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Afterschool Homework Club

Olive Children Foundation's Afterschool Homework Club is an everyday leadership-based, afterschool enrichment program. We serve the whole student in a multicultural environment with high caliber professionals in order to educate and nurture our future leaders. The small class setting allows us to provide a good student to teacher ratio... View More

Competitive Speech & Debate

Competitive Speech & Debate is designed to introduce middle school students to the advanced level of debate. The goal of this class is to teach students how to: think critically about different topics/issues, conduct research, organize their thoughts, construct formal arguments, write up a basic debate case, present their arguments... View More

Young Leaders - Do the Right Thing

Olive Children Foundation facilitates the KidsCare Club, a weekly service learning program, developed specifically for elementary-aged students, in order to promote awareness, leadership, and philanthropy. Our goals and objections are to... View More

RESULTS: Concord Cup
19 December 2012
Olive competed at the Concord Cup this past Saturday 12/15/12 at Ygnacio Valley High School. The tournament featured Novice and Open divisions of Parliamentary and Public Forum debate. Our school's students did very well, closing out Novice Public Forum completely, winning gold and tying for first place in Novice Parliamentary, and winning 1st Place School [...]

Harker Middle School Tournament
11 December 2012
Hopkins Speech and Debate team took the six 1st places in speech and debate events at Burnett Middle School Speech & Debate tournament on 5/19-20. These awards include experienced Lincoln Douglas, experienced Public Forum, and regular Public Forum debate events [...]

Rev. Dempsey-Cronin Invitational @SCU
02 December 2012
Olive just finished competing at the Rev. Dempsey-Cronin Invitational @ Santa Clara University which was held just before Thanksgiving, Friday 11/16 through Sunday 11/18. Olive fielded 38 students in the competition. Below is a list of students that made it to elimination rounds and placed at the tournament. [...]

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Young Leaders Presents - Kids Night Out!
21 January 2013
Kid's Night Out is an evening of childhood magic. There will five short fairytale-based plays performed by elementary school students in either silhouette puppet or paperbag puppet form. All preschool and kindergarten-aged students are welcome! As a culminating community service [...]

Young Leaders Service Learning Projects 2012
21 January 2013
The young leaders at Olive this year (2012) completed a great deal of projects to better the community. They held bake sales to raise $288 for "No Kid Hungry", held "Halloween Mini Carnival" to raise $650 for Hurricane Sandy, held "Be a Joy Maker" to raise $450 for 36 toys and donated to Toys for Tots, and more. [...]

Lego Robotics Weekend Classes Held by IHS Robotics Club
21 January 2013
Robotics Club from Irvington High School is going to hold the Lego Robotics Class from 2/16 – 4/16 every Saturday from 9:00 – 12:00 pm at Olive Children Foundation, total 8 classes. The target age group for this class ranges from grade 4-8, and there are only 20 spaces available. Flyer [...]