Marietta Community School

Make the right move for your child this school year! Chess develops your child's reading and math ability, critical and analytical thinking skills, and builds character and self-esteem. But don't tell the kids...they think chess is fun! Our Chess instructors and coaches are not only exceptional chess players themselves, but they have a passion for sharing their knowledge with children. They have years of chess playing experience, tournament experience, and the passion to keep the kids entertained!

Can you persuade others with your words? Then climb on board the advertising express, where persuasion is key. In this cutting edge program, you’ll get to design your own logo, create a tagline, write an article, and produce and star in your very own toy commercial! You’ll learn Aristotle’s 3 methods to get your way in any situation; just promise you won’t use them on your parents! We’ll watch and sing along to popular commercials and see how you are influenced by advertising. This engaging club culminates in a final video production of all students’ toy commercials to be shared with family and friends.

The Cobb Soccer Academy is designed for soccer players of all levels and abilities. The academy is centered around developing players according to their stage of development and offering hands on training through professional coaching. Sessions will focus on teaching technical skills such as moves, dribbling, receiving, passing, and shooting. The focus will also be on teaching the attacking and defending principles of play.

Students will develop a range of coding and problem-solving skills as they create fun video games. Game designers will think creatively, reason systematically, and work collaboratively to create various video games. Each Game Design unit includes a themed mini-model built with LEGO® Bricks that will be the main character of all of the games. Each game progressively teaches more advanced capabilities within the video game design software. Students will be proud and excited to actually play their very own completed video games to take home and share with others.

MSGA STUDENTS ONLY Come check out one of the fastest growing youth sports in the country. Atlanta Youth Rugby will lead your young athlete through a series of fun games and activities to introduce them to the sport of Rugby. All of the games are non contact and no previous experience or knowledge of the sport is needed. Come TRY out the character enriching, fun, Olympic sport coached by some of the best rugby players in the United States!

“Join the only STEM program that focuses exclusively on the “T” for “TECHNOLOGY”. Our instructors bring in tech that the students will not get their hands on anywhere else including 3D Printers, Drones, Virtual Reality cameras, VR headsets and more! We teach not only how they work, but how to master them as tools. During our first 6 week session, our Techsters will explore CAD to create their own designs for 3D printing as well as learning to pilot Drones!”

Spanish is a growing language that can help your child navigate the world around them! Our experienced language teachers provide a fun, productive learning environment in which students are given the opportunity to develop basic language and beginning conversation skills in Spanish. The goal is to help children gain an enthusiasm and appreciation for learning Spanish as a second language.

Have you ever wondering how those people get inside that TV? This class will give you a great look into how TV shows are made! Learn how to write a script, work a camera, edit and produce a class video project. Your child's creativity will grow exponentially in this class, we guarantee it!