NY Sun Works

NY Sun Works is a non-profit organization that builds innovative science labs in urban schools. Through our Greenhouse Project Initiative, we use hydroponic farming technology to educate students and teachers about the science of sustainability.

The NY Sun Works Greenhouse Project uses hydroponic farming technology to educate students and teachers about the science of sustainability. The pilot NY Sun Works greenhouse at our own Manhattan School for Children opened in the Fall of 2010 and functions as a hands-on classroom for students from Kindergarten through 8th grade with an integrated environmental science curriculum. Every year, we host our own “NY Sun Works Youth Conference @ MSC: Discovering Sustainability Science to showcase MSC 5th-8th grade students’ discoveries in science and their understanding of environmental issues.

Inside Broadway

Inside Broadway is a professional New York City based children’s theatre company committed to producing Broadway’s classic musicals in a contemporary light for young audiences. Our aim is to pass down the rich legacy of America’s musical theatre to future generations so that the magic, music, and universal themes of the genre are not lost, but rediscovered and made relevant for today’s youth.

New York City Ballet

The New York City Ballet Education Department strives to enlighten and engage both current and future audiences through educational programs and events. NYCB reaches New York City school communities through in-school workshops, theater tours, and student matinee performances. Family and adult audiences are provided the opportunity to enhance their NYCB experience with educational pre-performance events.

Ballet Tales

Students focus on the importance of elements such as character, setting, and plot in both writing and dance. Participating classes in 1st and 2nd grade write their own original story and work with a NYCB Teaching Artist to transform their written words to movement over the course of eight movement-based workshops. Ballet Tales contributes to a greater understanding of how storytelling through dance can transcend the components of text, movement, and music, and culminates in a sharing of student-choreographed work. Each class will attend a live NYCB performance at Lincoln Center.

Lincoln Center 

At Lincoln Center Education, music, theater, dance, and visual arts are all doorways to learning skills critical to success in life. Over the last 40 years, more than 20 million people have engaged with Lincoln Center’s myriad offerings on our campus, at our affiliated schools and institutions, online, and beyond.

Carnegie Hall: Link Up

Students in grades 3rd - 5th are given the opportunity to join the orchestra in this highly participatory program, in which they learn to sing and play an instrument in the classroom and perform with a professional orchestra from their seat a a culminating concer at Carnegie Hall. During the 2022-2023 season, NYC students will participate in The Orchestra Moves.

Harmonize Kidz

The Harmonize Kidz program offers a soundtrack for learning that directly aligns with the social studies core curriculum for elementary students. The rhythm, rhyme and repetition of a song, along with its musical hook, have the power to maximize learning and teach important messages. Harmonize Kidz songs are implemented in collaboration with sign language and creative lessons to meet children where they learn best.

National Junior Honor Society

NJHS is a national organization that recognizes and celebrates students that not only have achieved academic excellence, but are active and caring leaders within their communities too. Each spring MSC invites 7th and 8th grade students to apply for admission into NJHS!

Early Relationship Abuse Prevention Program

Early RAPP is an initiative through the New York City Mayor's office that uses a healthy relationship training model to provide free and interactive prevention education to over 50 DOE Schools serving 6th-8th grade around New York City. Community Educators provide workshops to students, parents, school staff, and community organizations. Early RAPP also facilitates ongoing healthy relationship curricula and connect students and families to critical support services and counseling. MSC has had an ongoing partnership with Early RAPP since January 2020, they have been instrumental in working with our middle school students around these important and sensitive topics.

Throughout the core workshops, Early RAPP facilitates critical conversations about relationship abuse, meaningful consent, sexual harassment, boundaries and how to recognize and cultivate healthy relationships. They will also offer supplemental workshops following the four-part series including Gender Roles, Gender Identity & Sexuality, The Four I's of Oppression, Bullying, and more.