This course is for students who have completed a basic machining course or have prior machining experience. This course includes safety, manual milling, part layout, drilling, and tapping. Turning will involve 4 jaw chuck set up, boring and threading. Bring safety glasses and wear reinforced toe shoes to class. Please complete the 2-part form at this link before the first class.

This class is for active online sellers only! Online sellers using EBay, Etsy, Facebook, Poshmark, or other platforms, will participate in a wide-ranging discussion in this live class. Discussions will cover tips, tricks and challenges to online marketing and sales. Bring your products to brainstorm with the group and share your experiences. Please bring your own laptop. 

This course is designed for those of you who have decided to take the plunge and try their hand at short-term rentals. Let’s get you up and running. Practical ‘how to’ information, along with individual student’s needs, will steer this course. We’ll go through the process of setting up everyone’s profile and account, as well as talk about the best way to take photos, get those uploaded and placed in the profile. We’ll take a close look at nightly rates based on each facility, amenities, location, and time of year. We’ll discuss insurance options and any other factors that should be considered.

Even if you don’t think you have time or space to garden, you might have a great spot for containers. Learn how container gardening differs from gardening in the ground or raised beds, what makes a good container, what plants thrive in containers and how you plant in them. Get that ‘wow’ factor! Learn special care instructions and the right way to water containers. Find out how to add containers to existing gardens and how to care for them in winter. This class will teach you a fun and popular way to garden.

There is still a lot of misunderstanding and misinformation about Maine’s compassionate end-of-life care option. Many providers and patients in Maine are still not familiar with Maine’s Death with Dignity Act. In effect since September 2019, the law permits physicians to practice medical aid-in-dying under specific circumstances. Join this class to get fact-based information and all the details you need to know about Maine’s law, how to have the conversation with your physician, and how to qualify for the law or support your loved ones who may be qualifying.

This class is for those students who have taken Part I, or those who want to go ‘beyond the basics’. This class will take value scales and create value studies, use shading techniques and light studies, use viewfinders to render more accurate drawings and perspective, and take line and contour sketches to manifest quick and elegant gesture drawings. This fun class will give students confidence and insight into creating their own personal style and art. Materials: Drawing pencils, white rubber eraser, black fine-point pen, charcoal stick, and drawing pad (at least 8” x 10”). (Many of these materials will be available to 'try' and experiment with in class, so students can identify which are best for them). Please note: The book and workbook purchase is highly recommended!

This Intuit-approved course is a live, instructor-led advanced course using Windows OS and is suitable for experienced QuickBooks users. It is a Microsoft Office Suite course using official course material and will cover advanced features in QuickBooks. Prerequisite: QuickBooks Basics/Intermediate course or instructor’s permission.This course provides the MOS certification pathway (no expiration) for interested students, and students may elect to take the official exam when ready. Call the Adult Ed office for separate purchase details of the required printed textbook/eBook which accompanies this course (same materials from QuickBooks Basics & Intermediate course.) PLEASE NOTE: In class, students will use MCST provided laptops, but all students will need Windows OS operating computers at home in order to do homework assignments. If you have not previously taken a QuickBooks course at MCST please be sure to complete the 2-part form at this link before the first class.

If you are looking for a fun way to entertain your children, grandchildren, or friends, Magic for Adults is for you. Learn some of the more baffling, humorous, and fascinating tricks and stunts. Instructor Rick Bernard has been performing and teaching magic for more than 30 years and will teach techniques that include card magic, rope magic, coin magic, and great tricks using common household items.