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Hope Squad making school safe & welcoming to all

Comstock Park

Shuffleboard showdown: students battle for bragging rights

Byron Center

Student Leadership team plants trees for water quality

Lowell

She’s ready for the heavy lift, then onto baking

After starting powerlifting two years ago, this Lowell High School sophomore is a national junior varsity champion.

Kent ISD

AI Summit highlights classroom uses for artificial intelligence

This year’s event focused on how teachers and educators use AI in the classroom.

SNN Video Features

Comstock Park

Shuffleboard showdown: students battle for bragging rights

Using their math skills, fourth- and fifth-graders build their own shuffleboards for the school’s annual shuffleboard competition.

East Grand Rapids

Empowering students to get interested in STEAM

Northview

Future songwriters, audio engineers learning to create in production lab

Caledonia

Taking the plunge for a good cause

Godwin Heights

Exploring, learning, loving it: Zero Hour in action

EDUCATION EVERYWHERE

STEM summer camp registrations open at Van Andel Institute for Education

Education Everywhere School News Network

Summer camps offer STEM, robots and nature for K-Pop fans, Minecraft makers, Swifties and more.

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Students invited to join the ‘American Adventure’

Education Everywhere School News Network

The free, one-day Civics Camp is part of the America 250 and Grand Rapids 175 celebrations.

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ISSUES IN EDUCATION

Finding hope behind bars: GED program opens doors for incarcerated learners

Partnership between Kent ISD and Kent County Correctional Facility helps students build skills, confidence and a path forward.

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Grads contemplate life after high school: ‘We will be fine’

Podcasts

Kelloggsville band ready to ‘soar’ on national stage

Kelloggsville

Water analysis leads to restoration ideas

Wyoming

Her passion: advocating for ‘that one kid’

Northview

News BRIEFS

AI Summit highlights classroom uses for artificial intelligence

Kent ISD

HOPE Gardens opens new community greenhouse

Godwin Heights

‘You Belong Bash’ builds kinship, connection among peers, staff

Forest Hills

STEM summer camp registrations open at Van Andel Institute for Education

Education Everywhere

Students invited to join the ‘American Adventure’

Education Everywhere

Making Headlines

Lowell

‘Be here, be present’: Grad reflects on loss of her mom

This Lowell High School senior’s life was turned upside down by her mother’s illness, but she pulled strength from the woman who taught her to live.

Student Voices

Northview

SEALS: Where the tiniest hands reach for the biggest hearts

This article from The Roar, the student newspaper of Northview High School, explores the district’s Student Educators and Listeners program.

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