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KICK Camp: Welding Metal Creations
<p>Make sparks fly this summer. Learn to cut and weld steel using an arc welder and wire welder, just like the pros. Take your project home and show your friends and parents. No prior experience is necessary. Just come ready to create and make sparks fly. Projects will vary. Leather shoes, long sleeves and long pants are required. Ages 11-15. Registration is required prior to the class start date. If you have questions or would like to register, please visit <a href="http://www.kirkwood.edu/ce">www.kirkwood.edu/ce</a> or contact 319-398-1022.</p> 2021-01-15 16:00:00 -06003/15/2112:30 p.m.Kirkwood Linn County Regional CenterHiawatha -
KICK Camp: Run Your Restaurant
<p>Come experience a three-part, hands-on, interactive class exploring the world of restaurants, from concept to service. On day one, we’ll hold a discussion of kitchen etiquette, different types possible concepts, reading recipes, and democratic decision on what type of restaurant we would like to create. On day two, we prepare the foods we will create for our restaurant, run through a practice service. On our final day, each student is welcome to invite two guests to come and experience our student built restaurant. Participants will act in all rolls from server to expediter to chef. Ages 8-15. Registration is required prior to the class start date. If you have questions or would like to register, please visit <a href="http://www.kirkwood.edu/ce">www.kirkwood.edu/ce</a> or contact 319-398-1022.</p> 2021-01-15 12:00:00 -06003/17/218:30 a.m.NewBo City MarketCedar Rapids -
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KICK Camp: Chopped
<p>Do you love the TV show Chopped? Want to try your hand at our version of Chopped? We will have secret ingredients and it will be up to you to come up with a Chopped Dish. Ages 8-15. Registration is required prior to the class start date. If you have questions or would like to register, please visit <a href="http://www.kirkwood.edu/ce">www.kirkwood.edu/ce</a> or contact 319-398-1022.</p> 2021-01-15 12:00:00 -06003/15/218:30 a.m.NewBo City MarketCedar Rapids -
KICK Camp: Build Your Own Computer!
<p>Ever wondered how a computer works? Love working hands-on to create something new? Together, we'll learn about the various computer parts and discover how they function together by building your very own computer that you can take home! Come take an exciting look into what makes your computer function and how it all works! Ages 12-15 Registration is required prior to the class start date. If you have questions or would like to register, please visit <a href="http://www.kirkwood.edu/ce">www.kirkwood.edu/ce</a> or contact 319-398-1022.</p> 2021-01-15 12:00:00 -06003/15/218:30 a.m.Kirkwood Center for Lifelong LearningCedar Rapids -
KICK Camp: Young Chefs: Chinese Cooking
<p>Who doesn’t love Chinese food? Learn to create your favorites. We'll prepare eggrolls, cream cheese Rangoon, lo mein, and orange chicken. Bring containers for possible leftovers. Ages 8-15. Registration is required prior to the class start date. If you have questions or would like to register, please visit <a href="http://www.kirkwood.edu/ce">www.kirkwood.edu/ce</a> or contact 319-398-1022.</p> 2021-01-15 12:00:00 -06003/16/218:30 a.m.NewBo City MarketCedar Rapids -
Holistic Healing for Educators & Classrooms with Prairiewoods, Credit 1
<p>Have the stressors of teaching, the pandemic, hybrid-learning, and daily life affected your personal happiness and well-being? Have you experienced difficulty finding time to engage in self-care activities that may help? In this one-hour credit course via Zoom, learn “microinterventions” to use daily to reset your brain and empower you to fully show up with a compassionate heart toward yourself, your students, your family and the world. Through practices of mindfulness, self-compassion and neuroscience, begin to restore holistic healing and build resiliency, joy, optimism and curiosity, leading to health and well-being. This online course with Prairiewoods is facilitated by Kim Seward, RN, BSN, CMI, and Ann Jackson, PBVM. It provides educators and any school or university staff with research-based theory, collaborative design and opportunities to practice. A text, <em>Practicing Presence,</em> is included in the registration fee. This first credit hour will be followed by credits 2 and 3 in the summer and fall of 2021. Credit 2 (June 23–25) will offer practices of mindfulness, self-compassion and neuroscience to develop a personal classroom toolkit for use with students. Deepening your own mindfulness and self-compassion skills will also be explored. Credit 3 (fall 2021) will invite collaboration to review outcomes, provide feedback and cite next steps. The cost is $35 per credit hour, paid to Grant Wood Area Education Agency. (Due to a generous donation by the Sisters of the Presentation, Dubuque, all additional costs will be covered!) For more information or to register, contact Prairiewoods at www.Prairiewoods.org or 319-395-6700.</p>
2/26/215:30 p.m.Prairiewoods Franciscan Spirituality CenterHiawatha