After-school enrichment

Since 2022, Inspiration Alcona and Alcona Community Schools have partnered on a grant from the Michigan Department of Education to provide two hours of after-school enrichment for students, four days a week during the school year. During summer, we’ve offered four hours a day for six weeks. 

Opportunities have ranged from tutoring in STEM subjects to gardening, outdoor survival, art lessons, board game clubs, forestry and many more.

Since 2013 Inspiration Alcona has also sponsored educational assemblies and classroom visitors, from Michigan history to magic shows, paleontology, reading programs and more.

The video below shows the June 2025 session of the Out-of-School-Time grant from the Michigan Department of Education.

The students arrive for the first session of Grand Art at the Lincoln Senior Center. They did art projects and dined with the seniors.
The students arrive for the first session of Grand Art at the Lincoln Senior Center. They did art projects and dined with the seniors.
Inspiration Alcona has sponsored many educational programs at Alcona Community Schools, including Baffling Bill, who used magic to encourage good reading habits.
Inspiration Alcona has sponsored many educational programs at Alcona Community Schools, including Baffling Bill, who used magic to encourage good reading habits.
Fifth-graders learned to play ukuleles that Inspiration Alcona supplied. Older students learned guitar.
Fifth-graders learned to play ukuleles that Inspiration Alcona supplied. Older students learned guitar.
During a summer session, youngsters are hard at work on a construction paper project.
During a summer session, youngsters are hard at work on a construction paper project.
During a field trip to the Flint Museum of Arts' teaching school, Alcona High students worked with master ceramicists on the museum's equipment.
During a field trip to the Flint Museum of Arts' teaching school, Alcona High students worked with master ceramicists on the museum's equipment.
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