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Digital Backpack

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If you’re looking for Indianola school and community events and information, then you’ve come to the right place! To cut down on paper usage and the volume of materials sent home with students each week, non-profit organizations are asked to submit their events, announcements, and flyers to our digital backpack. In accordance with board policy, here you will find information from school sponsored, affiliated, and supported organizations; non-profit community organizations, programs, camps; and more.

 

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Jun 15 2021 | 6:30 pm

Outside Art – Solar Night Light

Location Indianola Public Library
Age Range Families of all ages
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Cost FREE!
Organization Indianola Public Library
Contact Janis Comer
Email jcomer@indianolaiowa.gov
Phone (515) 961-9418
Information Community program; all ages are welcome. Younger children will need adult help. Make and decorate your own solar-powered night light! All supplies provided. What you'll need: Clothes that can get messy Your creativity!
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Jun 21 2021 | 9:30 am

Youth Boys Soccer Camp

Location Indianola Stadium
Age Range K-8 boys soccer players
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Cost $25
Organization Indianola High School Boys Soccer
Contact Heath Weeks
Email heath.weeks@indianola.k12.ia.us
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Jun 22 2021 | 6:30 pm

Outside Art – Exploding Paint Rockets!

Location Indianola Public Library
Age Range Families of all ages
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Cost FREE!
Organization Indianola Public Library
Contact Janis Comer
Email jcomer@indianolaiowa.gov
Phone (515) 961-9418
Information Community program; all ages are welcome. Younger children will need adult help. You read that right! Create a unique work of art with exploding paint rockets! All supplies provided. What you'll need: Clothes that can get messy Your creativity!
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Jun 29 2021 | 6:30 pm

Outside Art – Chalk our Walk!

Location Indianola Public Library
Age Range Families of all ages
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Cost FREE!
Organization Indianola Public Library
Contact Janis Comer
Email jcomer@indianolaiowa.gov
Phone (515) 961-9418
Information Community program; all ages are welcome. Younger children will need adult help. Decorate our sidewalks, and create a walking obstacle course around the Library! All supplies provided. What you'll need: Clothes that can get messy Your creativity!
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Jul 2 2021 (all day)

Youth Tennis Lessons

Location Indianola High School Tennis Courts
Age Range Ages 6 - 14
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Cost $40 nonresidents, $35 Indianola residents
Organization Indianola Parks & Recreation
Contact Brandon DeCook
Email bdecook@indianolaiowa.gov
Phone (516) 961-9420
Information Join Simpson College Men's Tennis Coach Matt Price and learn tennis fundamentals taught through games, relays and drills. Fee includes a T-shirt. All skill levels and abilities are welcome.
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Jul 2 2021 | 8:00 am

Indianola Volleyball Camp for Grades 3-6

Location Blake Fieldhouse
Age Range Girls in grades 3 - 6
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Cost $40
Organization Indianola Volleyball
Contact Kent Halstead
Email kenthalstead@gmail.com
Information We promise fun, volleyball skills, and some more fun!
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Jul 2 2021 | 9:30 am

Indianola Volleyball Camp for Grades 6 – 8

Location Blake Fieldhouse
Age Range Girls in grades 6-8 next year
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Cost $40
Organization Indianola Volleyball
Contact Kent Halstead
Email kenthalstead@gmail.com
Information We promise fun, volleyball skills, and more fun!
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Jul 12 2021 | 9:00 am

Write Now: 175 Word Micro Story Contest

Location Virtual
Age Range Grades 3-12
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Cost Free
Organization University of Iowa Center for Advancement
Contact Kate Sojka
Email kate.sojka@foriowa.org
Phone (319) 467-3884
Information Keep your creative juices flowing this summer by entering a micro story contest. Your task will be to write a story using 175 words or less around a provided theme that will be announced on Monday, July 12. No cost to enter. Open to students in grades 3rd-12th. Website: foriowa.org/write-now
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Jul 16 2021 (all day)

SummerSongs and SummerTunes Choir Camp

Location Windsor Heights Lutheran Church
Age Range K-8th Grades
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Organization Heartland Youth Choir
Contact Kim Novy
Email office@joinhyc.org
Phone (515) 221-3922
Information Heartland Youth Choir is excited to offer our SummerSongs (grades 4-8) and SummerTunes (grades K-3) Choir camp the week of July 12-16, 2021. Please see the flyers for more information about this week-long camp full of music and fun!
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Jul 17 2021 | 10:30 am

Splash ‘n’ Story

Location Aquatic Center
Age Range Kids 18mo & up with an adult
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Cost FREE!
Organization Indianola Public Library
Contact Janis Comer
Email jcomer@indianolaiowa.gov
Phone (515) 961-9418
Information Join Janis at the Aquatic Center for a special edition of Tot Splash Time, with stories and songs and probably some splashing!
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Jul 20 2021 | 9:00 am

