Sentences with phrase «spurs students at high schools»

The competition — called the Secretary's Recognizing Aviation & Aerospace Innovation in Science and Engineering (RAISE) award — spurs students at high schools and universities to think creatively by developing innovative solutions to real - world aviation and aerospace challenges, and to share those innovations with the broader community.The award winners are those who demonstrate outstanding and unique scientific and engineering innovations.

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(CNN)- Columnist and gay - rights advocate Dan Savage is standing by his comment that «we can learn to ignore the bulls ** t in the Bible about gay people» at a recent conference for high school students, a line that prompted some to walk out and spurred intense online debate.

A shooting rampage by two students at Columbine High School on April 20, 1999 that left 11 students and two staff members dead spurred administrators in the Branson, Missouri, school district to re-examine their security policy, and staff and student ID badges became part of the newSchool on April 20, 1999 that left 11 students and two staff members dead spurred administrators in the Branson, Missouri, school district to re-examine their security policy, and staff and student ID badges became part of the newschool district to re-examine their security policy, and staff and student ID badges became part of the new plan.

Spurred by a team of three biology, math, and humanities teachers at High Tech High, a public charter school in San Diego, these diverse students — of widely mixed academic levels and socioeconomic backgrounds — created the book as the central project of their junior year.

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Even small planning or implementation grants can spur local educators to begin to hold conversations about new approaches to how, when, where, and at what pace high school students learn and demonstrate their learning for credit.