ODAEP Dance Programs offer Contemporary Jazz & Hip-Hop, African, & Musical Theatre. Classes are geared towards learning cutting-edge choreography for video in addition to improving technique, body conditioning, and improvisation, as well as developing style, stage presence, and confidence. Students also work in small groups to create their own routines that are featured in a live theatre performance.

ODAEP’s Vanguarde Student Ventures is a project-based youth entrepreneurship program that gives students advanced business and technical skills training while teaching them how to develop original business concepts and corresponding marketing plans. The ODAEP-VSV curriculum emphasizes student creative exploration and soft
skills development which will ultimately prepare them for success in the world of business and in work.

ODAEP's IDEA Mechanics program provides a unique graphic programming language optimized for touch screen devices. Student users create applications on a smart device by dropping and ordering blocks on a screen, then executes the commands to a paired robotic rover by pressing the play button! Behind each visualization is real exportable code, thus ensuring every part of the ODAEP-IDEA program maintains academic rigor and offers maximum educational value.

ODAEP signature Arts Education programs combine visual and performing arts instruction, along with leadership development training, and 21st Century skills building. ODAEP Arts Programs include but are not limited to: Contemporary Jazz & Hip-Hop, West African Dance and Drumming Programs, Hip Hop Poetry and Musical Theatre, for elementary, intermediate, and secondary school students.

ODAEP Theatre Arts programs employs a research based approach combining performing arts education, leadership development, and 21st Century skills building practice for High-School-Aged students. ODAEP Theatre Arts engages students via theatre games, role play, and interactive group discussions aimed at building core communication skills while examining subjects such as self-image, conflict resolution, and more.

#SheWINS is a unique ODAEP program designed to serve young women on the brink of success, helping them develop social, emotional, and professional awareness through self-exploration. By building self-confidence and their unique voice #SheWINS participants become catalysts for life-long positive change. ​

ODAEP Media Entrepreneurship program is an innovative media literacy program that educates and exposes youth to advanced media technology and career opportunities by bringing them together with industry professionals to produce original projects in the form of Public Service Announcements (PSA’s). Students also learn how media can be used entrepreneurially by analyzing and visiting local business case studies for “real-world” publishing and monetization strategies.

My 1 Change (M1C) is a unique social media education program for students interested in becoming effective change agents in their community. The vision of M1C is to use the digital upbringing of youth as an access point for developing students from diverse backgrounds into capable communicators and leaders who work to create a more welcoming and inclusive society. M1C is therefore a call to action--empowering students to focus on the “1 Change” they can directly effect as an important contribution to broader and sustainable change in our communities.