Challenge Island is here to make learning fun for families navigating today’s educational twists and turns. Local mom and business owner Michelle Paddenburg knows how challenging it can be to keep kids engaged. With years of experience in education and childhood development, she’s on a mission to create a vibrant community through Challenge Island, offering creative programs that make learning a whole lot easier—and way more fun!
Challenge Island
Challenge Island is an award-winning program specializing in STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Art, and Math) activities and camps. With a focus on creativity, learning, and critical thinking, Challenge Island programs help prepare kids to excel at school and teach them real-world skills at the same time.
The Greenville Challenge Island Center offers onsite field trips, camps, afterschool enrichment classes, Girl Scout workshops, birthday parties, family engagement and parental involvement programs, bullying prevention programs, and book series programs.
There are three options to engage your child with Challenge Island programs: in-person at the Challenge Island site, virtual, or in-person at a place of your choosing. Michelle recognizes that everyone has different levels of comfort when it comes to the best situations for their families and friends and she’s happy to work with parents on whatever fits their needs best.
The virtual programs are all live so kids and parents can ask questions and engage with the instructors in real time. Challenge Island virtual camps were voted the Top Virtual Camp in the country by Parade Magazine and their virtual camps also took the highest honor from Business Insider. In our new world saturated by virtual learning, these awards are certainly noteworthy.
Ages and Programs
Challenge Island in Greenville has programs specifically geared for preschool and Kindergarten all the way up through age 14. They also offer family night experiences where everyone can participate in educational and fun games.
Summer and school break camps include fun themes like Slimetopia, Island Doll Girl Empowerment, Pets Palooza, Steam Tank Entrepreneur, and more!
Other challenges that homeschooling families may like involve history and timelines that fit well within cross-curricular programs. For example, kids may take a visit to Time Machine Island where they travel back to ancient Egypt, learn about mummies, write their names in hieroglyphics, and learn about the geometric power of the mighty triangle before engineering Egyptian-style pyramids to house their tribal treasures. As a parent, that sounds fun to me!
Pricing for Challenge Island Greenville, SC Classes
You can see programs and classes available at the Challenge Island Website. The cost for programs vary by length and time but enrichment classes are typically $15/$16 per class.
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