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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 2026
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.
Special events
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
Fermented foods are a vital part of Indian cuisine, offering rich sources of probiotics and enhanced nutrition. Common examples include fermented dairy (dahi), rice-lentil batters (idli, dosa), and various regional specialities from western and southern India. These foods promote gut health, improve digestibility, and are culturally significant staples across the country. In this class, we will learn to make yogurt or dahi, prepare dhokla (steamed bread of various lentils and rice spiced with ginger, chilies and lemon), dosai or dosa (crepes made of rice and urad dal), served with fresh coconut chutney, and end with lassi (churned yogurt drink flavored with rose water). Let's get gut-healthy! A $20 ingredients fee is payable to the instructor in class. Limited to 12.
Shruti Mehta has been teaching Indian cooking to Indian food aficionados for over 30 years. With Shruti, Indian food enthusiasts learn the inherent recipes of the foods of Northern, Southern and Western India’s distinguished cuisine. Her classes include field trips to the best local Indian Restaurants and Indian grocery stores, exploring the wealth of Indian Masalas (spices and spice blends) and other unique ingredients that make Indian food so rich and colorful. Shruti has demonstrated Indian cooking fundamentals and rituals at Peabody Essex Museum and other Indian venues. Her take-home simple recipes are always a hit with her students.
Shruti Mehta
