N3B Visits YMCA Afterschool Program At Mountain
Among all the youth, in the back row are adults, from left, Y counselors Sara Atkinson and Liam Cook, Y CEO Chris Daniels, N3B President and General Manager Kim Lebak, N3B Administrative Assistant Stephanie Griego, Director of Stakeholder Affairs Kristin Henderson, Site Director Ashley Sullivan and Childcare Director Jamie Allbach. Courtesy/YMCA
YMCA News:
Representatives from N3B visited the Los Alamos Family YMCA’s Afterschool Program Wednesday at Mountain Elementary School.
N3B donated to the Y’s Annual Campaign that raises funds for financial assistance and youth programs. One Read More
LAPS Foundation Invites Alumni And LAPS Staff To ‘HillHopper Homecoming’ At Bathtub Row Brewing Co-op
LAPS Foundation News:
While high school students are enjoying the homecoming dance on Saturday night, alumni of Los Alamos High School and LAPS staff are invited to come to Bathtub Row Brewing Co-op from 5:30-7:30 p.m. in Central Park Square for a relaxing evening with beer and tacos.
Come and visit with old friends and the teachers who made an impact on your life! The Hillstompers will be stopping by at 7 p.m. during their pub crawl to round out the evening.
Make your plans to come now for this Saturday, Sept. 18! Tickets in advance are $20 for alumni (and those who wish they were alumni) and $10 for LAPS Read More
NMPED: School-based COVID-19 Infections Drop 37 Percent Amid New Protocols Across New Mexico
NMPED News:
- Surveillance testing and enhanced safety practices seem to be working
SANTA FE – The New Mexico Public Education Department (NMPED) reports today that the number of students and staff who were infectious with COVID-19 while on a public school campus dropped 37 percent last week, possibly due to new protocols to keep schools safe for in-person learning.
For the week ending Sept. 11, 504 students and staff members were reported infectious on campus compared to 806 the previous week.
Rigorous surveillance testing, enhanced COVID-safe practices, vaccination clinics and other prevention Read More
McCullough: Why I Want To Serve UNM-LA
By CHUCK MCCULLOUGH
Candidate For UNM-LA Advisory Board
Do you realize the treasure UNM-LA is in our town? How many lives of high school students, beginning college students, returning to the workforce students, and community folks have been enhanced and enriched by UNM-LA? More than we can count!
Excellent administrators and staff, top-notch faculty, accessible and affordable—UNM-LA is an important part of what makes Los Alamos unique. This branch campus has been a consistently positive, long-standing presence in Los Alamos.
I would like to serve on the UNM-LA Advisory Board because Read More
Lifelong Hilltoppers Bring Back LA Mountain
A group of lifelong Hilltoppers wanted to bring back the LA Mountain in a fun way. They turned the effort into a restoration project recently by cleaning up paint cans, lids and other garbage. Photo by Kristy Ortega Read More
NMPED Launches Social-Emotional Learning Portal
PED Behavioral Health Coordinator Leslie Kelly
NMPED News:
SANTA FE — The Public Education Department (PED) has launched an online portal to give parents, students and educators free access to resources to better understand, teach and support social-emotional learning in order to build positive school cultures and happy, successful students.
The department partnered with 7 Mindsets, a national leader in online social emotional learning solutions, to create and maintain the New Mexico Cares portal. The portal provides access to the company’s courses, curricula, leadership training Read More
LAPS Foundation Hosts Taste Of Knowledge Oct. 3
By JENNY MCCUMBER
Executive Director
Los Alamos Public Schools Foundation
Join LAPS Foundation for Taste of Knowledge, 4-6 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 3 at Pig + Fig Café in White Rock.
Our theme this year is Oktoberfest, A Taste of Bavaria. We are grateful to once again partner with Pig + Fig Café to bring you our annual fundraiser. Proceeds benefit all Los Alamos Public Schools for teacher and student grants, professional development, classroom resources, facilities upgrades, and more.
Five delicious dining stations along with wines and beer from Germany and Austria will help you celebrate Oktoberfest Read More
LAHS Homecoming Court Promotes ‘Court For A Cause’
The 2021 homecoming court on dress like a celebrity day, from left, Emilee Maestas, Sam Wolfsberg, Olivia Bell, Gwyneth Lyons, Mirabella Guerin, Tommy Oldham, Ty Swavely, Ryan Zeik, Aidan Cooley, Maya Clausen and Matias Rougier. Not pictured is Sally Hopkins. Courtesy/LAPSF
LAPS Foundation News:
Los Alamos High School is celebrating homecoming this week. The theme for this year is Blast the Bengals!
The students on the newly selected homecoming court are continuing the tradition started two years ago by giving back to a cause that’s important to them. This year the Court is encouraging members Read More
LAPS School Board Meeting Tuesday
LAPS News:
A Los Alamos Public Schools (LAPS) board meeting will be held 5:30 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 14.
This meeting will be held in person at Administration Offices, School Board Room 2101 Trinity Dr., Suite V and virtually on Zoom.
This meeting is open to the public.
Find the agenda for this meeting here: Sept. 14, 2021 LAPS Board Meeting Agenda.
Find the link to this meeting here.
Passcode: lapsboard Read More
Range Safety Is Part Of Everyday Life At Los Alamos Sportsmen’s Club … Find Out More On Open Range Day Sept. 26
Members of the LASC Board chatting with members of the LAFD at the conclusion of the ‘Stop the Bleed’ training held recently at Fire Station 3 in White Rock. Courtesy/LASC
Los Alamos Sportsmen’s Club News:
On a recent Saturday morning, members of the Los Alamos Sportsman’s Club (LASC) Board of Directors met with members of the Los Alamos Fire Department for instruction in the “Stop the Bleed” training needed to provide emergency first aid for trauma victims suffering serious blood loss, including those who have suffered gunshot wounds.
