Challenge Island – Fremont

Specialties

Challenge Island is a whimsical, wildly popular enrichment program that promotes creative and critical thinking skills in children. Loosely based on a well-​known reality TV show, our program divides kids into cooperative tribes to take on a vast array of exciting challenges set on action-​packed thematic islands. Our innovative programming reinforces STEM (science, technology, engineering, and math) and core language arts skills. Contact us today to learn more!

History

Established in 2009.

Challenge Island Founder and Creator, Sharon Duke Estroff M.A.T. is an award-​winning educator with over two decades of teaching experience in Atlanta public and private schools. She is the author of the popular parenting book Can I Have a Cell Phone for Hanukkah? (Random House) and a feature parenting and education writer for numerous national publications including Woman’s Day, Good Housekeeping, Parents Magazine, and Huffington Post.

Sharon created Challenge Island while on maternity leave with her fourth child. Maxed out on late-​night reruns of a popular, realityTV show, she began wondering if the same basic principals (minus the voting and island part) could become a means of motivating her students to take on complex higher level thinking tasks. She poured everything she’d learned about children into developing this idea, incorporating cutting edge research and educational thought. By the time her daughter graduated from 3 am feedings, Challenge Island was ready for primetime. It