Sentences with phrase «competing against other schools»

Elementary students get the chance to work with adults, including STEM professionals from local businesses, to design, build, test, and program robots before competing against other schools.

Principals and teachers like that playing Scrabble builds spelling, vocabulary, and social skills, and can give students a chance to compete against other schools.

You can join the Challenge with a class, team up with other students from your campus, or compete against other schools while you take action on the issues that you care about during the Campus EcoChallenge.

Not exact matches

Students travelled from post-secondary institutions across Western Canada including British Columbia, Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba to compete against other business schools.

There are fixtures against other clubs, schools and universities culminating with the Varsity match versus Cambridge in March in which the Blues, Peppers (2nd team) and a Ladies team compete.

Also joining the New Balance Indoor Grand Prix line up is 17 - year - old high school star Sammy Watson, who will compete at 800m against, among others, 2015 World Champion Marina Arzamasova of Belarus.

In 6th - 8th grade, students are welcome to join any of the co-ed sports teams, such as basketball or volleyball, which compete against other local independent and Waldorf schools in the Bay Area.

The narrative we've been fed that the two groups are competing against each other for jobs, houses and schools could be replaced with something far more positive.

Where US schools were encouraged to compete against other government - funded schools, for instance, the institutions started teaching to the test in order to improve their rankings.

There, he formed a stage band to compete in tournaments against other schools, and as conductor taught his students how to achieve a professional quality sound on their instruments.

It puts the two actors against each other as they compete for popularity in a high school.

Because of its heavy reliance on academic letter grades, the typical American high school had created a kind of free market in which every student was competing against every other student for rank.

They were competing against a group of four other students who were sitting, at that moment, in a similar room in a similar high school 600 miles away, in the Indianapolis suburb of Carmel, Indiana.

To fix the system, Coleman proposed academic games in which teams of students competed against those at other schools.

I also think performance reviews of teachers in some schools, that focus on student results (with a factual basis) and «window dressing» in observed lessons are forcing teachers to compete against each other.

Robertson found that competing during the week against other schools was a great way to practice.

«Working as a member of an architectural team in 2050, you are competing against five other companies to win the contract to design a state - of - the - art high school on a given site.

Under a performance - based licensing regime, other providers, such as school districts, states, nonprofit organizations, and for - profit companies, could compete against universities for the opportunity to offer training that would help candidates earn their licenses.

Could the gains witnessed among voucher - eligible and voucher - threatened schools actually be the product of some influence other than their being forced to compete against private schools?

The venerable We the People: The Citizen and the Constitution program, started in 1987, engages upper elementary, middle, and high school students in simulations of congressional hearings — with a chance to compete against other students in the national championship.

Students can choose to compete either with other players within their class, school or country, and are matched to children at the same academic level as themselves (or against the computer if no suitable match is available).

Competing against 10,000 other teams from across the UK, St Albans School's leading team made a virtual # 7,000 in a three - month period of online trading.

Even though half of places in primary and in each secondary subject have been reserved for school - based routes, the providers are still competing against each other.

Narrowly missing out on 1st place, the team competed against 16 teams from 9 other further education schools and colleges from around the West Midlands.

This would constitute a big change in Delaware's charter sector, which has, to this point, operated as quasi-free-market with schools competing against each other for students.

Students Salaam Hargrove, Teresa Christie and Chanelle Harrison competed against other students in the Syracuse City School District to advance to the final round to compete with other students in Upstate New York.

Schools compete against each other for prestige and prizes.

Schools are encouraged to act like businesses, driven by the twin pressures of Ofsted and the need to compete against each other.

«I love watching our students compete against and defeat other schools!»

The competition pitted NYC schools against each other, competing to be named «Top School» by passing their online math lessons.

Hot Rodders of Tomorrow is a nonprofit organization that hosts «Engine Challenges» across the country in which high - school teams compete against each other in timed engine rebuilds.

The students are competing against seven other schools from across the nation.

High school teams from across the country will once again compete against the clock and each other in tearing down and rebuilding identical high - performance 350ci Chevrolet small - block powerplants fitted with top performance parts during the Hot Rodders of Tomorrow Engine Challenge.

He does feel that there are fewer such opportunities today because schools are turning out large numbers of value investors who are competing against each other.

Considered an emerging sport by the NCAA, the UC Davis equestrian team will compete nationally against other large public schools like Fresno State, Georgia, and Texas A&M.

The FIRST Tech Challenge presents high - school student teams with the chance to design and program robots and compete against other teams in an alliance format.

Students can compete against other students or schools can compete against schools.

That is the new market in which legal firms find themselves; you are no longer competing only with the Magic Circle firms to attract the crème de la crème, you're up against Tesco, the Government Legal Service, anyone who has a good place for an in - house lawyer — and when talking to students or school children you're up against every other potential discipline into which they might throw themselves.

Team members included Solange Davis - Ramlochan and Sarah Rostom who competed successfully against 5 other participating law schools.

On Thursday, Dec. 7 through Saturday, Dec. 9, Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School drama competed against 19 other schools in the Education of Theatre Association district festival held here at MSD.

On Thursday, Dec. 7 through Saturday, Dec. 9, Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School drama competed against 19 other schools in the Education of Theatre Association

She competed against other high school dental assisting programs throughout the United States, many of which are two year programs.