The Enrichment Center at 2nd Nature Academy - Nashua, NH

04/30/2023

We have some seats open for our great art-focused STEAM camps. If your camper loves to bring their imaginations to life, we have a camp for you! Check out our awesome camps at https://www.2ndnatureacademy.com/brainwave.

04/17/2023

Our campers will be inspired by their favorite books and express their creativity through writing their own skits, creating their costumes, and putting on a play in our 3A's: Literary Art, Visual Art, and Theater Arts Camp. If your camper is in Grades 4-8, join us on July 24-28! Sign up now, as spaces are limited:

The Enrichment Center @ 2nd Nature Academy hosts ​Brainwave STEAM Camps on the 2nd Nature Academy campus each summer. Brainwave Camps are all about creative exploration and mind expansion. Our camps are the go-to choice for science, technology, engineering, arts, and mathematics enrichment all sum...

04/17/2023

The warm weather in the past few days signals that summer is around the corner! We still have some STEAM summer camp openings -- one of them is our Brainwave Comic-Zines Camp on Aug 21-25. We will help campers develop concepts, characters, and the story. At the end of the week, our campers will have their own comic book! Sign up now for this camp, and others at

The Enrichment Center @ 2nd Nature Academy hosts ​Brainwave STEAM Camps on the 2nd Nature Academy campus each summer. Brainwave Camps are all about creative exploration and mind expansion. Our camps are the go-to choice for science, technology, engineering, arts, and mathematics enrichment all sum...

03/09/2023

The response to our 2023 summer camps has been fantastic, with several camps already full and many more very close to full. Register your camper before it's too late! https://www.2ndnatureacademy.com/brainwave

01/02/2023

The Enrichment Center @ 2nd Nature Academy in Nashua, NH is seeking summer STEAM instructors to lead one or more of our 2023 Brainwave STEAM summer day camps.

We seek detail-oriented, organized, curious, self-starters who have a background in science, technology, engineering, art, or math to teach and inspire school-age kids in a fun, summer camp atmosphere. For anticipated day camp offerings, please see below.

Candidates must be dependable and thrive in a flexible environment. Just as importantly, we are searching for people who can manage a classroom of children ranging in ages from 6 to 14 yrs, depending on the camp.

ABOUT THE CAMPS
Brainwave STEAM Summer Camp is estimated to start on June 26 and run through Aug 24. Each one-week long camp encourages campers to use or expand their skills through problem solving and creating original work. To learn more about the types of camps we offer, please visit www.enrich2day.com.
Our camps are limited to group sizes of 10-12, depending on the complexity of the camp. If there is an expansion of the number of groups, we will bring in counselors to support you in teaching, lunch, and break times. Summer camp runs 5 days per week for 9 wks from 8:30-3:30pm, which includes a 30-minute lunch, 30-min recess, and two 15 min breaks.
JOB DESCRIPTION/ RESPONSIBILITIES
Class planning and preparation. Summer camps themes/concepts, overall course goals, general lesson plans will be provided, and the instructor will determine the details. Based on the hire, we also can reframe the camp to suit the strengths of the instructor.
Details include:
● Updating and detailing lesson plans
● Create materials lists and costing (templates provided)
Monitor and ensure the safety of students and materials
Good citizenship by respecting students and fellow colleagues, offering a helping hand when possible for you, and being trustworthy and honest. Being a team player, and ability to adapt to ever-changing circumstances.
Create a positive, achievement-oriented learning environment
● Active engagement with students, not only during the class, but also at pick-up/drop-off, lunch, and breaks.
Maintain classroom discipline
Logistical responsibilities. Set up class space, clean room after class, and store materials properly.
These activities include, but are not limited to the following:
● Lego kits returned into appropriate boxes
● Computers must be dusted and cleaned
● For “maker-type” activities, sweeping of floors, proper disposal of materials scraps, returning equipment
to proper storage
● Daily light cleaning and end-of-week deeper cleaning of classrooms and shared spaces (e.g.,
bathroom, hallways)
● Must ensure proper dismissal (e.g., sign-in / sign-out sheets) to designated adults with or without site
coordinator present
Oversee lunch and outdoor break times
● Lunch and break times are opportunities for you to get to know your students, and for them to get to
know one another
● Plan outdoor break time activities
Manage junior counselors, if present
Hours
● Pre-camp planning: 4 hrs paid planning time per camp + 3 hrs on-campus training
● Week of camp:
○ First day of camp: 7:30am-4:30pm, with 30 min unpaid break (extra time for set up in AM)
○ Last day of camp: 8:00am - 5:30pm, with 30 min unpaid break (

03/12/2022

We are looking for highly-motivated, creative Art and STEAM Camp instructors for our summer day camp in Nashua, NH. If you love to teach art and/or technology using multiple disciplines, incorporating science, today's popular platforms like Minecraft, we'd love to talk to you.

