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NCE Middle School Programs
Needham Community Education’s NCE Elementary program offers a wide array of after school classes at each elementary school at the end of the school day.
Summer Explorations 2024
Health and Wellness
Exercise and recreation classes
Fine arts and crafts
DYI, home, garden and skills classes
Humanities and science programs
Investment and financial planning classes
Parenting programs
Learn to play a game or improve your game skills
SSAT, SAT prep, PSAT prep, and prep school, college and grad school application related programs for students and parents.
Middle School (Grades 6-8) After School Enrichment Programs
NCE Elementary After School Classes for Broadmeadow Students
NCE Elementary After School Classes for Eliot Students
NCE Elementary After School Classes for Mitchell Students
NCE Elementary After School Classes for Newman Students
NCE Elementary After School Classes at Sunita WIlliams
NCE Kids' Late Afternoon and Evening Classes
NCE Kids Virtual Classes
Week 1 : July 8-12 : Rising Grades 1-5
Week 1: July 8-12, Rising 6-9
Week 2 : July 15-19 : Rising Grades 1-5
Summer Explorations programs for Week 2: July 15-19
Week 3 : July 22-26 : Rising Grades 1-5
Summer Explorations programs for Week 3: July 21-26
Week 4 : July 26-Aug 2 : Rising Grades 1-6
Summer Explorations programs for Week 4: July 29-Aug 2
Private Music Lessons
Mustard comes in so many colors and consistencies, not to mention flavors, that there is literally a mustard to please every taste and palette. Spend a fun, interesting and tasty evening sampling a wide variety of mustards, paired with complementary accompaniments, including cheeses and cured meats. Taste the difference between Pommery and Dijon, deli style vs. spicy brown, Bavarian vs. British, and coarse-grained vs. whole seed. You will also learn about the condiment’s history, how it is grown and processed, its nutritional attributes, its legacy in medicine as heralded by Hippocrates, and even mustard’s distinguished place in advertising and pop culture.
Ken Zuckerman started as a Field Botany major in college with a particular interest in mycology (mushrooms).and backcountry first aid. While working in a variety of industries encompassing broadcasting, pharma, retail, manufacturing and the nonprofit sector, Ken has spent the majority of the past two decades in public broadcasting and marketing with a special emphasis in event marketing and execution within the food & beverage realm. He has served as head of marketing for a brewery, as well as Pete & Gerry’s Organic Eggs, and worked with a myriad of breweries, eateries and artisan food producers throughout New England such as Cabot, North Country Smokehouse and Jim’s Organic Coffee. Ken has also created and promoted food projects which have aired on PBS regionally and nationally. Currently Ken is Director of Marketing for a major Boston food distributor supplying the restaurant and institutional sectors, but also serves on the board of the National Mustard Museum in Wisconsin, which sports a collection of just under 7000 mustards! If it is a fermented food or beverage, it is in his gustatory wheelhouse. Other passions include the outdoors, supporting food relief organizations,and playing and teaching pickleball - which he readily admits can be noisy and annoying, both the sound as well as the folks who play and talk about it incessantly!
Ken Zuckerman
