Since 1994, our instructors have been turning campers on to science in a fun, yet educational manner. For all the budding scientists out there, High Touch High Tech is happy to offer weeklong summer science camps. We offer six different locations (Atlanta, Marietta, Roswell, Lawrenceville, Cumming) with three different age groups/themes.

Camps run from 9 a.m. – 3 p.m. at the rate of $225 per week. For more information and registration, visit www.sciencemadefunatl.net and click on the summer camp link or contact Helene Nelms, camp director with questions at 770-667-9443.

Gotta Dance Atlanta is a unique dance and fitness studio that caters to everyone! For over twenty years, the studio has provided solid technical training as well as an enjoyable and creative dance experience to age five and up from the beginning student to the professional level.

Gotta Dance Atlanta will be hosting their first annual “GDA Kidz Summer Dance Camp” beginning June 4 – July 28, from 8 a.m.-5 p.m.  The camp will emphasize on creativity through education as the students will be involved in four dance classes (ballet, jazz, modern, & hip-hop) per day, two creative arts classes which consist of photography, dance history, creation of a music video, and painting.  The camp is split up into three age groups, 5-8yrs, 9-12yrs, & 13-16yrs.  The schedule is designed to benefit the talent of the child while keeping a busy parents work schedule in mind with an early drop off as well as drop in rates for the on the go individual.  The weekly rate for camp is $90/week or $360/month, with a $50 drop-in rate.

When 10-year-old Amelia Bernhardt began to think about how hard life can be for 10 year old girls in many countries, a desire to help grew in her heart.

“I had been thinking about how blessed I am – that I get a good education, good food and I am free to become whatever I want to be.  I learned that girls my age in Nepal and other places, had to stay out of school to work or marry, even though they were children.  My mother suggested that I see what I could do to help a Georgia nonprofit that works to equip girls around the world.  She Is Safe (SIS) helps about 20,000 women and girls in some of the hardest places have the freedom and skills to build new lives.”

In October of 2010, my church, Cannon United Methodist Church celebrated their 7th year of “The Spooky to be Hungry” campaign that helps fill the shelves of the Southeast Gwinnett Co-op Ministry. Although my family has donated to this cause each year, I felt compelled last fall to personally become more active in this endeavor. Hearing stories in past years of how families in need were supplied with everyday items such as food, cleaning supplies, diapers, baby formula, and through monetary donations even being able to keep their family warm truly touched my heart. Therefore, I wanted to answer the call to represent my neighborhood and deliver “The Spooky to be Hungry” bags to the more than 100 homes in the Downs Neighborhood.

Dr Lentz with his family in 2011

Welcome to Lanier Valley Dentistry!  We are located in Hamilton Mill across from the public library and skate park. Lanier Valley Dentistry is a dental practice specializing in Family and Cosmetic Dentistry with a great focus on children’s dentistry.  For starters, we are equipped with brand new state of the art digital diagnostic equipment that reduces the risk of radiation from x-ray to children and adults to a fraction of what other conventional x-rays systems are capable of.

Is it the whizzzzzzz of the dental hand piece, uncomfortable dental chairs or the thought of needles that makes you cringe when thinking of the dentist?  Maybe it’s all of the above.  We are changing all of that…

by Jenna Scott, HEARTS for Families

Empowering your children causes them to believe that they have the power to pursue their dreams. An empowered child will grow up to be an adult who can create a rewarding life and achieve his/her goals.

Quick Tips:

• While grocery shopping: Give your kids their own shopping lists and encourage questions.
• Ask their opinions.
• When children tell you about future dreams, such as what they want to be when they grow up: Encourage them, no matter how absurd the goal.
• Apologize when you make a mistake.
• When children feel afraid or upset: Acknowledge their feelings and respect them as genuine, so they feel validated and safe to express that emotion.

This is the story of two American middle-class couples who faced what for many is an insurmountable obstacle in the path to build a family: infertility. Both families, though, had the unwavering determination to conceive a baby.

For Amy Rodiguez, the struggle with infertility began shortly after marriage, and lasted almost six years. Amy found it difficult to believe that something that should be so natural turned into the main obstacle of her life. After trying to get pregnant and failing, Amy first experimented with the simple and inexpensive things to help, but nothing happened.

After a while, the couple knew they needed help, and tried assisted reproduction or In Vitro Fertilization (IVF).  The couple soon realized that this was an expensive treatment. They spent almost $30,000 on IVF treatments, but still, there was no baby.