The Rube Goldberg club at Corporate Landing Middle School held its third annual Rube Goldberg Championships last week with more machines entered than ever before. Throughout the first quarter, eight teams of two or three students worked on the type of machine that Webster’s dictionary describes as “a comically involved, complicated invention, laboriously contrived to … Read more
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Watching ‘Great Grow Along’ at Pembroke Meadows
Fifth-grade students at Pembroke Meadows Elementary School have been hard at work with the Great Grow Along project. The Great Grow Along is an animal feeding project using live rats where students witness the effect of nutrition on growth and are challenged to reflect on their own food behaviors.
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PAHS students not cavalier about planning for financial future
Students at Princess Anne High School are banking on a good future – literally.
Recently, student groups have been participating in a variety of financial planning exercises and competitions.
The school hosted a financial education workshop where business education students took part in the “Reality Store: Welcome to the Real … Read more
Swiss company partners with Landstown High
The Landstown High School Governor’s STEM & Technology Academy Robotics Program is pleased to announce a new classroom partner. Coppelia Robotics in Switzerland has agreed to provide their state of the art “Virtual Robot Experimental Platform” or VREP software, to the Academy’s Advanced Robotics classroom.
VREP is used for fast algorithm development, … Read more
GRC students see firsthand art come to life
Green Run Collegiate students traveled to the Chrysler Museum of Art Glass Blowing studios and met Glass artist Therman Statom and his team of glass blowers.
Students were able to view the artists at work as they designed and created a 150-piece glass fish display for the Children’s Hospital of … Read more
Kellam students are on the move
Kellam High School students are on the move in a big way this fall – and not just in prepping for their new building. Kellam students have been accomplishing some major feats – in a variety of areas – in just the past couple of months.
The Kellam High School … Read more
Williams Elementary’s ShineGIRLS get big surprise
The ShineGIRLS club at Williams Elementary School recently received a surprise visit from Classic Air’s One Hour Heating and Cooling. The company presented a $1,000 check to the school’s Partners in Education, Wave City Care. The money will buy materials for students participating in the self-esteem and mentorship program.
“We … Read more
A Closer Look: Tallwood Youth Ambassador Trip – Tel Aviv
Ten students in the Global Studies and World Languages Academy at Tallwood High School have been selected as Youth Ambassadors in an exchange program organized by the American Israel Friendship League (AIFL). After a week in Virginia Beach, the Youth Ambassadors from Israel and Tallwood met other Youth Ambassadors from … Read more
Bayside Middle students take sides with the bay
A drainage ditch with trash and a film of oil proved to be the most shocking find when Carla Morris’s seventh-grade science students inspected the grounds at Bayside Middle School.
In the Teen Environmental Awareness project, Morris’s students used ipads to photograph items such as plant and animal life as … Read more
A Closer Look: Tallwood Youth Ambassador Trip – Jerusalem
Ten students in the Global Studies and World Languages Academy at Tallwood High School have been selected as Youth Ambassadors in an exchange program organized by the American Israel Friendship League (AIFL). After a week in Virginia Beach, the Youth Ambassadors from Israel and Tallwood met other Youth Ambassadors from … Read more
VB Middle create murals and lasting bonds
The visual art students of Virginia Beach Middle School explored the concept of community as the basis for creating works of art by creating a collaborative community weaving project.
Weavings are made with a purpose in mind. Some weavings become warm blankets, others beautiful rugs. To participate, students were encouraged to pick up one strip … Read more