for 1/2 day, full day, and full week Fun Day Rates. The hours for full fun days are 7:15 a.m. to 5:45 p.m. and for half days Explorer Club will transport the children from South Arbor and East Arbor to the center once they are released. Children will need to have a packed lunch for home, but breakfast and afternoon snack is provided.
Emergency Snow Care
The emergency snow care program offered if South Arbor or East Arbor due to inclement weather or power outage. The center does have the right to close due to extreme weather and we will notify parents of closures via school cast text, call, and email. Our emergency snow care program is limited to only 18 spaces. Parents are allowed to purchase up to 10 snow days ahead of time, but purchased spaces are applied in the order of the snow days/emergency closures your child's school experiences; you may not select specific days. Families are refunded at a percentage any excess days that are not used. The program will run from 8:00a.m. until 5:30 p.m. and breakfast and afternoon snack are included. A packed lunch from home must be provided.