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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 2025
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.
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
Private Music Lessons
Learn how to create beautifully decorated cakes that will be the centerpiece of parties and events. Your instructor will teach you the best decorating methods, and you will follow along with the cake and frosting provided. You will learn how to make buttercream frosting. Then, you will use it to frost and fill a cake. Next, you will get instruction in how to use a decorating bag properly to make star tips, rosettes, and shell borders, and for printing with icing. A $30 materials fee is payable to the instructor in class. Limited to 12.
Karen Siegel has loved cooking and baking since her younger days. She started decorating cakes for close friends and family members in 2005. She is a Certified Wilton Instructor, ServSafe Certified, and teaches cake decorating at area vocational schools, girl scout troops, and private parties. She teaches various classes such as buttercream cake decorating, royal icing sugar cookie decorating, French macarons as well as chocolate truffle classes and sugar art.
Karen Siegel
