Kids Baking 101

CRN: 80022 | 1 session, M (July 18) 9-10:30am

** This class is full. If you have any questions, please contact Dana Chacon at 815-835-6294 or dana.j.chacon@svcc.edu ** Let’s Bake! Join other aspiring bakers in the SVCC cafeteria kitchen for baking and decorating. Learn basic skills and techniques like measuring, mixing, creating, and decorate delicious sugar cookies. Each student will receive a fun baking kit to take home. Ages: 8-14 SVCC Room 2K2 Instructor: Jennie Janssen $29 (supplies included)

Kids Baking 101

CRN: 80035 | 1 session, Wed (July 20) 9-10:30am

Let’s Bake! Join other aspiring bakers in the SVCC cafeteria kitchen for baking and decorating. Learn basic skills and techniques like measuring, mixing, creating, and decorate delicious sugar cookies. Each student will receive a fun baking kit to take home. Ages: 8-14 SVCC Room 2K2 Instructor: Jennie Janssen $29 (supplies included)

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Griddle Cooking

CRN: 80023 | 1 session, Tu (July 19) 9-10:30am

** This class is full. If you have any questions, please contact Dana Chacon at 815-835-6294 or dana.j.chacon@svcc.edu ** Future chefs will learn to prepare delicious and simple meals using a griddle. Create an amazing pancake breakfast including homemade specialty fruit sauces and whipped cream. Using basic safety and cooking techniques, student will gain knowledge to use at home. SVCC Room 2K2 Instructor: Jennie Janssen Ages: 8-14 $29 (supplies included)

Griddle Cooking

CRN: 80036 | 1 session, Th (July 21) 9-10:30am

Future chefs will learn to prepare delicious and simple meals using a griddle. Create an amazing pancake breakfast including homemade specialty fruit sauces and whipped cream. Using basic safety and cooking techniques, student will gain knowledge to use at home. SVCC Room 2K2 Instructor: Jennie Janssen Ages: 8-14 $29 (supplies included)

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Trauma ABC First Aid

CRN: 80024 | 1 session, We (July 20) 9-10:00am

Safety First! Students will learn basic assessment skills and treatments for trauma patients. They will attend to a car accident patient, complete assessment checking pupils, lung sounds, heart sounds, blood pressure, pulse and temperature. Students will learn how to provide basic care to injuries. Ages: 9-14 SVCC Room 3K04 Instructor: Micki Dettman $20 (supplies included)

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Nature Embellished Photo Frame

CRN: 80025 | 1 session, Th (July 21) 10 - 11:30am

Love nature and creating? Find beautiful and nature elements of nature to create a one-of-a-kind work of art. Join others to create an embellished matboard frame utilizing objects found in nature creating an all-natural work of art. Ages: 10-14 SVCC Dillon Mall Instructor: James Brown $15 (supplies included)

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Photography Forced Perspective

CRN: 80026 | 1 session, We (July 20) 11-12:00pm

Aspiring photographers create photos using Forced Perspective photography techniques. Forced perspective is a technique used to trick the eye by creating an optical illusion through making an object appear closer, further away, larger, or smaller than they are. Students will work individually and in a group and will use objects to create optical illusion images through the exploration of vantage points. Students will need to bring a cell phone or digital camera. Ages: 12-14 SVCC Room 3K04 Instructor: Danielle Eychaner $15

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Light Painting Photography

CRN: 80027 | 1 session, We (July 20) 12 - 1:00pm

Light painting is the capturing of moving light in a photographic image using painterly motions to create a light drawing. Students will learn how to utilize light and slow shutter speeds in low light settings to create their own light drawings. Ages: 12-14 SVCC Room 3K04 Instructor: Danielle Eychaner $15 (supplies included)

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Cynotype Photography

CRN: 80028 | 1 session, We (July 20) 2 - 3:00pm

Photographers are creative using new and interesting methods. Cyanotype photography is a photographic printing process that uses physical objects placed on a paper coated and dried with light sensitive chemical exposed to the sun, producing a Cyan blue print. Create an amazing photographic element using this technique. Ages: 8-14 SVCC Room 3K04 Instructor: Danielle Eychaner $15 (supplies included)

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Storytelling with Basic Spanish

CRN: 80029 | 4 sessions, M-Th (July 18-21) 9 - 10:30am

¡HOLA amigos! Love storytelling and Spanish? Learn basic Spanish through fun, interactive storytelling. Students will listen to a simple story, learn the limited vocabulary, and answer questions or learn responses. Understanding and using past and present tense, students will be able to read and write a new story by the end of the week. Ages: 10-14 SVCC Room 2L06 Instructor: Kathy Heitzler $49 (supplies included)

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Crime Lab Chemistry

CRN: 80030 | 4 sessions, M-Th (July 18 - 21) 10 - 12:00pm

Who done it? As a crime lab chemist, you will attempt to determine which black pen was used to write a ransom note. Students will use actual chromatography paper and chemistry principles to analyze chromatograms and determine which suspect is guilt. Ages: 10-14 SVCC Room 3H18 Instructors: Kelly Reul and Amy Abell $79 (supplies included)

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FUN with English

CRN: 80031 | 4 sessions, M-Th (July 18 - 21) 11 - 12:30pm

Learn about different aspects of the English language - the funny, odd, and/or quirky kinds of words and phrases we have in our language. We’ll look at anagrams, spoonerisms, puns, palindromes, malapropisms, oxymorons, and a few more. There will be word exercises and computer games. This will be about the FUN part of English: warning, there may be laughter! Ages: 10-14 SVCC Room 2L06 Instructor: Kathy Heitzler $49 (supplies included)

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DIY Workshop

CRN: 80032 | 4 sessions, M-Th (July18-21) 1-2:30pm

Creativity and fun is combined in this hands-on class. Join us for a series of DIY workshops, and explore your creative side. Students will Tie Dye t-shirts, create their own body care products, design duct tape fashion, and assemble a fitness activity jar.   Ages: 8-14 SVCC Dillon Mall Instructor: Heather Grobe $59 (supplies included)

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Space Exploration

CRN: 80033 | 4 sessions, M-Th (July 18-21) 2:30-3:30pm

Exploring space at SVCC is a fun, educational, and interactive class where future astronauts will learn about space exploration, gravity, how the moon smells and launching rockets. Ages: 8-14 SVCC Room 2K02 Instructor: Gregg Ripley, Solar System Ambassador for NASA $49 (supplies included)

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Dana Chacon
Career Services and Community Education Program Coordinator
815-835-6294
dana.j.chacon@svcc.edu