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Presence Workshop: How to Present your Authentic Self On Camera, Online, and In Person
with Amy Leigh Wicks
Presence Workshop: How to Present your Authentic Self On Camera, Online, and In Person
Are you looking to build confidence in your voice? Wanting to nail your entrance and be captivating on stage and camera? Come join me for “Presence,” a six week course designed to help you enter a room and captivate those in it with your authentic self. No previous experience is necessary. Whether you host a podcast and want to level up, or are looking to feel more comfortable in your skin at social gatherings, this workshop will help you to get grounded and confident in who you are using voice, breath, and fundamental performance techniques.
Date(s): Session 1: Februrary 4th- March 11th, 2026
Session 2: March 25th- April 29th, 2026
Schedule: 6- Wednesdays
Time: 6:30pm- 8:00pm
Location: Online & In-Person - Shasta College Community Leadership Center 1401 California St, Redding, CA 96001- Room 9205
Facilitator: Dr. Amy Leigh Wicks
Fee: $250.00
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Effective Nonprofit Fundraising and Grant Writing
with Bob Reich
Effective Nonprofit Fundraising and Grant Writing
Whether you are asking for organizational contributions, selling school fundraising items, putting on an event, or other requests, is asking for and bringing in funds to support your organization or program a challenge? You are not alone. You don’t have to apologize when asking for support and contributions for your organization. In this course you will learn techniques to bring in funds and resources for your project or organization. This workshop is valuable for staff, Boards, volunteers, and anyone who is involved with raising funds for your nonprofit organization.
Date(s): Session 1: April 22nd- May 6th, 2026
Schedule: 3- Wednesdays
Time: 6:30pm-8:30pm
Location: Virtual Via Zoom- Link to be sent prior to class
Facilitator: Bob Reich
Fee: $110.00
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Note: The instructor will email the Zoom link to all participants prior to the start of class.
Introduction to Microsoft Excel (Tehama Campus)
with Rio Miner
Introduction to Microsoft Excel
Enhance any business or career with the analytical power of MS Excel! Learn to organize, analyze, and interpret data using MS Excel tricks, formulas, tables, and graphs.Get new insights from your data! Become a better Excel spreadsheet user with this practical skill-enhancing class. Find patterns, identify outliers, and see the numbers better than ever before. Learn useful Excelfunctions and formulas to make operations more efficient and identify problems before they grow. If understanding data is key to your business, let us help you unlock the analytical power of Excel.Course Outline:
1. How to organize data
2. Using sort & filter functions
3. Conditional formatting
4. Tying it together: Recognizing patterns in large datasets
5. How to use basic formulas
6. Quick Check & Basic formulas: sum, count, and average
7. How to create a pivot table
8. Text-to-columns
9. Advanced formulas: VLOOKUP; CONCAT
Hybrid Course Design: This course may be joined in-person or online! Instructor will email virtual link at least 24 hours before the start of class.
Date(s): Session 1: May 14th- May 28th, 2026
Schedule: 3- Thursdays
Time: 12:30pm- 2:00pm
Location: Shasta College Tehama Campus 770 Diamond Ave Red Bluff CA 96080 Room 7114
Facilitator: Rio Miner
Fee: $115.00
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SBDC- Launching Cottage Food Business in Northern California
with SBDC
SBDC- Launching Cottage Food Businesses
This two-part course is structured to support entrepreneurs in Northern California who want to learn how to start a cottage food business. The course content will cover the following topics:
- Defining products, brand, and vision/mission
- Identifying target audience and customer
- Online marketing, social media, and eCommerce
- Industry trends and benchmarks
- Go-to market strategies
Note: The local SBDC has partnered with Shasta College to bring a series of professional development courses. These courses are beneficial to anyone with a small business or those looking to start a small business. Funded in part through a cooperative agreement with the U.S. Small Business Administration, and grants with the California Office of the Small Business Advocate. All opinions, conclusions or recommendations expressed are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the SBA or the California Office of the Small Business Advocate. Reasonable accommodations for persons with disabilities will be made if requested at least 72 hours in advance of this event; please send an email with the subject header ACCOMMODATION REQUEST to Shasta-Cascade SBDC, Alexander@siskiyoucounty.org, (530)222-8323
Date(s): Session 1: May 21st- May 28th, 2026
Schedule: 2- Thursdays
Time: 5:00pm- 7:00pm
Location: Shasta College Community Leadership Center 1401 California St. Redding CA 96001 Room 9301
Facilitator: Quintin Gaddy, Director: (SBDC)
Fee: $30.00
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Incident Safety Awareness For Hired Vendors
with Greg McFadden
Incident Safety Awareness for Hired Vendors
This course provides an awareness of fireline and incident safety to hired vendors who plan to engage in wildland fire suppression and other incident support activities. It includes an overview of hazards and safety issues, entrapment avoidance, incident organization, how to recognize and mitigate risk, maintain safe work practices while working under an agency supervision, fire shelter deployment, and case studies.