If you'd like to learn more please contact us at [Email hidden].

03/10/2022

The Enrichment Center in Nashua, NH seeks a STEAM instructor to teach our growing summer camp. We seek an individual who has familiarity with Minecraft and/or block programming (e.g., Scratch) and has some experience with teaching elementary and middle-aged children.

We are seeking someone who can teach most, if not all, 10 weeks of our summer camp which runs from week of June 22 through week of August 24.

Our Brainwave Summer Camp is a STEAM day camp that runs over a ten-week period and offers weekly programs for kids 6-14 years of age. Campers sign up for a week-long camp and each week offers a different focus. Some examples from past camps include:
• Minecraft Survival Build Challenges
• Minecraft Adventure Maps - Create your own
• Intro to Minecraft - beginners (we usually create some sort of theme to tie in critical thinking and analytical skill-building)
• Sculpture Alive! Coding and Art (campers made sculptures and made them interactive by using Scratch and a Makey-Makey kit)

If you wish you had these camps when you were growing up, and you want to share your skills in Minecraft or a software programming language, this summer camp teaching opportunity may be for you.
We are seeking a detail-oriented, organized, curious self-starter who loves to learn, improve and expand their skills; and wants to share their enthusiasm for learning with others. This person must be dependable and thrive in a flexible environment. Additionally, the instructor must believe in the importance of providing multi-disciplinary education that encourages students to learn and think in different ways.
The work schedules, which includes class preparation, instruction, and clean up, are as follows:
• 5 days of orientation/planning meetings (paid)
• Summer work hours are approximately 8-4:30pm five days per week.
• Preparation is 8:00am to 8:45 am.
• Campers are dropped off at 8:45am and picked up at 4pm.
• Clean up is 4:00pm - 4:30 pm; although campers are expected to help with majority of clean up prior to pick up.

Job description/responsibilities:
• Class planning and preparation
• Write lesson plan for the camp week and teach STEAM class in an applied manner
• Applied manner refers to a project-based approach to teaching (for instance, we’ve taught an introductory Python class but within the context of geographical mapping of earthquakes throughout the world)
• Create a positive, achievement-oriented learning environment
• Monitor and ensure the safety of students and materials
• Logistics
• Set up class space, clean room after class, and store materials properly. These activities include, but are not limited to the following:
• Lego kits must be inventoried and returned into appropriate boxes
• Computers must be dusted and cleaned
• For “maker-type” activities, sweeping of floors, proper disposal of materials scraps, returning equipment to proper storage
• Must ensure proper dismissal (ie.g., sign-in / sign-out sheets) to designated adults with or without site coordinator present
• Provide quality teaching
• Good citizenship by respecting students and fellow colleagues, offering a helping hand when possible for you, and being trustworthy and honest. Being a team player, and ability to adapt to ever-changing circumstances.

Minimum Requirements:
• Minimum of Bachelor’s degree (or in the process of obtaining degree)
• Basic to moderate programming (block programs like Scratch)
• Experience with Minecraft
• Experience teaching kids ages 5-14 preferred, including summer camp counseling
• Good communication skills, attention to detail, and a joyful approach to teaching, and understanding of integrating curriculum with multiple disciplines
• English language proficiency
• Access to reliable transportation

Preferred Background:
• Educational coursework, professional background, or demonstrated passion in STEAM (science, technology, engineering, arts, and math)
• Some experience with Raspberry Pi and Arduino, or ability to learn and apply

02/03/2022

Thinking of summer?! Brainwave STEAM Summer Camp registration is now open! We are a day indoor/outdoor camp in Nashua, NH for kids 6-14 yrs old.

To see our offerings, visit us at
https://www.2ndnatureacademy.com/brainwave

For questions, email us at
[email protected]