Minneapolis Public Schools

Your child is invited to register for Camp Fire Minnesota's After-school Explorers Program. This takes place during after-school programming at Seward on Mondays & Wednesdays. Registration is open to students in grades 4-5. Students will explore their interests and grow their comfort in the outdoors while going on field trips to local nature spaces in Minneapolis. They'll develop skills like snow-shoeing, birding with binoculars, ice-fishing, animal and plant I.D., ice skating, etc. They'll visit Minneapolis lakes, the Mississippi River, community gardens and more! Camp Fire naturalists and Community Ed. staff will chaperone students, and Camp Fire staff will occasionally transport students in a 15-passenger van. 

In order to ensure that our high-quality enrichment classes are accessible to all families, Minneapolis Community Education is now offering fees on a sliding scale. We're moving to a sliding scale model for program fees so our youth programs can be financially sustainable and more equitable. The different prices reflect the average cost of offering a class as well as discounted options and options that help us cover our administrative costs. Fees cover instructor pay, class supplies, program materials, marketing and scholarships. Families are asked to pick the price that they are able to pay. As always, we will continue to offer full scholarships upon request. When families participate as they are able, in all levels of our sliding scale, the whole program becomes self-sustaining. Thank you for your consideration as you sign up for youth programs!