Programmed for success

By on 04/27/2017   /   Career Exploration, Collective Impact, Education Matters campaign, Funding Your Future, Post High School Education, School Years, Youth Development   /   Leave a comment
Programmed for success

Programmed for success Be Great By 8th helps students develop skills for life beyond graduation Paintbrushes, colored markers and glitter transformed beach towel-sized sheets of drawing paper on an early spring Friday at Camas Valley Charter School. Student artists were creating the banners for a project involving airplanes

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The thrill of new skills

By on 04/25/2017   /   Career Exploration, Collective Impact, Education Matters campaign, Post High School Education, School Years, Youth, Youth Development   /   Leave a comment
The thrill of new skills

The thrill of new skills Free summer camps give students hands-on career training Woodworking, welding, drafting, engineering, job-shadowing a health care professional – these are examples of the numerous hands-on activities available at no cost to Douglas County middle and high school students at local schools this summer.

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Citizen scientists

By on 01/24/2017   /   Businesses/Organizations, Career Exploration, Collective Impact, Education Matters campaign, Opportunities, Post High School Education, School Years, Youth, Youth Development   /   Leave a comment

Citizen scientists STEM Beyond School stimulates young, probing minds In one classroom, kids may be hooking up buddies to homemade lie detectors and comparing the noises that signal fibs versus whoppers. In another, children could be demonstrating Newton’s third law of motion by setting off Alka-Seltzer rockets. Whether

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