With clients like Citgo, Conoco, and PPG, fifteen-year-old Bart Glatt became one of Louisiana's youngest professional photographers. Now you, too, can take professional quality pictures with your camera using these simple rules and suggestions.

Financial Fitness for Life® - Young children relate to stories and experiences of children just like them! Financial Fitness for Life® lessons for our young 1st-2nd grade students have a strong emphasis on narrative drama, and physical representations of economics and personal finance concepts. Students will engage in a variety of activities, including art, games, and music to learn about economics concepts such as opportunity costs, decision making, and the importance of savings.

The 2013 Summer Engineering Academy is designed for high school students (entering 11th and 12th grades)interested in pursuing science and engineering careers. The Academy intends to give students a broad exposure to engineering disciplines (chemical, civil, electrical and mechanical) by getting them involved with hands-on projects dealing with real life engineering issues. Weather permitting participants will also have the opportunity to visit the STARLAB Portable Planetarium and use a variety of telescopes to observe the night sky.

The residential option includes room, board, transportation during the camp and lab supplies.

Do you want your child to be an independent thinker who will be able to make connections across the curriculum? Help your child get a jump start on third grade! Your child will experience fun and exciting hands-on activities and experiences directly related to the new common core standards that your child will be facing in the new school year. By getting better with creativity, thinking skills, critical thinking and problem solving-----Your child will leave with a hatful of tricks that will make 3rd grade a MAGIAL Year!

Get started right by learning the basics of a good golf swing. Wear golf or tennis shoes and bring a five or seven iron if available. Balls and some clubs will be furnished.

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A class where creative minds can come alive and really show the world what is in their heads.

Student needs no experience, although a will to learn and a creative imagination are welcome. Getting started with the basic shades, shapes and anatomy are fundamental and will be taught early on. A three to four-page comic will be the main goal. Total creative liberties are given to the students; if they think it, they draw it.

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Use your own pictures to create a digital story using software that can be downloaded right on your own personal computer for FREE. The story can be saved to a DVD to play through your television. Don't miss this extraordinarily fun class to help create your next digital story!

Financial Fitness for Life® - Elementary students are intellectually and playfully curious about their world and how it works! The Financial Fitness for Life® Lessons for elementary school students emphasize narrative drama and physical representations of economics and personal finance concepts. We use a variety of role-playing activities and games to identify various occupations, we teach students about entrepreneurs and business opportunities, and provide scenarios in which students learn which method of payment is appropriate in a variety of situations.

Every wondered how to draw a person? This class will show you with many small easy practice projects. We'll learn about drawing faces, bodies, hands, and feet!

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The human body is extremely complex, not only as a whole, but at the molecular level. When one enters a division of the health field, it is important to understand answers to many complex questions. Do you understand precisely why you: 1) need to be careful what you inhale,

2) need to drink a lot of water, 3) should avoid extreme noises, 4) have to wear sunscreen lotion, 5) look in both directions and back again before crossing the street, 6) do not like the same foods when you are young as when you are older, and 7) people cross their arms differently than others? As you learn answers to these questions, it is likely that you may realize more fully which branch of the health field most interests you. For example, if you are interested in the mouth: Would you enjoy: cleaning teeth, taking x-rays, whitening teeth and explaining oral hygiene to patients, curing mouth disorders; repairing teeth with fillings; or straightening teeth. Each one of these examples requires a different educational pathway and a different type of expertise. What direction will your take to use your talents?

Are you ready to get moving and have fun doin it?!?! Come join "Fitness Fun" at Kids College. We will be learning ways to stay healthy and active, while having fun at the same time. We will be exercising, playing individual and large group games and activities.

Dress in comfortable clothes, preferably shorts and t-shirts (no skirts or dresses, please). Also, wear your most comfortable tennis shoes and be ready to have fun!!

We can't wait to see everyone at "Fitness Fun!"

Are you ready to get moving and have fun doin it?!?! Come join "Fitness Fun" at Kids College. We will be learning ways to stay healthy and active, while having fun at the same time. We will be exercising, playing individual and large group games and activities.

