180 acres on Ft Lauderdale Beach. Environmental hands on science program and noncompetitive sports. Certified teachers as counselors. Exciting canoe trips.
New York City's Broadway Artists Alliance Returns to Ft. Lauderdale, FL! BAA provides professional level training for promising young musical theatre artists ages 10 to 21. Participants are given the
In choosing Camp Live Oak, an American Camping Association Accredited Camp, you are selecting an outdoor, environmental, hands-on, daily experience for your child, unique to Florida's history, culture
Camp FLA is a spcial camp in a special place. Over the year, Fort Lauderdale has been the CAMP OF CHOICE for thousands of young swimmers from accross the USA and all around the world. The camp emphasizes the basics, as well as the absolute latest in sports psychology, motivtion, skills, drills, training techniques, dry land training, flexibility, nutrition and temwork. At Camp FLA, campers learn to HAVE FUN working hard and playing hard. Hard workk, great technique, and a great attitude make great athletes and great young people.
Florida Aikikai has been teaching Aikido to children and adults for over 30 years. Our unique kids summer camp is located in the Holiday Park Activity Center in the center of Fort Lauderdale. Aikido is an effective form of self-defense that promotes concentration, self-discipline, flexibility, balance, confidence, and fitness. The camp day includes Japanese craft and cultural activities such as calligraphy, meditation, origami, Japanese language, tea ceremony, Manga, weapons forms, games, sushi-making, Anime and much more. You are welcome to visit our school and your kids can even try a class for free. Please see our website for a schedule of classes or call for more information.
All workshops taught by local professional artists and teachers, these workshops offer focused instruction geared toward developing skills and knowledge of a particular medium or subject.
History of Fort Lauderdale, Florida The area in which the city of Fort Lauderdale would later be founded was inhabited for more than a thousand years by the Tequesta Indians. Contact with Spanish explorers in the 16th century proved disastrous for the Tequesta, as the Europeans unwittingly brought with them diseases to which the native populations possessed no resistance, such as smallpox. For the Tequesta, disease, coupled with continuing conflict with their Calusa neighbors, contributed greatly to their decline over the next two centuries. By 1763, there were only a few Tequesta left in Florida, and most of them were evacuated to Cuba when the Spanish ceded Florida to the British in 1763, under the terms of the Treaty of Paris , which ended the Seven Years' War. Although control of the area changed between Spain, United Kingdom, the United States, and the Confederate States of America, it remained largely undeveloped until the 20th century. The Fort Lauderdale area was known as the "New River Settlement" before the 20th century. In the 1830s there were approximately 70 settlers living along the New River. William Cooley, the local Justice of the Peace, was a farmer and wrecker, who traded with the Seminole Indians. On January 6, 1836, while Cooley was leading an attempt to salvage a wrecked ship, a band of Seminoles attacked his farm, killing his wife and children, and the children's tutor. The other farms in the settlement were not attacked, but all the white residents in the area abandoned the settlement, fleeing first to the Cape Florida Lighthouse on Key Biscayne, and then to Key West.