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Yokota’s Youth are Our Business!

Check out your Yokota Youth & Teen Center to register for this summer’s specialty camps!! Cheer Camp, Basketball Camp, Volleyball, Missoula Children’s’ Theater Camp and LOTS, LOTS, MORE!!

Youth Program Details

Ongoing Programs

Power Hour: Making Minutes Count
Mon-Thu • 2 to 4pm • Youth Center
Open to Youth ages 6 to 12
Power Hour: Making Minutes Count helps members ages 6-12 to be more successful in school by providing homework help, tutoring, and encouraging members to become self-directed learners.
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Presidential Award
The Award is issued by the President’s Council on Service and Civic Participation on behalf of the President of the United States to recognize the best in American spirit, and to encourage all Americans to improve their communities through volunteer service, and civic participation. For additional information, contact the Youth Center.

TRIPLE PLAY Daily Challenges
Mondays • 4pm • Ages 9-12 years
Triple Play Daily Challenges are a series of six non-competitive, challenging programs that encourage Boys & Girls Club members to increase their physical fitness. The challenges include:
• Basketball Challenge
• Jump Rope Challenge
• Invent-a-Sport Challenge
• Home Run Challenge
• Get Fit Challenge
• Walk/Run Challenge
These challenge programs are offered year-round and each challenge is divided into the following five parts: warm-up, stretches, instruction, practice and cool-down.

Torch Club
BGCA Torch Club • Mondays • 3:30-4:30pm
This club is for boys and girls ages 9-12 years and is geared to youth accomplishing activities in four core areas: service to club and community, education, health and fitness, and social recreation. Members are involved in activities that promote character and leadership development. Youth will plan and initiate ideas for trips, events and activities. They will set goals that help them to improve communication, leadership and self-esteem. Advisors will guide members by providing a positive place for youth to learn life skills. This club is chartered through the Boys & Girls Clubs of America. Torch club members are currently involved in “Project Learn”, where members read books to CDC children during the summer.

SMART Girls
Saturday • 5-6pm
The SMART Girls program encourages health, fitness, prevention and education, adoption of healthy attitudes and a lifestyle that will enable adolescent girls to develop to their full potential. Goal areas for SMART Girls are life skills, healthy eating, fitness and mentoring.
SMART Girls is a BGCA sponsored program.

4-H Photography Club
Adventures with your camera!
9-12 years • Thursday • 4pm
Participants will begin to create a portfolio of photos through communication, critical thinking and planning. Youth will learn how to use a camera with simple point-and-shoot techniques. Completion of this club can lead to opportunities to participate in local and regional exhibits.

4-H Pet Handlers Club
9-12 years • Fridays • 5pm
Participants will learn and use appropriate grooming, handling, feeding and cleaning techniques for taking care of your pet. Life skills such as planning, records keeping, sense of accomplishment and communication will lead participants to receive their pet handler’s certificate.


MEMBERSHIP
All youth participating in any youth center programs are required to be members. Membership entitles youth to many benefits including:

Use of the Youth Center and Teen Center, each with a Gymnasium

Opportunities to participate in programs and activities in a fun, safe environment w/ professional adult supervision

Wide variety of programs consisting of Social Recreation, Character & Leadership, The Arts, Health & Life Skills, Sports, Fitness & Recreation and Career Development

Affiliated with Boys & Girls Club of America and 4-H Arizona Cooperative Extension

Air Force driven programs such as Fine Arts, Photography, Torch Club, Keystone Club Youth of the Year

Three 4-H Clubs in Health, Nutrition, and Fitness,

FitFactor participation and the chance to earn great prizes!

Specialty & Sports Camps

Power Hour homework assistance program

Computers with internet access

Cultural Enrichment Trips for youth and families

Scholarships

Instructional Classes in Piano, Ballet, Tap, Jazz, Tennis, Karate and Tae Kwon Do

Sports Programs including Soccer, Flag Football, Cheerleading, Basketball, Baseball, Softball

Membership Fees per child: $36 annually

MEMBERSHIP APPLICATION
AF YOUTH PROGRAMS REGISTRATION FORM


FITFACTOR is now open to youth 6-8 years old! Get into the action and you can WIN! Click HERE for all the details!

Fit Factor is a web-based program that encourages young people to Get Up, Get Out and Get Fit! You'll see that phrase a lot around the base! You can get points for being active in a variety of ways - from team sports to household chores, you can start earning points to achieve the five Fit Factor levels. For each level you reach you earn valuable prizes! The Fit Factor levels are Energy, Strength, Agility, Adventure and Endurance.