Dress in comfortable clothes, preferably shorts and t-shirts (no skirts or dresses, please). Also, wear your most comfortable tennis shoes and be ready to have fun!!

We can't wait to see everyone at "Fitness Fun!"

Are you ready to get moving and have fun doin it?!?! Come join "Fitness Fun" at Kids College. We will be learning ways to stay healthy and active, while having fun at the same time. We will be exercising, playing individual and large group games and activities.

Dress in comfortable clothes, preferably shorts and t-shirts (no skirts or dresses, please). Also, wear your most comfortable tennis shoes and be ready to have fun!!

We can't wait to see everyone at "Fitness Fun!"

Use flip camera techniques you'll learn in this class to create your own personal movie. Shoot and share all your favorite memories as they happen with the sleek and fun to use Flip Video™ Camcorders. Capture high quality videos anytime and anywhere. The flip camera techniques will be a great way to start the camera rolling into action. Don't miss this extraordinarily fun class to help create your next digital story!

Through many hands-on activities , you will use forensic science techniques to discover and interpret clues in several ‘crime scenarios’. Topics include fingerprint, soils, liquids, and blood analysis. You will also examine ‘skeletal remains’ to determine age, race and sex of unknown victims.

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Learn some basic Spanish vocabulary and useful phrases through songs, stories, skits, games, and puzzles. Experience Hispanic culture in shopping, dress, musical instruments, dance, puppets, toys, and crafts. Find out how to celebrate Hispanic holidays, and end the week with a fiesta and a pinata.

Bring a sack lunch if going to a 1 p.m. Kids College/McNeese Teens class. You will be walked to your next class.

Learn some basic Spanish vocabulary and useful phrases through songs, stories, skits, games, and puzzles. Experience Hispanic culture in shopping, dress, musical instruments, dance, puppets, toys, and crafts. Find out how to celebrate Hispanic holidays, and end the week with a fiesta and a pinata.

Bring a sack lunch if going to a 1 p.m. Kids College class. You will be walked to your next class.

Help your little one get a jump start on their math skills this summer. Join us as we explore addition and subtraction using touch points, time and money using role play, and many other math skills using mini-lessons, games, and activities. Our small group setting will allow us to have some hands-on fun while learning.

Class limited to 10 students.

Start your child on the road to reading this summer with our First Grade Phonics Clinic. We will review kindergarten skills, as well as introduce new first grade skills. Come explore consonants, blends, vowels, word families, and much more as we create games, flip cards, and story books that will build your child's fluency. Your child will be taught over 50 high frequency words and learn how to unlock many new words as we interact in our mini-lessons in a small group setting.

Class limited to 10 students.

Your 4th or 5th grade child will become a more in-depth thinker by using fun and interesting “Weird but True Facts”. These fun facts will spark student interest and provide jump start lessons that will include projects in math, reading, science, and writing. No more knowledge based learning as students are challenged to come up with strategies and ideas that will help raise their bar to “BRAIN”iaic status.

Learn how to Pop, Lock, and Drop to the latest and greatest hip hop tunes. You'll get great exercise while having lots of fun!

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Learn how to Pop, Lock, and Drop to the latest and greatest hip hop tunes. You'll get great exercise while having lots of fun!

Learn how to Pop, Lock, and Drop to the latest and greatest hip hop tunes. You'll get great exercise while having lots of fun!

Learn how to Pop, Lock, and Drop to the latest and greatest hip hop tunes. You'll get great exercise while having lots of fun!

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Financial Fitness for Life® - The high school student is ready to learn about career choices, spend money, and choose credit wisely! We appeal to their growing sense of autonomy and help them take responsibility for their own lives with Financial Fitness for Life® Lessons specific to grades 9-12. We engage in a variety of activities and games, including The Millionaire Game, which teach students about the characteristics of millionaires. We also explore budgeting, saving, and auto purchasing.

Does your child seem to forget to turn things in on time? Do you want them to be organized? Are they not listening in class? Does he or she know the best ways to study?

