Maine Adult Education Program
with Gin Randolph
Next session: April 9th, 2025
This handcrafted 10x14x22 picnic basket features a classic design with a single sturdy handle for easy transport. The woven natural reed basket provides ample space for packing your picnic essentials and is perfect for outdoor outings, family gatherings, or as a charming storage solution. You can also add some colored reed to distinguish your basket.
with Sandi Cirillo
Next session: March 22nd, 2025
Learn the technique of visualizing architectural designs through hand-drawing with an emphasis on perspective, scale, and composition while also studying the interplay of light, shadow, and texture to bring structures to life. Students can learn to capture the essence of residential architecture whether a modern minimalist style to traditional designs.
Students should bring their own 9x12 or 11x14 paper/sketchbook, #2 pencils, ruler, and eraser plus a $4 materials fee payable to the instructor.
with Chris Toy
Next session: April 11th to 14th, 2025
Your instructor, Chris Toy, is the author of 6 popular cookbooks, a private chef, and hastaught Asian-fusion cooking for several Maine community education programs. Cooking students will learn how to prepare a variety of recipes from Asia, Europe, and the Americas incorporating traditional and local ingredients. Each meal will actively engage cooks with the tools, techniques, and stories behind the dishes being created.
Escape to a Victorian Inn, the Harbor View House in Prospect Harbor on the coast of Maine, with an intimate group of artist, cooks and creatives! All meals are included in the workshop fee plus special activities to extend your learning from the day’s workshops, including a private house concert by Grammy balloted sing-songwriter, storyteller, and author Gordan Ward.
For more information about the workshop, call Mary at 207-632-2251. To book your stay at the inn call 207-963-9122 or visit https://harborviewhousellc.com/.
There is a $60 non-refundable fee when you register through RSU 24 Adult Educatio.
with Val Landry
Next session: April 3rd to 17th, 2025
Take Excel further: hide data, split and freeze a window, create ranges, understand the name manager, use additional functions, copy and paste special, sort data, and learn the power of filters. Some examples of using Microsoft Excel as practical tools including the amortization table, 20 top functions companies want their employees to know, and pivot tables.
This is a live online class using ZOOM.
with Naomi Treadwell
Next session: March 22nd, 2025
Unleash your creativity while preserving memories! This class offers tips on photo arrangement, journaling, and using various materials to make your scrapbook unique. We’ll explore beautiful layouts, personalized designs, fun embellishments, techniques, share ideas, and create a treasured keepsake. Whether you're a beginner or a seasoned scrapbooker, you'll leave with a unique, handmade album and new skills to enhance your projects. An 8x8 paper album will be provided—bring your 12-18 photos and enthusiasm! Additional albums, embellishments and scrapbooking products will be available to purchase. Children ages 8 or older are welcome with an adult.
with Kevin Tracewski
Next session: April 5th, 2025
This course is designed to get you solidly grounded in the fundamentals needed to enjoy fly fishing. Topics covered include tackle selection and assembly, knots, fly casting, fish foods, artificial flies, fly fishing strategies, entomology, and wading safety. After completing this course, you should have all the understanding and skills necessary to catch fish with a fly rod on your own.
This course will be taught in Orono by Kevin Tracewski, a registered Maine Guide and author of the best selling book, A Fisherman's Guide to Maine.
