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Sailing trips, motorboat tours, kayaking adventures, and inshore fishing expeditions on the lower Eastern Shore.
The Family Nutrition Program’s mission is to teach limited-resource families and youth how to make healthier food choices and become better managers of available food resources for optimal health and growth. Our programs focus on basic nutrition, physical activity, safe food handling, and thrifty food shopping.
-Eating Smart, Being Active (ESBA) is the primary curriculum for adult programs that we use throughout the state. ESBA lessons encourage adults to make healthy nutrition and lifestyle choices. The program is discussion-based, includes hands-on activities like cooking and meal planning, and offers practical advice for making healthy behavior changes.
-In the Kitchen is designed to help caregivers of children ages 12 and under with basic cooking skills, including knife safety, food safety, recipe reading, and simple cooking techniques.
The Family Nutrition Program is offered through Virginia Cooperative Extension, an educational outreach partnership between Virginia Tech and Virginia State University.
Youth football and cheerleading
Our mission is to support the food allergy community with current information, a collective voice, and a venue to contribute to research.
- Food Allergy Workshops in Schools
- Section 504 Educational Seminars
- Food Free Trunk-or-Treat Event
- Eggless Easter Scramble
- Grandparents and Food Allergies 101 Workshop
- Teal Pumpkin Painting Party
- Teen Food Allergy Talk
The Virginia Legacy is a full-service soccer club that is home to recreational, developmental and travel soccer teams, providing opportunities for youth soccer players of all ages and abilities.
Girls Traveling Fastpitch Softball Team
Virginia Legends Walk's purpose is to honor great Virginians, past and present, who have made significant contributions to our nation and the world.
BACK in 2026! Wild Explorations - Season of Discovery is back at the Virginia Living Museum. Plan your visit here!
Plan your next visit to The Virginia Living Museum, where you will encounter more habitats, wildlife and plant species than would be encountered in a lifetime of outdoor adventures in Virginia. The exhibits of The Virginia Living Museum showcase all of the state’s regions from the upland coves of the Appalachian Mountains to the salty offshore waters of the Atlantic Ocean and feature more than 245 different animal species.
Visitors enjoy hands-on activities, observatory, planetarium, outdoor boardwalk, native plant and conservation gardens, and 250 living species. Birthday parties available. Spring and summer camps. Homeschool Programs.
Find information on camp programs at The Virginia Living Museum on this link.

Variety of martial arts and fitness classes, from infant to adult. Summer camps and birthday parties available
The Virginia Museum of Contemporary Art offers a variety of classes and camps for children and teens ages 2 -17. Preschool Art Classes available. Regularly scheduled Free Family Fest events. Free admission to the museum for Virginia residents.
Enroll your young artist in Summer Art Camp with Virginia MOCA at our NEW LOCATION! Children and teens ages 2–17 will enjoy captivating and unique hands-on art experiences led by knowledgeable art educators. Campers will engage with a variety of artists, creative media, techniques, and more through exciting and memorable art activities.
Virginia Opera performs a full season of opera in three separate venues (including Norfolk) and reaches more than 150,000 students and community members each year through its innovative Education and Community Outreach Program.
Overnight nature and adventure summer camps throughout the state of Virginia.
Our practice has been providing vision care in Hampton Roads for over 40 years, and our staff includes both pediatric ophthalmologists and pediatric optometrists. Our doctors have cared for thousands of patients, are leaders in advancing research, and are active on the faculty of Eastern Virginia Medical School.
A range of programs for high school and home schooled students: hands-on classes, career exploration and coaching, and opportunities for high school students to enroll early in college classes.
Family, Senior, Wedding and Event Photography, videography and traveling event photobooth.
Mommy & Me, Intro to Dance, Ballet, Contemporary, Jazz, Tap, Hip Hop, Tumbling, Baton
Recreational and competitive youth soccer in Va Beach. Instruction for kids 2-5 available through the Mighty Mites program. Camps available. Competitive youth soccer offered on the Peninsula.
As a homeschool co-op, we have parent and teacher involvement in education. We aim to provide a biblically-based educational environment and to help parents raise a healthy and maturing love for Jesus in their children. The program is a 51% parent and 49% teacher-led program as a homeschool co-op. This keeps the program in the homeschool category and is therefore NOT a private school. There is in-class teaching and independent work that the student is responsible for. A combination of teacher and parent involvement in each student’s education is needed for the student’s success.
Virginia Space Coast Scholars is a FREE program for high school sophomores that focuses on STEM concepts central to NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility and the Mid- Atlantic Regional Spaceport.
The program includes an online course with five modules running from November to March. Top students may be invited to a seven-day residential academy at NASA Wallops on Virginia’s Eastern Shore, where they engage with NASA professionals and explore current missions.
Virginia Space Flight Academy provides Six Co-Ed Residential Camps for ages 11-16
The Virginia Earth System Science Scholars (VESSS) program is an interactive online science, technology, engineering, and mathematics learning experience for Virginia high school juniors and seniors, highlighted by a seven-day residential summer academy at NASA Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia. Students selected to participate in the program are immersed in NASA-related research, focusing on the Earth’s responses to changes in climate, weather, and natural hazards, through interaction with scientists, engineers, and technologists.
From school visits and spaceport tours, to workforce development and internships- VA Space offer a variety of STEM opportunities at VSA for anyone looking to learn more about the work they do.
Virginia Spaceport Authority hosts a job shadowing day and internship opportunities at the World Trade Center in Norfolk for high school students.
Not able to make it out to our facilities? No worries! Fill out one of the following forms to request a classroom visit from our Education department. We're ready and excited to teach your classroom about all that we do at the Virginia Spaceport Authority!
Sports museum with multimedia and interactive exhibits, as well as displays honoring Virginia sports stars.
