Sentences with phrase «local high school students from»

Marist is partnering with the Cary Institute for Ecosystem Studies to host a pilot project aimed at increasing the number of local high school students from underrepresented groups entering STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) careers.

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The local M - STEM Academy gives summer stipends, research experiences and internships to students from kindergarten through high school.

«I would like to create a mentorship program in East Los Angeles so that undergraduate students from local universities could partner with poorly resourced middle schools and high schools to mentor students and coach them in college preparation.

Other work - from - home ideas include catering services for birthday parties, small weddings and anniversaries; a babysitting service, which may require licensing from local health and child welfare services; a pet - sitting service, which may require approvals from your landlord and potentially your neighbors; and tutoring services for middle and high - school students.

Developed by a local high school culinary student in partnership with Medical City Children's Hospital in Dallas, El Fenix's Kids Fit Menu allows kids to build their own meals by choosing from an array of delicious, low - fat / calorie entrées and sides, along with a glass of apple juice.

In California The Fairmont San Francisco and The Fairmont Sonoma Mission Inn are supporting local agricultural studies by purchasing two student - raised hogs from the Sonoma Valley High School Agriculture Department so that they can make their own sausages, bacon and dried meats, as well as support local schools and help strengthen the regional farming community.

He added that it also gives the local high schools a chance to experience a college - level race, «There are not many opportunities for high school student - athletes to watch a collegiate race in the area and this is a great opportunity to get exposure to a collegiate race but more importantly, to meet some great coaches from wonderful colleges and universities in the West.»

In August the company took over operations from Aramark and began serving daily meals of sustainable, local and organic food to 4,700 students at Niles North and Niles West high schools in Skokie.

Also, several players from Canada speak French and have made appearances at local high school French classes to help students develop their language skills and share information about their culture.

The fruits and vegetables grown from local farmers contain very high amounts of vitamins, minerals, antioxidants, and phytonutrients that are not often found in school lunches, providing students with an enormous health advantage to their diet.

These students, and others from 14 local public high schools, were competing in Cooking Up Change, a healthy cooking contest in which teams were challenged to create nutritious school lunches on a tight budget — $ 1 per meal — and limited ingredients and prep work.

Here in Houston ISD, for example, high school students, PTOs and coaches often set up fundraising tables at lunch to sell entrees from local restaurants and fast food chains, everything from pizza to Chinese food, creating veritable «food courts» of junk food.

That's why she loves homeschooling her kids, leading Sunday school for two and three year olds and teaching at the local homeschool group's coop for students from grades kindergarten through high school.

On Taste Washington Day, the FFA students from the high school visit all of the schools and talk about local agriculture and serve samples to all of the students in the lunch room so everyone has the opportunity to sample the fresh, local products.»

This year, FFA members from Cedarcrest High School (CHS) worked to promote local agriculture and offer samples of the locally grown produce to students — including Asian Pears, roasted red and gold beets, radishes, mini sweet peppers, kale, banana peppers, etc..

Local authorities should work with schools, academies, NMSS, FE institutions and SPIs where they have high needs students, to set funding rates and confirm the funding that institutions will receive from the authority.

This award recognizes an outstanding, service - focused high school student from many local communities.

Eighty high school students from all across the state gathered in Albany on Tuesday to lobby in support of the Young Voter Act, a bill that would lower the legal voting age to 17 for state and local elections.

And, a report from a local high school teaching students how to vote come November 4.

(pictured <) «From the beginning, we have been clear and consistent in our position: forced co-locations that result in overcrowding, special students» losing space, and elementary students being mixed with high school students, are unacceptable; as are co-locations that ignore the will of local parents and teachers.»

The bureau recruits volunteers from the community and student interns from local colleges, universities and high schools to assist staff with these initiatives.

Teens from the Student School Neighborhood and Community Government group and area high schools joined in identifying their local boards and learning more about numerous committees.

In another effort to reduce tobacco use, students from Tappan Zee High School met with local leaders and lobbied in Albany and their hard work paid off.

One Wednesday afternoon each month, students from local high schools come to work with researchers.

Local high school students also attended (perhaps, 60 or so), [and] a couple random people from Urcuqui spoke... I think it was the only March for Science in Ecuador.»

The Boy Scouts of America's local Cub Scouts Pack 47, high school students from Hawaii Preparatory Academy, Honokaa High School, Pahoa High School, and Parker School, as well as college students from University of Hawaii at Hilo's Astronomy Department and UH Hilo's Astrophysics Club, volunteered to lend a hand at the evhigh school students from Hawaii Preparatory Academy, Honokaa High School, Pahoa High School, and Parker School, as well as college students from University of Hawaii at Hilo's Astronomy Department and UH Hilo's Astrophysics Club, volunteered to lend a hand at the school students from Hawaii Preparatory Academy, Honokaa High School, Pahoa High School, and Parker School, as well as college students from University of Hawaii at Hilo's Astronomy Department and UH Hilo's Astrophysics Club, volunteered to lend a hand at the evHigh School, Pahoa High School, and Parker School, as well as college students from University of Hawaii at Hilo's Astronomy Department and UH Hilo's Astrophysics Club, volunteered to lend a hand at the School, Pahoa High School, and Parker School, as well as college students from University of Hawaii at Hilo's Astronomy Department and UH Hilo's Astrophysics Club, volunteered to lend a hand at the evHigh School, and Parker School, as well as college students from University of Hawaii at Hilo's Astronomy Department and UH Hilo's Astrophysics Club, volunteered to lend a hand at the School, and Parker School, as well as college students from University of Hawaii at Hilo's Astronomy Department and UH Hilo's Astrophysics Club, volunteered to lend a hand at the School, as well as college students from University of Hawaii at Hilo's Astronomy Department and UH Hilo's Astrophysics Club, volunteered to lend a hand at the event.

