It’s not just a cooking class; it’s the perfect opportunity for adults and children to learn lessons that will last a lifetime. Participants assist with the cooking of their own meal in this fun and interactive group activity. Each session includes a freshly prepared meal, printed recipes and a bowl full of fun activities! The experiences are customized based on age, interests, and functioning level. Prior to each experience participant involvement will be discussed to make sure their involvement during the session best suits the size of the group and their abilities.

Culinary arts teaches team work, math skills, problem solving and respect; and yields a delicious meal shared by all participants! Building self esteem and encouraging healthy food choices; participants will embark on a global discovery of world cuisines, exploring their various cultural and historical influences. Various “flavors” of countries in a Series of classes will be presented. Members may choose to “visit” the following regions during their experience: China, France, Italy, Spain, Japan, Kenya, Mexico and regional American cuisines. Specific menus for the regions above are available upon request. The artist will leave recipes and follow-up activities so that participants can continue their cooking after the experience.

Program Details

Duration:2 hours

Provisions: Agency must have a sink for food prep and clean-up, tables for the activity, and outlets for electric cooking equipment.  A stove on-site is preferred.

Age: Participants should be 6 and up.

Size: This program can accommodate up to 50 people.

Everyone has an innate need to be heard. Dessert time is a happy time. A time to relax, unwind and take pleasure in something sweet. Sweets & Poetry 4 Girls exists to give young ladies of all ethnicities, cultures and backgrounds a chance to be heard, and a chance to create her own tangible version of sweet.

Poetry is a form of sharing, just like you would share a meal or dessert. This program allows young women to creatively express themselves with the spoken and written word as well as through food. Participants will explore, share and interpret the work of some of America’s best modern day poets: Dr. Maya Angelou, Nikki Giovanni and Sonia Sanchez. We will also enjoy recipes by celebrity chef and cook book author’s Cat Cora, Ina Garten and Delilah Winder.

Each session will explore various points of view, tastes, textures and techniques while recognizing each girl’s own special story. Participants can create their own poems about themselves; whether it’s about past disappointments, present determination or future dreams.

Desserts are intended to compliment the poets region of origin and /or the specific ingredients mentioned in the poem. For example, “Fruits had a fight,” poem by Marinela Reka. Recipes: Pear Crostata with Raspberry glaze and Cherry Pocket Pies.

Program Details

Duration:2 hours

Provisions: Agency must have a sink for food prep and clean-up, tables for the activity, stove, and oven.

Age: Participants should girls ages 9 through 19.

Size: This program can accommodate up to 40 people.

Healing through Bread Baking is a life changing experience designated for people who face challenges in life that can become overwhelming or those that just need help with coping. This workshop is a chance for spiritual renewal with self. The bread represents us, our lives and our essence. Just like the bread baking process, we as individuals have many stages of development. We are stretched and ‘kneaded’ too!

Using a combination of demo and hands on activities, participants will experience the ‘letting go dough’ activity as well as the ‘taking hold of …’ segment. The act of pounding and kneading dough is an awesome time to get revived, rejuvenated and refreshed. Time to let go of the negative and take hold of the positive!
Bread Baking is special because of the many stages in the process. As we develop and grow we can begin to appreciate the positive stages and let the challenging ones pass behind us.

Each process has a purpose; we will discuss how our everyday lives relate to the bread baking process. Recipes include challah, honey-whole wheat and/ or pizza dough. A powerful workshop designed to release stress and anxiety and embrace peace and clarity!

Recipes, Introduction and Stages of Bread Making photocopied from The Essentials of Baking by Willams-Sanoma

Program Details

Duration:2.5 hours

Provisions: Agency must have a sink for food prep and clean-up, tables for the activity, stove, and oven.

Age: Participants should be 6 and up.

Size: This program can accommodate up to 40 people.

Program Details: What is energy, and how is it used to power everything from power plants to your body? We’ll demonstrate how different kinds of energy can be transformed from one to another including kinetic, thermal, electrical, chemical, potential and stored. We’ll then put them together to form one large energy transfer machine.

Science concepts: transformation of energy, thermodynamics, law of conservation

Duration: 45 Minutes

Size: This Program can accommodate up to 250 people.

Age Recommendations: Recommended for grades K-8.

Program Details: The Weather Show. Lightning, twisters and hail — oh my! This new show reveals the science of weather … to the extreme. Where does our weather come from, and what factors make it a sunny day or a blustery one? We’ll make a cloud, explore thunder and lightning, and even create snow. We promise a stormy ending to this show as we demonstrate the power of a tornado.

Science concepts: water cycle, thermodynamics, air masses and fronts

Duration: 45 Minutes

Size: This Program can accommodate up to 250 people.

Age Recommendations: Recommended for grades K-8.

