The games students at Martin Middle School play don’t involve rapid hand-eye coordination, smartphones or exploding zombies. The Chess Club at the school is only in its second year, but it is already making a name for itself in the state.
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Crimebusters! took place at the Veterans Tribute Career Techincal Academy, 2531 Vegas Drive, on May 2 and showed kids and their parents how to not only extract DNA from a strawberry but how facial reconstruction is used to help identify victims from skeletal remains, how to dust for fingerprints, how to use a microscope and several other ways science helps investigators solve crimes.
An off-the-cuff remark made by Inventables CEO Zach Kaplan cost his company more than $10,000, and he couldn’t be happier about it.
The people behind Maverick Aviation Group, a local helicopter company, believe they have met the future of the industry — students from Rancho High School’s aviation maintenance class. On a cold, wet April morning, the company gave nearly 20 students an inside look at what career path they could take.
Entering a surprise luncheon hosted by Station Casinos April 12, 300 at-risk Las Vegas Valley elementary students had no clue what was in store for them: their very own computer.
At the Bioblitz at Clark County Wetlands Park, citizen scientists can observe organisms, count creatures and catalog critters. The two-day event, planned for April 29 and 30, is part of the fifth annual Las Vegas Science & Technology Festival,
Nonprofit Opportunity 180 hopes to bring more educational opportunities to the Las Vegas Valley, particularly for low-income students. The brainchild of Allison Serafin — whose background includes being the former Nevada State Board of Education vice president and executive director of Teach For America Las Vegas Valley — the group wants to see high-quality charter schools enter the valley to educate those students who are underserved due to their economic status.
While staring out at what is essentially a diving platform 855 feet above concrete and imagining the plummet, it might have been a little hard to focus on the statistics, facts and science that Michael Mann, director of ride engineering for the Stratosphere, was explaining, but a group of 17 students from Goodwill’s ELITE program listened with rapt attention. The program is for those ages 17 to 24 with a documented disability who are looking for assistance achieving their goals in education, employment or both.
After years of controversy, including a misappropriation of funds, Quest Preparatory Academy’s Roberson campus, 7485 W. Azure Drive, is facing possible closure due to the expiration of its special use permit, set to occur this summer.
Capt. Ken Young of the Clark County School District Police Department said situations arise that warrant a school go into lockdown more often than one might think.
View rounds up education briefs from across the Las Vegas Valley, including school news and scholarship information.
Reading in front of a group of people can be a frightening experience for just about anyone, but so can being alone and stuck in a kennel. To help ease each other’s fears, and as part of Nevada Reading Week, more than 70 first-graders from Sewell Elementary School in Henderson and Ronnow Elementary School in Las Vegas read to shelter dogs March 1 at The Animal Foundation.
View rounds up education briefs from across the Las Vegas Valley, including school news and scholarship information.
View rounds up education briefs from across the Las Vegas Valley, including school news and scholarship information.
The Mob Museum, 300 Stewart Ave., is launching Investigating History, a comprehensive educational outreach program to be offered to Clark County schools.
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