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Summer learning
Published 6/13/2009 in Local News : Education
By SHAJIA AHMAD
A cup of peanut butter, a cup honey and a cup and a half of powdered milk were the only ingredients required to cook up some excitement.
"So we can play with it, and we can eat it?" asked 9-year-old Jose Betanco, during the Adventures in Art class Friday at Kids College, a series of classes offered to children this summer at Garden City Community College.
Several of the kids dug their hands into the light brown and sticky goo as they built animals and snowmen with their edible play-dough. The course instructor, Cheryl Watt, passed out M&M candy bits for the kids to add eyes and polka dots to their tasty creations.
"It smells delicious, but it's probably not very nutritious," 10-year-old Emily Greene remarked matter-of-factly to the other seven or eight other kids in the room.
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Laurie Sisk/Telegram - Jose Betanco, 9, looks over some computer generated graphics during the Computer Graphics Adventure class at Garden City Community College's Kids College on Friday afternoon.
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Laurie Sisk/Telegram — Deisy Espino, 10 prepares to iron a transfer she designed onto a T-shirt with the help of instructor Paula Baker Friday during the Computer Graphics Adventure class at Garden City Community College's Kids College.
The ninth annual summer series is sponsored by the GCCC's Continuing Education and Community Services Division and includes six one-week class sessions for boys and girls from age 4 through fifth grade.
The classes, which drew 487 enrollments by the conclusion of last summer, began Monday and cover animals, computers, games, cooking, art, math, science, dance, gymnastics and other topics.
Earlier in the afternoon, several of the kids took part in a computer graphics class where they created designs for their own T-shirts before printing them out on iron-on paper.
Deisy Espino held up her ironed T-shirt after the iron-on had cooled and been pooled: a picture of her, her little brother and a pink flower colored the front.
“I took the picture of the flower myself during yesterday’s class,” she said.
Several of the other kids took the opportunity to make Father’s Day gifts, including Hannah Schultz, who designed an illustration with the words ‘Daddy’s Girl!’ in rainbow lettering.
Schultz eagerly shared many of her positive Kids’ College experiences.
“The lunch is awesome because you get to pick your own pop or Gatorade, and there’s French fries and ice cream. And when we all get together, we get really hyper, but in a good way,” she said and laughed.
Computer graphics instructor Paula Baker said she’d been impressed with the kids’ friendliness and joviality.
“Have you ever seen such a good group of kids? They’ve been helping each other out all week,” Baker said.
Kids College
Registration for the Kids’ College is open weekdays at the Student and Community Services Center or by contacting Diana Machotka at 275-3232. Parents also may direct questions to personalenrichment@gcccks.edu.
Catalogs are available on the top floor of the GCCC Student and Community Services Center on campus. In addition, the catalog may be viewed at www.gcccks.edu.
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