ENRICHED FOR LIFE (269) 323-6700 - Portage Public Schools

Winter/Spring 2013 - Enriched For Life
Cooking Class
NEW!
Homemade Soup
“...no one is born a great cook, one
learns by doing.” -Julia Child
Learn to make at least two different homemade soups
with Portage Public Schools Family & Consumer
Sciences teacher, Cherie Tucker. Students will learn
to make a base broth that can be used for countless
recipes. Class will be taught in a state-of-the art
teaching kitchen at Central High School. Students
will work at individual cooking stations and leave with
delicious soups and copies of the recipes. Receive
one-on-one instruction in this learning environment.
Sign up with a friend or a child (age 14 or older) who
is interested in learning.
Homemade Soup - 470101w
thursday 6:00-8:30 PM 02/21 only
chs/1125 $20 food incl tucker
Computer & Business
Fiction Writing Workshop
In this course, you will write, share, and discuss
fiction in a relaxed and supportive atmosphere. You
will work on improving setting, character, dialogue,
plot, dramatization, and style. Your instructor will
lead discussions, respond in writing to your work, and
provide lectures and handouts as needed. You should
bring paper and pencil to each class. If you have
already written some fiction, please bring a short story
or novel chapter to the first meeting.
Instructor Wilma Kahn has an MFA in Creative
Writing (WMU) and a Doctor of Arts in English
(SUNY Albany). Her essays, poems, and stories have
appeared in newspapers, magazines, and literary
journals, and her detective novel,” Big Black Hole,
was published in 2005.
Fiction Writing Workshop - 318101w
Thursday 6:30-8:00 PM 02/07-03/21
PCEC/PT5 $75 - 6 Wks Kahn
(no class 02/14)
Fiction Writing Workshop - 318201w
Thursday 6:30-8:00 PM 04/11-05/30
PCEC/PT5 $75 - 6 Wks Kahn
(no class 04/25; 05/16)
Inventors be Aware
Patent Law
Patent Law will be presented for the inventor who
wants to learn about patent law and the process of
patenting an invention regardless of whether it is
chemical, electrical or mechanical. The course will
include:
- what rights the assignee has and what rights the
assignee does not have;
- what constitutes a patentable invention, in particular
novelty and non-obviousness;
- issues and problems with electronic searching;
- time lines for filing and prosecuting patent
applications US and worldwide;
- how not to lose a patentable invention;
- how best to cite prior art for small entities;
- why inventors should not try and file and prosecute
patent applications themselves;
The instructor is a pharmacist, has a Ph.D. in
fermentation chemistry and is an attorney. He has
practiced patent law for over 30 years with Pharmacia
and in private practice. He has filed and prosecuted
to issue hundreds of patents (both US and foreign),
has argued appeals at the Board of Appeals, has
participated in US District Court proceedings, argued
at the Court of Appeals in Washington, DC and
managed the Asgrow case at the US Supreme Court.
Patent Law - 311101W
Thursday 7:00-9:00 PM 04/25-05/09
CEC/Pt1 $95 - 3 Wks stein
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