Education

SAN: Enjoy it, This Only Happens Once a Year…

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SAN 2012 rubber ducky speed competition. Photo by Sal Zapien/ladailypost.com

YMCA News:

Los Alamos has a rich, public night life once a year, and local adults are being asked to be a part of it. Each year, volunteers help at a community-wide, downtown celebration for Los Alamos High School graduates known as Senior Appreciation Night or SAN.

Graduates tell us the event is the highlight of their year, and volunteers tell us it is a great time and they enjoy the festivities. SAN is in need of 13 community members or parents who are up for a few grins to help chaperone a few events with 2 or 3 hour shifts that Read More

LAHS Hires Ainsworth as Boys Head Golf Coach

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HILLTOPPER News:

Anders “Andy” Ainsworth has been hired as the Boys Head Golf Coach for Los Alamos High School. 

He takes over for Ann Stewart (who was hired as Head Girls Basketball Coach.)

Ainsworth served as a volunteer this past year and is a math teacher at Los Alamos Middle School.  He was an assistant golf coach for the Men’s and Women’s Golf Team at Western New Mexico from 2008-2010, and has been a boys and girls basketball coach (both assistant and head) and an assistant volleyball coach at Coronado High School. 

Los Alamos Athletics looks forward to having Coach Ainsworth Read More

Rotary STARS Trivia Competition To Support Youth Fitness Program

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STARS News:

A newly-formed satellite group of the Rotary Club of Los Alamos called STARS (Service to All Rotary Satellite) will hold a fundraising event 4-7 p.m. Sunday, June 2 at the Dixie Girl Restaurant.

The theme of the event is “Are You Smarter than a Fourth Grader?” and all members of the community are invited to join. The evening’s events will include a trivia quiz competition that will be fun for all ages, as well as an all-you-can-eat pasta buffet with salad, drinks and dessert.

Funds raised at the event will benefit a program to provide four weeks of swim lessons to all fourth graders in Los Read More

Special County-Sponsored Dark Night May 26

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Courtesy/EarthSky.org

TPA/PEEC News:

The Pajarito Astronomers, in conjunction with PEEC, will hold a special County-Sponsored Dark Night starting at 8 p.m. (sunset) Sunday, May 26 at Spirio Soccer Field, Overlook Park.

Weather permitting, the public is invited to come out, wander among the telescopes and star gaze. The main event of the evening will be looking at the tight grouping of three planets in the west: Mercury, Venus, and Jupiter.

The three planets will form a triangle that will fit inside a small, 2.5 degree circle above the western horizon. After the three planets set, there will Read More

School Board Offers Budget Recommendations

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A large crowd attended the May 14 School Board meeting. A number of students, staff and community members were honored at the meeting and the Board decided on its recommendations to the LAPS Budget Committee. Photo by Bonnie J. Gordon/ladailypost.com
 
LAPS Superintendent Gene Schmidt gives a budget overview to the School Board Tuesday. Photo by Bonnie J. Gordon/ladailypost.com
 
By BONNIE J. GORDON
Los Alamos Daily Post

The Los Alamos School Board made its final 2013-2014 school year budget recommendations to Los Alamos Public Schools staff at its May 14 meeting.

Staff will present Read More

School Board Honors Award Winners

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District Science Fair winners were honored at the May 14 meeting of the Los Alamos School Board. Photo by Bonnie J. Gordon/ladailypost.com
 
Bernadette Lauritzen has been chosen as the Los Alamos Public Schools 2013 nominee for the New Mexico School Board Association Excellence in Student Achievement Award. School Board President Jim Hall, right, presented her with a certificate at the May 14 meeting. Photo by Bonnie J. Gordon/ladailypost.com
 
Staff Report
 
Also honored at the May 13 School Board meeting were members of the the Los Alamos High School Chess Team Daniel Dunning,
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School Board Holds Two Meetings May 23

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LAPS News:

The Los Alamos Board of Education has scheduled a Special School Board meeting for 5:30 p.m. Thursday, May 23 at the Los Alamos High School Speech Theater.

Special School Board Agenda:

  • 4.1 Master Ground Lease Amendment
  • 4.2 Trinity Site Update by Steve Lynne
  • 4.3 Trinity Revenue Projections
  • 4.4 LANL Request to use School Facilities for 70th Anniversary Celebration
  • 4.5 Approval of Certified Contract for 2013/2014
  • 4.6 Approval of Classified Contract for 2013/2014
  • 4.7 Approval of Salary for 2013/2014 for Administrative Staff not represented
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Los Alamos Students Style ‘Gatsby’ Era Apparel

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More than 40 Los Alamos High School students from Catherine Puranananda’s AP Literature and Composition class gathered in period costume Monday to parade through downtown Los Alamos ending at the Reel Deal Theater to view ‘The Great Gatsby.’  The students and and a couple of syblings enjoyed bringing the Roaring Twenties to Los Alamos, Puranananda said. Courtesy photo
 
Los Alamos High School students dressed in ‘Gatsby’ attire stroll along Central Avenue Monday on their way to view ‘The Great Gatsby’  movie now playing at
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Grease is the Word at 7 p.m. May 20!

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Grease is the word! Since the start of year, the dance students of Los Alamos High School have been learning and perfecting the art of ballroom dance and will perform at 7 p.m. Monday, May 20 in the Dwayne Smith Auditorium. LAHS teacher Natasha Barkhudarova teaches her students the fundamentals of dance and performance and in this case, the dances were inspired by the musical Grease. The students dance everything from the convivial quickstep to the passionate rumba. There will be singing and dancing and everything in between during the show. Anyone who hasn’t seen Grease will find not only Read More