Once per week

Students enjoy a morning on Lake Lugano! Activities may include paddleboarding, canoeing, or kayaking.

Cost: CHF 500

• Explore handbuilt pottery,  watercolor, collage, sculpture, textile art, crochet, and knitting.
• Visit local museums and galleries for inspiration.
• Curate a personal exhibition for the TASIS Arts Festival.

Students leave with new creative skills and see the world a little differently, too.

• Learn singing, dancing, drama, musical theater, percussion, ukulele, and more from working artists.
• Prepare an original musical to perform during the Summer Arts Festival.

The musical is one of a variety of activities that are selected during registration

• Attend an hour of Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, and Mathematics (STEAM) every afternoon.
• Focus on creative thinking and problem-solving skills.

STEAM classes are delivered in the target language.

• Learn about French-speaking countries and cultures.
• Focus on vocabulary and phrases to help build confidence.

Small classes cater to beginners, intermediate students, and advanced students.

• Learn the essentials of digital photography, including camera functions, composition, lighting, perspective, and visual storytelling.

• Gain experience editing and enhancing images using Adobe Creative Cloud.

• Capture nature, architecture, markets, and everyday life while developing both technical skills and artistic creativity during excursions around beautiful Ticino.

Photography students leave understanding how to capture moments, edit photos, and curate an exhibition of their work for the TASIS Arts Festival. Students must bring their own DSLR camera.

In this one-of-a-kind course, students engage in high-quality acting, singing, and dancing classes, working alongside professional teaching artists. Students who are more interested in the production side of theater may choose to focus on costume design, lighting, sound design, and production design. All students are encouraged to be involved in the final performance at the Summer Arts Festival. Note that there is a minimum language requirement for this track.

• Discover how science and engineering shapes the world around us.
• Challenge yourself with project-based and hands-on experiments as you design, build, and test solutions to realistic challenges, developing skills in measurement, planning, prototyping, and safe tool use.
• Explore such projects as scale models, simple machines and mechanisms, engineering design challenges, electronics, and coding. 

Students leave curious about STEM subjects, confident in their abilities, and proud of what they have made with their own hands

• Improve practical language skills and vocabulary.
• Absorb French culture through songs, films, and food. 
• Learn how France has impacted the world from fashion to football.

• Practice shaping narratives and using literary devices and enticing prompts.
• Discuss the importance of literature, including poetry.
• Strengthen your critical thinking skills.
• Visit the Herman Hesse Museum to learn about how Montagnola inspired his work.

All work is written by hand. This course is designed for to native speakers or near-fluent students who are taught primarily in English during the academic year.

This introductory course explores modern finance and leverages Lugano’s status as a leading European hub for blockchain innovation.

• Core Financial Foundations & Portfolio Building: foundations of investing, diversifying, equity, stocks, shares, and markets
• Digital Assets & Blockchain Ecosystems: digital security, blockchain technology, network security, bitcoin
• Venture Capital & Startup Dynamics: entrepreneurship, founders vs. investors, pitch decks, due diligence

The course links analytical thinking, ethics, and philosophy to real-world financial decisions. Students must bring a laptop; an iPad or tablet is not suitable

This hands-on studio course explores how artists and designers use materials, objects, spaces, and ideas to communicate, solve problems, and express identity.

• Create experimental projects through drawing, printmaking and collage using found objects, textiles, and sculpture.
• Observe how contemporary artists and designers develop ideas, collaborate, and turn concepts into tangible outcomes.
• Explore the connection between art and the real world through creative challenges and design thinking.

Students create a capstone project that develops their ability to question, experiment, communicate, and develop their individual creative voices.

This intensive summer course delves into the scientific method, technology, engineering, mathematics, biology, and chemistry. 

• Design a well-considered experiment using problem-solving skills in technology and mathematics.
• Explore the inheritance of diseases and conditions at the genetic level, and model DNA structure.
• Learn about chemical reactions, their rates, energies, and equilibria, as well as understand the factors affecting them.
• Perform data analysis and visualization using Google Sheets and Tableau.

Students will leave with more confidence in their STEM skills and inspiration to take to future science courses.