Program Details: Come with us on a wild journey through The Human Body. We’ll discover how nutrients in the food we eat are digested and converted into the energy that keeps us on the move. We’ll learn how our muscles work, and what our blood actually accomplishes as it flows through our veins and arteries. Plus, there will be a special tribute to that duo that protects us from debilitating illness: skin and mucous!

Science concepts: body systems, digestion, circulation, and immune response. Science concepts: water cycle, thermodynamics, air masses and fronts

Duration: 45 Minutes

Size: This Program can accommodate up to 250 people.

Age Recommendations: Recommended for grades K-8.

Program Details: Turn your students into molecules as we explore the three states of matter. Make balloons shrink, bubbles freeze and a rubber ball shatter by using liquid nitrogen (N2). Students learn the everyday application of N2 in manufacturing, food production and medicine.

Science concepts: states of matter, molecules, temperature

Duration: 45 Minutes

Size: This Program can accommodate up to 250 people.

Age Recommendations: Recommended for grades K-8.

Program Details: Kaboom! The chemistry show explores everything from everyday chemistry to the chemical “detective” work performed by laboratory scientists. Watch as we use chemistry to turn water into gel, make a foam sculpture (in less than a minute) and explode a hydrogen balloon.

Science concepts: physical/chemical changes, acids and bases, polymers, combustion

Duration: 45 Minutes

Size: This Program can accommodate up to 250 people.

Age Recommendations: Recommended for grades K-8.

Flight

Program Details: From Leonardo da Vinci to the space shuttle, explore the exciting history of flight. Investigate the Bernoulli principle, and learn how airplane wings provide lift. Mechanical birds, hot air balloons, gliders and even a rocket launch are used to demonstrate the forces of flight.

Science concepts: air pressure, forces of flight, aviation history.

Duration: 45 Minutes

Size: This Program can accommodate up to 250 people.

Age Recommendations: Recommended for grades K-8.

Requirements for Experience: Requires a high ceiling.  The experience is best completed indoors.

Program Details: Developed in conjunction with NASA The show begins with a bang as a rocket launches your students into space! Once there, students enter “astronaut training” to explore the challenges of living and working in space. Students become “satellites” to communicate findings back to earth.:

Science concepts: gravity, orbit, action-reaction

Duration: 45 Minutes

Size: This Program can accommodate up to 250 people.

Age Recommendations: Recommended for grades K-8.

Program Details: Roll, slide and spin! Investigate the basic physics of motion in this interactive show. We’ll use rubber balls, bricks and wooden blocks to introduce Newton’s Laws of Motion. Then witness these laws in action in a lever, pulley, and student-driven hover car.

Science concepts: Newton’s Laws of Motion, simple machines, friction

Duration: 45 Minutes

Size: This Program can accommodate up to 250 people.

Age Recommendations: Recommended for grades K-8.

Requirements for Experience: Requires a raised platform or stage.

Program Details: Your students’ hair will stand on end as we unravel the mysteries of electricity. Explore static and current electricity. Watch as electricity travels through the air to power fluorescent light bulbs — turning students into a human “circuit”.

Science concepts: static and current electricity, electrons, magnetism

Duration: 45 Minutes

Size: This Program can accommodate up to 250 people.

Age Recommendations: Recommended for grades 2-8.

Requirements for Experience: Best performed in drier weather.

Program Details: What is light and where does it come from? We’ll show you and explain its many properties using a laser and a 1000-watt light bulb. Light is bounced, separated into different colors, and recombined to make white light. Ultraviolet light is used to make fluorescent objects (and members of the audience) glow in the dark.

Science concepts: properties of light, light technology, visible spectrum Science concepts: static and current electricity, electrons, magnetism

Duration: 45 Minutes

Size: This Program can accommodate up to 250 people.

Age Recommendations: Recommended for grades 2-6.

Requirements for Experience: Requires an extremely dark room.

A power point presentation about the Wood Turning Center that introduces the museum and its history, covers information about new exhibits, explains how the work is created and includes examples of turned wood that will be passed around.

Program Details:

Duration:45 Minutes

Size: This program can accommodate up to 50 people.

A power point presentation about the Wood Turning Center that introduces the museum and its history, covers information about new exhibits, explains how the work is created, includes examples of turned wood that will be passed around and concludes with a live wood turning demonstration.

Program Details:

Duration:1 hour

Size: This program can accommodate up to 50 people.

A unique experience where the Wood Turning Center gives a short talk about the museum’s history, explains how work is created, includes examples of turned wood that will be passed around and concludes with the main event; a hands on wood turning experience. Each participant will receive one-to-one attention and instruction to turn wood on the lathe and create their own working pen to keep.

Due to the nature of the activity, and for safety reasons, participants must have a high level of dexterity in their hands to participate in the hands on portion of this experience.

Program Details:

Duration:1-2 Hours depending on group size

Size: This program can accommodate up to 6 people per hour, with a maximum size of 12 for a 2 hour experience.