Beam Camp City brings the commitment to collaboration, youth empowerment, and big-as-all-outdoors projects to Governors Island. Centered on a belief that NYC children and youth deserve a summer of play, creation, and celebration, Beam Camp City provides free summer programming to groups from partner public schools and community based organizations. Guided by NYC high schoolers and young adults from Beam Center’s Youth Employment programs, campers collaborate to build one of Beam’s Big Projects and experience all of the best aspects of the summer camp experience.

Fun for all ages awaits at Manhattan's largest board game cafe!
Hex&Co. locations are proud to serve game hobbyists, college students, professionals, and families alike. The network of board game cafes are dedicated to providing a fun, safe, and inclusive environment for the respective communities to enjoy; whether you are grabbing a coffee to go, or arriving for a multi-hour marathon game session. Swing by for a weekend outing, date night, evening off with friends, morning study session, or just stop in to play classic board games or discover a new favorite.

Day Camp
Offered during school breaks and summer, students spend the day playing our collection of over 500 board games, battle with (foam) swords and (beanbag) magic spells outdoors in the LARPing Tactics games, and go on adventures in Dungeons and Dragons with our professional Game Master staff. Full Week and individual days are available during summer.

After School Classes
Enrichment programs teach students age-appropriate games and work to develop skills such as cooperation, strategic thinking, and problem solving, all while having fun and focusing on good sportsmanship. Classes are offered in Board Games, Dungeons & Dragons, RPGs, Chess, Magic: the Gathering, and more. Favorite games of our students include classics like Scrabble and Settlers of Catan, and new favorites like Cockroach Poker and Forbidden Island.

Birthday Parties
Birthday parties at Hex&Co are available for all ages. Classic board game parties are led by staff hosts. Ask about the Magic: the Gathering or Dungeons & Dragons themed parties as well.

Combat Club by KMI is the only life skills and self-defense academy for kids in NYC.

Established in 2010, Combat Club by KMI focuses on strengthening the mind, body, and character of children and teenagers living in New York City.. Martial arts at Combat Club is not about fighting; it’s about building self-confidence, leadership, life-skills, dealing with adversity and practical self-defense and fitness. All ages (6+) and experience levels are welcome. 

New York can be a really tough place to grow up and to raise children. Very few people outside of NYC can understand the unique set of challenges to kids, youth and parents face in raising healthy and resilient young adults. The education system has left a gap, and it is increasingly difficult to work and succeed in your personal lives and careers while also ensuring your kids are equipped with the skill set they need to succeed, stay healthy and defend themselves. Combat Club is here to fill that gap.

The Foundation Program is designed with advice from child behavioral psychologists, parents, teachers, self-defense and fitness experts for the purpose of building fundamental life skills, fitness and practical self-defense skills to help the next generation succeed while overcoming real-world challenges, adversity and preventing harm from everyday occurrences such as bullying, mugging, fights and drugs. In addition to these benefits, parents value the behavioral benefits associated with the program, such focus, self-discipline, self-confidence, improving low self-esteem, lack of friends and developing social skills.

Academic research is moving beyond generalized benefits and proving how martial arts can positively and lastingly affect a child’s development by training executive function and self-regulation. The goal is to get students to Black Belt which requires focus, self-discipline and commitment. After graduating from the Foundation Program, students enter the Black Belt Program or Leadership & Character Development Program, which includes public speaking, storytelling, decision making, problem solving, executive planning & assistant instructing along with advanced self-defense and fitness techniques.

Combat Club offers classes after school along with school holiday camps.

See website for class schedule, and book a free trial here.

Dig It Torrance is an indoor, STEM-inspired play space themed around construction. Their mission is to create an engaging space where all children are empowered to explore and build the community around them through play. Dig It is an inclusive space known for its clean, safe environment and engaging, caring staff. 

Dig It Offers:

• Open Play
• Toddler Time (5 years & younger)
• Birthday Parties
• Special Events
• Drop-Off Play
• Field Trips
• Spring & Summer Camp
• Group Discounts
• Memberships
• Sensory Sunday

Check out Dig It today to build memories that last a lifetime!

Want your kids to feel like you’re on a family adventure visiting the far corners of the globe, making scientific discoveries? Or like you’re traveling through time and space—without actually leaving New York City? Visit NYSCI, New York City's STEM Learning Lab, in Queens. NYSCI's hands-on exhibits inspire and delight kids—and parents—of all ages.

Current exhibitions include:

Powering the City, which shows how the energy in your body relates to the way the city is powered.
Human Plus, which invites you to play with technologies that push the limits of your bodies (wheelchair DJing anyone?).
Connected Worlds, an immersive, animated world in the iconic Great Hall building that teaches about sustainability through creative collaboration.
Design Lab, NYSCI's innovative hub that exemplifies the Design Make Play philosophy NYSCI pioneered.
Mathematica, a historic exhibition from the 1964-65 World's Fair that brings math to life.
Rocket Park Mini Golf, reveals that the same laws of motion and gravity that guide the path of a spaceship control the motion of golf balls here on Earth.

Plus:
A Friendship 7 replica that you can sit inside to imagine what it is like to travel to space.
Daily Demonstrations that bring science to life led by NYSCI's explainers and assisted with audience participation.
3D films about scientific work around the globe from saving pandas to protecting the few gorgeous spaces on earth still mostly untouched by humans. 

Young Engineers' researched-based programs and workshops are hands-on, project-based, create critical thinkers, problem solvers, increase math and science literacy, and set children up for success. Young Engineers Upper Manhattan is committed to igniting a passion for Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) in young minds and inspires them to pursue advanced studies in the STEM fields. There are afterschool and weekend classes as well as summer camp at the STEM Lab. Explore options to bring Young Engineers Upper Manhattan's programs to your child's school as an elective during the day or as part of their after school program.