Alternative Youth Activities, Inc.

Electives and  Special programs at Alternative Youth Activities, Inc.

Aquaponics, the passion of our Executive Director, which is project based learning, refers to any system that combines conventional aquaculture (raising aquatic animals such as snails, fish, crayfish or prawns in tanks) with hydroponics (cultivating plants in water) in a symbiotic environment.  AYA will be having an AmeriCorp Member teach and lead the Aquaponics STEM projects during the 2018-19 year.

This course uses a set of rules outlined in Dungeon and Dragons 5th Edition. The teacher acts as the lead storyteller for a group of heroes (students) that decide what actions they take to save the world. The class challenges the improvisational skills of everyone as well as teaching probability and mathematics. The class reads stories that people have written, summarizes them into their own words, and adapt it to their own world. Tiles, mat, and miniatures can be combined to create a fully imagined scene to create and manipulate with their choices. 

Students as they prepare to be an adult need to build the skills necessary for living in the world. This class focuses students on being responsible, getting their drivers license, food handling card, the process of setting up a bank account, and basic life skills, as well as providing conflict resolution education. 

Students are given the opportunity to speak their minds and to have conversations recorded and broadcast-ed through the KJAJ Radio station. Some conversations students have had relate to LGBT rights, student life, and spirit photography. In the upcoming year, the students plan to have more in depth conversations on the radio.