Mini-Courses offer a two-day change from traditional learning in February to provide students with real-life experiences created by our teachers and others. Each teacher is responsible for developing an experience that exposes students to some of the following:
- Important life skills
- Different careers within our community
- Understanding how businesses operate
- Communication skills
Each Mini-Course is required to include at least one of the 16 Career Clusters, aligned with our Academic and Career Planning (ACP) curriculum. Students have the ability to pick their Mini-Courses, so they are able to choose an experience that is relevant to them.
Here is a list of the Mini-Courses that students were able to choose from during 2019-2020 School Year:
8th Grade Only (Overnights):
- College Experience (University of Notre Dame)
- Pine Mountain Overnight Ski/Snowboard
- Windy City Experience
2019 Mini-Courses: (Subject to Change)
- A Day at the Salon
- Ice Fishing and Ice Hatchery Tour
- Downhill Skiing (Nordic)
- Emergency Medical Response
- Great Outdoors
- Wild Careers
- Lights, Lasers, and Holograms
- AR/VR Augmented Reality
- Lifetime Sports
- No-Sew Fun
- Out of this World Science
- Scrapbooking
- Yoga
- Painted Pottery
- Game Night
- Theater Improvisation
- BAM! Build a Blog
- From Badgers to Bistros
- Tasty Tours
- Relax and Unwind
- Behind the Scenes – The Business of Movie Theaters
- Service with a Smile
- Police Investigations
- Exploring Cultures
Next school year, we will have new options for students to choose from that will help them connect their learning with future work possibilities.
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