CSM College for Kids Classes

How would you like to create your very own web page from scratch? Have fun learning how to hand-code HTML pages, design customized web graphics and images and incorporate multimedia such as video, slideshows and music. Explore cool tools and techniques to make your web page pop.  Some familiarity with computers required.

Lights, camera, action! You’re the producer! Enjoy designing and developing your own animated movie. Learn techniques the pros use to create motion graphics, visual effects and 32-bit audio. You will take home a copy of the movie you complete to share with your family and friends.

Explore the world of digital art and create exciting projects using tools in Adobe Photoshop. Learn to layer and manipulate images, transforming them into creative photo collages, digital paintings and animated .gif files.

Have fun learning the techniques game developers use to build your own interactive 3D game with animated characters, sizzling graphics and immersive physics. Explore how to make custom props and levels. You get to keep the game you develop and show it off to friends!

Learn how to shoot photos from a professional. Have fun importing and editing them to create exciting photographs. Discover ways to enhance your pictures to bring out the best in your art. Make your subjects look great with touch ups and makeovers! Create unique photo collages and other fun projects.

If you could have the room of your dreams, what would it look like? Enjoy redesigning your current bedroom and using your new-found skills and imagination to create your perfect room. Let your imagination soar, while learning how to properly measure a space, work with architectural scale, sketch floor plans and elevations, and apply the basic principles of space planning and interior decorating.

Be a fashion designer! Create fun fashion projects and learn some basic sewing skills and design techniques. We will create one-of-a-kind dresses you designed! We will then have our own “Project Runway”, with you as the model. Fabulous fun for all!

Explore the art of Japanese Manga cartooning and the Otaku culture including creating fun cartoon characters, settings, character design and comic storytelling concepts. Have a blast as you develop your own funny characters, super heroes and flying creatures.

Get your imagination ready to ham it up as you practice communicating characters of all kinds! Discover what it’s like to be on camera as you film an imaginary television commercial. Learn how to do radio commercials, TV voiceovers, and even create and record your own cartoon voices! Act out stories and make your own sound effects for an old fashioned radio drama.

Have fun and get fit as you discover the joy of dance. Enjoy learning the basic steps of Latin and ballroom dances, and the exciting moves of hot Salsa and Bachata dancing. Practice body movement and footwork as you move to the rhythm of vibrant music and get ready to impress your friends on the dance floor!

Unlock your potential with the art of drawing. Bring your visions to life with pencil and ink! Enjoy learning the basics of realistic drawing including lighting, value, composition, depth and texture. Develop your drawing skills and create your own still-life and landscape drawings, and draw from photographs. This class is sure to kick-start your creativity.

Experience the wonderful world of watercolor! You will learn how to mix colors to create a color wheel. Have fun with drawing and watercolor painting exercises. Be inspired by photographs, still life, cartoons and your imagination, and use ink and watercolor paint to bring your ideas to life.

Have you ever dreamed about becoming an author? Get ready to write the next great page-turner! Learn how to hook your reader by developing interesting storylines. Explore a variety of genres including poetry, short story and autobiography to inspire and develop your descriptive writing skills. Learn to create vivid settings, develop interesting characters, and create tension and suspense to build an intriguing plot.

Get ready to let your imagination soar! Explore the creative writing process through music and art to inspire your imagination. Learn how to sharpen your writing skills and improve your grammar, vocabulary, sentence structure and creativity. Explore how to use imagery, sensory details, sound devices, figurative language, and word choice to make your writing come alive. Through a series of fun activities, you will learn to develop your creative writing skills and your unique author’s voice.

Learn how to develop interesting story lines, characters, and settings through a series of inspirational activities that will hone your descriptive writing skills. Unleash your imagination by using music and art to stimulate the creative process. Polish your writing skills in the use of imagery, sensory details, sound devices, and figurative language to make your writing come to life.

Discover the intriguing culture and tradition of Japan through its art, language and food.  You will learn basic greetings and simple expressions in Japanese, have fun making sushi, participate in the ancient arts of calligraphy, origami, and even listen to authentic Japanese music.

Want to be better than your friends at basketball? Start practicing now. Improve your dribbling, passing, and shooting skills, and learn offensive and defensive game strategies. Tennis shoes are required.

Fitness with a sword – what could be more fun? Improve your balance, strength and coordination skills as you practice fencing with a foil. Your certified instructor will also teach you about safety and finesse.

Join this fun and latest sports craze. Learn the fundamentals of badminton, basic strokes and footwork, court play rules and strategies and improve your game skills.  Please bring a badminton racket.

