ELECTIVES
Now Accepting Elective Applications!
Electives are an integral part of the UNITE Students experience! For 45-minute sessions, students are invited to engage in interactive, engaging, transforming ways. This is an opportunity for students to build relationships with new friends, learn new skills, create new things and build lasting memories.
The possibility for electives is limitless! This is a space to lead crafts or teach crafty skills (like crochet), practice life skills (like car maintenance), learn about interesting topics in an engaging way (baking cookies while talking about criminal justice), create art (blackout poetry and drawing), physical movement (holy yoga, sports tournaments or other games), cooperative games (DnD or Magic the Gathering), interactive arts (improv, choir and drama), and so much more!
Please fill out the form linked below to indicate your interest in leading an elective at UNITE Students! If you would like assistance in growing your idea or making it more engaging and accessible to students, please indicate that in the form and a UNITE team member will reach out to dream with you. We’re excited to see what gifts, talents, or experiences that you’re interested in sharing with our students!
PAST ELECTIVE OPPORTUNITIES
Get a taste of what we do at UNITE! These are some of the elective opportunities we’ve offered in the past:
ESPORTS: ESports tournaments in our state-of-the-art eComplex at CMU.
DND CAMPAIGN: Join Pastor Alex as he takes you on a Dungeons and Dragons campaign based on a story from the Bible.
BELIEVE YOUR EYES: Part of the church experience is visual. Learn to create clean and clear graphics to display lyrics, scripture and announcements using basic platforms that help enhance worship.
IMPROV: Put your creativity in action with improv exercises, tips, and tricks and hang out with Taylor, from the morning session videos, who has years of improv experience!
CREATIVE CALM: A mindful art experience. Learn simple art techniques that will help calm your brain when there is a lot to process.
COLLEGE APPLICATION PRACTICE AND ASSISTANCE: Thinking about college? Come learn about the process of applying as well as learning tips and tricks to help your application stand out!
RACE AND CULTURE CONVERSATIONS: We live in a time in which issues of diversity challenge us on every level. In this session, we will learn ways to engage in productive conversations about race, ethnicity and cultural differences.
PLANNING COLLABORATIVE YOUTH EVENTS (Adults Only): Youth Ministry is a team sport, and planning big events is better with a team! In this workshop you will hear how a group of youth directors have utilized the UMC connection and have worked together to plan a weekend retreat for the past eight years. Throughout this time, you will be invited to dream and brainstorm what events you could do in collaboration with others in your area!
CROCHETING PRAYER: Do you love to keep your hands busy? Do you love grandmas? Do you love prayer? Then this is the class for you!
HOLY YOGA: Need a few minutes to stretch, refocus, and recenter? Holy Yoga is yoga for non-yoga people to find some quiet and calm to listen to their bodies and scripture. Come enjoy a pause from the hustle and bustle!
THE GREAT COOKIE BAKE CAPER: Prof Bronson is the CMU cookie bake champion of 2024. He will discuss his take on criminal justice as he demonstrates his cookie baking techniques. Students will sample his cookies at the end of class. Location upstairs kitchen in Inman Student Center.
MIDDLE SCHOOL AND HIGH SCHOOL SPORTS TOURNAMENTS
POOL TIME