Learn to make a variety of clay creatures and animals, and even get a chance to use the potter’s wheel.
It is five days of instructor-lead classes, a 3-hour class per day. Camp is a great way to keep children busy, entertained, and learning a new skill set. Camp is limited to eight children and we will have a campfire & marshmallow roast on the last day of camp.
Summer camps are back in June at Great Oaks! Spend a week getting hands-on experience in a career!
(Summer camps are open to students living in a Great Oaks-affiliated
school district and who will enter the 9th or 10th grade in fall 2019.)
Complete class list coming soon!
Comments from parents:
Outstanding job by all instructors – enthusiasm and great student interaction!
Thank you for this incredible opportunity!! School can be a very hard place for my son and this gave him another perspective. Every kid can be successful…they just need to explore and find their passion! We’re on our way!!
Thanks for all you time and effort this week. My daughter had a great experience and it has left us both with an amazing impression of the opportunities available through Great Oaks!
Diamond Oaks
Start your Engines – Automotive Careers Camp (June 3-7)
Do you look at cars with beautiful body work and wonder how it is done? Do you enjoy figuring out how cars can run their best? Learn from ASE Master Certified Technician and ICAR Auto Body Specialist to operate the technology and tools used in their daily work. Explore the many career pathways within the high tech automotive industry. **For safety purposes this camp recommends students to wear jeans, and steel toe boots**
Heavy Metals – Welding & Machining Careers Camp (June 3-7)
Are you interested in designing and building with metal?  Then come join us for an insider’s look to the world of welding and precision machining.  Learn how automated advanced manufacturing machines are programmed and controlled by computer numerical control (CNC).  Get basic MIG welding experience while creating something artistic or practical to take with you. Experienced professional machinists and welders will guide you through hands on projects as you learn to create iron art.  Spark your interest in these hot career pathways while exploring the amazing opportunities out there in this high tech, fast paced industry. **For safety purposes this camp requires students to wear cotton shirts, jeans, and steel toe boots**
Fun with Raspberry Pi! – Web Applications Careers Camp (June 3-7)
In this coding camp you will investigate and play retro games on the RPi. Use the RPi for making games with MIT Scratch (block-based programming) and Python, learn coding GPIO. Explore web design through HTML5 and CSS 3. Sign up for this camp run by a Microsoft certified educator to learn new languages that will take your programming skills to the next level.
Mini Makeover – Cosmetology Careers Camp (June 3-7)
Do you enjoy helping people look their best? Â Whether you would like a mini makeover or want to learn professional techniques of hair styling, manicures, and more. Â Sign up for this camp run by licensed cosmetologists, each with 30+ years of experience, to learn basic beauty salon procedures for hair, skin, and nail care as you explore careers in cosmetology. Â Learn to take care of yourself and look your best!
Laurel Oaks
Start your Engines – Automotive Careers Camp (June 3-7)
Do you look at cars with beautiful body work and wonder how it is done? Do you enjoy figuring out how cars can run their best? Learn from ASE Master Certified Technician and ICAR Auto Body Specialist to operate the technology and tools used in their daily work. Explore the many career pathways within the high tech automotive industry.  **For safety purposes this camp recommends students to wear jeans, and steel toe boots**
Communicate with Art – Design & Art Careers Camp (June 3-7)
Are you creative?  Ever wonder what art and creativity look like as a career?  Creative careers do exist and this design camp will introduce you to the elements used in art professions.  Spend the week with professional graphic artists to unlock your imagination.
I Built That – Construction & Heavy Equipment Careers Camp (June 3-7)
If you like to build and are interested in how roads, building sites, and neighborhoods are prepared, come to this camp.  From small hand tools to large earthmoving equipment, you’ll learn the basics of construction and site preparation from construction industry professionals with 46 years of combined experience.
