Mounds View Public Schools Community Education

3, 4 Open the Door 3-5 Year-Olds by class start date  Doors will open for your child as he/she practices social skills and participates in literacy, number, art and sensory experiences in this evening preschool class.  

All aboard! Summer and water goes together and what better way to have a blast than building boats that actually float using LEGO®pieces! Use your engineering mind to construct boats with different propulsion systems – from paddles to propellers and much more. Students will use LEGO® Technic™ pieces and electric motors to build their fastest boat. Then they’ll captain a boat to race it against friends. This is a summer fungineering adventure you’ll never forget!

Join us in this exceptional camp that combines art and yoga. We’ll have fun starting our day with yoga poses followed by amazing art projects where we’ll draw, paint, collage, sculpt with clay and more. Each day we’ll play yoga games, use breathing and mindfulness techniques and have a great time unleashing our creativity!

For students who are currently playing in 6th, 7th. and 8th grade band, the Advanced Middle School Band is a full band rehearsal offered Mondays - Thursdays, 45 minutes each day for four weeks, and concludes with a concert for parents the evening of the last day. 

Come improve your archery skills in afun and safe environment. This campis for all skill levels. If you are an advanced archer, you will have plenty opportunities to refine your skills new students will learn all the basics become successful archers!

Tech Academy Battle Royale inspired by Fortnite! Join us for an exciting week of game-coding! Create your own Battle Royale game for you and your friends to drop into. Customize the map, set your characters and create upgrades to scatter across the world by learning coding and game design. Use your skills to achieve a Victory Royale. Bring a USB flash drive on the last day to save your  games, or they can be emailed to parents.

Join the craze for unicorns in this camp where we’ll create several magical unicorn projects like an adorable unicorn stuffie, a unicorn charm and even oopsie sparkly slime. Art projects range from painting on canvas to creating a whimsical collage.

Challenge your mind and body this summer. Learning and playing chess will exercise our brains while physical games will exercise our bodies. Camp activities will be split to keep both our heads and hearts active! Chess skills will cover the beginner to the intermediate player and physical games may include badminton, pickleball, tag games and other indoor/outdoor games based on the ability level and mix of the group.Please note: There was a typo in the catalog and this course is recommended for grades K-4

Learn and play some of the latest multi-player table-top strategy games, including card and board games. Introduce yourself to deck building, worker placement and cooperative games. Participants will have some choice of what they want to learn and play. From Settlers of Catan to Exploding Kittens, we have lots ofoptions! We will also incorporate some games with physical activity.

For curious minds that want to have a STEMtastic summer, this camp has it all! We’ll have a blast programming Ozobots, building cool machines using LEGO® bricks and more!

Have a blast with remote-control drones that charge from solar power. Build a solar-powered charging station using real-life tools including a solder iron, drills and more. After building a charging station, challenge other students with your drone. When drones run out of juice, use your self-made solar charging station to powerit back up. At the end of camp, take home your mini drone and charging station.

This program is open to any students interested in baseball, and is designed to enhance their enjoyment of the game and their baseball skills through structured and supervised activity with an emphasis on fun. Coach Mark Downey and Mounds View High School baseball players will lead participants through structured baseball drills to improve skills. The program is flexible and welcomes students to show up on the days they are available. Presented by Coach Downey

This program is open to any students interested in baseball and is designed to enhance their baseball skills through repetition in the summer. It is geared toward the individual’s capabilities, needs and interests. As hockey players get better and learn to enjoy the game by being a “rink rat,”and basketball players as “gym rats,” so, too, do baseball players gain skill and enjoyment for the game by being“field rats” without a coach or parent structuring it for them. The program offers instruction for those who want it and unstructured activity for others. Take some swings in the batting cages, play catch, throw a pitching bullpen, field some balls, play Home Run Derby, play hotbox, play wiffle ball, or do whatever you want to do to get better and just have fun. The program is flexible and welcomes students to show up on the days they are available. Presented by Coach Downey

Forkhorn II - Bowhunters Education  is an advanced Forkhorn Camp that focuses on bowhunting for youth who are graduates of Forkhorn I or have earned their Firearms Safety Certification. This is a more intensive camp that takes students beyond basic whitetail deer hunting knowledge and strategies. Completion of this camp qualifies participants for the Minnesota Bow Hunter Certificate. **Students must be 12 years of age or older and have passed a Firearms Safety Training Course to be eligible for this camp.

New to coding? Then this is the perfect camp for you! Not only will you program a robot, you’ll also take home a fun video game programmed by you! Using a friendly programming language developed by MIT, tip toe into the powerful world of programming as you program a video game and a robot with artificial intelligence. Participants are bound to develop a great love and interest for programming.