No pens or pencils were required for these students’ final exams, just a firm knowledge of the Constitution and a stomach for public speaking. Every seventh-grader at Saville Middle School, 8101 N. Torrey Pines Drive, participated in mock Congressional hearings last month as an alternative assessment for their government classes.
A team from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, is one 20 selected from around the world that will be participating in a contest to build an energy neutral house.
The Clark County School District needs about $5.3 billion to maintain an equal educational environment for students over the next decade, the School Board was told Wednesday. However, the district doesn’t have the money and few options besides asking voters to pass a bond and pay more in property taxes.
About 600 middle school students from Faith Lutheran Jr/Sr High School, 2015 S. Hualapai Way, participated in the school’s annual service event Jan. 13 and were bused to more than 20 locations around the Las Vegas Valley, including at-risk elementary schools, senior centers, veterans homes and charities.
The Utah Shakespeare Festival has performances of William Shakespeare’s “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” scheduled for Friday and Saturday at the Nicholas J. Horn Theatre on the College of Southern Nevada’s Cheyenne campus. Las Vegas Academy graduate Kristen Henley will play the role of Puck.
In 1974, what was then called Clark County Community College was a brand-new institution with just a few hundred students. Its first building went up that year at a cost of $1.9 million near the corner of Cheyenne Avenue and Pecos Road in North Las Vegas.
■ What college do you plan on attending and for what major? I will attend Columbia University and will be majoring in economics or business management.
■ What college do you plan on attending and for what major?
■ What college do you plan on attending and for what major?
Briana Hall knew within her first week at The Meadows School — where tuition is $22,750 for high school — that she was different.
A team from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas has been selected to compete in the 2013 U.S. Department of Energy Solar Decathlon.
