PARIS — The LOOK Program (Learning Opportunities for Our Kids) will take place at Oxford Hills Comprehensive High School during the weeks of July 18 and July 25. Classes run for one week in the mornings. Detailed course descriptions and times are available in the LOOK brochures, available in each school and library in Oxford Hills and at the SAD 17 central office in Oxford.

The LOOK Program offers many workshops to engage children, perhaps beginning a lifelong interest or hobby. This year some new offerings are keyboard piano playing, hula hoop making, river investigations, logic and thinking, the art of poetry and fairy house building. Many favorite classes are back as well, including rocketry, physics of motion, chess, Magic: The Gathering, drumming, drawing, dance and mosaics.

Classes are small and focused on exciting elements for kids. Teachers have the opportunity to teach a topic that is important and interesting for them. These are usually areas of study that cannot fit into the busy classroom schedule during the school year. Teachers have planned many hands-on fun activities to facilitate learning and engagement. For example, some classes will use the nature trails and river as living classrooms. Field trips will take some children to Frank Perham’s new mineral museum in West Paris.

On Thursday, July 21, at 1 p.m. LOOK participants will be treated to a concert offered by the Sebago-Long Lake Music Festival. The public is  invited to attend at a minimal cost.

Some spaces in classes are still available, as are scholarships. Scholarships are funded by the Mark Otterson Scholarship Fund. For more information or to donate to the scholarship fun, call Cyndy Tinsley at 674-2366 or contact the SAD#17 central office at 743-8972.