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Audience: Grades 7-12

During this two-day workshop, Eve Kerrigan, a creative writing teacher from SchoolOne, will work with students on the basics of short story writing. This workshop is designed to encourage young writers to channel their creativity and strengthen their writing skills. Students learn techniques for developing conflict, character, and setting. Includes will provide writing prompts, short fiction assignments and feedback for creative pieces.


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Students are encouraged (but not required) to submit works to Write Rhode Island's a short fiction comptetion. The contest is open to RI students in grades 7-12. Write Rhode Island is looking for work that demonstrations creativity, technical skill, originality, personal voice and incorporates Rhode Island in some way as a theme. Stories should be 2500 or less. For details and anthologies from previous years, see the WriteRI website.

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Cost: Free
Please register by October 18.

Taught by Kristen Cumminsky.
Cost: $4 per child
For ages 6 and up.

Students will make small designs out of Perler beads to make both bookmarks and decorative pencils. All materials provided (beads, iron, hot glue, parchment paper, etc).

Just as we go to sleep at night, a whole new world of animals is waking up! Students will explore the special adaptations nocturnal animals have for surviving at night.  This is program by Roger Williams Zoo includes a presentation, an activity, and 3 animal encounters. 
All welcome.  This program is designed for elementary aged kids.

Come show off your costume!  We'll have games with prizes, dancing and a costume parade.

Cost: $5 per kid.  Max $15 per family.

To sign up for 3 or more kids, select "Number of Attendees: 1" to register your entire family.

Taught by Marcia Sirois
Ages 5 and up
Cost : $9
Sign up here

Quest is an educational incentive program that uses badges and awards to encourage kids of all ages to take their education to the next level by delving deeper into subjects they are already interested in and exploring new ideas and experiences. Written by homeschoolers, this program seeks to show kids that everything is fun and educational. These 3 weeks we will be working on the Physics Badge. The kids will learn about Force & Motion, Friction & Gravity, and Air Resistance. We will be doing 'experiments' during class time on these concepts. Some of our experiments will include paper airplanes, falling feathers, marble runs, sliding on the floor, and an egg-drop competition. Students will also be encouraged to learn more about a famous physicist at home and to read an age-appropriate book about these physics concepts. Badges (pins) will be handed out on the last class for this mini-session.

Taught by Richard Bump
Cost : $50 (90 minute class with $5 supply fee)


Safe home canning can be a skill for life. In our modern world, many kids don't know where their food comes from. In this class we will prepare a different canned item each week which the students can share with their loved ones for Thanksgiving dinner. December sessions will focus on sweet treats for the holiday season. Nut-free environment.

Please let me know if your students have any food allergies. No prereqs. We will be working with knives, stoves, boiling water and a pressure canner so kitchen safety and good listening is a must.