Camp Invention is returning to Henderson to offer weeklong programing for first- through sixth-grade students. “While some camps are more sports oriented or physically oriented, this challenges children intellectually,” said Annette Phillips, the regional program manager for Camp Invention.
Miller Elementary students have embarked on a monthlong study of Mars and the solar system, beginning with a videoconference April 9 with Steven Squyres, a professor of astronomy at Cornell University and the principal investigator of NASA’s Mars Exploration Rover Mission.
The Marty Hennessy Junior Tennis Foundation offers local kids an opportunity to learn the game of tennis. In return, they have to become upstanding young people. Members are expected to volunteer with the foundation, perform community service, be stellar students and act as mentors for younger kids.
The Junior League of Las Vegas recently donated $2,500 worth of food and supplies the Family Resource Center at Wynn Elementary School. The Container Store at Town Square Las Vegas donated $1,500 worth of organizational products to help make the school’s supplies closet a more authentic shopping experience for families in need.
David “DJ” Helmick, Coronado High School
Two UNLV researchers have provided more evidence that we human beings have a lot to learn about what’s going on out there.
Nearly 3,000 UNLV students walked in their spring graduation commencement on Saturday. Two ceremonies were held at the Thomas & Mack Center.
With more than 40 percent of Clark County’s 308,000 public school students being Latino, the group outnumbers all other individual ethnicities in the fifth-largest school district in the United States.
Jason Kim chuckles at the one B allotment he gave himself at the beginning of high school. But he couldn’t do worse than his older sister, now attending medical school at Loma Linda University.