These sessions are intended to enrich all students in every subject. Study skill tips that help the student become a more efficient learner will be discussed in detail. A low-stress environment will encourage and uplift each student.

Some of the many things we will cover:

Organization

Listening

Note-Taking

Test-Taking Tips

Stress Management

Does your child seem to forget to turn things in on time? Do you want them to be organized? Are they not listening in class? Does he or she know the best ways to study?

These sessions are intended to enrich all students in every subject. Study skill tips that help the student become a more efficient learner will be discussed in detail. A low-stress environment will encourage and uplift each student.

Some of the many things we will cover:

Organization

Listening

Note-Taking

Test-Taking Tips

Stress Management

Dive into making video games with Gamemaker. This is a great way to get your feet wet with making 2D video games (if you get good enough, they might port your game to iphone and Android!) Your gamemaker sensei will be McNeese student, Sean Hicks.

Do you love Jewelry? Come join “Jewelry Making,” and learn to make your own. We will be learning fun techniques on how to design and make bracelets, earrings, necklaces, ankle bracelets, etc.

Do you love Jewelry? Come join “Jewelry Making,” and learn to make your own. We will be learning fun techniques on how to design and make bracelets, earrings, necklaces, ankle bracelets, etc.

Do you love Jewelry? Come join “Jewelry Making,” and learn to make your own. We will be learning fun techniques on how to design and make bracelets, earrings, necklaces, ankle bracelets, etc.

Spark your imagination...jumpstart your creativity by playing with words! Be led through a series of super fun activities guaranteed to produce a portfolio of pieces you'll be proud of! Each participant's final product will be at least one piece of writing to read to an audience of parents and friends (and enter in a writing contest!)

Internationally recognized magician Bart Glatt teaches how to use coins, cards, books, sponges, tissues, pencils and other common household objects to amaze and amuse your friends. Bart has performed for over 2,000,000 people in 10 countries over the past 40 years.

For over 40 years Bart Glatt has used masks and makeup to create hundreds of characters ranging from zombies and ghouls to Spock and Michael Jackson. Now, as the official greeter at The Lost Hollows he and his friends will share with you the makeup magic that can transform you into a skeleton, rotting corpse, alien, or one of the living dead!

We are going to gain painting skills through fun projects. We will explore different painting techniques brush paintings, dot paintings, and finger paintings.

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In this class we will look at the Adobe program Photoshop. You'll learn the basic tools, how to alter pictures, and even create art!

Learn the basics of how to speak in front of people, organize a speech, handle nervousness, be prepared to speak, audience etiquette,and much more.

You will be learn how to speak calmly and confidently in front of your class, school, or a larger audience after learning these techniques.

You will learn how to recognize credible and non-credible sources using digital media resources and useful reliable academic databases that are available free for students. Learn the importance of citing sources and much more. This course will be taught in a computer lab.

Students will explore the areas of chemistry, magnets, sound, light,

electricity and simple machines by doing hands-on experiments. Have

fun learning science and get a boost on LEAP.

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Financial Fitness for Life® - While giving pre-teens and just-teens confidence to set goals and research options, the Financial Fitness for Life® Lessons for older students illustrate certain uses of abstract representations! A variety of activities, including developing criteria that students think would make a good products and services to meets their needs; deciding which activities are better suited to careers or hobbies; and learning how important planning is to the success of any goal or event.

Nancy Melton's Splash Dance with Watercolor!

Come get wet! We will splash away as we have FUN creating special watercolor paintings. Paint will be dripped on, poured on, and something new – splashed on with pipettes! As pigments combine in magical ways, beautiful paintings result. Subjects will range from cute frogs to uncanny sunsets. Turn your child with the creative spirit loose! Give him the opportunity to study great masters as he creates a masterpiece himself!

Limited Enrollment!

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Lights, Camera, Action. Create your own movie using Movie Make with Windows Live Movie Maker. You can quickly turn your photos and videos into polished movies. Add special effects, transitions, sound, and captions to help tell your story. And sharing with friends and family is easy. Have fun watching your movie you created in the living room with family and eating popcorn while watching the movie you created.