The Fit Factor point levels are:
Energy 1,000 points
Strength 3,000 points
Agility 8,000 points
Adventure 15,000 points
Endurance 25,000 points
Feel The Power 35,000 points

You can earn up to 100 points per day by eating healthy or being active in a variety of ways. Research shows that sixty minutes of physical activity is important to live a healthy lifestyle - more than sixty minutes of physical activity is even better for you! So we listened to these experts and based our point system on this sixty-minute rule. Some activities are more strenuous so you will get more points for these than some of the other activities. The important thing to remember is that ALL activity is good for a healthy body and attitude!

So get out and get fit and you can earn GREAT PRIZES!

To sign up for FitFactor, youth under 12 years old must come to either Youth Center. Children under 12 years require a parent’s permission.


Instructional Classes

Tennis Lessons
Beginner and Advanced
Thursdays • $40 per month
2:30-3:30pm and 3:30-4:30pm
Ages 5 years and up

Karate
Okinawa Shorinryu Matsumura Seito Karate Kobudo
Tuesdays and Thursdays • $60 per month
3:30-4:30pm and 4:30-5:30pm
Ages 5 years and up

Tae Kwon Do
Mon, Tues, Fri ● 5:45 to 6:45 pm
Sat ● 1:30 to 2:30 pm
Ages: 6-16 years
$48 per month
Youth Center

Youth Piano Lessons
Times vary ●2 instructors
Ages: 5 years and older
$60 per month
Youth Center

Dance Classes
Tap, Ballet, Pointe and Jazz
Times and Prices Vary ● 3 Instructors
Starting at $40 per month
Youth Center

Weekly Clubs

Photography Club
9-12 years • Thursdays • 4pm
Participants will begin to create a portfolio of photos through communication, critical thinking and planning. Youth will learn how to use simple point-and-shoot techniques. Completion of this club can lead to participation in local and regional exhibits.

Power Hour
Mon-Thu • 2-4pm
Power Hour is an interactive, after-school homework assistance program for children ages 9-12 years. Power Hour work is conducted in a non-threatening and fun after-school environment using “Homework Helpers,” staff members and older students who supervise completion of a member’s homework.

CHESS CLUB
Fridays • 5pm • East Youth Centers • Ages 9-12yrs
This club is open to anyone who would like to learn the game of Chess, or improve your skills.

Pet Handlers Club
9-12 years • Fridays • 5pm
Participants will learn and use appropriate grooming, handling, feeding and cleaning techniques when taking care of pets. Life skills such as planning, records keeping, and communication are taught. Participants receive their pet handler’s certificate upon completion.


Torch Club
East Torch Club • Mondays • 3pm
This club is for boys and girls ages 9-13 years and is geared to youth accomplishing activities in four core areas; service to club and community, education, health and fitness, and social recreation. Members are involved in activities that promote character and leadership development. Youth will plan and initiate ideas for trips, events and activities. They will set goals that help them to improve communication, leadership and self-esteem. Advisors will guide members by providing a positive place for youth to learn life skills. This club is chartered through the Boys & Girls Clubs of America.

Triple Play Healthy Habits
9-12 years • Mondays • 4pm
Healthy Habits is designed to teach youth the benefits of eating right and being physically active. Youth will begin to adopt healthier habits through fun and engaging activities. With encouragement, participants will make positive changes in their personal health choices. Lessons include information on the Kid Pyramid, snacking, fluids, cooking and the body.

All events and activities are subject to change. For more information on any of these events, please contact the East Youth Center at 225-7441





T.G.I.F.
Fri • 3 Sep • 6-8pm
Ages 9-12
$5, Members $3
You made it through the first week of school, come celebrate with DDR challenges, Wii Bowling, pool tournaments, staff challenges, and FitFactor competitions at the Youth Center!

Youth Food Fear Factor Challenges
Fri • 17 Sep • 6-7pm
Ages 9-12 • Free
Signups from 3-5pm
See if you can challenge yourself to scarf down the nastiest tasting food you could ever imagine!

BGCA Day for Kids/World Wide Day of Play/Fit Factor Re-launch
Sat • 25 Sep • 12-3pm • Sakura Shell
All Ages • Free
Fun for the entire family! Cultural performances, prizes, refreshments, and MORE!

Grape Picking, Glass Making & Factory Family Tour
Sun • 26 Sep • 8am-5pm
All Ages
Enjoy picking a variety of grapes and eating lunch at a vineyard. Create paper weights at our traditional glass making factory.