Bloomington Community Education

Online Class! Bloomington Public School's Driver's Education program collaborates with A+ Driving School to provide students classroom/behind-the-wheel package options. These classes are for students who are not signed up to take it as a credit during their regular school day--high school credits are not earned. The total cost is $395.00 for the online classroom & behind-the-wheel package. A $70 registration fee is due when enrolling. Students may enroll if they are 14-1/2 years of age. A few days before the class starts, the student will be sent a link for the class to the email address you provide. To pass the classroom portion, students must attend all 30 hours of online instruction. The student will need to pay $85 to A+ Driving School to receive their blue card, and will be given information about registering for the 6 hours of Behind-the-Wheel training with them. The remainder of the payments to A+ Driving School can be paid at the time of the Behind the Wheel lessons ($80 per lesson). Once the student receives their blue card, they may take their state permit exam at a DVS exam station. Cancellations received 5 or more business days prior to the start of class will receive a refund less a $10 processing fee. Cancellations made less than 5 business days prior to the start of class will not receive a refund

Ages 8+ Have fun with three STEM topics included in this at home STEM Sampler Kit! Practice with chemistry, aerospace, and electricity. First, your budding scientist will explore the three most common States of Matter in our environment: a solid, liquid, and a gas. As your child conducts the three fun and exciting experiments from the Activity Guide, they will learn that: a solid has a stable shape; a liquid will take on the shape of the container holding it; and that gas has no shape. Next, discover the four forces that allow planes and rockets to fly: thrust, drag, weight, and lift as you experiment with these forces with fun, hands-on activities, while using a paratrooper to investigate drag; a disk launcher to explore lift and more. Then, you will build and test an electromagnet and learn how the electromagnetic field was first discovered. Children ages 8 - 11 should work with an adult on the experiments. Children 12 and older can work with adult supervision.

New Art Kits for the Holidays! Gr. K-5 These Holiday-Themed Art Kits from Kidcreate Studio are so much fun! And they make great holiday gifts! Kits contain an easy to follow lesson plan, a link to an online instructional video taught by a Kidcreate Studio art teacher, art materials needed to create an art masterpiece, and additional suggestions for online learning that relate to an art lesson. Each kit is $19. Place your order early for holiday pick up. You will be contacted to pick up your kit...pick up is at the Community Education Campus.