Kids "Staycations" Program
This brand new program that we are offering to the community will hopefully address the community need for youth programming during school vacations. Whether you want your child to learn how to cook, try out a new career, participate in recreational sports or become engaged in academic enrichment we have a solution for you! Beginning this year, Minuteman Community Education will operate two Kids “Staycation” programs during school vacation weeks in February and in April. Our Kids “Staycation” programs will run February 16 – 19, 2010 and April 20 – 23, 2010. We offer morning and afternoon programs, for children in grades 1 through grade 8, in academics, computers, practical skills, the arts and athletics.
Reasonable accommodations are specified as out of the ordinary needs relating to a person's medical, physical, mental, or developmental condition or disability. A student requiring reasonable accommodations can either request services on the registration form or by calling the Community Education Office at 781.861.7150. Minuteman will make every effort to accommodate a student's needs.
Programs Offered:
Arts and Crafts Explosion
We will experiment with a wide range of crafts, including chocolate making, glycerin soap making, stepping stone mosaics and decoupage.
Baking for Kids — FULL
This hands-on baking teaches you everything, from proper recipe reading and measuring cup use to decorating a cake with basic designs. Go home with mouth watering bakery treats such as cinnamon rolls, brownies, cookies, muffins, cakes, quick breads and much more!
Basketball School
The Basketball school emphasizes the development of fundamental skills. Daily lectures, individual and group drills, and controlled scrimmages are utilized during a typical day. Each student may also play two competitive games per day. Foul shooting contest, hot shot competitions, and two-on-two tournaments are scheduled for each age group division.
Budding Biologists
Students will think critically, develop investigations and carry out experiments as they record details of the life cycles of plants and animals, and explore how organisms adapt to their habitats. This course will focus on developing critical thinking skills, asking questions and making predictions. As students conduct simple investigations they will learn how to keep accurate records, compare their results, recognize simple patterns in their data and communicate their findings.
Cooking for Kids
Put on an apron and pull up your sleeves! You’ll be cooking in a professional kitchen and making lots of goodies. Of course you’ll get to sample your cooking and you’ll want to bring some home for your family!
Creative Metal Welding
You’ve seen it on American Chopper and Overhaulin’; now learn how to MIG weld and use metal forming equipment using a process that dates back to the Bronze Age, 2,000 years ago, to see how it impacts your everyday life!
3 Dimensions of Drafting and Design
Work in the latest 3D modeling and AutoCAD software to design a house, skateboard, bicycle, or your own unique creation. Use Bridgebuilder to construct a bridge and 3D Home Architecture for a state-of-the-art room design.
Engineer’s Workshop
Build a robot using Lego’s and “write” a computer program to control it. We’ll generate unusual and eerie sounds through electronic circuits that we’ll “breadboard.” Explore the field of Photonics, by working with LASERs. We’ll discover how all the projects that you’ve created, really work.
Minuteman Sports
Each day, students can select up to three different sports (each activity period will last for 50 minutes). All activities are electives; no one will be required to participate in an activity in which s/he is not interested in.
Mario Style Video Game Creator Delivered by RoboTech Center®.
Enjoy playing Mario games on the Nintendo? Make your own Mario style game with sprites, backgrounds, enemies and projectiles. Create a CD with of your game and share your game with friends and family. No programming experience required. This program will run 8:30 AM—3:00 PM.
Food Service Hours
Food and snacks will be available to purchase during the following times. Prepay lunch for all 4 days for $25.
Morning Break: 9:45 AM - 10:15 AM
Lunch: 11:15 AM - 12:30 PM