Community Education
Events with Online Registration
Spectacular Saturday
Parent and Child Together
Come, have fun with your child on a Saturday morning!
At Open Gym, we will have large and fine motor activities along with plenty of space to let your little ones get out the extra wiggles.
Supervisor: Angela Walsh
Location: ACGC Elementary School
Ages: 1 - 6 years of age
Dates: May 17.
Time: 9:00 to 11:00am
Cost: $15.00 per session - Can be paid on JMC or have check/cash sent or dropped off at ACGC schools (27250 MN Highway 4, Grove City, MN 56243)
Registration: https://forms.gle/LV8siMN8pk5qJ7iS9
*UPDATED* Firearm Safety Training 2025
This course is for adults and students who are 12 years old and older.
You may take this course if you will be 12 years old by the end of September 2024. You will not receive your permit until your twelfth birthday.
Students will learn all the basic gun safety, hunting safety, care of your equipment, and hunter ethics. Students will receive firearms permits when the course has been completed and the DNR sends back the permits.
You must be at every class to receive a permit.
Instructor: Tim Dragt and Grove City Gun Club, & DNR Officers.
Location: Grove City Community Center
Dates:
May 12, 13, 15, 19, 20, 22, 31 (last class ends at 8:00).
You will be going to the shooting range on Saturday the 31st.
Time: 7:00 to 9:30pm
Maximum Enrollment: 25 students
Registration deadline: April 31, 2025
Cost: Your payment to the DNR is paid online at the end of the training.
Registration: https://forms.gle/pKMym74kH8KCGRw7A
Driver's Education 2025-2026 for 9th Graders & Older
ACGC Community Education is offering Driver’s Education. We look forward to serving our students. Classroom instruction will be 30 clock hours per state requirement. Mrs. Skoviera will be our classroom instructor. Each session will be 3 hours long with a 15 minute break.
Instructor: Jan Skoviera
Location: ACGC High School
Dates:
Session 1: March 31, April 7, 14, 21, 28, May 5, 12, 19, 27, 28, and 29 as the makeup day.
Session 2: July 28, 29, 30, 31, August 1, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, and August 11 as the makeup day.
Time: 8:00am to 11:15am
Maximum Enrollment: 28 students
Registration deadline: March 28, 2025
Cost: $125 - Can be paid on JMC or have check/cash sent or dropped off at ACGC schools (27250 MN Highway 4, Grove City, MN 56243)
Registration: https://forms.gle/nJCkVhfFZW4rKymo7
Youth Basketball Skills
Community Education takes the Falcon Basketball energy and will focus on the fundamentals of basketball: dribbling, shooting, offense, and defense. In the final week
Instructor: Marcus Forsythe
Grades: 4-6
Location: ACGC High School
Dates: July 9, 11, 16, 18, 23, 25, 30, and August 1
Time: 1:00 - 2:30 PM
Cost: $33 total - Can be paid on JMC or have check/cash sent or dropped off at ACGC schools (27250 MN Highway 4, Grove City, MN 56243)
Registration: https://forms.gle/bt49hVHrfKAqFfKF9
Youth Track & Field
Instructor: Coach David Blom
Location: ACGC High School Track in Grove City
Grades: K-6
Practice Dates: June 2, 3, and 4 (2025)
Time: 6:30 to 7:30pm
Registration Deadline: May 31, 2025
Cost: $22.00 - Can be paid on JMC or have check/cash sent or dropped off at ACGC schools (27250 MN Highway 4, Grove City, MN 56243)
Meets:
Thursday, June 5 @ BOLD High School Track - 6:00pm start time - Meet at Olivia @ 5:45pm
Thursday, June 12 @ NLS High School Track - 6:00pm start time - Meet at New London @ 5:45pm
Implements: Shot-bocce ball and 2.2lb discuss
Track Events: 50m Hurdles, 100m, 400m, 200m, 4x100m Relay, 800m
Field Events: Shot Put, Discuss, Long JumpRules: Each participant may compete in as many events as they wish. Races will run in heats of eight (8) with each participant receiving a ribbon – no timing. Eight places should also be given in the field events. Do as many places as possible in the hurdle race. All meets begin at 6:00 pm with the running events then a break for field events with the rest of the running events to follow.
Registration:https://forms.gle/W1dg8LZev5tX9ziY7
Youth Soccer 2025
Led by a former collegiate soccer player, at University Minnesota Crookston, and a former middle school soccer coach, Kayla Larson will focus on individual skill work, small group training, and game-like scenarios; plus scrimmages and actual live game action!
1st-6th grade will focus on the following components:
Practice: Introductory soccer skills in the areas of footwork, passing, agility, teamwork, and whole-body functional movements specific to soccer.
Red Robin Night: A night of scrimmaging, designed to foster fun and a love for soccer.
Instructor: Kayla Larson
Location: Centennial Park, West of Sand Volleyball Court
Dates: Practices (June 11th, 18th, July 9th, 23rd, 30th)
Red Robin Night's (June 25th, July 16th, & August 6th)
Grades 1-2: 6:00-6:30 PM
Grades 3-6: 6:30-7:00 PM
Cost: $23 total - Can be paid on JMC or have check/cash sent or dropped off at ACGC schools (27250 MN Highway 4, Grove City, MN 56243)
Registration : https://forms.gle/UtsNMUsGJGx1m13r9
Summer Dance Camp
The ACGC Falcon Dance Team will teach proper stretching and dance techniques. Each group will learn a different dance routine and will perform for their families at 5:30. The Dance Team will also perform several of their camp dances at the 5:30 show. The show will be in the elementary gym. Participants will receive a snack and a t-shirt. All dancing abilities are welcome! Please wear comfortable clothing.
