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Build and operate a workshop within “Little Big Workshop'', a business simulation video game that provides you with an opportunity to be an entrepreneur and business owner. Students gain experience forming, maintaining, and expanding your business skills by exploring all facets of providing value to customers and clients. You establish milestones and work toward completion, identify opportunities to innovate through R&D, provide a thriving work environment, track inventory, build customer trust, and develop financial skills. Expand on the skills to create and implement a product production plan. Be prepared for failure (bankruptcy) and success. Checkout the video at: youtu.be/gaJEOPT8PQ0 to learn more about this fun and habit-forming game. Before the first class, students are required to download Steam at: https://store.steampowered.com/about, set up an account, purchase the game “Little Big Workshop” and try out the game. Bring your account information with you to run the game on school provided laptops that you use during class time and return at the end of each class.

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Let’s Make Mousse (Not Mouse)

with Steven Watts

Nov
14

November 14th, 2024

$58 More Info

In this class, Steve will teach you how to make four different kinds of mousse; dark chocolate, white chocolate, Baileys Irish cream, and fresh lemon. In addition to these wonderful desserts, you will also learn how plain gelatin is used to stabilize your mousse. Materials fee of $30 is due by cash or check, made out to the instructor, at the start of class.

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Holiday Sugar Cookies

with Steven Watts

Dec
19

December 19th, 2024

$58 More Info

Learn to make a basic sugar dough and royal icing, then create your own beautifully decorated sugar cookies. Your instructor will provide hundreds of cutters to try, or bring your own to work with. Take home the product of your learning and labor. Materials fee of $30 is due by cash or check, payable to the instructor, at the start of class.

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New to Gardening in Maine

with John Fromer

Dec
17

December 17th, 2024

$38 More Info

Maine can be a challenging place to garden. Our season is short, our soil is questionable and if we didn't have rocks, we wouldn't have anything to stand on! Still, Maine is a wonderful place to garden. Come to this class to learn what we can grow and when, where to find resources, how to get a soil test, and what gardening by the sea is like. Learn about our native plants, weather cycles, soils, pests, and local resources. It will be a good place to start, so bring your questions!

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Bread Plaque

with Steven Watts

Dec
12

December 12th, 2024

$58 More Info

In this class, we will each make and bake a festive holiday bread plaque measuring 16" x 12". Using a variety of cut bread shapes and your family name, we will then paint it all to create a unique and fun decoration. Materials fee of $30 is due by cash or check, payable to the instructor, at the start of class.

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PLEASE NOTE: OUR FALL 2024 CLASS HAS BEEN CANCELED!  WE WILL OFFER THIS CLASS AGAIN IN THE WINTER/SPRING 2025 SEMESTER. This in person, instructor-led Intuit-approved course, using Windows OS is geared for beginning/intermediate users. Students will learn to navigate one of the most widely used accounting software applications for small businesses. QuickBooks is an enormous aid in paying bills, invoicing, tracking expenses, paying sales tax and creating reports to better manage a small business or company. This course provides the MOS certification pathway (no expiration) for interested students, and they may elect to take the official exam when ready. Call the Adult Ed office for separate purchase details of the required printed textbook/eBook which accompanies this course. Please note: In class, students will use MCST provided laptops, but all students will need Windows OS operating computers at home in order to do homework assignments.