Designed For: Hired vendors working with the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection (CAL FIRE) or the United States Forest Service (USFS) on any active incident, including water tender operators, heavy equipment drivers or operators, crew bus drivers, vehicles with a driver, mechanics, fallers, and swampers.
Authority: California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection (CAL FIRE) and United State Forest Service (USFS) agreements
Standard: State Fire Training (SFT) requires every student to attend the entire course, participate in classroom and group discussions, complete and pass all activities, and complete an oral evaluation.
Date(s): Session 1: March 21st, 2026
Session 2: May 23rd, 2026
Session 3: June 20th, 2026
Session 4: July 18th, 2026
Schedule: 1- Saturday
Time: 8:00am- 5:00pm
Location: Shasta College Main Campus 11555 Old Oregon Trail, Redding, CA 96003- Room 5006
Facilitator: Greg McFadden
Fee: $200.00
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SFT Ethical Leadership for Instructors
with Brian Hammond
SFT Ethical Leadership for Instructors
Description: This course provides the knowledge and skills needed to identify the value of ethical behavior in instructional settings, describe how ethical norms influence individual ethics, identify a personal ethical perspective and core values and how they impact communication and ethical decision making, and make an ethical decision using an ethical decision-making model, in order to assist in making ethical decisions when faced with an ethical dilemma in an instructional setting and carry out the roles and responsibilities of an SFT instructor in an ethical manner.
Designed For: Individuals who wish to teach State Fire Training courses as a registered instructor and anyone interested in pursuing ethical behavior in an instructional setting.
Authority: Office of the State Fire Marshal
Standard: Attend all class sessions and complete all activities and assignments.
Total Hours: 8
Dates: May 26 & 27
Schedule: Tuesday and Wednesday
Time(s): 6:00PM-10:00PM
Location: Online / Synchronous
Facilitator: Brian Hammond
Fee: $200 (includes $75 SFT Diploma)
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How to Start Using AI- Practical Tips
with Rio Miner
How to Start Using AI- Practical Tips
This course is a practical introduction to Artificial Intelligence (AI). Learn what newly available AI tools can do, what they do not do very well, how to use them, and how to keep personal information secure. Description:AI is everywhere, asking to re-write things, summarize a subject, or help us plan. What can it do? How does it work? Can it be trusted? These questions plague even the early-adopters and tech friendly. Let’s learn together. Discover practical tips and use cases for various AI tools, how to write effective prompts, and keeping your personal information secure. Course overview:
1. What is AI? Robotic Process Automation (RPA) vs. Machine Learning (ML) vs. true Artificial Intelligence
2. What is generative AI and how do Large Language Models (LLM) work?
3. What can it do? Instructor’s Top 10 personal and business uses
4. Do more: numbered prompts & specificity, agent mode, deep research, codex and other ‘gpts’
Lessons include lectures with live demos and guided practical exercises.
Hybrid Course Design: This course may be joined in-person or online! Instructor will email virtual link at least 24 hours before the start of class.
Date(s): Session 1: May 28th, 2026 (Thursday)
Session 2: June 24th, 2026 (Wednesday)
Schedule: 1- Thursday or Wednesday
Time: 5:30pm- 7:00pm
Location: Shasta College Health Sciences 1400 Tehama St Redding CA 96001 Room 8113
Facilitator: Rio Miner
Fee: $50.00
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Quick Tips for Microsoft Excel (Tehama Campus)
with Rio Miner
Quick Tips for Microsoft Excel (Tehama Campus)
Improve your MS Excel use with this refresher course. Learn to quickly review, analyze, and interpret data using MS Excel tricks, formulas, tables, and graphs.Become a better Excel spreadsheet user with this practical skill-enhancing class. Use simple tricks to quickly see patterns, identify outliers, and visualize the numbers better than ever. Learn useful Excelfunctions and formulas to make operations more efficient and identify problems before they grow. If understanding data is key to your business, let us help you unlock the analytical power of Excel.Course Overview:
1. Sort & filter; Conditional formatting; Text-to-Columns
2. How to create a pivot table and recognize patterns in large datasets
3. How to use basic & intermediate formulas
4. Quick Check formulas: sum, count, and average
Hybrid Course Design: This course may be joined in-person or online! Instructor will email virtual link at least 24 hours before the start of class.
Date(s): Session 1: June 10th, 2026
Schedule: 1- Wednesday
Time: 10:00am- 11:30am
Location: Shasta College Tehama Campus 770 Diamond Ave Red Bluff CA 96080 Room 7114
Facilitator: Rio Miner
Fee: $50.00
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