Pinecrest Academy is proud to offer exciting opportunities for all of our learners. These offerings occur either before school or after school hours and allow for our students and families to engage and become involved in STEM-related and non-STEM based activities.

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• The Green Team, offered to 3rd through 5th graders is involved in recycling, school garden and participates in Fairchild challenges. They meet once a week in the morning to plan for our school garden. They also collect and sort through the recyclables to ensure they are safe to recycle. 

 

• Club Robotics, is offered to 2nd and 3rd graders as an introduction to building and coding robots. They meet twice a month.

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• Coding Club, is offered to 2nd through 4th graders as an introduction to coding using Java. They meet once a week.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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• Team Robotics, is offered to 3rd through 5th graders as an intermediary option to designing, building, programming and driving the robots. They compete in Vex IQ robotics competitions throughout the year. The Team meets twice a week and participates in competitions on the weekends. For the last four years, our Team Robotics have attended Vex Robotics Worlds Championship in Kentucky. We will be attending our fifth championship this year. 

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• Jump Rope Club, meets twice a week and during this time the students learn about heart health in addition to improving jump rope skills. This is offered to 4th and 5th graders.

 

 

 

 

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• Our partner, Wild About Sports Academy (WASA), offers soccer and tennis twice a week to students in Kindergarten through 5th Grade. 

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• JM Dance Center offers Ballet and Hip Hop twice a week to students in 1st and 2nd grade.

 

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• In addition to JM Dance Center, we have an after-school club led by one our teachers for 3rd-5th graders.  They meet once a week. 

 

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• The PAC Basketball Team, practices twice a week and has games once a week during the season. This club is offered to 4th and 5th graders.

 

 

 

 

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• The Green Team meets once a week to work on the school garden and participates in Fairchild Garden Challenges. The Fairchild Challenge gives specifications for the garden each year. Along with the garden, students must complete a notebook explaining how the garden represent ethnobotany and the usage of the plants in recipes. 

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• This generation of students is technologically savvy. However, we have found a huge need for basic computer skills such as using a USB, saving documents, and safely ejecting the flash drives. With this need, PACology was created. Students meet once a week to learn keyboarding and safe researching strategies as well. This club is offered to 4th and 5th grade students.     

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• Chorus is offered to students from Kindergarten through 5th grade. They meet once a week and they are a huge component of our annual holiday show. 

 

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• PAC Morning Crew is responsible for the morning announcements every day and is offered to 4th and 5th graders. These students are involved in front of the cameras as well as behind the scenes. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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• Safety patrols assist with the arrival of students to school each morning. Safety patrols are assigned to posts all around the school. 5th graders comprise this club and they serve as positive role models to the younger PAC generations. Their main goal is to ensure safety throughout PAC South in a positive manner.

 

• The Crafty Club meets once a week. This club is catered for kindergarten through 2nd graders who work on arts and crafts after-school. 

 

• Art Club meets once a week and is for our 5th graders. They have participated in a variety of art shows sponsored by the district. Their current art work is on display at the Ocean Bank headquarters for the Art of Found Objects show. In May, their art work will be at the Frost Art Museum at FIU for Creative Visions. 

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• Drama Club is offered to 4th and 5th graders once a week. They partake in two performances a year. One of them during the holiday and the other at the Fifth Grade Awards Assembly. The performances are typically held at the South Miami-Dade Cultural Arts Center. 

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In addition to our remarkable clubs, each grade level plans for field trips keeping in mind our school’s STEM focus.

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Some of the field trips our students have attended include: Museum of Science and Discovery, Everglades National Park, The Little Farm, STEM Bus (visits our school), Colgate Bus (visits our school), STEM Expo at FIU, Water Bottle Rocket launch with PPMH, Kennedy Space Center, Animal Kingdom, EPCOT, Frost Museum of Science, STEAM City Kids (presents a virtual planetarium at our school), St. Augustine, Florida, Key West, Florida, and STEM Presenters throughout the school year. 

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PAC hosts Career Day once a year in which presenters from all fields come to speak to our students and showcase their careers. During this event, the planning committee purposefully looks for STEM focused careers. Our parents are a huge element toward making this event successful. 

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Every year, we reflect upon what works and what may be an area for growth. We try to add new initiatives yearly. In Miami-Dade County, high school students are required to complete community service hours.  Several high school students have reached out to us and will be spearheading a Coding Club that will be offered once a week to 2nd through 5th grade students. We are enthusiastic to be able to add to our enrichment of programs for our students.