Teachers sought for art center

The Bayou Lacombe Art Center and Kids Of Our Lacombe is looking for teachers to teach in its summer program. Visual and performing art classes for students and adults will be held from June 1 to July 30. Classes will be held from 9 a.m. to noon Monday to Thursday and on Saturdays.

A different visual arts class will be held each week, covering pastels, acrylics, oils, watercolor, drawing, photography, Web site design, furniture painting and refinishing, mosaics and slab building and wheel throwing in pottery. To apply for a teaching position, send a short bio and lesson plan to Jacki Schneider at jmslacombe@charter.net or P.O. Box 1985, Lacombe, LA 70445. For more information, call 882-3752.

ACT workshop upcoming

ACT Math Prep Workshop will be held from 9-11:30 a.m. June 8-11 at Pope John Paul II Catholic High School Slidell.

The workshop focuses on a three-part strategy for improving a student’s Math ACT score. Intensive content refresher, test taking strategies and practice tests will be taken nightly. The students will also receive seven practice tests with answers and item analyses.

The cost is $150 per student and covers all materials, workbook, teacher notes, strategies and practice tests. The instructor is Christine Neely, the math department chair at PJP.

Registration is required. Forms are available at the PJP office or online at

www.ezweb123.com/aplusACTmathprep/.

For more information, visit the Web site or e-mail Neely at amathprep@charter.net.

SPD offering

Cop Camp

The Slidell Police Department will hold the second annual Law Enforcement Cop Camp.

The Cop Camp is scheduled for one week, June 8-12 at the Louisiana National Guard Facility off Interstate 12 near the North Shore Square Mall.

Attendance is open to all area high school students, ages 14-18 years, both male and female. Any interested student or parent can contact Officer David Wortmann at Northshore High School by visiting him at the school or call him at 237-4497.

Wortmann's e-mail is dwortmann@slidellpd.com.

SLU center offers GMAT course

The Southeastern Louisiana University St. Tammany Center is offering a course to designed to help students prepare for the GMAT (Graduate Management Admissions Test), required for entrance to business graduate schools, including SLU’s Master of Business Administration and Executive MBA programs.

The 18-hour, instructor-lead course will be offered on Thursdays through May 28, 6-9 p.m., at the St. Tammany Center, located on the third floor of the St. Tammany Parish government complex on Koop Drive near Mandeville.

The course (divided into six modules) will cover the three main sections of the GMAT, analytical writing assessment, quantitative and verbal.

Students will practice simple steps to writing a quality analysis, including organizing, developing and presenting ideas, and providing relevant and supporting details. The course will review basic math and verbal skills such as algebra, geometry and data sufficiency problems, reading for comprehension, proper grammar, sentence structure and critical reasoning. It will also cover test taking strategies such as eliminating wrong answers, guessing and time management strategies. Practice tests will be administered to provide students with areas of focus.

Cost is $50 per module or $300 for all six. SLU will provide the course book, the 11th edition of “The Official Guide for GMAT Review.” The cost of the book is included in the registration fee if participants register for all six modules and submit payment two weeks prior to the start of the class.

To register, visit the Non Credit Courses link at www.selu.edu/stc or call the St. Tammany Center at 893-6251.

Southeastern?s Office of Testing is authorized to administer the GMAT. The test is offered at the main campus in Hammond most Tuesdays and Wednesdays at 9 a.m. To find specific dates and times, visit the Find a Test Center link at http://www.gmac.org/.

Performing arts day camp set

On June 21, Frick and Frack Music will roll into Slidell with its award winning day camp program packed in a 24-foot trailer.

Art-is-In, the Troupe’s performing arts program is a week-long day camp for students in kindergarten through sixth-grade.

The program is in its fifth national tour and has won awards for its crowd-pleasing final performances. Scheduled from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m., campers meet for five days where they learn and produce a full scale Broadway style musical. Frick and Frack brings the set, the costumes, the props, the stage, the sound, the lighting, and everything else they need to stage a show with less than 30 hours of rehearsal. And every show stars only local students.

The Frick and Frack staff provides show support and stage management, but over the course of the week, they teach the kids all the music, choreography, and drama. Phillip Lanier, the director of Frick and Frack’s Summer Tour is a native of Southern Louisiana and is thrilled to bring ART-is-IN to his home state.

This is Frick and Frack’s fourth year in the Slidell area, and this summer’s tour show – The Amazing Greats – is a superhero themed musical set in the 1920’s. The camp will be held at First United Methodist Church in Slidell.

For information on ART-is-IN, contact First United Methodist Church 643-6437.