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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
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
While the subject of UFOs still draws stigma and skepticism, it has been moving more towards mainstream acceptance, particularly in light of the release earlier this year of Dan Farah's documentary "Age of Disclosure" and of Steven Spielberg's "Disclosure Day," which he himself has characterized as not entirely fictional. In this two-session course, the instructor will begin by laying out the current state of play re governmental disclosure, and then go on to show how the "nuts and bolts" aspects of ufology inevitably lead to other areas of "high strangeness" and ultimately to questions about the nature of consciousness itself. Finally, to encourage further independent exploration of the topic, the instructor will introduce and summarize the work of some of the Wise Men and Women of Ufology, including Dr. Jacques Vallee, Dr. Garry Nolan, Peter Levenda, and Professors Diana Pasulka, Jeff Kripal and James Madden. Limited to 20.
Joe Donovan is a semi-retired tax lawyer with a B.A. in philosophy from Cornell and a law degree from the University of Michigan. Since 2017, when the New York Times published a ground-breaking article about a secret governmental program tasked with studying UFOs, Joe has devoted hundreds of hours to researching this topic, from the "nuts and bolts" of alleged craft retrievals to the broader philosophical implications of potentially sharing our planet with some form of non-human intelligence. Are they real? If so, where do they come from? What are their intentions? Why do they seem to be omnipresent and elusive at the same time? Are we getting close to a moment of disclosure that will profoundly affect how we see our own place in the universe?
Joe Donovan