Community Education - Rochester, Minnesota

Explore your imagination this summer with this camp featuring some of our favorite Abrakadoodle projects. Make sand art, create a jumping frog, paint a colorful canvas, make egg carton animals, and more. Create amazing pieces of art! It is sure to be a good time! Please bring a beverage and a nut-free snack.

Want to learn how draw better? Draw everything from dogs to cartoons! In this fun camp we’ll draw a silly squirrel, a colorful cow, a beautiful cityscape, and more using drawing techniques that bring your art to life. Grow your confidence in your drawing ability and create unique art. Bring a beverage and a nut-free snack.

In this camp, we will have fun using art materials and science to create some cool special effects. We’ll experiment with tinfoil, shaving cream, glow-in-the-dark paint, chalk, glue, salt, and watercolor to make interesting and colorful creations! We’ll make cupcakes on canvas with puffy shaving cream frosting, create art that glows, and try our hand at foil embossing and more in this camp full of art experiments. Bring a beverage and a nut-free snack.

If you love clay, this is the camp for you! Learn all about sculpting, color mixing, and decorative design. This summer we’ll make 3D clay cupcakes, cool coil pots, air-dry clay owls with a bright oil pastel finish, a gentle giraffe, clay faces, and more. We’ll use air-dry and Model Magic clay, unique materials, and clay tools to create our sculptures. Bring a beverage and a nut-free snack.

Design your own unique fashions for yourself and your room using tissue paper, duct tape, rhinestones, and more. Create a shiny decoupage box with rhinestones to hold your treasures, design a purse, make a fancy bag for your stuff, create a beautiful bracelet, sculpt a mermaid, or paint a colorful canvas for your room. Invite your family to a fashion show on the last day to show off your creations. Bring a beverage and a nut-free snack.

For kids that just want to have fun making super cool creations! A camp filled with fabulous art projects! We'll make a paper mache puppy, learn to draw a loon, weave on paper plates, paint a colorful canvas, sculpt a llama, and more. This camp is sure to fill quickly. Bring a beverage and a nut-free snack.

This class is for beginning riders, starting with balancing on the bike. If you have a bike already, bring it! If not, bikes will be available to borrow. The curriculum has been developed by the Bicycle Alliance of MN. Attendees who are successful in learning to ride will receive a bike, helmet, lock, and lights. The classes will be held at the Civic Center South Parking Lot, 401 4th St. SE Rochester, MN 55904.

After completing four sessions (16 weeks) of Experienced Authors, students are invited to continue their journey in writing. These four-week sessions will focus on larger, more complete works of writing, including short stories, chapters, novellas, and full novels.

Advantage Educational Programs provide an introduction to the ACT format and strategies for answering questions, as well as instruction for the specific subject areas to be tested. The course is designed for students who wish to improve their test-taking skills and overall score on the ACT college entrance exam. This course is intended primarily for students in 10th through 12th grade, however, students in other grades may still register. Focal points of the program include: diagnostic testing, science reasoning, intensive mathematical review, reasoning comprehension improvement, concentration improvement, overcoming test anxiety, and time management. Please bring notebook paper, pencils, calculator, and a small 3-ring binder or folder.

The Online ACT Prep Course is an excellent alternative for any student unable to attend in-person classes or for students who prefer to prepare for the ACT exam at their own desired pace. Pre-recorded slides and videos from Advantage instructors guide students through strategies, techniques, drills, and intensive subject matter reviews that help increase scores on the ACT. Once enrolled, students will be sent an access code for their class via email. This code will allow them to access course material anytime. Students may also repeat this course at no extra charge. Please use your Google email account as the primary email address when registering. Participants will receive more information regarding class access in their course registration confirmation.

Advantage Educational Programs provide an introduction to the ACT format and strategies for answering questions as well as instruction for the specific subject areas to be tested. This course is designed for students who wish to improve their test-taking skills and overall score on the ACT college entrance exam. This course is intended primarily for students in 10th through 12th grade, however, students in other grades may still register. Focal points of the program include: diagnostic testing, science reasoning, intensive mathematical review, reasoning comprehension improvement, concentration improvement, overcoming test anxiety, and time management. This virtual classroom meets one day each week for four weeks and is taught live, via Zoom by an Advantage instructor who provides instruction and interaction with the students. Internet connection and access to a computer or laptop is required. Class recordings are available for students who need to make up a class.

Natural water cremation has been legal in Minnesota since 2008. Join us to learn why it’s becoming a more popular choice for final disposition as we gain a better understanding of our carbon footprint and the environmental effects of flame cremation.

Here we go! What’s more fun than going window shopping? Experience learning American Sign Language at four different locations in Rochester with Stacy and Jesse. Come with a basic knowledge of sign language and build your vocabulary, improve your respective skills, and have lots of fun. Once registered, you will be sent a list of the locations. Please bring paper and a pen or pencil.

Scholarships Available Families with financial need can request that the fee be waived for after-school activities at Dakota, John Adams, Kellogg, and Willow Creek Middle Schools. Families may or may not be awarded financial assistance based on eligibility or availability of funds. Click the "Enroll Now" button on this page for more information. We are 21st Century Community Learning Centers. Dakota, John Adams, Kellogg and Willow Creek are grateful for the support of our community in providing high quality programs outside of school hours. This program is partially funded with a grant from the Minnesota Department of Education (MDE) using federal funding, CFDA84.287, 21st Century Community Learning Centers. This program does not necessarily represent the policy of the federal Department of Education or MDE and you should not assume endorsement by the federal or state government.

Scholarships Available Families with financial need can request that the fee be reduced for enrichment activities. Families may or may not be awarded financial assistance based on eligibility or availability of funds. Click the "Enroll Now" button on this page for more information. This scholarship form is for Preschool Enrichment classes only.