Education
Innovate+Educate Announces Grant Recipients
STATE News:
SANTA FE – On Feb. 27, Innovate+Educate announced $200,000 in funding to communities in New Mexico interested in building their talent pipeline.
The grants will bring together industry, community and education leaders to bridge the skills gap and develop new mechanisms for hiring, skills assessment and training.
These grants were made possible due to the funding from the W. K. Kellogg Foundation to advance the New Options Project.
Awardees include:
- CHRISTUS St. Vincent’s Regional Medical Center in Santa Fe;
- Four Corners Economic Development (4CED) in the Farmington
March is Youth Art Month … See Local Creations on Display at Mesa Public Library
Student artwork from Los Alamos Public Schools is on display in the downstairs gallery of Mesa Public Library. Courtesy/LAPS
Courtesy/LAPS
LAPS News:
In Honor of Youth Art Month, the Los Alamos Public Schools Art Team has hung a show of student artwork in the downstairs gallery of Mesa Public Library.
Come celebrate creativity and imagination with our amazing students. You may even be inspired to create something of your own!
The show will hang through the month of March. Questions can be directed to LAPS Art Team Leader Stephanie Rittner at S.Rittner@LaSchools.Net.
3-D Printing Leads to Super-Collaboration
Seated from left, Lisa Wismer, Linda Hull, Dave Fox, Morrie Pongratz and Cindy Rooney. Standing from left, Kay Willerton, Eva Artschwager, Lori Heimdahl Gibson and Gene Schmidt. Courtesy photo
LAPS News:
Members of the community, Los Alamos Public Schools, UNM-Los Alamos and the LANL Community Programs Office met Thursday for the first time to engage in a large-group conversation on strategies to create career opportunities in technology.
Los Alamos business leader Dave Fox pledged $1,000 in a challenge grant to purchase a 3-D printer, which will be the focus of an industrial modeling class. Read More
PAC 8 Will Offer Spring Music Video Classes
PAC 8 News:
PAC 8 is offering Spring Music Video Classes. Classes will be held in two sessions.
One session is March 6, 13, 20, and 27. The next session will be held April 8-11, during Spring Break.
All classes are 2-4 p.m. and taught at PAC 8. Classes are for students ages 8-14.
Students will learn the process of making a music video. During this process, they will learn to record audio, operate a camera, basic lighting techniques, basic editing and mixing.
All classes will be taught by Eric Heithaus of Santa Fe Music Videos, who is a recipient of the AMC Best Music Video Award.
He is also the music video Read More
David Mills as Langston Hughes a Dramatic Treat
David Mills performing as Langston Hughes. Courtesy photo
By JANE LIN
Los Alamos is in for a dramatic treat when actor/writer David Mills performs an excerpt from his show, “Dreamweaver: The Works of Langston Hughes” at 7 p.m. Monday, March 4 at UNM-LA in the Student Center Lecture Hall (Bldg. 2.)
The event is free and open to the public. The event is funded by the Jim Sagel Memorial Lecture Series Fund, established in honour of the writer Jim Sagel who taught creative writing at UNM-LA for many years.
I experienced the full show when David Mills performed it at The Lensic in Santa Fe on Read More
See the Stars with PEEC
Comet Lemmon photographed Feb. 20, 2013 through a 19.6 inch telescope. Photo by Martin Mobberley – See more at https:////astrobob.areavoices.PEEC News:
PEEC will have several telescopes set up for viewing, and the event is free and open to the public.
With any luck, Comet Pan-STARRS will be in the sky right after sundown. After the comet sets, Jupiter
ACCT’s ‘The Little Mermaid, Jr.’ Raised Nearly $1,000 for Student Actors
Chef Louis (Nic Gonzales) and his helpers prepare to cook Sebastian (Daniel Sarrao.) Courtesy photo
Sebastian (Daniel Sarrao) left, Ariel ( Kim McKinley) and Flounder (Jordan Bailey) contemplate ‘human stuff.’ Courtesy photoACCT News:
Atomic City Children’s Theater and Los Alamos Public Schools’ Middle Schoolers presented “Disney’s The Little Mermaid, Jr.” last weekend.
The students had been working on this play since before Christmas. Many current 8th grade students have been participating in ACCT since 5th grade, so Read More
Y Summer Programs Help Youth Get Outdoors and Learn New Skills
Campers visit with alpacas during a YMCA field trip. Courtesy/YMCA
iCare about Gardening campers tend their plants. Courtesy/YMCA
YMCA News:
The Family YMCA is encouraging parents to help keep their kids physically active and mentally engaged by signing them up for any of the Y’s summer youth development programs.
Registration opens for summer programs March 1, and the registration fee is waived for parents who sign up from March 1 through April 30. The Y offers financial assistance so that no one is turned away for inability to pay.
Registration is also open for next year’s after-school enrichment Read More
John A. Andersen Presents ‘Hiroshima and Nagasaki 2010’
LA HISTORICAL SOCIETY News:
The Los Alamos Historical Society is hosting the presentation by John A. Andersen, “Hiroshima and Nagasaki 2010″ at 7:30 p.m. March 12 in Fuller Lodge, 2132 Central Ave.
“Hiroshima and Nagasaki 2010” is a pictorial tour of the peace parks and museums at the locations of the two U.S. atomic bombings of Japan in August 1945.
The epicenters are visited, numerous monuments and shrines are shown, and some impression is given of the groups of Japanese people in visitation.
Local travel arrangements and the reception as a visitor and the Read More