Master Leaders
For the pacesetters of tomorrow
How do we create leaders?
By rewarding optimistic thinking, teaching project planning skills, practicing confident communication, building negotiation skills and emphasizing perseverance.
We often hear that integrity is what you do when no one is looking.
Integrity deals with honesty and morality and will change the world. Unfortunately, much of our news today has to do with the lack of honesty and morals, very often within leadership.
Through our programs, our goal is to build resilience while developing a sense of responsibility we owe to each other and ourselves.
Our Master Leader Programs
Chess
Chess is so cool!
It promotes skills that can be applied to a huge variety of real-life situations.
Spatial skills are important in chess calculation due to which players calculate variations 10 moves deep, visualizing the changes and picturing a position some moves down the line. Not only does it exercise both sides of the brain, but playing chess has significant impact on memory. While fostering creativity, it will improve the student’s concentration and will teach planning and foresight.
From setting up the board, to learning how the pieces move, on to the rules, tips and tricks and we are ready for some friendly games.
Debate Club
Students who participate in debate show improvement in academics, critical thinking, confidence, communication and cultural awareness.
Our debate program focuses on education – not competition – as the goal of debates. Our students work together in teams to present supporting arguments and are provided with research materials regarding the session’s topic. Working through the research is crucial, as is learning to debate both sides of any topic, actively listening to the arguments of opposing teams, and realizing that there is more than one way of thinking about any single question.
Each week we cover a different topic, including scripts, and will provide guidance through various debate skills including public speaking, argumentation, refutation, active listening.
Some examples of the topics we cover:
- Is it right to bully a bully?
- If you put a mirror next to a candle in a dark room, do you now have twice as much light?
- Children under 14 should not be allowed on social media sites.
- All parents should be required to attend parenting classes before having a child.
Financial Literacy
In partnership with Nearpod, our financial literacy after school club brings a variety of topics every student should experience.
Curriculum includes:
- Saving & Investing
- Managing Credit
- Making Good Purchasing Decisions
- Living on a Budget
- Forms of Payment
- Buying of Goods & Services
- Menu & Grocery Shopping Math
- Web Buying & Internet Fraud
- Value of Money & Budgeting
Junior Entrepreneurs
In partnership with Nearpod, our junior entrepreneurs club brings a variety of topics every student should experience.
Topics includes:
- What does it mean to be an entrepreneur?
- What does it take to be an entrepreneur?
- Creating a business plan
- Facts about startups
- Facts about small/mid-size businesses
- Fundraising
- Sales Pitch
- Successes and Failures
- Managing and Growing a Business
- Non For Profit vs. For Profit
- Advantages & Disadvantages of Going Global
- Products vs. Services
- Exit Strategies
Science Club
Our science after school club brings a variety of topics in Earth Science, Life Science & Biology, Physical Science, Physics and Environmental Science specific to student’s age!
Topics includes:
- Volcanoes
- Earthquakes
- Natural Disasters
- Clouds
- Climate Change
- Fossils
- Tides
- Ozone Layer
- Predators
- Hammerhead Sharks
- Bacteria
- Cellular Respiration
- Forces & Motion Friction
- Skate Park Gravity
- Building an Atom
Unless otherwise stated, our programs are not generally offered to the general public but rather in conjunction with, and exclusively for students of, our private school partners.
CAMPS
This program can be used alone, or in combination with any other Masterplan AcadeME activity.
Our camps can be offered as part of the already existing holiday program organised by the school itself, or we can take care of the entire process, from planning to booking to ensuring each day of camp is the best one the student has ever had.
CLUBS
In partnership with private international schools, all of our programs are available as supplementary or after-school enrichment clubs, or as a primary topic for one-off project weeks.
We ensure that collaboration, leadership and mindfulness exercises are integrated into the curriculum where possible and appropriate.
We also offer a proprietary booking system to partner schools.
