Youth Programs

At a Glance
College for Kids

LLCC Community Education and College for Kids have fun learning opportunities for you!

Halloween Treats

Calling all ghouls, ghosts and goblins for a fun and festive day baking spooky Halloween treats. Costumes can be worn to class if children are able to work safely in kitchen while wearing them.

  • Instructor: Lakesha Jackson 
  • Date: Saturday, Oct. 28 
  • Time: 9:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m.
  • Location: Workforce Careers Center, Room 1121
  • Age: 8-18
  • Cost: $59 
  • Course Codes and Fees: YES 500-06

Winter Wonders STEAM

This workshop focuses on the science of ice and snow. We will catch ice on fire, create frost and snowflakes, as well as other hands-on STEAM activities. Bring your friends and learn about the wonders of winter. 

  • Instructor: LLCC Staff
  • Date: Saturday, Dec. 9
  • Time: 1-3 p.m.
  • Location: Sangamon Hall, Room 2209
  • Age: Grades 4-6
  • Cost: $30
  • Course Codes and Fees: YES-300-03

 

Dungeons and Dragons

Do you love fantasy? Come and join our Dungeon Masters as they take you on an adventure over the course of the session. Create your own character and work with others to create and live in a fantasy world. No experience required. All materials provided.

  • Instructor: Aaron Berkowitz
  • Date: Saturdays, Jan. 13, Feb. 10, March 23, April 13
  • Time: 9 a.m.-noon 
  • Location: Trutter Center, Room 1114
  • Grades: 6-8
  • Cost: $100
  • Course code: YES 800-01

Calling all Lego fans! Join with other Lego enthusiasts as we build together. This monthly workshop will provide the blocks and challenges, while you provide creativity and skill. Participants will work individually and in groups.

Lego Club Builders

  • Instructor: Ryne Tate
  • Date: Saturdays, Jan. 13, Feb. 10, March 23, April 13
  • Time: 1 - 2 p.m.
  • Location: Trutter Center, Room 1114
  • Grades: 1-3
  • Cost: $50
  • Course code: YES 800-02

Lego Club Engineers

  • Instructor: Ryne Tate
  • Date: Saturdays, Jan. 13, Feb. 10, March 23, April 13
  • Time: 2:30-3:30 p.m.
  • Location: Trutter Center, Room 1114
  • Grades: 4-6
  • Cost: $50
  • Course code: YES 800-03

Baby and Me–Music and Movement

This weekly group experience will explore the power of music and movement for infants, ages eight weeks to 15 months, and their daytime caregivers. Each week participants will engage in songs and movement that support their child’s holistic development, learn how music can support bonding, co-regulation, body awareness and social/emotional learning.  

  • Instructor: LLCC Staff
  • Date: Tuesdays, Jan. 16-Feb. 20, 2024
  • Time: 9-10 a.m.
  • Location: Trutter Center, Rooms 1105/1106
  • Age: babies two months to 15 months and one adult caregiver
  • Cost: $50
  • Course code: CEW 102-02

Youth Activism

Concerned about climate change? Vexed about voting rights or some other issue? This group will provide information, skills, and connections within our community to help young activists work towards solutions. Each month, we will learn and practice new skills and meet with guest speakers. Over the course of the fall and spring sessions, we will create a tool kit that will serve you as you advocate for your beliefs. Taught by a community organizer with many years of experience.

  • Instructor: Keri Tate
  • Date: Tuesdays, Jan. 16, Feb. 13, March 19, April 9
  • Time: 6-7:30 p.m.
  • Location: Millennium Center, Room 2203
  • Grades 8-12
  • Cost: $25
  • Course code: YES 403-01

Mastering Money–Financial Literacy Mini Conference

This mini conference will focus on money–how to make it, spend it, use it, save it, and invest it. Financial professionals will help students learn more about how to make good decisions about money early.

  • Instructor: LLCC Staff
  • Date: Mon., Feb 19
  • Time: 9:00 a.m.-12:30 p.m.
  • Location: Trutter Center, Rooms 1105/1106
  • Grades: 4-9
  • Cost: $30
  • Course code: YES 800-05

Be Your Own Boss–Entrepreneurship Mini Conference

Do you want to be your own boss? This mini conference will help you learn more about starting your own business. Meet local entrepreneurs and learn from their experience as you create your own plan to be your own boss.

  • Instructor: LLCC Staff
  • Date: Mon., April 1
  • Time: 9:00 a.m.-12:30 p.m.
  • Location: Trutter Center, Rooms 1105/1106
  • Grades: High School
  • Cost: $30
  • Course code: YES 800-04

Chemistry Matters

Chemistry is everywhere, but in this class, we will be discussing how matter changes form through a variety of hands-on chemistry experiments.

  • Instructor: LLCC Staff
  • Date: Sat., March 23, 2024
  • Time: 1-3 p.m.
  • Location: Sangamon Hall, Room 2209
  • Grades: 4-6
  • Cost: $30
  • Course code: YES 300-02

Inventioneering

In this class, you will have the opportunity to create your own invention. We will provide a variety of materials. You are invited to bring your own if you wish or have a specific idea. We will plan, test and improve our inventions and then share them at the end of the class.

  • Instructor: LLCC Staff
  • Date: Sat., April 13, Room 2024
  • Time: 1-3 p.m.
  • Location: Sangamon Hall, 2209
  • Grades: 4-6
  • Cost: $30
  • Course code: YES 300-01

black rocket - launch your creativity

Black Rocket Technology Camps for Ages 8-14

Virtual camps available now!

LLCC’s College For Kids partners with a nationally known leader in tech-education to present virtual STEAM camps. Top Black Rocket instructors lead the whole class and small group sessions in real-time.

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