Summer Theater Camps – Des Moines Performing Arts

Location Des Moines Civic Center, 221 Walnut St., Des Moines, IA 50309
Age Range 3rd through 12th grade students
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Cost Ranges from $275-$495; scholarships available
Organization Des Moines Performing Arts
Contact Lynnae Lathrop
Email LynnaeL@DMPA.org
Phone (515) 689-4362
Information Des Moines Performing Arts presents three different summer camps for 2021, each designed to improve participants’ performance skills: Musical Theater Camp, Broadway Summer Intensive, and Broadway Summer Academy.
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Jul 21 2021 | 9:30 am

Mystery Science – K1

Location Indianola Public Library
Age Range Kids who have finished Kindergarten/1st grade
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Cost FREE!
Organization Indianola Public Library
Contact Janis Comer
Email jcomer@indianolaiowa.gov
Phone (515) 961-9418
Information Each week we'll perform several experiments in a variety of topics. Will it be chemistry, circuitry, solar energy? Is this stuff going to blow up? (We hope not.) Join your friends and Janis at the Library to do some awesome experiments with the mystery stuff in each week's kit.
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Jul 21 2021 | 10:30 am

Mystery Science -23

Location Indianola Public Library
Age Range Kids who have finished 2nd/3rd grade
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Cost FREE!
Organization Indianola Public Library
Contact Janis Comer
Email jcomer@indianolaiowa.gov
Phone (515) 961-9418
Information Each week we'll perform several experiments in a variety of topics. Will it be chemistry, circuitry, solar energy? Is this stuff going to blow up? (We hope not.) Join your friends and Janis at the Library to do some awesome experiments with the mystery stuff in each week's kit.
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Jul 21 2021 | 11:30 am

Mystery Science – 45

Location Indianola Public Library
Age Range Kids who have finished 4th/5th grade
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Cost FREE!
Organization Indianola Public Library
Contact Janis Comer
Email jcomer@indianolaiowa.gov
Phone (515) 961-9418
Information Begins June 1st Each week we'll perform several experiments in a variety of topics. Will it be chemistry, circuitry, solar energy? Is this stuff going to blow up? (We hope not.) Join your friends and Janis at the Library to do some awesome experiments with the mystery stuff in each week's kit.
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Jul 30 2021 (all day)

Elite 360 Basketball Training Camps

Location MidAmerican Energy RecPlex
Age Range 3rd - High School
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Cost $125-250
Organization Elite 360 Training
Contact Lyndsey Fennelly
Email lyndshoops@gmail.com
Phone (515) 451-4011
Information Elite 360 offers players the chance to develop as student-athletes but also as leaders and champions in their community. Join the Elite 360 team led by former WNBA draftee and Iowa State All-American, Lyndsey (Medders) Fennelly as they provide intense, meaningful, and age & stage appropriate drills.
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Aug 6 2021 (all day)

Parks & Recreation Summer Camps

Location varies
Age Range Entering 2nd grade through age 17
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Cost varies
Organization Indianola Parks & Recreation
Contact Becky Lane
Email blane@indianolaiowa.gov
Phone (516) 961-9420
Information Check out the popular Flying High! Hot Air Balloon Camp for kids entering 2nd - 6th grade. This camp is held during the National Balloon Classic. Also offering Youth Tech Computer Camps for ages 6-17.
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Aug 6 2021 (all day)

Free Summer Fun with Indianola Parks & Recreation

Location varies
Age Range Families with preschool-elementary age students
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Cost FREE
Organization Indianola Parks & Recreation
Contact Kathy Kester
Email kkester@indianolaiowa.gov
Phone (516) 961-9420
Information Summer Fun in '21 includes four free outdoor movies, two storywalks and one great big Pedal Palooza! Bike Fest is back on Saturday, June 19, in a new location at Irving Elementary. Read all about it!
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Aug 17 2021 | 4:30 pm

Johnson Music Academy Youth Choirs

Location 106 W Boston - Des Moines Metro Opera
Age Range 2nd through 6th grade students
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Organization Johnson Music Academy
Contact Kiersten Johnson
Email mrsj@johnsonmusicacademy.com
Information Under the direction of Mrs. J (Irving music teacher), Johnson Music Academy will be providing Indianola’s young music makers with a fun, engaging opportunity to sing and perform with their peers. Early enrollment for Fall 2021 is now open.
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Jul 17 2021 | 10:30 am

Splash ‘n’ Story

Location Aquatic Center
Age Range Kids 18mo & up with an adult
View More View More
Cost FREE!
Organization Indianola Public Library
Contact Janis Comer
Email jcomer@indianolaiowa.gov
Phone (515) 961-9418
Information Join Janis at the Aquatic Center for a special edition of Tot Splash Time, with stories and songs and probably some splashing!
View Flyer View Website
Jun 29 2021 | 6:30 pm

Outside Art – Chalk our Walk!

