Learn embroidery basics while creating personalized textile art. Students practice stitching techniques and creative design. To ensure that our high-quality enrichment classes are accessible to all families, Minneapolis Community Education offers fees on a sliding scale. The class fee is the average cost of providing a class. Families are asked to pay the class fee or pick a price that they can pay. When families participate as they are able, at all levels of our sliding scale, the whole program becomes self-sustaining. Thank you for your consideration as you register for summer programs!

Do you feel stuck? Do you feel like you are always making the same mistakes? Have you lived your life and wondered why you are the way you are? What have your finances got to do with your personality? In this two-part class, you will be introduced to the enneagram model. Beth Beaty, certified enneagram teacher, will help you figure out your enneagram type and explore how that might impact your relationship with money. Second class, Marcia Alexander and Aaron Jones, financial advisors, will look at financial decisions and enneagram types. This is a great opportunity to learn big things and ask scary questions – in a welcoming, supportive and fun environment.

Transform your new or small business into a success while minimizing your risks. Begin by exploring the latest methods for planning your business and generating ideas. Use a checklist to help you set up your business. Then, learn to create a business plan by assessing feasibility and preparing management and financial plans. Follow a step-by-step approach to attract and retain customers, with a focus on customer-driven marketing decisions and brand building. Identify the abilities that successful entrepreneurs possess and how to acquire them, set goals to establish your business, develop an outline for your plan, and learn techniques for managing and marketing your new business. Courses: Entrepreneur Boot Camp The Business Plan Entrepreneurial Marketing Courses are online and asynchronous, meaning students may login to the classroom anytime during the course session, day or night, 24/7. For more information, go to our Online Professional Development Certificates & Courses FAQ Class details: Entrepreneur Boot Camp Unit 1: What is an Entrepreneur? Checklist For Going Into Business Are You A Potential Entrepreneur? Success, Self-Esteem and Goals Brainstorming Business Ideas Unit 2: As You Start Your Business Selecting A Legal Structure Licensing And Registrations Planning Your Business Unit 3: Using Technology The Essential Eleven Computer Skills Marketing Strategies Internet Opportunities Unit 4: Managing Your Business Financial Statements Record Keeping And Taxes Grants And Government Programs The Business Plan Unit 1: Getting Started—Refine your concept and begin your plan Prepare your concept statement—What, Who, Why, When, and How. Identify product/service features and benefits. Identify limitation, liabilities, and regulations. Write your Business Description and evaluate it against a Business Description checklist. Unit 2: Prepare the Marketing Plan Conduct an industry and competitive analysis. Perform a market analysis and identify target markets and a market penetration strategy. Identify your pricing strategy. Write your Marketing Plan and evaluate it against a Marketing Plan checklist. Unit 3: Prepare the Management and Financial Plans Identify key people and positions, duties and responsibilities. Determine funding needs and sources. Create sales and expense estimates. Write your Management and Financial Plans and evaluate them against checklists. Unit 4: Complete the Business Plan and Assess Business Feasibility Polish the plan and add final elements—Cover Page, Executive Summary, Table of Contents. Evaluate business plan against checklist and identify items in need of additional work. Assess business against feasibility checklist. Identify next steps. Entrepreneurial Marketing Unit 1: The Customer as the Driver Marketing Decisions Framework Positioning Your Product or Service Marketing Strategies and Goals Unit 2: Communicating Value to Customers Key Selling Messages Creating Emotional Connections Personal Selling Networking: Your 30-Second Introduction Unit 3: Creating a Strong Brand Managing the Marketing Mix Marketing on a Shoestring Budget Your Marketing Calendar Implementing Your Plan Unit 4: Building Customer Relationships Tools to Meet Your Strategic Goals Online Opportunities and Social Media Checklist Generating Buzz: Word-of-Mouth Marketing Measuring Effectiveness

Build your very own escape room by inventing booby traps, hiding clues, and making up a fun storyline! Test each other's rooms out at the end of the week. Register your child for a morning class and an afternoon class and we will provide lunch and supervision free of charge from 12-1 pm. When signing up for the morning class, you will be able to choose the option “Stay for free lunch and recess from 12:00 – 1:00 pm” as you complete your registration. To ensure that our high-quality enrichment classes are accessible to all families, Minneapolis Community Education offers fees on a sliding scale. The class fee is the average cost of offering a class. Families are asked to pick the class fee or the price that they are able to pay. When families participate as they are able, at all levels of our sliding scale, the whole program becomes self-sustaining. Thank you for your consideration as you sign up for summer programs!

