Class registration for the 23-24 school year will open May 15, with the placement lottery taking place June 1. The brochure can be viewed on our webpage.
Before and after school care for students enrolled in Centennial Preschool
All are welcome, but most appropriate for children ages six and up.
Make the stars your old friends as we watch the great celestial show in the skies over Rice Lake Elementary. Get to know the constellations like The Big Bear, Cygnus the Swan, Pegasus the Winged Horse, and others. Great constellation mythological stories will also be featured. We'll have giant telescopes aimed at Saturn, Jupiter, star clusters, galaxies, and more. An astronomical camera system will also capture breathtaking images. Mike will have books, photos, and cool glow-in-the dark shirts available for purchase.
If registering as a family, only one family member needs to register. Then select the family price.
Mike Lynch is a native Minnesotan who grew up in Richfied, Minnesota in the 1960’s. He attended St. Peter’s Grade school and Holy Angels High School. After two years at the University of Minnesota in the Twin Cities he transferred to the University of Wisconsin in Madison and earned his B.S. degree in Meteorology in 1979. Shortly after he was hired as a
broadcast meteorologist at WCCO Radio in Minneapolis and has been there for over 30 years. Mike has covered all kinds of weather from deadly tornados to record cold snaps. In fact on February 2nd, 1996, he broadcasted from Tower, Minnesota when the temperature dropped down to 60 below zero, an all time record low for the state of Minnesota.
Mike’s other passion since he was a teenager has been astronomy. He built his first telescope when he was 15 years old. For over 40 years Mike has been teaching classes and putting on star parties through community education, nature centers, and other entities throughout Minnesota and Western Wisconsin. His goal is to help people make the stars their old friends.
From 2004 to 2007 Mike wrote Astronomy/Stargazing books through Voyageur Press for Minnesota, Wisconsin, Iowa, the Dakotas, Michigan, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, New England, New Jersey, The Carolinas, Florida, Georgia, Texas, Wyoming, Washington, Oregon, California, New Mexico, Arizona, Montana, and Southern Canada.
Mike Lynch also wrote WCCO Minnesota Weather Watch in 2007 and was a finalist in the recent Minnesota Book Awards. On top of that Mike also writes a weekly Starwatch column for the St. Paul Pioneer Press and more than two dozen other newspapers across the United States.
Mike, his wife Kathy, and their two children, Angie and Shaun live in Eagan, Minnesota.
Mike Lynch