Bring your stories to life in this immersive, multi-disciplinary course focusing on the following: 

• Filmmaking Lab: the craft of film production and on- and off-screen requirements, including direction, lighting, and sound

• Screenwriting Lab: enter the writers’ room and create an original script

• On-Screen Acting Lab: learn about what is required in front of the camera

Students collaborate to create a short film and leave with a deeper understanding of the film industry and confidence in collaboration skills

• Learn the basic principles of the lean startup approach (build-measure-learn feedback loop).
• Examine how digital innovation has changed entrepreneurship.
• Create a new business with a budget and marketing plan and pitch their ideas at a TASIS “Shark Tank” in front of staff and peers.

Students must bring a laptop; an iPad or tablet is not suitable.

• Master the essentials of Italian cooking in this hands-on course taught by a professional chef.

• Cook multi-course meals daily following complex recipes, learning knife skills, food safety, and hygiene.

• Visit a number of Italian markets to source local ingredients and meet local producers and farmers. Students leave with a deep knowledge of the food culture of Italy and recipes to share with friends and family.

This dynamic course spends a week on each of the following: 

• Design Patterning and Sewing: moodboards, pattern drafting, introduction to the sewing machine, hemming and fitting

• Textiles: weaving, embroidery, fundamentals of fabrics, and natural dyeing

• The Fashion Industry: brand positioning, sourcing, supply chain, sustainability, marketing presentation

Field trips to Italian fashion houses, factories, and museums and guest lectures from some of the industry’s biggest voices help bring the world of fashion to life. By the end of the course, students will understand how to create a pattern and sew a garment.

• Learn about the disciplines of architecture and design spanning the 19th and 20th centuries.
• Create models to display at the Summer Arts Festival.
• Experience a required weekend trip to Basel and the Vitra Design museum; this trip is at an additional cost.

• Learn technical and aesthetic properties of digital photography, including camera settings, technical mechanics, and developing an eye for detail.
• Cultivate artistic confidence and develop perspective.
• Enjoy field trips around Ticino to photograph in a variety of settings.

Students must bring their own DSLR camera. 

• Create and perform in an original musical crafted in collaboration with teachers. 
• Learn from working actors, directors, producers, choreographers, and writers. 
• Study the basics of costume and set design, stage management, lighting, and direction.
• Produce a musical for your peers. 

Students are expected to either perform or participate in backstage crew for the performances.

• Improve practical language skills and vocabulary.
• Absorb French culture through songs, films, and food. 
• Enjoy a required weekend trip to Colmar to practice skills in an authentic French city; this trip is at an additional cost.

• Focus on writing structuring narrative, expository, and persuasive essays.
• Discuss the ethical use of generative AI.
• Leave with a portfolio of work to enhance school and university applications.

This course is limited to native English speakers or near-fluent students who are taught primarily in English during the academic year. Students must bring a laptop; iPads or tablets are not sufficient.

• Learn in an immersive English environment where students can practice their skills in all four disciplines: reading, writing, speaking, and listening.

• Improve confidence and fluency at all levels.

• Leave with stronger English communication skills.

Students have a weekly STEAM lesson provided by a STEAM-certified teacher during their language class time. They also participate in STEAM activities throughout the week.

Minnows Italian classes are immersed in the culture and language of Ticino, the only Italian-speaking Swiss canton. This course teaches vocabulary and phrases that children can use when off-campus (learning how to order gelato is a favorite) as well as Italian culture. It is designed for beginning or intermediate learners.

This course introduces students to a variety of French-speaking countries and cultures while focusing on vocabulary and phrases that help students build their confidence. This course is designed for beginning or intermediate learners.

Minnows offers a truly immersive English-language learning experience. English is the language of instruction and communication program-wide, and the courses offer students time to practice and build on their existing skills. Class sizes are small and cater to beginning, intermediate, and advanced learners.

• Learn Italian in Ticino, the only Italian-speaking Swiss canton.
• Focus on vocabulary and phrases to use when off-campus, such as ordering gelato!

Small classes cater to beginners, intermediate students, and advanced students.

