LAPS Combines Academics And Fun At Summer School
Students in Summer School display their science experiments. Courtesy/LAPS
Students taking a timed math quiz. Courtesy/LAPS
LAPS News:
Phonics, fractions, facts and fun are the focus of Summer School this year for students in Los Alamos Public Schools. There are 150 students in preschool through 6th grade attending the three-week program at Barranca Mesa Elementary, which wrapped up July 1. Fifty 7th and 8th graders are enrolled in the summer school program at Los Alamos Middle School, which also offers a mix of academic and elective activities.
“The purpose of summer school is to provide Read More
LAPS: Benefits Of Being An Instructional Assistant
There are more than 20 IA positions open at all LAPS sites for the 2022-2023 school year. Courtesy/LAPS
LAPS News:
An opportunity to work with kids. Same schedule as students. Summer breaks and school holidays off. These are just a few of the reasons to become an Instructional Assistant (IA) at Los Alamos Public Schools.
There are more than 20 IA positions open at all LAPS sites for the 2022-2023 school year. Go to www.laschools.net/careers for more information and to apply.
“I decided to become an IA because I love working with kids,” Sara Hamood said. “It’s my passion. I enjoy being with kids. It’s Read More
Los Alamos Public Schools Retired Teachers Encouraged To Participate In Return To Work Program
The new return-to-work program allows retirees to go back to work without salary or work hour limits. Courtesy/LAPS
LAPS News:
With the recent passage of the Educational Retirees Returning to Work Act, Los Alamos Public Schools is encouraging retired teachers to consider returning to the classrooms for the 2022-2023 school year.
The new return-to-work program allows retirees to go back to work without salary or work hour limits. Applicants must observe a 90-day layout period prior to becoming eligible for the program.
“Retired teachers bring a wealth of knowledge and experience to the Read More
White Rock Elementary Schools Host Rocket Launches
Volunteer Rob Hermes helps Piñon Rocket Club members set up for a launch. Courtesy/LAPS
Members of the 2022 Chamisa Rocket Club. Courtesy/LAPS
LAPS News:
For the first time since 2019, Rocket Club members at Chamisa and Piñon elementary schools were able to host a rocket launch for fellow classmates.
At Chamisa Elementary, 18 students in fifth and sixth grades met weekly Tuesday afternoons since the end of January. Teachers Robert Judd and Megan Lee, along with community volunteers Tammy Hinckley, Heath Watkins and Rob Hermes guided club members in learning about rockets, building rockets Read More
LAPS Foundation Announces 2022 Sophia Feldman Memorial Scholarship Awarded To Elise Chavez, Isabella Manzanares And Jason Pieck
2022 Sophia Feldman Memorial Scholarship recipients: Los Alamos High School graduating seniors Elise Chavez, Jason Pieck and Isabella Manzanares. Courtesy/Jessica Booton Photography
Sophia Feldman, in whose honor scholarships are awarded to students for their exemplary academic and personal conduct combined with participating in mentoring, anti-bullying, social justice or related activities. Courtesy photo
LAPS Foundation News:
The Los Alamos Public Schools Foundation (LAPS Foundation) announces Los Alamos High School graduating seniors Elise Chavez, Isabella Manzanares Read More
LANL Foundation Seeks Nominations For Los Alamos Employees’ Scholarship Fund Advisory Committee
LANL Foundation News:
ESPAÑOLA — Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) Foundation is accepting nominations for community members from Northern New Mexico to serve on the Los Alamos Employees’ Scholarship Fund (LAESF) Advisory Committee.
The Committee seeks to attain a diverse composition of members, taking into account county of residence, experience, gender, professional background, and other factors deemed relevant, with the goal of building a Committee that reflects the diversity of the donor population and the Northern New Mexico communities served.
The Committee operates Read More
2022 Española Valley High School Graduate Melaki Jones Selected For National Jackie Robinson Scholarship
National Jackie Robinson Scholarship recipient Melaki Jones
JRF Scholarship News:
2022 Española Valley High School (EVHS) graduate Melaki Jones has been selected for the national Jackie Robinson Foundation Scholarship – a four-year, $22,800 scholarship.