Join us in this great physical education class that teaches self defense skills, respect, self-control and discipline. Learn blocks, strikes, kicks and simple self-defense techniques. Boost your self-confidence and strength, and benefit from the fun physical exercise!

Want to learn how to play and enjoy this strategic game? Learn and practice the proper forehand and backhand techniques, footwork, serving, volley, the rules of the game, and proper footwork. Please bring a tennis racket and a can of tennis balls to class and wear appropriate athletic shoes.

Want to learn how to play and enjoy this strategic game? Learn and practice the proper forehand and backhand techniques, footwork, serving, volley, the rules of the game, and proper footwork. Please bring a tennis racket and a can of tennis balls to class and wear appropriate athletic shoes.  The advanced class is for students with some tennis experience.

Fun and challenging, this class uses algebra to unify, connect, deepen and elevate your mathematics skills. Explore major concepts in algebra through hands-on application and problem-solving exercises designed to increase understanding and build logical thinking skills. Learn to solve linear and quadratic equations, factoring, graphing and complex fractions.

Fun and challenging, this class uses algebra to unify, connect, deepen and elevate your mathematics skills. Explore major concepts in algebra through hands-on application and problem-solving exercises designed to increase understanding and build logical thinking skills. Learn to solve linear and quadratic equations, factoring, graphing and complex fractions.

Blast off for an adventure you’ll never forget in our awesome state-of-the-art planetarium! You’ll be amazed to see stars, galaxies and planets “up close” as they are projected onto our lovely 40-foot dome observatory complete with surround sound systems. Have a blast as you explore the sun, the planets, their moons, asteroids, and comets with our college astrophysics professor.

Join in on an interesting and entertaining look at crime scene investigation! Examine techniques investigators and forensic scientists use to collect evidence, analyze data and catch suspects. How did it happen? Whose blood is it? Survey a mock crime scene, dust and collect fingerprints, interpret bloodstain patterns, and learn the importance of observation and deductive thinking to help you solve various crimes.

Join in on an interesting and entertaining look at crime scene investigation! Examine techniques investigators and forensic scientists use to collect evidence, analyze data and catch suspects. How did it happen? Whose blood is it? Survey a mock crime scene, dust and collect fingerprints, interpret bloodstain patterns, and learn the importance of observation and deductive thinking to help you solve various crimes.

Examine what’s in a trashcan and analyze what’s under the earth’s landfills. Discover how new businesses are inventing treasures from trash! Create usable items from materials commonly thrown away. Learn about how recycling has inspired new ideas in upcycling and re-purposing, and apply what you learn by inventing your own earth friendly product.

There’s a lot more to the food you eat than meets the eye! Explore the science behind the foods you eat, test ways to keep food from spoiling, and make delicious treats while you explore biology and chemistry through food.

Discover how engineers use shapes and structure to make things strong. Investigate, create and tinker with a variety of objects while learning about simple machines. Explore the science of circuits and energy which will power us forward into the cool world of robots. Learn about the uses of robots in our world and spend time experimenting with super-cool “bots” that do all kinds of neat things (maybe even design a robot to do your homework and clean your room!)

Learn about recent Mars missions and plan one of your own! Explore facts about Mars, design and build rockets, Mars rovers and parachutes, and prepare for an imaginary mission adventure to the “red planet.”

Explore the forces at work around you, including motion, sound and light, magnetism and electricity in a fun, hands-on class. Ever build a container that can protect an egg from cracking, even if dropped from a rooftop? Simulate car crashes, jumps and roller coasters to compare inertia, potential energy and kinetic energy. Bounce balls and discover the forces around you every day. Learn how it is possible to make a train float using magnetism (Maglev transportation), create your own vehicle incorporating principles of speed and aerodynamics and race your classmates to the finish line.

Get ready to rock in your math class next fall! Enhance your critical reasoning abilities and strengthen your problem-solving skills. Improve your skill level and conceptual understanding of fractions, decimals, percents, integers, exponents, and order of operations. Group and individual hands-on activities and puzzles (and no homework!) make this a fun and useful class.

Hop on board the chemistry express in this high-speed class where you will explore and learn about what happens in the lab. Snap on some safety goggles to study split second reactions, learn about glow-in-the-dark technology and spend an adhesive hour learning about things that cling. Discover the tiny world of atoms and participate in the slime Olympics. Freeze water in seconds and slide down the colorful pH scale.

Train your brain to stretch and flex with a fun mathematical workout that teaches you to think outside of the box! Strengthen your creative thinking strategies and discover the secrets to solving puzzling word problems, geometric riddles, brain teasers and more. By the end of this class, you will be a better, stronger and faster problem solver than before!