Programmed for success Be Great By 8th helps students develop skills for life beyond graduation Paintbrushes, colored markers and glitter transformed beach towel-sized sheets of drawing paper on an early spring Friday at Camas Valley Charter School. Student artists were creating the banners for a project involving airplanes
READ MORE … →Citizen scientists STEM Beyond School stimulates young, probing minds In one classroom, kids may be hooking up buddies to homemade lie detectors and comparing the noises that signal fibs versus whoppers. In another, children could be demonstrating Newton’s third law of motion by setting off Alka-Seltzer rockets. Whether
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Summer fun times seven Myriad activities keep kids sharp over the school break Some people look forward to summer as a time to lie on their backs and watch clouds pass. Others break out the to-do list to keep brains and bodies busy. If your family falls into
READ MORE … →School summer camps build solid career skills “How did you spend your summer vacation?” Come next fall, several groups of students across Douglas County will be able to answer that age-old question in very dynamic ways. Here are some examples: “I was part of a team that built
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