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Clark County School District mariachi students performed with the school district’s ballet folklórico program and a 90-piece student symphony orchestra at the Smith Center for the Performing Arts after a workshop and rehearsal with professional ensemble Mariachi Cobre from Disney World.
Camp Invention is returning to Henderson to offer weeklong programing for first- through sixth-grade students. “While some camps are more sports oriented or physically oriented, this challenges children intellectually,” said Annette Phillips, the regional program manager for Camp Invention.
The Marty Hennessy Junior Tennis Foundation offers local kids an opportunity to learn the game of tennis. In return, they have to become upstanding young people. Members are expected to volunteer with the foundation, perform community service, be stellar students and act as mentors for younger kids.
With more than 40 percent of Clark County’s 308,000 public school students being Latino, the group outnumbers all other individual ethnicities in the fifth-largest school district in the United States.
The Alexander Dawson School was selected as one of 12 pilot sites in the country to test a multiplayer computer game that teaches middle school students engineering and technology concepts. Students must pass 10 different game levels set in the Alaskan tundra.
Summerlin-area resident Karl “KC” Christon’s books are for children but are geared to encourage family reading.
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