Connecting the dots

Connecting the dots New DCPSS tool aims to help students find paths to success Douglas County Partners for Student Success is working to create several resources to support students in their efforts to plan for successful futures after high school. One of the tools we’ve developed as part

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Intergalactic career exploration

Intergalactic career exploration Lincoln Middle School students explore the space abyss Houston Oakland had a problem, and solved it. From their classroom in Lincoln Middle School, science students explored and studied one of the biggest mysteries in the galaxy: black holes.  Nicholas Krissie’s eighth-grade science class worked with

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Sharing skills, inspiration

Sharing skills, inspiration RHS students teach youngsters about robotics Students hovered around their group tables, hunched over bins full of tiny wheels, plastic connectors, switches, levers and dozens of other bits and pieces. The Fullerton IV fourth-graders excitedly shared their ideas on how to put all the pieces

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‘Check out’ STEAM learning

‘Check out’ STEAM learning Libraries join efforts to encourage STEAM thinking Youth were recently invited to “light up a turkey’s eyes” using copper tape, LED lights and batteries at the Riddle City Library. In Sutherlin, at the C. Giles Hunt Memorial Public Library, robot building blocks have appeared

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