Live Oaks
Start your Engines – Automotive Careers Camp (June 10-14) Do you look at cars with beautiful body work and wonder how it is done? Do you enjoy figuring out how cars can run their best? Learn from ASE Master Certified Technician and ICAR Auto Body Specialist to operate the technology and tools used in their daily work. Explore the many career pathways within the high tech automotive industry.  **For safety purposes this camp recommends students to wear jeans, and steel toe boots**
Communicate with Art – Art & Design Careers Camp (June 10-14) Are you creative?  Ever wonder what art and creativity look like as a career?  Creative careers do exist and this design camp will introduce you to the elements used in art professions.  Spend the week with professional graphic artists to unlock your imagination.
Mini Makeover – Cosmetology Careers Camp (June 10-14)
Do you enjoy helping people look their best? Â Whether you would like a mini makeover or want to learn professional techniques of hair styling, manicures, and more. Â Sign up for this camp run by licensed cosmetologists, each with 30+ years of experience, to learn basic beauty salon procedures for hair, skin, and nail care as you explore careers in cosmetology. Â Learn to take care of yourself and look your best!
Scarlet Oaks
Mission Medical – Exercise Science & Dental Careers Camp (June 10-14) Explore the medical field in this interactive camp. Learn medical terminology, vital signs, infection control, fitness testing, nutrition, practice bandaging and wound care, and so much more. A certified athletic trainer and professional dental assistant will explore with you the amazing careers available in the health science career pathway.  By the end of the week you can earn ECSI lifesaving training certification in AED, CPR, and First Aid.
Camp Broken Bone –Health and Surgical Technology Careers Camp (June 10-14) Interested in a medical career? This camp will teach the skeletal system, different fractures that occur and how they are fixed. Focus will be on orthopedic instruments, learning what they are and how they are used. You will also learn to make splints and how to apply a cast.  Help prepare yourself for a career in orthopedic surgery by stepping into the Surgical Technology lab with professionals for the week.
Be a Teacher -Early Childhood Education Careers Camp (June 10-14)
Remember your favorite book that you made your parent read over and over again to you? How much fun would it have been to have games to go with that book?  Learn to enhance a story through exploration and areas of learning such as math, science, and writing.  In this camp, you will learn teaching strategies, go on field trips, and plan activities to bring a story to life for children.  Teachers with 20 + years of experience will guide you through exploring careers in education. Learn what is needed to teach the future.
Wired for Success – Electrical & Construction Careers Camp (June 10-14) Like to watch DIY or HGTV renovation shows? With this camp you will learn skills to help avoid DIY disasters.  A licensed electrician and construction professionals with over 35 years of design, architectural, and building experience will introduce you to safety and construction skills. You will learn the basics of how to remodel and wire electrical circuits using the tools and tips of the professionals. Get enlightened about the amazing careers in the construction trades.
Kitchen Creations – Culinary Careers Camp (June 10-14) If you like watching the Food Network and love to create, prepare and serve beautiful delicious food, this camp is for you. You will learn how to properly use and maintain kitchen and baking equipment used by professional chefs to master new baking and cooking skills to impress your friends and family. Discover the secrets of our experienced American Culinary Federation Executive Chef through hands on instruction in cooking basics, kitchen safety, and nutrition while creating and tasting delicious recipes. Plus you will get a recipe book of the week’s creations.
Mini Makeover – Cosmetology Careers Camp (June 10-14) Do you enjoy helping people look their best? Whether you would like a mini makeover or want to learn professional techniques of hair styling, manicures, and more.  Sign up for this camp run by licensed cosmetologists, each with 30+ years of experience, to learn basic beauty salon procedures for hair, skin, and nail care as you explore careers in cosmetology. Learn to take care of yourself and look your best!
Did you Know that the Loveland Museum Center is located in the West Loveland Historic District?
Did You Know?
Cassie Mattia is a resident of Historic Downtown
Loveland, Ohio – Our journey continues as we take a stroll down the sidewalks of the West Loveland Historic District (WLHD) and discover the facts that make living and working there so appealing.