WHAT: A documentary crew tracks a massive storm to the small town of Silverton, where an endless barrage of tornados wreak havoc on its inhabitants, including a father (Richard Armitage) and his two sons (Max Deacon and Nathan Kress), a pair of redneck daredevils, and students from the local high school.

The researchers surveyed 4,057 students from 52 high schools in Chicago to examine the influence of civil learning activities on a students» willingness to commit to volunteering and to learn about state and local issues.

He does two kinds of schools: high schools that are tech related, where the kids are engaged in projected based learning and discovery, and that have deeply embedded partnerships with local industry; and also schools that are K — 8 flex programs, in which students attend school two days a week, work from home two days a week, and one day is an enrichment day.

Local children, along with students from John Morse and a private Waldorf school, make up the high school's student body.

The high school students collected insect larvae, daphnia, and snail eggs from local water sources and examined them under the microscope, making a total of 230 images.

(There's also a private Waldorf high school in the area, which has allowed local students in the program to continue the traditional Waldorf education track from kindergarten to the end of high school.)

And Habitat for Humanity is building affordable housing for local families near a new high school campus, which students from the district's architecture theme school will help them build.

For four weeks this fall, 22 student teams from Cambridge Rindge and Latin High School devoted their after - school hours to addressing local issues that matter toSchool devoted their after - school hours to addressing local issues that matter toschool hours to addressing local issues that matter to them.

Things you can ask for (and will likely get) include school supplies, volunteer hours (e.g., from senior citizens, high school students, clubs such as Kiwanis or Rotary), pro bono work (e.g., landscaping, graphic design), books, and free meals from local restaurants.

A local group of musicians from our high school were supposed to perform, but had to back out at the last minute, so we went to Plan B and had our teachers form groups and perform for our students — which they loved!

I explore three broad hypotheses for why African Americans might not have benefited as much as whites from the funding initiatives: 1) kindergarten funding disproportionately drew African Americans out of higher - quality education settings; 2) instead of raising additional revenue to fund local kindergarten programs fully, school districts offered lower - quality kindergarten programs to African Americans or moved funds from existing school programs from which African Americans may have disproportionately benefited; and 3) African Americans were more adversely affected by any subsequent «upgrading» of school curricula as more students entered elementary grades having attended kindergarten.

(High - performing faith - based schools in Cameroon, for instance, primarily educate students from wealthy — and likely more academically - engaged — families, and the schools don't have to deal with the corrupt local officials that plague state schools.)

Each fortnight, more than a dozen student volunteers from Kincumber High School walk down to their local creek to conduct water quality tests — monitoring the health and the quality of the waterway in their local community.

Whether those volunteers are parents, students from a local high school, or other community members, their contributions are immense.

A WORD FROM THE CHEFS Giving the last word to a school chef, Tony Mulgrew, BBC Cook of the Year and school chef at Ravenscliffe High School said of the new standards: «This is a great opportunity for all school chefs to showcase their skills — for example, writing their own menus for their students and schools, and having the flexibility to use only the best quality and local produce when designing menus.&school chef, Tony Mulgrew, BBC Cook of the Year and school chef at Ravenscliffe High School said of the new standards: «This is a great opportunity for all school chefs to showcase their skills — for example, writing their own menus for their students and schools, and having the flexibility to use only the best quality and local produce when designing menus.&school chef at Ravenscliffe High School said of the new standards: «This is a great opportunity for all school chefs to showcase their skills — for example, writing their own menus for their students and schools, and having the flexibility to use only the best quality and local produce when designing menus.&School said of the new standards: «This is a great opportunity for all school chefs to showcase their skills — for example, writing their own menus for their students and schools, and having the flexibility to use only the best quality and local produce when designing menus.&school chefs to showcase their skills — for example, writing their own menus for their students and schools, and having the flexibility to use only the best quality and local produce when designing menus.»

Although set in an affluent area of Preston, a high proportion of Corpus Christi Catholic Sports College students come from the most deprived local areas, with 33 per cent on free school meals.

High school students published their own field guide with a little help from local organizations.

Recycling is high on the agenda for the schools - which both belong to Focus - Trust, a charitable multi-academy trust based in the North West of England — with Thornhill receiving a shout out from local MP Paula Sherriff during Prime Minister's Question Time after she received a letter from students concerned about the UK's reliance on Fossil Fuels; an issue the MP said that, if tackled, would support the sustainable future of the green economy.

State and local funding for higher education has declined to $ 7,152 per student enrolled in a public two - or four - year school in 2015, down from $ 9,489 per student enrolled in 1987.

A grant from the Dudgeon Community Fund will enable Reepham High School to make greater use of its Observatory, supporting student STEM studies and enabling the local community to gain a greater understanding of the night sky in a county that is famed for its «big skies».

The data also indicate that patterns of student attrition at KIPP schools are typically no different from other local schools except that KIPP schools replace vacancies with fewer students in the last two years of middle school, and those late - arriving students are somewhat higher - achieving than students entering KIPP schools in 5th and 6th grades.

Thus, taking travel distance and local neighborhood demographics into account, a public school of choice that over represents white middle - class students based on the results of unconstrained lotteries might, instead, dispense offers of admission based on lotteries in which students from low - income families or families from neighborhoods in which blacks predominate have higher odds of selection.

Before 1996 the IGAP was arguably the higher - stakes exam, even though there were no direct consequences for students or schools tied to the IGAP, since results from it appeared annually in local newspapers.

Most recently, Moskowitz issued a high - profile rejection of a city plan to house new students from six middle - school programs in two sites, which she and local newspaper editorial boards criticized as an unstable, temporary fix that would force families to travel too far to school.