• Improve practical language skills.
• Absorb Italian culture through songs, films, and food. 
• Focus on vocabulary and phrases to use when off-campus, such as ordering gelato!

• Learn in an immersive English environment where students can practice their skills in all four disciplines: reading, writing, speaking, and listening.
• Improve confidence and fluency at all levels.
• Leave with stronger English communication skills.

Four levels are offered. Advanced learners are enrolled in Creative Writing.

In the waterskiing sports club, students learn the basics of waterskiing, such as how to get up on the skis, stay balanced, and turn. They also learn about water safety and how to be a responsible boat passenger. As they progress, they learn more advanced skills, such as slalom skiing, jumping, and trick skiing.

Cost: CHF 500

Golf Club is designed for young golfers who are looking to improve their game. Students play two times per week and practice their skills on the driving range, pitch-and-putt, and main course at the nearby Lugano Golf Club. Equipment can be provided if necessary. Limited to five students.

CosCost: CHF 500

All students have the exceptional opportunity to work under coaches from the renowned Milan Academy Scuola Calcio as they improve their ball control and skills. Players are issued an exclusive Milan Academy soccer kit.

Cost: CHF 500

Tennis Club is for all students who wish to enhance and improve their existing skills. Students are issued a kit and are expected to bring their own racquet. Coach-to-student ratio is 1:5, with a maximum of 20 students.

Cost:Cost: CHF 500

Tennis Club is for all students who wish to enhance and improve their existing skills. Students are issued a kit and are expected to bring their own racquet. Coach-to-student ratio is 1:5, with a maximum of 20 students.

Cost: CHF 500

Golf Club is designed for young golfers who are looking to improve their game. Students play two times per week and practice their skills on the driving range, pitch-and-putt, and main course at the nearby Lugano Golf Club. Equipment can be provided if necessary. Limited to five students.

Cost: CHF 500

All students have the exceptional opportunity to work under coaches from the renowned Milan Academy Scuola Calcio as they improve their ball control and skills. Players are issued an exclusive Milan Academy soccer kit.

Cost: CHF 500

All students have the exceptional opportunity to work under coaches from the renowned Milan Academy Scuola Calcio as they improve their ball control and skills. Players are issued an exclusive Milan Academy soccer kit.

Cost: CHF 500

Tennis Club is for all students who wish to enhance and improve their existing skills. Students are issued a kit and are expected to bring their own racquet. Coach-to-student ratio is 1:5, with a maximum of 20 students.

Cost: CHF 500

Boarding students have the opportunity to participate in Horseback Riding as a Sunday club. They will learn how to care for the horses and practice trail riding. Appropriate for beginner riders and those interested in learning about horses. Limited to 6 students.

Cost: CHF 300

In the waterskiing sports club, students learn the basics of waterskiing, such as how to get up on the skis, stay balanced, and turn. They also learn about water safety and how to be a responsible boat passenger. As they progress, they learn more advanced skills, such as slalom skiing, jumping, and trick skiing.

Cost: CHF 500

The wakeboarding sports club will teach students the basics of wakeboarding, including how to start, stay balanced, and turn. Water safety is important and students will learn how to be a responsible boat passenger. As they progress, they can learn advanced skills such as switching and jumping.

Cost: CHF 500

• Learn English in an immersive environment.
• Practice and build on existing skills.

Small classes cater to beginners, intermediate students, and advanced students.

After dinner, counselors lead the children in activities that focus on teamwork and friendship. Favorite events include a luau and dance, a scavenger hunt across campus, the Ultimate Dance Off, a Harry Potter night, a game of Capture the Flag, and a Carnivale put on by the Middle School Program.

Special visual art classes allow children to express creativity through a variety of mediums, from painting to photography to ceramics. Projects are displayed at a Visual Arts Exhibition during the final week of each session.

Once a week, students visit the state-of-the-art Campo Science Center for an exciting exposure to the principles of robotics. Each session is designed to help them develop a passion for programming, problem-solving, engineering, and creativity. Working with their peers and teacher, students explore engineering concepts through teamwork, construction, and imagination.