It may not be a surprise to Loveland residents that this historic district has always had businesses that give off an artistic ambiance. In the WLHD, there are two businesses that not only give off that Loveland artistic feel, but have also found a way to set themselves apart from other art studios. DID YOU KNOW there is an art studio that provides art classes, parties, events, after school programs, camps and art exhibitions for children and adults? For the Love of Art Studio teaches people of all ages the fundamentals of art using only the best tools and supplies. The art studio hosts birthday parties, private business events and special themed parties for adults, teens and kids. For the Love of Art has a had an overwhelming response to its after-school programs and summer camps. In the after-school art program students from ages, 8 to 14 can work with pastels, oil paint, mix media, acrylic, paper-mache and textures. DID YOU KNOW the Love of Art helps young talent pursue fashion design in their summer camps? The art studio teaches students the basics of fashion illustration and helps them create their own collections using “figure design” and watercolor pencils. Students also get the opportunity to create their very own accessories, such as fiber jewelry and a purse.
A recent work by Loveland artist Deirdre Dyson.
Another place where art is both shared and celebrated is Studio 430 & Art Gallery (formally The Art House II) located in a historic home at 430 West Loveland Avenue. Deirdre Dyson, a world renown artist known for her landscape art, turned the home into a beautiful workspace and art gallery. DID YOU KNOW Dyson has created some of the most sought-after art collections right here in Loveland? Landscapes, A World of
Deirdre and Dick Dyson invested several hundred thousands of dollars in the WLHD to create an art studio and gallery in this historic home as well as a “live-work” 2nd floor.
Light and Color, and Fall Art Show are just a few of Dyson’s collections that have been featured in the media and have been up for prestigious art awards. The public is welcome to enjoy Dyson’s art collections displayed at Studio 430 as well as use the house as an open art studio. Dyson also holds painting classes where she teaches beginners and those with experience about color mixing and how to look at images through a more creative lens. DID YOU KNOW several of Dyson’s painting are inspired by architecture and landscape in Loveland? Dyson has created beautiful oil paintings of the Loveland Historical Museum, Loveland Presbyterian Church, Loveland Market Tents, Putti Fountain Loveland, Old Broadway Loveland, Rolkes Coal Loveland, April Showers on The Little Miami and Loveland Historic Home.
Deirdre and her husband Dick also live above the gallery, living the dream of creating a live/work environment. The Dysons invested thousands and thousands of dollars in the historic home with a large addition to the back, secluded balcony and gardens, and an elevator.
The city of Loveland has always been a community that is dedicated to helping others whether that’s through hosting benefits and charities or just simply getting the word out for a greater cause. DID YOU KNOW the WLHD has two facilities that are dedicated to helping the greater good located in an iconic historic church, The former site of the United Methodist congregation? One such business in the renovated church is RecruitMilitary, founded in 1998. RecruitMilitary is a veteran-owned firm. This recruiting agency has helped more than 1.3 million veterans find careers making them the number one military-to-civilian recruiting firm. DID YOU KNOW RecruitMilitary is the largest producer of military career fairs in the country? Thus far, RecruitMilitary has held more than 900 career fairs in over 60 different markets. From these career fairs, the recruiting agency typically does at least 300 interviews with military veteran job seekers, which in turn generates on average 120 job offers. In addition to the success of the career fairs, RecruitMilitary offers more than 200,000 job opportunities on their website’s job board and has recently teamed up with Google to enhance their job search engine so that candidates will be able to find jobs more relevant to their experience.Â
Both CancerFree KIDS and RecruitMilitary are in buildings that used to be the Loveland United Methodist Church.