Instructor(s): Coaches Tori Dengerud, Sloan Hedtke, and ACGC Falcon Dance Team
Location: ACGC Elementary in Atwater
Dates: Friday, June 27
Grades PreK-3: 2:30pm - 5:30pm
Grades 4-5: 1:30pm - 5:30pm
5:30 SHOW TO FOLLOW!
Registration Deadline: Friday, May 30 - to guarantee a t-shirt. Late registrations WILL be accepted, but t-shirt not guaranteed.
Cost: $25 total (includes t-shirt and snack) - Can be paid on JMC or have check/cash sent or dropped off at ACGC schools (27250 MN Highway 4, Grove City, MN 56243)
Registration: https://forms.gle/gUFEdDp448z6CDak6
Kindergarten Prep/Summer School
Your child spent the school year getting ready for Kindergarten, but summer vacation gets long.
We would like to help give your child a refresher, to get back in the practice of school, so they feel truly ready for Kindergarten! We want their first day of Kindergarten to be fun and stress free!
We will review skills that your child will need to be successful in Kindergarten and have fun learning. We will practice classroom behavior and academic learning (including ABC's and 123’s).
Please join us!
This class is for students that have completed at least one year of our preschool program and will be attending Kindergarten at ACGC in the Fall.
Instructor: Mrs. Lissa Borchert and Mrs. Carolyn Powers
Location: ACGC Elementary
Dates: Tuesday - Thursday (Aug 12-14 and Aug 19-21)
Time: 8:00-11:00 AM
Cost: $125 Can be paid on JMC, sent or dropped off at ACGC schools (27250 MN Highway 4, Grove City, MN 56243)
We will meet your child at the East door by the preschool room at 8 am each morning and you will pick your child up at that door at 11.
Spots will fill quickly, please sign up by: July 15th
Minimum 10 children
Maximum 20 children
Registration:https://forms.gle/dyVocvvLGDnTCGYe7
Falcon Volleyball Clinic
7-12th grade will focus on the following components:
● Jumping and agility specific to volleyball hitting/blocking.
● Injury Prevention and flexibility focusing on balanced strength to minimize stress on the
joints and ligaments.
● HITTING and arm swing techniques to amp up power and create stronger, more versatile
hitters.
● Defensive and Offensive Drills designed to enhance level of in-game play.
3-6th grade will focus on the following components:
● Introductory volleyball skills in the areas of footwork, passing, agility, serving, teamwork,
and whole-body functional movements specific to volleyball.
● Game-like drills designed to foster a love for volleyball.
Instructor: Micah Tolzin - ACGC Head Volleyball Coach
Location: ACHC JSHS Gym & Weight Room
Dates: June 24, 25, 26, 27
Time:
Grades 3-6: 9 AM-11 AM
Grades 7-12: 11 AM- 1 PM
Cost: $53 total - Can be paid on JMC or have check/cash sent or dropped off at ACGC schools (27250 MN Highway 4, Grove City, MN 56243)Minimum 10 children
Maximum 20 children
Registration:https://forms.gle/dyVocvvLGDnTCGYe7
Youth Volleyball Skills
Attention parents and guardians of ACGC 4-6th graders!
Community Education takes the Falcon Volleyball energy and excitement of this great team sport and puts it all together into a summer of small specific sessions. All aspects of the game are taught through drills and exercises that focus on passing, setting, hitting and serving. This co-ed program is designed for the beginner to intermediate player and will incorporate essential life-lessons such as teamwork and sportsmanship. Our volleyball staff will assist each athlete in developing the fundamental skills of the game through game-based drills and daily scrimmages aimed at developing the whole player.
Instructor: Ailey Elton
Location: ACGC High School
Dates: June 3, 5, 10, 12, 17, 19, 24, 26, and July 8, 10, 15, 17, 24
Time: 1:00 - 2:30 PM
Cost: $33 total - Can be paid on JMC or have check/cash sent or dropped off at ACGC schools (27250 MN Highway 4, Grove City, MN 56243)
Registration: https://forms.gle/JFTuncMWm2PPM41X7
Fitness for Kids
Attention parents and guardians of ACGC 4-6th graders!
ACGC Community Education is excited to offer Fitness for Kids to our 4th, 5th, and 6th graders. Fitness for Kids strength and conditioning program is designed to provide total body conditioning while focusing on exercises specific to athletic development. We will utilize both gyms, the weight room, and the track, to explore all facets of physical fitness. Enhanced athletic performance will be achieved by improving the student’s range of motion, speed, strength, agility, coordination, and explosive power as well as learning ways to reduce the chance of injury.
Instructor: Matt Zupke
Location: ACGC High School
Dates: June (Monday/Wednesday) 2, 4, 9, 11, 16, 18, 23, 25, 30, and July (Mondays ONLY) 7, 14, 21, 28
Time: 1:00 - 2:30 PM
Cost: $23 total - Can be paid on JMC or have check/cash sent or dropped off at ACGC schools (27250 MN Highway 4, Grove City, MN 56243)
Registration: https://forms.gle/n3ddvgBq4695w3ze7