My son enjoys his weekly lessons and with the smaller group setting he gets many opportunities to…read morepractice improving his skills. The staff are all so wonderful with the kids. I highly recommend Diventures, the skill level the teachers have are amazing.

I had the pleasure of visiting DiVentures to buy a BCD this week, and I had a great experience…read more Marty and (I'm totally forgetting her name!) helped me try out a variety of Zeagle BCDs to find the one that fit perfectly. These BCDs are cool because you can swap parts to really customize the fit, and they spent so much time assembling and disassembling vests for me to try, to make sure I got the one that worked best for me! The store is small (for now, a full size store is in the works!) and carries a limited range of high quality offerings. They also organize trips all over the world! If you visit, don't forget to inquire about the Land Locked Scuba Club! They have trips to local (ish) quarries and fun stuff like underwater pumpkin carving.

My daughter went into Mathnasium after struggling to memorize math facts and came out LOVING it!…read moreThis place is fantastic. My daughter actually begs me to go which is a testament to their teaching methods for sure. I would highly recommend it!

Great environment. The teachers and staff are extremely kind and care deeply about the well being…read moreand education of the children. Materials are hand crafted creatively by the teachers. There are quite a few custom built pieces like benches, drinking fountain, pergola, and little house for the kids to play in.

1. They are careless about COVID guidelines--the staff often do not wear masks or do not cover…read moretheir noses. COVID exposure seems to have forced them to close down for some time in Summer 2021. 2. There are not many activities: the children run about the "garden" aimlessly, screaming at each other.

This pseudo-park is part of the Coralville Central Elementary School and is absolutely fantastic on…read morea sunny day. The small creek that runs through it sets a very nice background for a park with a number of small seating areas and a very nice, though slightly out of place, bridge that crosses the stream about 50 feet from a road that does the same. A bike path through Coralville traverses the park and makes for a lovely segway between neighborhoods as you bike or run through. As it is part of the school, it's not ideal to go during school hours as they use it for outdoor class, but after hours or on the weekends it makes a great spot for some dog time or just relaxing with friends and enjoying the outdoors.

I am so grateful to have found this place. After receiving a recommendation from my son's preschool…read moreteacher that a speech evaluation might not be a bad idea I started calling around. I was impressed how responsive and thorough the intake phone call was. We did a free evaluation and moved forward with a full assessment. For both assessments my son saw Haley Bell and after leaving asked when he was going back. Haley has made an amazing connection with my son and he looks forward to seeing her twice a week. He has made quick and significant improvements in his speech and I know this will only help him continue to grow and gain confidence in his ability to connect with others and be understood.

Kirkwood Learning Center holds various computer and language seminars. I attended some graphic…read moredesign seminars and since it was a technology-based seminar, I thought the lab would be well equipped, but yikes! The lab was stocked with 2010 PCs that were of course painfully slow. I luckily had brought my own equipment but others in the seminar were less prepared and suffered severely - the lab's computers were simply unable to keep up with the pace of our discussions. From a comfort standpoint, the chairs were also excruciatingly overdue for an update. Overall, not what I expected from a tech lab. I know other Kirkwood labs in the surrounding area have recently received brand new computers, so hopefully the Iowa City lab is up next for an overhaul.

Had a visit at the University of Iowa College of Law on the main campus at Iowa City. Very nice…read morebuilding on the west side and right on the Iowa River...large roomy building with a small parking lot on the premises. The Boyd Law Building is sort of like a circular space ship with a dome on top. Since it is circular, most of the classrooms are build like wedges of a pie...with the rows of seating narrowing as they come down to the professor...this is a really neat design and wastes no space. The lecture and seminar rooms were very nice and up-to-date, furnishings and technology all up to snuff. The moot courtroom and other specialty rooms were also very nice. It is obvious Iowa is reinvesting in its property. The law library takes up a triple wide wedge of the back of the building and is located on four floors. While the Iowa Law library does have a number of tables and other seating arrangements around the place, they are distinguished by having an individual carrel with locking shelves for each and every student. This was a very neat idea for the students. In other areas of the building are all the administration and faculty offices. Iowa Law is well ranked in all the ratings and the faculty is well regarded. The school is a force in law schools and not just the Big-10...it has some national stature. We were out looking at law schools and stopped by for a visit...our self guided tour of the facilities was wonderful. The admissions people were welcoming and interested in us even though we showed up unannounced. As the major program at the State's flagship school they don't have to take a back seat to anyone. A neat choice for law school in Iowa

We enjoyed the engineering campus tour since we were looking specifically for an engineering major…read more This review is only around the introduction to all of Iowa's eight engineering programs that the school offers. See https://engineering.uiowa.edu/ If you are planning to choose another engineering major outside one of these, then you may want to look at other universities. The school has a small engineering program with about only less than 10 percent of their student population from what I remembered. The school recent built this new and larger sized building which holds all of the students and you have 24/7 access to the building if need a place to study and spend time with classmates. It looks as if the engineering students really care about the school and they had good professors which could give the student good guidance since the classroom sizes would be smaller than other colleges that only focused on engineering. Nearly all universities have small classroom sizes if they don't have a large population of students in the engineering program so you need to understand that. No school is perfect. The are a few downsides of the school where the student resident halls are farther away from classes over other universities, and I didn't see many student around campus near the engineering school although it could have been the days or the areas that we visited. Also, the school has lower ethnic diversity which is different from the schools that we attended which are very distributed across all ethnicities. It seems that many of the potential engineering students where from Iowa and that we had an all American farmers or rural feel from the families that we saw. There is nothing wrong with this and just providing some observations. Note that most large and higher ranking universities are located in rural areas and what is more important is having many students with different life experiences is what makes the school great. On a positive note, the school offers more scholarships over many universities and so you would really consider school based on the cost and the good education you could obtain from the school. This lowers the cost so it was competitively priced. We would have attended the school since it was our second choice although we did get accepted to another school. You are welcome to message me if you are looking into universities in the area and need recommendations. I would suggest to apply to ten universities within your intended major within a 2-4 hour drive from where you live. Please hit the thumbs up below if you found value to this review. Give some feedback if you have some thoughts on this. Swipe left to see my other reviews and hit the thumbs up for ones that you do like.

I went to the University of Iowa Medical Education Building for a Medical Study on Nicotine…read more Parking was slim. I was excited to arrive 40 minutes early but I was unable to find this building and ended up collecting 3 University of Iowa faculty members over the course of 50 minutes trying to find this place. So even though I was 40 minutes early, I ended up being 10 minutes late. Thank goodness we finally found the place which was definitely an older brick building (hidden behind a surrounding of bigger Univerity buildings) with a grey and metallic monotone interior which you could tell was aged. The hospital study went well and I ended up receiving $100 for an hours worth of work...so that was cool. I have done other hospital studies in other University buildings as well that had a similar outcome.