The scholarship also includes all-expense paid travel to participate in the JRF’s mentoring/leadership conference in New York City, internship, permanent job placement and an international service trip.
Of the more than 3,000 students who applied for the prestigious scholarship, 70 were selected.
Established in 1973 by Rachel Read More
N3B Los Alamos Awards Scholarships To Local Students With Eye For Legacy Environmental Cleanup
Arianna Romero was recently awarded an N3B scholarship to pursue academic fields related to the U.S. Department of Energy’s environmental management mission. Courtesy/N3B
Dylan Romero was recently awarded an N3B scholarship to pursue academic fields related to the U.S. Department of Energy’s environmental management mission. Daniel Gallegos (not pictured) also received an N3B scholarship. Courtesy/N3B
N3B Los Alamos News:
Three University of New Mexico-Los Alamos (UNM-LA) students each recently received $1,300 in N3B scholarships to pursue their academic interests in the energy, Read More
Kristin Kosiewicz Annual Memorial Scholarship Awarded To LAHS Graduating Seniors Camille Romero And Brianna Nieto
Kristin Kosiewicz Annual Memorial Scholarship recipient LAHS graduating senior Camille Romero. Photo by Jessica Booton Photography
Kristin Kosiewicz Annual Memorial Scholarship recipient LAHS graduating senior Brianna Nieto. Photo by Jessica Booton Photography
LAPS Foundation News:
The Los Alamos Public Schools (LAPS) Foundation announces Camille Romero and Brianna Nieto as the graduating seniors selected for the Kristin Kosiewicz Annual Memorial Scholarship.
These $1,000 scholarships are awarded in memory of Kristin Kosiewicz, a 1993 graduate of Los Alamos High School who Read More
Stansbury Urges Congress To Fund Indigenous Schools
From the Office of U.S. Rep. Melanie Stansbury:
WASHINGTON, D.C. — During a joint oversight hearing of the Subcommittee for Indigenous Peoples of the United States and the Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Elementary, and Secondary Education, U.S. Rep. Melanie Stansbury (N.M.-01) continued to lead calls for Congress to fully fund Indigenous schools.
Rep. Stansbury recently led a push to increase Bureau of Indian Education (BIE) school construction funding in the FY2023 federal budget in a bipartisan letter signed by 25 of her colleagues to the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Interior, Read More
Highlights From June 23 School Board Meeting
School Board Vice President Christine Bernstein, left, conducted the June 23 meeting in the School Boardroom. Also pictured are Board Secretary Antonio Jaurigue and Board member Ellen Specter. Courtesy/LAPS
LAPS News:
The School Board met Thursday, June 23 in the School Board room and via Zoom.
Vice President Christine Bernstein led the meeting in the absence of Board President Melanie Colgan.
Michael Sharp, of Research and Polling, Inc., provided an update on redistricting, which is required every ten years. He stressed that this is redrawing board member districts, not attendance Read More
Retired Educators In New Mexico Now Eligible To Return To Work Without Losing Pension Benefits
From the Office of the Governor:
SANTA FE — New Mexico’s 48,000 retired K-12 and higher education educators now have the opportunity to return to the classroom without losing their retirement benefits thanks to a new law enacted by Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham this year.
Retired teachers and college faculty receiving pension benefits from the New Mexico Educational Retirement Board can now return to teaching for an additional three years within a New Mexico public school district, college, or university without forfeiting their retirement benefits.
“This is a win-win for New Mexico teachers Read More
LAPS Reminder About Preschool Program For 2022-23
Courtesy/LAPS
LAPS News:
There are still openings in the Los Alamos Public Schools Preschool Program for the 2022-2023 school year. Preschool classes will be available at all elementary sites. In addition, the program will add another 3Y classroom at Mountain Elementary, and an additional 4Y classroom at Chamisa Elementary.
LAPS is making adjustments to the Pre-K schedule next year. Beginning in August, students in the preschool program for 4-year-olds will attend school four days a week from 8:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. Students will not attend school on Wednesdays. LAPS is working with the YMCA Read More
Registration Opens For Family Y’s Earth Service Crew Environmental Education And Volunteer Service Program
YMCA News:
Registration is open for The Family YMCA’s Earth Service Crew (YESC) environmental education and volunteer service program for middle-school aged youth.
