Education

Art Show Opening at Los Alamos Co-op Market

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CO-OP News:

The Los Alamos Cooperative Market will host the opening of a photography exhibition from 5:30-7:30 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 17.

The show, dubbed “Camino de Paz y Cooperación,” is a collaborative effort between the Co-op and local photographer Minesh Bacrania and depicts the close connection between Camino de Paz, the Montessori-based school and farm located in Santa Cruz, N.M. and the Los Alamos Co-op.

Bacrania was contracted to deliver in a photo-journalistic style the story of how the 7th-9th graders at the school produce food and other products. The exhibit depicts Read More

LAHS Marching Band Color Guard Awarded Outstanding Auxiliary

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Los Alamos High School Marching Band Color Guard received the award for Outstanding Auxiliary at the Valencia Classic last weekend.
Back row from left, Coach Kim Kissane, Rebecca Flavin, Gabby Conley-Lopez, Annie Romero, Kyanna Martinez, Kim Pestovich and Coach Edwin Parker. Front row from left, Angelique Castillo and Amanda Milligan. Courtesy photo

Staff Report

Los Alamos High School Marching Band Color Guard earned the Outstanding Auxiliary Award Saturday at the Second Annual Valencia Classic in Los Lunas. Band director Zane Meek said Monday that the award is a testament to the “number Read More

LAHS Girls Golf Team Qualifies for State Championship!

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Los Alamos High School golfer Faith Koh watches her tee shot on #10 at Santa Fe Country Club today. The Topper boys and girls golf teams are playing in the Hobbs Fall Invitational being co-hosted with Santa Fe High School today. The LAHS Girls Golf Team took First Place with a 386 today. The girls also earned their third qualifying leg, which puts them in the State Championship next May! The boys took third with a 360 and did not earn any state qualifying legs. Photo by Mike Lippiatt Read More

Olions Perform Musical Comedy Murders of 1940’s

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Los Alamos High School students Charlie Herman and Haley Henson. Photo by Sopahn Kellogg

 

By Sopahn Kellogg
Los Alamos Daily Post Intern

The Olions have decades of history at Los Alamos High. This fall the thespian club is presenting a play, Musical Comedy Murders of 1940’s and it is happening this coming weekend.

Tickets are $9 each and the show will be presented at 8 p.m. Oct. 19, 20, 26 and 27 with a matinee at 2 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 20.

All five performances are in the new Black Box – third floor of the new LAHS building.

Interviewing some of the cast members I asked them a little about the musical Read More

Café Scientifique Looks at Ethical Hacking Oct.18

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CAFE SCIENTIQUE News:
 
Local teens are invited to attend Café Scientifique NM set for 7-8:30 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 18 at UNM-LA in the Building 4 Computer Lab.
 
Neale Pickett of Los Alamos National Laboratory will present the talk, “Ethical Hacking and Codebreaking: A Hands-on Tutorial and Contest.”
In early 2009, Iran’s uranium enrichment program—widely believed to be aimed at developing a nuclear weapon—was set back at least two years and billions of dollars by a computer virus from the United States.  

The New Zealand-based Megaupload site has millions Read More

Awesome Rummage Sale in Espanola Today

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POJOAQUE HIGH News:
Fund Raising Event for European Travel Club
 

High school students from the European Travel Club at Pojoaque Valley High are putting together what promises to be an amazing rummage sale this mornng in Espanola.

This is one of many fund raising events planned to raise money for an educational trip to Europe. Enriching their studies and broadening their understanding of other people and cultures, the students will visit England, France and Germany this summer.

Beginning at 8 a.m. today, more than 20 students will be selling furniture, sporting equipment, a working color Read More

Local Athlete Back on Team

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By Kirsten Laskey

When rolling papers and a plastic baggy were discovered in a Los Alamos High School (LAHS) student’s car, it resulted in a month-long suspension and removal from LAHS’s football team for a year.

Whether Los Alamos Public Schools responded to this situation correctly was debated during the school board meeting Tuesday night.

After hearing several presentations made by student and football player Grant Washburn, his family, coach and one of his teachers, the school board voted 3-2 to overturn the Washburn’s expulsion from the football team.

In an e-mail to the Los Alamos Read More

Rotary Club Student of the Month: Janali Gustafson

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Rotary Student of the Month Janali Gustafson. Photo by Don Taylor

ROTARY NEWS:

Janali Gustafson, a senior at Los Alamos High School (LAHS) was recently honored as Rotary Student of the Month for September. 

Gustafson is the daughter of Sarah and John Gustafson and the sister of Elena and Nathaniel.

The Rotary Club of Los Alamos selects one student each month of the school year to honor as a Student of the Month. 

In addition to high school seniors, high school juniors are now eligible for the recognition. 

Students are nominated by their teachers and chosen on the basis of their Read More

Española YMCA Teen Center launching Audio Engineering Program

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YMCA News:

ESPAÑOLA – Teens will be able to record their lyrics and music this fall thanks to support from three funders.

The grants are enabling the conversion of an office into a recording studio and will purchase equipment including an electric drum board, keyboard beat mixer, microphones and other recording equipment.

The Presbytery of Santa Fe, in support of a recommendation from their Mission in the North Committee awarded $5,000 toward the audio engineering program and in support of the center’s cultural creative arts classes.

The Pojoaque Valley Fund of the New Read More