Another organization that the WLHD holds near and dear to its heart is a non-profit for kids that’s also located in the beautiful old church. DID YOU KNOW CancerFree KIDS has been funding childhood cancer research since 2002? CancerFree KIDS was founded by Ellen and Sam Flannery after their five-month-old daughter was diagnosed with cancer in both her eyes. Today their daughter is enjoying a normal life in college due to cancer research. CancerFree KIDS host fundraisers and events all year long to fund the most innovative research in cancer. DID YOU KNOW, since 2002 CancerFree KIDS has funded 124 research projects for a total of 4.4 million dollars? Most recently, on June 19th CancerFree KIDS gave $800,000 in research grants to projects at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital and Nationwide Children’s Hospital in Columbus. DID YOU KNOW if you visit CancerFree KIDS website you can send a “Courage Lion” to a courageous person? If you go to the how you can help tab on the non-profit’s website you can buy a 12-inch stuffed lion that comes with a personalized gift card and send it out to someone you know. With every lion sent out, CancerFree KIDS sends a “Courage” lion to a child that has been recently diagnosed with cancer. Those wanting to help CancerFree Kids have a number of options they can choose from. Those wanting to help can hold a fundraiser, purchase a raise awareness magnet, donate to CancerFree KIDS or volunteer for any of the events held by the non-profit.
A Loveland Magazine file photo of the Loveland Veterans’ Memorial taken in 2006
History runs very deep in Loveland’s roots, which is why the landscape is decorated in historical memorials. DID YOU KNOW the WLHD has a Veterans’ Memorial? Located on the corner of West Loveland Avenue and Riverside Drive in Veterans’ Memorial Park, the memorial was designed to honor the men and women who have served our country. DID YOU KNOW the Veteran’s Memorial features brick pavers with the names of local veterans engraved in them? Every year before Memorial Day people can order brick pavers to be engraved and placed in the Veteran’s Memorial. The memorial is owned and maintained by taxpayers and overseen by a Veterans’ Memorial Committee.
Each year residents come to the WLHD on Memorial Day at the Loveland Veterans’ Memorial to pay respect to men and women who “gave their all” and to those left behind to mourn. (This is a Loveland Magazine file photo from the Memorial Day service in 2009)
The Veterans’ Memorial was designed by Loveland designer, David Camele and dedicated on Sunday, November 13, 1994.
DID YOU KNOW one of the oldest family-owned funeral homes in the nation is in the WLHD?
Loveland is home to many family legacies, many of those legacies being businesses that were built by generations of family members. DID YOU KNOW one of the oldest family-owned funeral homes in the nation is in the WLHD? Tufts Schildmeyer Family Funeral Homes and Cremation Centers legacy began in 1840 in Maineville. Seth G. Tufts passed the business on to his son Oscar B. Tufts who then moved the business to a livery stable in Loveland. Eventually, in 1920 Lawrence S. Tufts, Oscar’s son, bought the property on Riverside Drive and the rest is history! Today Robert and Marilyn Schildmeyer along with their sons and grandson run the funeral home officially making them the fourth, fifth and sixth generations to help run the family business. DID YOU KNOW Tufts Schildmeyer offers more funeral options than any other funeral home in Cincinnati? Tufts offers the Traditional Complete Funeral Service, Graveside Service, Personalized Services, Funeral Director Services, top of the line Memorial Products and several different Cremation Services with four different memorialization options for Cremation.
Riverview Monument is part of the Tufts Schildmeyer Family of Services and a full-service memorial provider of top quality Granite and Bronze Memorials with full art design Department. They provide civic Memorials such as veteran memorials. They also offer personalized custom printing and can use a laser to engrave any image you choose on a memorial stone.
The Gertz law firm is at the corner of West Loveland and Wall Street in the WLHD and still undergoing a major facelift.
DID YOU KNOW there is another business that dates back to the 1800’s that is now in the WLHD? Gertz Law began its legacy in Reading with Charles and Marie Gertz. Eventually, Charlie’s son Anthony continued the Gertz legacy and opened his general law practice at the Pike Street office in Reading in 1972. In 2013 Susan Gertz (Allspach) opened a second Gertz law office location in Loveland so that Clermont and Warren County clients could easily access Gertz services. DID YOU KNOW Gertz Law has three attorneys that practice 7 areas of law? The Gertz Law Firm handles divorce and family law, probate administration, wills, trusts, and estate planning, corporate and small business transactions, real estate and personal injury.
The firm has recently invested tens of thousands of dollars into their WLHD building with such things as extensive new landscaping and rebuilding the copper box gutters.
If you are interested in visiting or finding more information on any of these businesses please see the contact information below.
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