Tennis Program for children at the Buccaneer

The Buccaneer Hotel Junior Tennis program begins this week, October 1, 2012.  Programs for children ages 5 to 17, all playing levels - beginners to high performance players.  

For more information or to register, contact Coach Kris at 340.277.8457 or email kris.ptrpro@gmail.com.  You can also call The Buccaneer Tennis Club at 340.718.3036. 

Learn to play tennis in a fun and safe environment by highly qualified and experienced tennis instructors!

Sailing Opportunities for Homeschoolers

If you  have a child in 7th grade or above and they love to sail, they can join the local sailing team at the St. Croix Yacht Club.  The team is open to students in grade 7 and above from all schools, and home schools on the island.  Please contact the St. Croix Yacht Club for specific details at 340-773-9531 or visit their website for more info at www.stcroixyc.com.

If your child in NOT in 7th grade or above,  but are in lower grades - NEVER FEAR!!! They too can sail and take part in Opti Fridays starting in September. This weekly event is open to members and nonmembers of the Yacht Club. There is a fee of $10 for member and $20 for nonmembers, but the class is 2 hours and if your child is 12 or above they can become a member of the yacht club and get the $10 fee. A junior membership cost $150 and then your child can utilize the club for fun sailing events, and other activities. Again, if interested, please contact the club at 340-773-9531.

Junior Achievement

Junior Achievement of the VI will be conducting an after school program beginning in the fall. The program is for high school Sophomores and Juniors from public, private, faith-based schools, and homeschoolers. If you have - or know of - a motivated teen who might like to participate, please send me a message! To learn more about the JA Company Program, please visit www.ja.org and click Programs, then High School Programs. 

Here is an excerpt from the Junior Achievement website that tells you more about who they are:

Junior Achievement is the world’s largest organization dedicated to educating students about workforce readiness, entrepreneurship and financial literacy through experiential, hands-on programs.

Junior Achievement programs help prepare young people for the real world by showing them how to generate wealth and effectively manage it, how to create jobs which make their communities more robust, and how to apply entrepreneurial thinking to the workplace. Students put these lessons into action and learn the value of contributing to their communities.

JA’s unique approach allows volunteers from the community to deliver our curriculum while sharing their experiences with students. Embodying the heart of JA, our 382,637 classroom volunteers transform the key concepts of our lessons into a message that inspires and empowers students to believe in themselves, showing them they can make a difference in the world.

This particular program is a 12 week 2 hour per session evening program lead by volunteer community members. During the 12 weeks, the students (up to 30 students) will be responsible to put together a real business with a board, doing market research, product creation, share sales, raising seed money to purchase products, selling of that product to the community, at the end of the program they do a profit/loss statement, return on investments for shareholders.  

In St.Thomas they ran this program during the spring with 30 students and at the end the students were able to distribute $34 to each shareholder and person in the program.  While this amount doesn't seem like a lot, there were tons of shareholders and the experience that your child gains through this program is invaluable.  

To get more information please contact Judi Buckley at 340-513-7077 or via email at javirginislands@gmail.com 

If you as a parent, would like to volunteer your services to help in this program, please contact Judi.