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LEWISTON — Enrichment classes for families and children will return for the summer at Lewiston Adult Education, featuring staff from Bates College, the Maine State Library and 4-H. Museum L-A has become the newest partner with Lewiston Adult Education; the local nonprofit organization will host a class in August.
All the courses are free, but registration is required.
Lewiston Adult Education began offering classes for families in 2016 as a way to help keep local children involved and interested in science and the humanities during summer vacation.
A visit to the Ladd Planetarium at Bates College will take place 7 p.m., Monday, June 25. Nicole Hastings, an assistant in instruction in the Physics Department at Bates, will teach a class about looking for stars, planets and constellations in the night sky. The Ladd Planetarium is in Carnegie Science Hall, 44 Campus Ave. The class could include using a telescope outside but is dependent on weather conditions on the night of June 25.
Laura Personette of 4-H will teach a number of hands-on classes during the summer, including lessons on making a glider, building a miniature bridge and creating a small boat. Chris Dorman of the Maine State Library will present a program on air-propelled rockets. The class, which will go outside for launches, shall also require students to wear protective goggles.
The last class of the summer will be held Wednesday, Aug. 1, and feature Museum L-A providing a hands-on demonstration to explain how fabrics are spun and woven and how they connect to Lewiston’s manufacturing past. The Museum L-A class will be held at its location, 35 Canal St. Aside from this and the Bates class, all the remaining classes will be held at Lewiston High School on East Avenue.
The schedule of summer enrichment classes has been distributed to local elementary schools and posted on Lewiston Adult Education’s website. For more information about the classes or to register, call Lewiston Adult Education at 207-795-4141.
PHOTO: Chris Dorman, a technology librarian at the Maine State Library in Augusta, will be one of the returning teachers for Lewiston Adult Education’s summer enrichment for families. She will teach an air-propelled rockets class Wednesday, July 18. Dorman was teaching a robotics class in this 2017 photo. (Submitted photo)