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Students will learn about how and why we see things, study the movements of objects in the sky, and learn about shapes in the sky.

Note: The activities will be correlated to the New Generation Science Standards that were released in April, 2013.

NO GUM OR CANDY ALLOWED!!

SHOES WILL BE REMOVED BEFORE ENTERING PLANETARIUM!!

Students will learn about how and why we see things, study the movements of objects in the sky, and learn about shapes in the sky.

Note: The activities will be correlated to the New Generation Science Standards that were released in April, 2013.

NO GUM OR CANDY ALLOWED!!!

SHOES WILL BE REMOVED BEFORE ENTERING PLANETARIUM!!!!!

Students will experiment with color and light, learn to find their way around the sky with a star map, find out how many stars are in the sky, and model moon phases and eclipses.

Note: The activities will be correlated to the New Generation Science Standards that were released in April, 2013.

NO GUM OR CANDY ALLOWED!!

SHOES WILL BE REMOVED BEFORE ENTERING PLANETARIUM!!

Students will experiment with color and light, learn to find their way around the sky with a star map, find out how many stars are in the sky, and model moon phases and eclipses.

Note: The activities will be correlated to the New Generation Science Standards that were released in April, 2013.

NO GUM OR CANDY ALLOWED!!!

SHOES WILL BE REMOVED BEFORE ENTERING PLANETARIUM!!

Students will experiment with color and light, learn where the solar system is located in the Milky Way, model moon phases and eclipses, and learn the reasons for the seasons.

Note: The activities will be correlated to the New Generation Science Standards that were released in April, 2013.

NO GUM OR CANDY ALLOWED!!!

SHOES WILL BE REMOVED BEFORE ENTERING PLANETARIUM!!

Students will experiment with color and light, learn where the solar system is located in the Milky Way, model moon phases and eclipses, and learn the reasons for the seasons.

Note: The activities will be correlated to the New Generation Science Standards that were released in April, 2013.

NO GUM OR CANDY ALLOWED!!!

SHOES WILL BE REMOVED BEFORE ENTERING PLANETARIUM!!

Do you like to use your imagination? Do you like to make up stories and create art? In this class you'll learn more about how to tell stories about the things that interest you most, whether you want to tell fantasy, science fiction, or real to life stories. Throughout the week, we'll work on writing our own story books and illustrating them, too. At the end of the week, we'll get a chance to share our new story books with the class.

Using the laws of physics, design your own superhero powers in this fun class!

Using the laws of physics, design your own superhero powers in this fun class!

This Mythology class will focus on the Myths of Greece and Rome; the student will become acquainted with the 14 Olympians, their symbols and attributes.

The Classical Virtues will be introduced in the context of the Greek world. The students will practice writing the Greek Alphabet and learn to recognize the names of several of the Greek Gods and Goddesses in Greek. If time allows, the four adventure heroes will be covered: Theseus, Perseus, Jason, and Heracles.

Get your child’s second grade journey started! Through this thinking safari, students will reinforce math and reading skills they learned in first grade and learn how to transfer these skills into fun and exciting hands-on activities that will get them thinking like second graders. Through this journey, students will get ready to tackle the new common core standards by getting better with creativity, thinking skills, critical thinking and problem solving. Don’t miss this WILD time!!!!!

Wake up your imagination by responding to writing prompts, art, nature, and music. Learn fun ways to give and receive feedback. Publish your best piece in a class zine! Enter a writing contest!

Do you like to write? Come create something new (or polish up an old piece)in response to writing prompts derived from authentic workshop activities by published authors. Learn ways to give and receive feedback in an informal workshop setting. Find out about upcoming local, state, national, and international student writing contests and publishing opportunities.

Do you like to use your imagination? Do you like to make up stories and create art? In this class you'll learn more about how to tell stories about the things that interest you most, whether you want to tell fantasy, science fiction, or real to life stories. Throughout the week, we'll work on writing our own story books and illustrating them, too. At the end of the week, we'll get a chance to share our new story books with the class.