​Join us in our EXPLORE After-School Program (grades 6-8) for an afternoon of fun activities with fellow teens and Roads to Success mentors. RTS Clubs lets you explore different activities of your choosing in art, sports, STEM, theater, dance and more. Explore the categories below for a description of the Clubs we offer. 

RTS Clubs Activities

Art Activities

ART EXPRESSION
Students will create their own works of art after studying and learning about various art styles and how they have progressed throughout history. Participants will practice imitating art forms and then creating their own art form through practice. 

VISUAL ARTS
Students will create art pieces designed to help improve students’ basic art skills; drawing, painting and sculpting, design artwork using a variety of media and techniques, develop students’ creativity and self-expression, and recognize and use the art elements (line, shape, color, value, form, texture and space), and design principles. 

Group Activities

DEBATE
This course explores a wide variety and range of public speaking skills, including: Speaking, Declamation, Original Oratory, Oral Interpretation (prose and poetry), and Storytelling at the novice level. Additionally, students are introduced to basic researching, argumentation, questioning, and rebuttal skills through a variety and range of debate disciplines, including: Public Forum Debate, and the basics of philosophy for debates. Skill focus includes the development of techniques in diction, articulation, enunciation and projection. Students begin to analyze pieces of literature, create and deliver orations, write arguments, and evaluate performances. 

PATHWAYS
Students will explore college planning, career exploration, financial literacy and more. They will use technology to participate in this course via the Canvas e-learning platform. Canvas is made up of a powerful set of highly integrated learning products and supported by Google.
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PENPALS
Students will connect with other students living all around the world and share their opinions on major global issues. They will be able to improve their literacy skills and ability to communicate effectively. 

​RALLY
Students will compete in literacy-based team building games and challenges such as Spelling bees, Reverse Game Show, Charades, Heads up, etc. 

TUTORING
Our tutors will help participants with time management skills, personal organization, and strong study habits. Students who are at or behind grade level can benefit from an individualized approach to tutoring, gaining fundamental skills in reading, writing, and math. 

Sports Activities

FITNESS
Learn the skills and behaviors to establish and maintain an active lifestyle. Instructional staff will have students moderately to vigorously active for 50% of each session of the Fitness Club. Strategies will include reducing the activity class size, implementing instant activities, assigning routines, and utilizing heart rate monitors or other PE technology devices. 

SPORTS SKILLS & DRILLS
Each week will tackle a new skill in a different sport. Skills and Drills develop players to have a better understanding of the sport.

STEM Activities

ARCHITECTURE AND DESIGN
Students will explore architecture and design through art. They will create groups to create their own city and other major hubs and tackle some of the changes needed to be made to architecture and infrastructure. This activity will emphasize the structural characteristics of 3D shapes, bridge engineering, constructing with I-beams, creating building models and green technologies. 

COOKING
Students will explore food science through measurements, and math related skills connected to cooking. Participants will be encouraged to observe and think about the world more intentionally and encouraged to ask “I wonder” questions while trying to find the answers. Students will learn how to use a scale, observe patterns, similarities, and differences in fruits and vegetables, as well as about food waste, composting, chemistry, measurements and volume. 

EXPERIMENTS
Students will use the scientific method to conduct different scientific experiments both independently and in groups. In the latter weeks they will research the experiments they would like to conduct on their own for the science fair event. 

CODING/MINECRAFT
Students will exploring how to code video games and other coding techniques using their computers and code.org.

Theater/Dance Activities

SO YOU THINK YOU CAN DANCE?
This Club is designed to assist student dancers with their overall knowledge of dance and performance art. Students will also build leadership skills as up and coming choreographers. Throughout the activity students will work on their stage presence as well as learning different types of choreography (African, Jazz, Contemporary, Hip-Hop, and Tap). 

THEATER
Students will express their creativity and culture through singing and their own acting performance. This activity will give students the power to tell important stories, to improve an audience, to connect people, and to make change. This activity will focus on collaboration, communication, creativity, and critical thinking.

Interested in joining us in after-school? 

To register online:

• Click here to go to the DYCD registration page
• Search: Roads to Success, Inc. 
• Select one of our four SONYC programs to register with: MS 839, PS 333, BCMS, or James Wheldon Johnson. (You do not need to be a student of that school to attend our virtual program.)
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Need help enrolling online? View the DYCD online enrollment quick guide for help registering online. 

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Meet Our RTS Club Instructors!