Escape Rooms - Reed (Calling all investigators! You'll work collaboratively to solve problems and exhaust all possibilities as you learn about escape rooms and design your own!

Does buying a home in an uncertain economy make sense? Learn how to navigate the home buying process step-by-step, including information about government grants, first time buyer programs, how to avoid lemons, and maximizing your money to get the best deal possible.

Does buying a home in an uncertain economy make sense? Learn how to navigate the home buying process step-by-step, including information about government grants, first time buyer programs, how to avoid lemons, and maximizing your money to get the best deal possible.

Interest rates have risen significantly. How does this translate to the real estate market? Is it convenient to buy? This class will provide knowledge through statistical data and inform you of different ways to take advantage of this market, including government grants and first time buyer programs.

An attorney will share how to plan for your future, discuss assets distribution and how to ensure your intentions will be carried out. Topics include wills, trusts, powers of attorney, health care directives, real estate deeds and define probate. Fees collected for this class help cover administrative costs and are not paid to the instructor. This class is priced on a sliding fee scale. Please pay the price you are able. This helps to ensure that Community Education can provide quality opportunities for all of our participants.

Tour public art by bicycle. We will start with an overview of the University of Minnesota and Minneapolis Public Art Programs. View public art along Mississippi River parks Sheridan Veterans Memorial, Memorial to Survivors of Sexual Violence and others, Main Street 6th Avenue Stroll, and the East Bank Campus Crucible, Platonic Figure, Site Index, Spannungsfeld, Garden of Iron Mirrors, etc. A 12 mile ride, primarily on paved trails, taking 2 1/2 to 3 hours. Tour starts and ends at Sheridan Memorial Park (1300 Water St. NE). Bring your own bike and helmet. Tour leader Greg Ingraham is a local artist, former landscape architect and planner and self professed “bike weenie”. His public art focuses on functional items such as benches, bicycle racks, way-finding and gateways. If event is sold out, please add your names to the waitlist. We will contact you if tickets becomes available.

This is a class that will be about exploring three types of Watermedia painting: Watercolor, Acrylic and Gouache. The objective is to learn and explore each form of Water media, explore subject matter and technique. Ultimately to choose media, subject matter and create your own aesthetic in these choices.

Early morning drop off care from 8:15am to 9:15am. Students can participate in activities like open gym, low-key games, drawing and reading. To ensure that our high-quality enrichment classes are accessible to all families, Minneapolis Community Education is now offering fees on a sliding scale. The different prices reflect the average cost of offering a class as well as a discounted option and options that help us cover our administrative costs. Fees cover instructor pay, most class supplies, program materials, marketing and scholarships. Families are asked to pick the price that they are able to pay. As always, we will continue to offer additional financial assistance upon request. When families participate as they are able, in all levels of our sliding scale, the whole program becomes self-sustaining. Thank you for your consideration as you sign up for summer programs!

The end of life is not just a physical event; it is a profound spiritual and existential journey of meaning and connection. This course offers a non-religious approach to navigating this final chapter by giving people the language and tools to find peace, purpose, and dignity. Based on the educator's experience serving as a chaplain in hospice, we will explore how to have deep, life-affirming conversations about death and dying without relying on any specific faith tradition. This is an invitation to tell the most loving and coherent story we can about our existence, and one that fully encompasses our final moments. The goal is to move toward the end of life with love, joy, hope, clarity, and a sense of completeness, whatever one's personal beliefs may be.

Discover the magical land of fairies and gnomes through crafts and adventures. All you need is a bit of faith, trust, and pixie dust to find the enchanted, hidden world of the nymphs. To ensure that our high-quality enrichment classes are accessible to all families, Minneapolis Community Education offers fees on a sliding scale. The class fee is the average cost of providing a class. Families are asked to pay the class fee or pick a price that they can pay. When families participate as they are able, at all levels of our sliding scale, the whole program becomes self-sustaining. Thank you for your consideration as you register for summer programs!