Location Indianola Public Library
Age Range Families of all ages
View More View More
Cost FREE!
Organization Indianola Public Library
Contact Janis Comer
Email jcomer@indianolaiowa.gov
Phone (515) 961-9418
Information Community program; all ages are welcome. Younger children will need adult help. Decorate our sidewalks, and create a walking obstacle course around the Library! All supplies provided. What you'll need: Clothes that can get messy Your creativity!
View Flyer View Website
Jun 22 2021 | 6:30 pm

Outside Art – Exploding Paint Rockets!

Location Indianola Public Library
Age Range Families of all ages
View More View More
Cost FREE!
Organization Indianola Public Library
Contact Janis Comer
Email jcomer@indianolaiowa.gov
Phone (515) 961-9418
Information Community program; all ages are welcome. Younger children will need adult help. You read that right! Create a unique work of art with exploding paint rockets! All supplies provided. What you'll need: Clothes that can get messy Your creativity!
View Flyer View Website
Jun 15 2021 | 6:30 pm

Outside Art – Solar Night Light

Location Indianola Public Library
Age Range Families of all ages
View More View More
Cost FREE!
Organization Indianola Public Library
Contact Janis Comer
Email jcomer@indianolaiowa.gov
Phone (515) 961-9418
Information Community program; all ages are welcome. Younger children will need adult help. Make and decorate your own solar-powered night light! All supplies provided. What you'll need: Clothes that can get messy Your creativity!
View Flyer View Website
Jul 21 2021 | 11:30 am

Mystery Science – 45

Location Indianola Public Library
Age Range Kids who have finished 4th/5th grade
View More View More
Cost FREE!
Organization Indianola Public Library
Contact Janis Comer
Email jcomer@indianolaiowa.gov
Phone (515) 961-9418
Information Begins June 1st Each week we'll perform several experiments in a variety of topics. Will it be chemistry, circuitry, solar energy? Is this stuff going to blow up? (We hope not.) Join your friends and Janis at the Library to do some awesome experiments with the mystery stuff in each week's kit.
View Flyer View Website
Jul 21 2021 | 10:30 am

Mystery Science -23

Location Indianola Public Library
Age Range Kids who have finished 2nd/3rd grade
View More View More
Cost FREE!
Organization Indianola Public Library
Contact Janis Comer
Email jcomer@indianolaiowa.gov
Phone (515) 961-9418
Information Each week we'll perform several experiments in a variety of topics. Will it be chemistry, circuitry, solar energy? Is this stuff going to blow up? (We hope not.) Join your friends and Janis at the Library to do some awesome experiments with the mystery stuff in each week's kit.
View Flyer View Website
Jul 21 2021 | 9:30 am

Mystery Science – K1

Location Indianola Public Library
Age Range Kids who have finished Kindergarten/1st grade
View More View More
Cost FREE!
Organization Indianola Public Library
Contact Janis Comer
Email jcomer@indianolaiowa.gov
Phone (515) 961-9418
Information Each week we'll perform several experiments in a variety of topics. Will it be chemistry, circuitry, solar energy? Is this stuff going to blow up? (We hope not.) Join your friends and Janis at the Library to do some awesome experiments with the mystery stuff in each week's kit.
View Flyer View Website
Aug 17 2021 | 4:30 pm

Johnson Music Academy Youth Choirs

Location 106 W Boston - Des Moines Metro Opera
Age Range 2nd through 6th grade students
View More View More
Organization Johnson Music Academy
Contact Kiersten Johnson
Email mrsj@johnsonmusicacademy.com
Information Under the direction of Mrs. J (Irving music teacher), Johnson Music Academy will be providing Indianola’s young music makers with a fun, engaging opportunity to sing and perform with their peers. Early enrollment for Fall 2021 is now open.
View Website
Aug 6 2021 (all day)

Free Summer Fun with Indianola Parks & Recreation

Location varies
Age Range Families with preschool-elementary age students
View More View More
Cost FREE
Organization Indianola Parks & Recreation
Contact Kathy Kester
Email kkester@indianolaiowa.gov
Phone (516) 961-9420
Information Summer Fun in '21 includes four free outdoor movies, two storywalks and one great big Pedal Palooza! Bike Fest is back on Saturday, June 19, in a new location at Irving Elementary. Read all about it!
View Flyer
Aug 6 2021 (all day)

Parks & Recreation Summer Camps

Location varies
Age Range Entering 2nd grade through age 17
View More View More
Cost varies
Organization Indianola Parks & Recreation
Contact Becky Lane
Email blane@indianolaiowa.gov
Phone (516) 961-9420
Information Check out the popular Flying High! Hot Air Balloon Camp for kids entering 2nd - 6th grade. This camp is held during the National Balloon Classic. Also offering Youth Tech Computer Camps for ages 6-17.
View Flyer View Website
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