The training lasted for the morning and included an emergency Read More
LAHS Graduate Zoe Butler To Attend UC Riverside
Los Alamos High School graduate Zoe Butler participating last week in College & Military Day 2021 in Los Alamos. Readers may recall Butler was featured in a May 2020 cul-de-sac graduation ceremony hosted by Champions of Youth Ambitions in White Rock during the pandemic. Butler is leaving soon to attend the University of California, Riverside. Courtesy photo Read More
NM Students To Shoot, Produce Short Films For Contest
NMPED News:
SANTA FE — Students from across New Mexico will be creating short films this school year to learn valuable skills and gain experience in one of the state’s rapidly growing industries, with opportunities to earn scholarships for themselves and grants for their schools.
Thirty-eight schools from 10 counties have already signed up to participate in Film Prize Junior New Mexico, a statewide short-film contest that will end with a festival next April at theater partners in Santa Fe. Interested teachers may still register their classes at filmprizenm.com, and students may register Read More
Hundreds Of Budding Engineers Across New Mexico Participate In GSK Science In The Summer Program
As part of the GSK Science in the Summer™ program, hundreds of students in central and northern New Mexico tackled challenges in electrical, biomedical, environmental and structural engineering through at-home experiments, videos and live virtual events. Courtesy/NMMNHS
Students in central and northern New Mexico participate in the GSK Science in the Summer™ program through at-home experiments, videos and live virtual events. Courtesy/NMMNHS
NMMNHS News:
This summer, hundreds of students in central and northern New Mexico tackled challenges in electrical, biomedical, environmental Read More
NMDOH: $63M Grant To Help Schools Fund COVID Testing
NMDOH Acting Secretary David R. Scrase, M.D.
NMDOH News:
…Districts may use money for any testing-related activities
SANTA FE – The New Mexico Department of Health (NMDOH) has begun distributing a federal grant to provide funds and direct assistance to help New Mexico schools pay for and execute mandated COVID-testing programs.
The award from the national Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Epidemiology and Laboratory Capacity Funding program is for use in this fiscal year to help schools meet surveillance testing requirements and keep students and staff in schools. Read More
U.S. Sen. Martin Heinrich To Introduce Landmark Legislation To Help Students Complete College
U.S. Sen. Martin Heinrich
U.S. SENATE News:
ALBUQUERQUE — U.S. Sen. Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) announced the College Completion Fund Act, landmark legislation he plans to introduce to promote college completion in a thoughtful, innovative, and comprehensive way, and address longstanding inequities in college access and success.
Heinrich unveiled the legislation during a virtual briefing Friday hosted by the Institute for Higher Education Policy (IHEP), in partnership with TICAS and Results for America, and with support from UnidosUS and Third Way—organizations all dedicated to the Read More
Northern New Mexico College Students Participate In NIH BUILDing Scholars Summer Research At UTEP
NNMC biology student Hope Lopez
NNMC News:
ESPAÑOLA — Undergraduate student research is an important focus at Northern New Mexico College (NNMC), especially in the STEM and social science disciplines.
These research and grant opportunities allow students to work alongside experienced faculty and fellow students in biology, chemistry, environmental sciences, engineering and other programs to present and compete at international conferences and to prepare for graduate school and career opportunities.
NNMC also encourages and prepares students to compete for external summer research Read More
PED Earmarks $37M To Help Assistants Become Teachers
PED News:
SANTA FE — The Public Education Department (PED) has earmarked $37 million in federal pandemic relief funding to ease New Mexico’s persistent educator shortage and improve student outcomes by building a pipeline that supports anyone interested in becoming a teacher.
The agency will use funds from the American Rescue Plan Act to create the new Educator Fellows Program, which will create opportunities for those interested in becoming educators by providing resources to districts and state charter schools.
Those resources will help fund recruitment and retention of teaching assistant Read More
PED Announces 2021-2022 State Ambassadors Including Los Alamos High School Computer Science Teacher Allan Didier
PED News:
SANTA FE – Twenty-one New Mexico classroom teachers will be State Ambassadors for the 2021-2022 academic year, the Public Education Department announced today.
Los Alamos High School Computer Science Teacher Allan Didier is among the teachers selected for this leadership program.
The department’s leadership program, which started in 2017, gives educators a voice in New Mexico’s PK-12 public education programming and initiatives. The program also supports a vibrant educator ecosystem, a top priority for the department and Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham.
“I’d like to personally Read More
Notice: UNM-Los Alamos Advisory Board Meets Sept. 13
UNM-LA News:
The UNM-Los Alamos Advisory Board will meet at 5:30 p.m., Monday, Sept. 13, in Wallace Hall, in building 5, on the campus of UNM-Los Alamos.
The meeting is open to the public.
Agenda items include:
- Annual review of UNM-Los Alamos By-Laws,
- Annual review of the Operating Agreement with UNM;
- Update on UNM-LA’s current operations; and
- Administrative reports from each member of the Executive Team.
Direct questions to Laci Taylor at 505.663.3407 or ltaylor06@unm.edu. Read More
Dark Sky Program At Spirio Field In White Rock Tonight!
Pajarito Astronomers News:
Los Alamos County Parks, Recreation and Open Space Divisions have partnered up with the Parjarito Astronomers for the Dark Sky/Night program.
Anyone with an interest in star gazing and the chance to look for stars through a telescope is invited to come out tonight to Spirio Soccer Field at Overlook Park in White Rock.
Arrive at nightfall for viewing, or around sunset for setting up. If arriving at night and approaching Spirio Field, please use parking lights.
Bring a red flashlight for safety.
This gathering is weather permitting (if it’s partly cloudy it will happen, Read More