YESC meets 9 a.m. to 1 p.m., Monday through Thursdays, from June 20-July 29. Registration, on a weekly basis, closes when spaces are filled.
The program empowers youth to be effective, responsible global citizens by providing opportunities for environmental education and action, leadership development and cross-cultural awareness.
During the summer, youth learn tool safety, trail maintenance, ecological restoration, Read More
Stansbury Votes For Children’s Access To School Meals
U.S. Rep. Melanie Stansbury
STATE News:
WASHINGTON, D.C. — As one in four kids in New Mexico face food insecurity, U.S. Rep. Melanie Stansbury (N.M.-01) voted to pass the bipartisan Keep Kids Fed Act (H.R. 8150) to ensure that schools can continue providing meals for students despite ongoing supply chain issues.
The bill allows the Department of Agriculture (USDA) to provide additional assistance to child nutrition programs by extending meal waivers and reimbursing providers at a higher rate to keep children across New Mexico from going hungry this summer.
Adalene Zielie Wins Champion Novice Lamb Showman
Adalene Zielie, 6, of the High Country Team 4-H Club, was the Champion Novice Lamb Showman on Day 1 of the Ray Hinton Memorial Jackpot Show in Monte Vista, Colo., last weekend. In total, Zielie showed 3 lamb, in 8 classes over the 2 day show. She joined approximately 250 other showman from Northern New Mexico, Colorado and the surrounding areas in showing their Market Lambs, Goats and Hogs over the 2 day show. Pictured with Zielie from left, Eric Hinton of Hinton Club Lambs, Zelie’s mother Lena Zielie and event judge Adam Mendonza. Courtesy/Lena Zielie Read More
In And Around Town: Week Of August 16, 2022
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HowI Spent My Summer Vacation Exhibit Through Sept. 26
Village Arts is happy to host a new exhibition just in time for the start of the new school year! Artists were asked to take on the traditional “start of the school year” theme and be inspired by their summer adventures. The exhibit features more than 30 creations Read More
Youth Exchange Students Visit Local Rotary Club
Rotary Youth Exchange students Hana Raby, a junior, and Caleb Langenbrunner, a senior, were congratulated at a recent meeting by Laura Loy, the Youth Exchange coordinator for the Rotary Club of Los Alamos. Raby will study in Brake, Germany; Langenbrunner will study in Tournon Sur-Rhône, France. Not pictured: Teresa Austin, a Los Alamos High School junior, will study in Helsinki, Finland. Photo by Sandy Tobin
Elise Delgado, a Los Alamos High School junior, spoke in May at the Rotary Club of Los Alamos. Her Rotary Youth Exchange studies will take her to Kanazawa, Japan. Photo by Linda Hull
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NMT: Master’s In Engineering Mgmt. Garners Top Honors
NMT News:
SOCORRO — New Mexico Tech’s graduate program in engineering management, recently highlighted by a national online higher education magazine, will host an information session 4:30 p.m. Thursday, June 30, on Zoom. Intelligent.com recently ranked Tech’s engineering management graduate program as the “Best for Synchronous Classes” in 2022 across the country.
According to Intelligent.com, out of the top 56 Master’s in Engineering Management programs, Tech ranked 22nd overall. 2022 marks the 20th anniversary of Tech’s Master of Engineering Management (MEM) program. Read More
Gessing: Think Twice About Universal Pre-K
By PAUL J. GESSING
President
Rio Grande Foundation
As we move beyond a contentious series of primaries in both parties and look to the fall election, one of the big issues on the fall ballot is the plan to “tap” New Mexico’s permanent fund to provide universal preschool.
For years this has been an agenda item for the State’s left-leaning interest groups. But it only received legislative support with the retirement of Senate Finance Committee Chairman John Arthur Smith.
This November voters will decide whether to: “allocate 1.25 percent of the five-year average of year-end market values of the Read More
