The four-year “Warrior Pathway Program” aims to provide about $4.5 million in trade school scholarships funded by the Engelstad Foundation.
Education
Shanea Anna Chee, a student at Brown Junior High School in Henderson, was selected as a finalist for her doodle highlighting her Diné heritage.
Cassandra Valenti, an 18-year-old senior at Las Vegas Academy of the Arts, is among 109 musicians selected for Carnegie Hall’s National Youth Orchestra of the United States of America.
Las Vegas Academy Mariachi Director David Rivera says that mariachi programs are flourishing in the Las Vegas Valley and keeping kids in Clark County in school.
The Chefs for Kids program brings meals to students at Title I schools, which have a large percentage of low-income students, in Southern Nevada.
Darryl McDaniels, a founding member of the rap group Run D.M.C., highlighted education and called the ABCs “the greatest rap of all time.”
Sofia Murillo, a third-grade teacher at Mater Academy Mountain Vista, inspires her 2.9M followers with TikToks about her life as a Latinx teacher.
While Clark County school closures due to COVID-19 meant the end to live school performances, students from at three Las Vegas schools are determined the show will go on.
Social distancing and distance education didn’t stop the Las Vegas Academy of the Arts wind symphony from putting on a performance over the weekend.