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You Win with these Fun Courses!

• Robotics Programming and Creating Nintendo DS Games Offered This Month Only! (go)
• Profits from Your Kitchen: A Class for Bakers (go)
• Personalized Photographs, Cards, and Gifts for the Holidays (go)
• Get Going; Reach Your Life’s Destiny (go)

Robotics Programming

In this course, you will develop software to build electronics projects for motors, LEDs, robots, animatronics, and much much more! See www.parallax.com and http://www.marksmerry.com/stampcamp.pdf for ideas. Better yet, go to www.youtube.com and search for "Basic Stamp"!

To register, contact Jenny at 850-1807 or email lifelonglearning@wcpss.net . For more information, contact the Agency, Dr. Mark Merry, at (419) 934-3247.

Creating Nintendo DS Games

In this course, you will develop software to make Nintendo DS games! We will build software for animation, text display, sound, and game pad operation. As we build software, we'll get exposure to computer programming. Bring your own Nintendo DS for the course.

To register, contact Jenny at 850-1807 or email lifelonglearning@wcpss.net . For more information, contact the Agency, Dr. Mark Merry, at (419) 934-3247.

If You’re a Baker and You Want to Collect Profits From Your Kitchen, We Have a Class for You!

Strategic Marketing for the Home-Based Baker

The main challenge facing many home-based bakers today is how to ensure their product will get into the hands of the customers who want them. Today's changing business environment drives the continual search for competitive advantage, and this workshop is specifically designed to provide home-based bakers with the knowledge, tools, and techniques to achieve this. The two-day workshop offers specific strategies for marketing home-based bakery products, designing an effective marketing plan, and assessing out-of-the-box techniques for increasing sales.

To register, contact Jenny at 850-1807 or email lifelonglearning@wcpss.net . For more information, contact the Agency, Cooking with Denay, at 412-9158.

Get Ready to Produce Amazing Photographs, Cards, and Gifts…Just in Time for the Holidays!

An Introduction to Digital Photography: Two-day Intensive Course

This class will be offered in two parts. Part I focuses on how to use a point-and-shoot camera. Part II focuses on basics of dSLR. This course will cover the principles of photography and digital camera. Students will learn exposure, aperture, shutter speed, ISO setting, and White Balance. Choice of shooting modes (Tv, Av, P, M) will be emphasized. Sample images of sports, birthdays, weddings, and other events will be presented. For more sample images visit www.jkimphotography.com. Students need to bring digital cameras to understand their own equipment.

To register, contact Jenny at 850-1807 or email lifelonglearning@wcpss.net . For more information, contact the Agency, J. Kim Photography, at 841-4924.

Desktop Publishing with Word

Need to create creative flyers, signs or newsletters for home, work or the classroom? Microsoft Word can do it all utilizing styles, graphics, special borders, shading, multiple columns, special characters and symbols, text special effects, linked text boxes, drawing objects and more. Some previous experience with Word required. Hands-on, instructor-led class. Text and data disk provided. (CEU=1.0)

To register, contact Jenny at 850-1807 or email lifelonglearning@wcpss.net . For more information, contact the Agency, Computer Tutors, at 833-6736.

Making Christmas Decorations and Gifts with Fuxico

Learn the basic techniques and get some ideas for creating original holiday gifts and decorations with Fuxico.

To register, contact Jenny at 850-1807 or email lifelonglearning@wcpss.net . For more information, contact the Agency, Dr. Ana Silva, at 793-6829.

Get Going; Reach Your Life’s Destiny Now!

Goals that Stick: Create Goals that Work

Discover the key elements of goal setting. Learn the foundational model for creating achievable goals and then put them through the SMART test. Come and implement your goals, so they STICK!

To register, contact Jenny at 850-1807 or email lifelonglearning@wcpss.net . For more information, contact the Agency, Strategies in Action, at 854-9206.