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Parking Lot Painted with ‘Positivity & Joy’

Comstock Park Charles Honey
On a gray-grit city parking lot through some of this summer’s hottest days, a dozen students painted a bright path of hope. Their zig-zag creation...

From ‘Kings of the School to Measly Peasants’

Lowell Morgan Jarema
If you're headed to middle school in the fall and worried about the whole "small fish in a big pond" thing, William Compton says...

Students Map Biodiversity, Ecology of Natural Area

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"His name is Calvin, and he's huge." That's pretty much all freshman Hannah Foster had to say about the crawfish she netted while wading in...

Pressure Builds for SkillsUSA Nationals

East Grand Rapids Morgan Jarema
In a few weeks, Dominic Krupp will be part of a two-person team tasked with coming up with an idea for a short video,...

Seventh-graders Can’t Be Out-clevered

Lowell Morgan Jarema
Some 300 seventh-graders became authenticity sleuths recently during a science class experiment dubbed “Cracking the Case of the Clever Craftsman.” Students were presented with a...

How Clean Water Boosts School Attendance

Forest Hills Morgan Jarema
Alex Kaufmann and Sofia Debano joined their classmates in the Central Woodlands 5/6 school gymnasium recently to culminate a service learning project centered on the...

First-grader Joins Band of Reading Champs

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Being able to read books scores big points with Claire Greenwood. "My mom gets them for me at the library," she said. "I read them...

Spelling Bee Winner off to National Bee

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The third time was the charm for Aiden Mischley. The Forest Hills eighth-grader bested 18 students from six counties on March 22 to take first...

Every Student Helped Create This Work of Art

Lowell Morgan Jarema
Artist Cara O'Brien stood near a group of third-graders wearing rubber gloves and showed them their next task on the enormous mural in front...

Robots Take Over Schools for State, World Qualifiers

East Grand Rapids Charles Honey
Four Kenowa Hills students surrounded a box of wires, wheels and pulleys they called Judy, making last-minute adjustments. They had spent six weeks putting...

Dinosaurs Make Reading Far From Extinct

Lowell Morgan Jarema
Bushnell Elementary students recently got the chance to show off their class projects at the school’s annual Family Fun Night. The event typically coincides...

Open the Taps, Close with Pickles

Lowell Morgan Jarema
Nearly 300 Lowell Area Schools' second grade students visited the Wittenbach/Wege Agriscience and Environmental Education Center in March to learn about maple syrup. During their...

Appreciation for History Begins at Home

Lowell Morgan Jarema
Diane Titche's third-grade class is so enraptured by museum exhibits, they've made their own. "This is who I'm named after," explained Payton Hoffman -- whose...

Students Explore Michigan History at Local Museum

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Nearly 30 students in Diane Titche's Murray Lake Elementary third-grade class crowded into the 1960s exhibit room of the Lowell Area Historical Museum recently...

Studying Human DNA with Help from 3-D Printers

Lowell Morgan Jarema
Noah Korhorn thinks working with 3-D printers, where hours of computer calculations become a three-dimensional reality, would make for a pretty cool workday. “Seeing it come...

Earth Science Rocks!

Lowell Morgan Jarema
Earth Science teacher Burt Breuker has hit on a way to use all those good-for-next-to-nothing, stubby crayon nubs and at the same time engage...
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