In addition to Madison’s MAC Before and After School program, Madison Heights offers a variety of on-site after school opportunities offered by 3rd party vendors for students. Students have the chance to explore their passions, develop practical skills, and collaborate with like-minded peers.
About:Chess can help students increase their math, verbal skills and their creative and critical thinking abilities. Chess also helps students develop self-discipline, concentration, critical insights, analysis, and writing skills.
Ages/Grades: K–4
Day of the Week: Thursday Dates: 8/21 – 12/4 Times: 2:35 – 3:35pm
About:It Is Not Just Baton Twirling! The ATA program utilizes performance, competition and team experiences to develop life long skills including self-esteem, character, poise, positivity, and team work.
Ages/Grades: K–8
Day of the Week: Wednesday Dates: 9/8–1/21 Times:
Beginner Class: 1:00 – 2:00pm
Continuing Class: 2:00 – 3:00pm
*Call or text Miss Becky to secure a spot: (602) 743-2681
About:Tippi Toes offers exciting, fun and energetic dance classes for boys and girls. Using popular, age-appropriate music the students learn choreography and technique in Hip Hop and Jazz. Our versions of Hip Hop/Jazz dance are kid-friendly and very tasteful. Students will be able to participate in dance recitals to show off their skills twice throughout the school year.
Ages/Grades: K–4
Days of the Week: Tuesday Dates: 8/26 – 12/16 Times: 2:30 – 3:30pm
About:At Play-Well TEKnologies, students are encouraged to unleash their inner engineer as they design and build with tens of thousands of LEGO® pieces and the guidance of our passionate instructors. They will explore fundamental STEM concepts as they learn to collaborate and create without fear of mistakes. The experience is joyful, the impact long lasting.
Ages/Grades: K–4
Days of the Week: Tuesday Dates: 10/28 – 12/16 Times: 2:30 – 4:00pm
About:Athletes in Training specializes in on-campus sports for K-6th grade students. We believe that keeping sports simple, fun, local and accessible, is what makes our program unique. Each season, young athletes’ practice, learn skills, and scrimmage after school with classmates. School programs vary, but include several of the following favorites each year: soccer, basketball, flag football, lacrosse, field hockey, and volleyball.
Ages/Grades: K–4
Day of the Week: Tuesday Dates: 11/18 – 1/13 Time: 2:30 – 3:40pm
About:Let's make this back-to-school season a masterpiece! Young Rembrandt's drawing lessons will ignite your child's creativity and sharpen their artistic skills. We'll tackle creative projects like a detailed gumball machine, a mouthwatering sandwich, and a dazzling Egyptian headdress that'll whisk your artist back in time. A fall-themed illustration will introduce them to warm and cool color theory. With every lesson, your child will enhance their art skills, strategic thinking and problem-and self expression. Creativity is calling!
Ages/Grades: K–4
Day of the Week: Monday Dates: 11/3 – 12/28 Time: 2:35 – 3:35pm
About:Let's make this back-to-school season a masterpiece! Young Rembrandt's drawing lessons will ignite your child's creativity and sharpen their artistic skills. We'll tackle creative projects like a detailed gumball machine, a mouthwatering sandwich, and a dazzling Egyptian headdress that'll whisk your artist back in time. A fall-themed illustration will introduce them to warm and cool color theory. With every lesson, your child will enhance their art skills, strategic thinking and problem-and self expression. Creativity is calling!
Ages/Grades: K–4
Day of the Week: Tuesday Dates: 10/28 – 12/9 Time: 2:35 – 3:35pm
About:Beginners Edge Sports Training, LLC is your ultimate destination for all things youth sports. As Arizona’s foremost leader in sports classes, camps, parties, lessons, and clinics, we’re also making our mark in California and Texas. At B.E.S.T. Sports, we begin nurturing a love for sports as early as walking. Our focus spans youth soccer, softball, basketball, football, volleyball, tennis, multi-sport and pickleball, offering a comprehensive range of activities. Classes are available for kids walking to 15 years. Join us for sports birthday parties, sports camps, and more – because at BEST Sports, every child’s journey is special. Thanks you for letting us be a part of your child’s fun and learning.
Ages/Grades: 1–4
Day of the Week: Thursday Dates: 11/6 – 12/18 Times: 2:35 – 3:35pm
About:Nexplore Pottery offers a unique outlet for young artists to sculpt their ideas into one-of-a-kind creations, fostering self-expression and building confidence. Students learn to use their hands and sculpting tools to create pottery staples and imaginative projects like pinch pot monsters, pottery pets, and their favorite characters. As they sculpt and paint, they develop transferable artistic skills such as conceptualizing, sketching, and refining their designs. Manipulating clay helps students understand that they can change something with their own hands and influence the outside world.
Ages/Grades: K–4
Day of the Week: Friday Dates: 10/17 – 12/5 Times: 2:45 – 3:45pm
About:Tailored for early readers, this course helps students boost their computational thinking while having fun with friends! Beginners learn coding basics like Loops and Conditions. Returning students tackle new challenges, such as debugging. All students build exciting games, stories, and animated characters. Learn coding basics like loops and variables if you're new, or explore advanced concepts like functions and game physics if you're returning. Build exciting games, animations, and story projects, like the Greedy Birds!
Ages/Grades: K–2
Day of the Week: Wednesday Dates: 10/15 – 12/10 Times: 1:00 – 2:00pm
About:Unleash your creativity with Scratch, a fun drag-and-drop coding tool. Learn coding basics like loops and variables if you're new, or explore advanced concepts like functions and game physics if you're returning. Build exciting games, animations, and story projects, like the Greedy Birds!
Ages/Grades: 3–4
Day of the Week: Thursday Dates: 11/16 – 12/18 Times: 2:30 – 3:30pm
How do you teach Improv? Put simply… We take comedy seriously and have a lot of fun in the process. Our brand of Improv is designed to enhance critical life skills that encourage actors to think, feel, laugh and leave every class inspired.
What skills are developed in the Improv Acting Class? Students develop the skills to be fearless, spontaneous, vulnerable and authentic in every performance on and off the stage.
Who should consider taking an Improv Class? Improvisation is critical for actors of course, however, the benefits go beyond the acting industry and have been proven to improve self-esteem, communication, leadership and personal development.
Ages/Grades: K–4
Day of the Week: Wednesday Dates: 10/29 – 12/17 Times: 1:05 – 2:05pm
About:Partnering with schools and professional tennis coaches in the community to create an easy pathway for students to learn tennis and its many values.
Our school program brings tennis to students, on campus. Buddy certified tennis coaches bring all necessary equipment such as balls, nets and racquets to teach students the basics of tennis with fun and safe games. (Students should have good shoes and water bottles.) With every new session students receive a new Buddy the Ball Adventure children's book, entry level white wristband, as well as an official Buddy tennis shirt.
After hopefully sparking inspiration in the game through this program, Buddy's team is dedicated to guiding students and their families along in the direction for a potential future in what can be a lifetime sport. Along the journey students often find themselves in junior and then later collegiate competitions.
Ages/Grades: K–4
Day of the Week: Monday Dates: 10/13 – 12/15 Times: 2:40 – 3:40pm
About:This semester: NASA: Academy of Future Explorers was developed with NASA exclusively for Mad Science. Kids learn about our amazing universe and the objects within it, as well as how much work goes into making human space travel a reality.
Ages/Grades: K–5
Day of the Week: Thursday Dates: 2/5 – 4/2 Times: 2:35 – 3:35pm
