INNOVATOR BLOG
Spring Break Drone Camp – Register Now!
Learn to fly and then test your skills on a challenging camper-designed obstacle course. Register now to save your spot. Camp runs April 3-4.
SJIC’s New Short Video Editing Class
Often when we talk about movies or television shows, we talk about the acting and cinematography in them. What is not as often talked about, though, is the editing that went on behind the scenes to create these films. Without editors spending hours upon hours...
SJIC’s 10th Annual Super Bowl Pre-game Chess Tournament
For most, February 12, 2023, was a day specially reserved for the Super Bowl. However, for chess enthusiasts at South Jersey Innovation Center (SJIC), the big day started off with a chess tournament – naturally! This is SJIC’s 10th year of hosting the pre-Super Bowl...
Drones at SJIC!
This April, South Jersey Innovation Center (SJIC) will be offering a Spring Break Drone Camp. On top of this, we will be having a week of Drone Camp this summer. But why does SJIC even care about drones? Well, drones are innovative, which SJIC loves. A drone is an...
Coding at SJIC!
CODE - it’s everywhere around us. Video games, websites, robotic vacuum cleaners, 3D printers – anything automated really — need coding in order to work. It is the language of the STEM community and the 21st century. SJIC’s Roblox Creator class uses coding to create...
STEM Fusion Class at SJIC
At SJIC our staff loves everything and anything STEM related. They recognize the important role STEM plays in society today, especially because in the last few decades, careers in STEM have exploded. Doctors, chemists, web developers, statisticians, and many more...
Grandmaster Alex Lenderman is Visiting SJIC
If you have ever played a chess game before, you can attest to the difficulty of this thought-provoking game. Now, imagine playing two, three, or even ten chess games at once. Insanity, right? Not for someone like Grandmaster Aleksandr Lenderman. (pictured above)...
SJIC’s Roblox Class!
Are your kids crazy about Roblox? Then they’ll love our Roblox Creator class! This class is for children in grades 3 - 5 who are interested in discovering the logistics of the popular Roblox video game and creating their own! During each hour-long class, students...
3D Printing at SJIC!
3D printing is a rapidly growing industry. It allows for high quality and cost-effective prototypes without the need for anyone in the middle. Because of this, it is not only a great skill set for manufacturers, but really anyone in the 21st century. In dentistry,...
SJIC is Busy Preparing for the Upcoming Math Kangaroo Competition!
South Jersey Innovation Center’s (SJIC) math students are busy working hard to prepare for the upcoming Math Kangaroo Competition! Taking place at SJIC on Thursday, March 16 2023, the competition’s test will consist of unusual and challenging problems designed to get...
SJIC’s First Lego League Robotics Competition Results!
On Saturday, January 7 2023, South Jersey Innovation Center’s (SJIC) robotics team, the Innovators, competed for the first time in First Lego League. This year’s theme was SUPERPOWERED – exploring how energy is generated, stored, and distributed. To prepare for...
SJIC Spotlight: Tatiana Ter-Saakov
Our beloved math coordinator at South Jersey Innovation Center, Tatiana Ter-Saakov, has recently won the Edyth May Sliffe Award from the Mathematical Association of America (MAA)! In short, MAA selects twenty teachers from around the nation every year to qualify for...
Nationals Highlights
It was a chess-filled weekend for many of South Jersey Innovation Center’s (SJIC) students. Here is how the National K-12 Grade Championships (also known as “The Nationals”) went this past weekend. This year's tournament broke all the past records for number of...
Math at SJIC
Its name may sound scary, but SJIC’s “Beast Academy” is nothing to be afraid of and it makes math fun! Beast Academy is a comic book-based math program for children ages 6 through 13. The program uses puzzles, word problems, and, yes, comics, to teach problem solving...
Importance of Teamwork
In the 21st century, teamwork is a vital skill to have in the workplace and beyond. Collaborating with others can increase one’s empathy and encourage thinking outside of the box and develop better communication skills. More brains collaborating on problems means more...
GM Abhimanyu Mishra Tops the Field at 2022 South Jersey Open
The South Jersey Innovation Center (SJIC) was proud to host the annual South Jersey Open/Dr. Leroy Dubeck Cup on December 4, 2022. Fifty-nine players participated in the fast-paced five-round tournament, including 24 in the top Open Section. The Open Section was...
World Correspondence Chess Champion Visits SJIC
When we think of chess, we usually think of two people sitting across from each other moving pieces in real time on a physical board. Of course, these days, millions of people also play online. For centuries, however, people have also been playing correspondence...
Player Profile: Liam Jesunas
SJIC is sending a contingent of 27 chess students to the National K-12 Grade Championships being held just outside Washington DC from Dec. 9-11, 2022 (you can read more about the Nationals here: https://incntr.com/chess/sjic-is-going-to-the-nationals/). This is the...
Player Profile: Shyla Rana
SJIC is sending a contingent of 27 chess students to the National K-12 Grade Championships being held just outside Washington DC from Dec. 9-11, 2022 (you can read more about the Nationals here: https://incntr.com/chess/sjic-is-going-to-the-nationals/). This is the...
Player Profile: Shawn Wang
SJIC is sending a contingent of 27 chess students to the National K-12 Grade Championships being held just outside Washington DC from Dec. 9-11, 2022 (you can read more about the Nationals here: https://incntr.com/chess/sjic-is-going-to-the-nationals/). This is the...