Education

LAHS Wins Science Bowl Regional Competition!

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The Los Alamos High School Science Bowl Team has won the Science Bowl Regional Competition! From left, LAHS Coach Ali Renner with competitors Lillian Petersen, Michael Chigaev, Max Corliss, Captain Anthony Lestone and Jennie Gao. The team practiced four times a week since August to prepare for this challenging competition. Every person on the team also spent countless hours reading science textbooks and memorizing science facts in their fields of expertise. This is the 10th time in the last 11 years that the LAHS team has advanced to represent New Mexico at the national competition. Science Read More

On The Job In Los Alamos: With Ministerial Alliance

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On the job Tuesday morning at Pig n Fig in White Rock are Jennifer Jenson and Kristy Dean Nadler as they inform members of the Ministerial Alliance of the upcoming workshop: ‘Safeguarding Your Flock In A Contemporary World Concerning Sexual Violence Prevention For Church Leaders’. The workshop is 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. March 21, at Pueblo Canyon Inn, 199 San Ildefonso Road. The registration fee includes a light breakfast and lunch. For information and registration, visit www.kdinterpose.com or call 858.245.3815. #worklosalamos  #wherediscoveriesaremade. Photo by Jenn Bartram/ladailypost.com Read More

Measure Amending Private College Disclosures Clears House

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STATE News:

SANTA FE — The House of Representatives passed House Bill 17 Thursday to require private post-secondary institutions in New Mexico and online to disclose to every prospective student the total estimated cost of attendance for the prospective student’s program, as well as data about average future earnings for the student.

House Bill 17 will assist students in making the most cost-efficient enrollment decisions when choosing to attend private post-secondary institutions including nonprofit and for-profit institutions and significantly cut down on predatory recruitment Read More

On The Job In Los Alamos: At Nature Center

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On the job in Los Alamos Thursday afternoon at the Los Alamos Nature Center is Ashleigh Lusher who moved to town from Austin, Texas to begin work at the center in September of 2019. As gift shop coordinator, she handles purchasing as well as stocking and record keeping. Lusher also is the program coordinator and has recently taken over critter care, ensuring that the live critters at the center are happy and healthy and ready for interactions with the public. Upcoming programs at the nature center include Wild Love: A Valentine’s Celebration (ages 18+), Family Star Party and the annual Earth Day Read More

DNCU’s Scholarship Application Cycle For 2020-21 Now Open

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DNCU News:

SANTA FE — Del Norte Credit Union (DNCU), New Mexico’s hometown financial cooperative announces the opening of its 2020-21 DNCU Scholarship Program.

The program is celebrating its 10th anniversary and has helped more than 80 deserving local students with a combined $84,000 in scholarship funds. Ten exemplary students will be awarded with $1,000 each toward their education at a college or vocational school of their choice.

DNCU established their scholarship program to assist credit union members who are high school seniors, equivalent home school seniors, or a recipient of a Read More

Bill To Create Middle And High School ‘Soft Skills’ Career Training Curriculum Passes House Education Committee

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The Roundhouse in Santa Fe. Photo by Carol A. Clark/ladailypost.com

STATE News:

SANTA Fe — House Bill 63, a bill to create a statewide, comprehensive, standards-based ‘soft skills’ program for high school and middle school students has passed the House Education Committee.

Sponsored by House Majority Leader Rep. Sheryl Williams Stapleton (D-Albuquerque), the bill makes a $4 million appropriation from the general fund to develop a curriculum and implement online courses tailored to meet the needs of New Mexico’s students and evolving job market. 

“We want an education system that prepares Read More

Los Alamos Residents Bryan Fearey And Maureen Connolly Endow Chemistry Scholarship For Students Passionate About Arts

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Maureen Connolly and Bryan Fearey have created the Fearey/Connolly Endowed Scholarship for Science and the Arts. Courtesy/LANLF

LANL FOUNDATION News:

Los Alamos residents Bryan Fearey and Maureen Connolly met during their graduate work at Iowa State University, where they both earned PhDs in physical chemistry.

Fearey spent 32 years at Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) while Connolly taught science to students ranging from college level to preschool.

Their relationship has been deepened by a mutual passion for the arts. Fearey’s skill as a clarinetist and saxophonist led him to Read More

HB-138 Expanding New Mexico Tribal Control Over Educational Programs Advances House Committee

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Regis Pecos, left, co-director of the Leadership Institute at the Santa Fe Indian School, shares notes with Gail Evans during a presentation about improving education for indigenous communities at the Santa Ana Casino ballroom in July. Photo by Anthony Jackson/Searchlight New Mexico

By Dillon Mullan
The New Mexican

A measure that would give tribes in New Mexico more control over education initiatives in their communities advanced Friday in the House.

The House Education Committee unanimously endorsed House Bill 138, which would send $16 million over the next two fiscal years to tribal Read More

2020 LAPS District Science Fair Results

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Best of Show recipients of the 2020 LAPS Science Fair, from left, Jac Counce, Brennan Caldwell and Conner Lattimore. Courtesy photo

Science Fair winners from left, Karin Ebey, Ming-Yuan Lo, Superintendent Kurt Steinhaus, Sasha Simakov and Brayden Allen. Courtesy photo

LAPS News:

The Los Alamos Public Schools presented awards Saturday at the Los Alamos Middle School Gymnasium to the winners of the 2020 LAPS District Science Fair.

Elementary Award Winners:

Class Projects K-2

  • 1st- Mrs. Martens- Aspen

Class Projects 3-5

  • 3rd- Mrs. Bartram- Aspen
  • 2nd- Ms. Waidler- Barranca
  • 1st- Ms. Lopez- Barranca
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Y Now Accepting Trail Summer Job Applications

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YMCA News:

The Family YMCA,  is taking applications packages for employment in their Summer Youth Conservation Corps (YCC) program from now through March 16.

The positions are open to all regional youth.

Application packages and job descriptions are available online at laymca.org/y-corps. 

Applications are available at the Los Alamos and Española YMCA teen centers.  Early application is recommended but applications will be taken at the teen centers until close of business, 8 pm, on Monday, March 16, or delivered by 10 pm to The Family YMCA, 1450 Iris Street in Los Alamos. The Y is open on weekends Read More