Savvy Kids pulls together area experts and community leaders to deliver fun,
interactive activities to build on core skills and promote fitness across the
Savvy Kid Core Pillars: Financial Literacy, Environmental Awareness,
Community Involvement and Health and Fitness.
Conference Workshops*
(Kids must be registered to attend,
parents welcome to join)
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Community
& Core Skills |
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Description |
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Grade |
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Operation Turkey Kids |
Operation Turkey – Get Involved |
11am 2pm |
K-8th |
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Destination Imagination Challenges |
Instant Team Challenges |
11am 1pm
2pm |
K-8th |
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All About Toys
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Learn about the history of toys and toy making |
10am 11am |
K-8th |
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Philanthropy, Advocacy, and Community Service |
Learn about A Legacy of Giving’s five step
process: learn, internalize, advocate, act, and
reflect |
10am 11am |
5th-8th Family |
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Video Game Addiction: Redirecting the Virtual
Generation
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Kidventure – Camps Director, Patrick Biron.
Techniques to grow children’s interest in
community service and real life. |
11am 1pm
3pm |
Parent |
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Bringing Summer Camp Home
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Kidventure – President, Mike McDonell.
The timeless values of summer camp. |
11am 1pm |
Parent |
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Brain Fitness
Math is Fun |
The importance of keeping your brain fit.
Fun, competitive games |
2pm |
K-8th |
Personal
Health and Fitness |
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Host |
Title |
Description |
Time |
Grade |
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Cook, Learn, Grown |
Kids cooking class by Lori’s Culinary Co. |
11am
1pm |
K-5th |
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Serving Sizes and Ingredients |
Learn to identify serving sizes of foods and how
to read food labels |
1pm |
3rd-5th |
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Why Do We Eat? |
Learn to distinguish between healthy and
unhealthy reasons for eating |
10am |
K-3rd |
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Born to Run |
Exercises and drills for
beginning runners. |
11am 1pm |
K-8 |
Financial Literacy
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Host |
Title |
Description |
Time |
Grade |
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Consumer Savvy for Kids
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Learn how to read labels and comparison shop |
10am 11am |
4th-8th |
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Blast the Money Trap™ Game
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Take a fun look at how you can use your money to
become financially free. |
10am 11am 1pm 2pm 3pm |
2nd-8th |
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Junior Achievement's
Our Region
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Introduces relationships between the natural, human, and capital resources. |
12pm 1pm
2pm |
4th-8th |
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Hands On Banking |
Learn the difference between credit and debit,
and how to earn more money by learning new
skills. |
1pm 3pm |
2nd- 8th |
Environmental
Awareness |
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Host |
Title |
Description |
Time |
Grade |
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Animal Skulls, Scat, and Tracks |
Learn what animals eat and examine their tracks |
11am 2pm |
K-8th |
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Countryside Nursery |
Garden Insects: The Good & The Bad |
1pm |
K-5th |
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How to Create a Butterfly Friendly Environment |
Learn how to entice butterflies to your yard.
Interact with caterpillars, butterflies and
plants. |
11am |
K-8th |
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Workshop List

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* Workshops subject to change
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Pillar Focus Areas:
Across all of our programs, underlying core skills and values are promoted, including: responsibility, teamwork, creativity and critical thinking.
Core Skills
- Brainstorming
- Critical Thinking
- Decision Making
- Overcoming Obstacles
- Planning and Executing
- Problem Solving
- Teamwork
Environmental Pillar
The Environmental pillar provides young learners with an understanding of the environment, natural systems, co-existence of human with nature, pollution, global warming, and similar concepts promoting responsible use of resources and harmonious co-existence with our environment.
Key Environmental pillar concepts include:
- Conservation
- Energy Sources
- Climate Change
- Green Concepts
- Natural Resources
- Pollution
- Recycling
Financial Pillar
The Financial pillar introduces kids to: saving, earning, investing, responsible spending, credit, loans, debt, and a lot more critical financial concepts required as the foundation to financial understanding and success.
Key Financial pillar concepts include:
- Budgeting
- Credit, Loans
- Earning
- Investing
- Money Flows
- Saving
- Spending
Personal Health Pillar
The Personal Health pillar introduces valuable concepts for health through fitness, nutrition, and safety for kids.
Key Personal Health pillar concepts include:
- Exercise through Play
- Food Nutrition
- Healthy Choices
- Managing Stress
- Personal Health
- Physical Fitness
- Preventing Injuries
Community Pillar
Finally, our Community pillar concentrates on global and local
economies, trade, demand and supply, social behavior, and other socio-economic
topics.
Key Community pillar concepts include:
- Community Involvement
- Consumers & Producers
- Economic Systems
- Global Markets
- Governments and Society
- Products & Services
- Supply & Demand
- Volunteering and Donating