Education
■ $2,000 R-Jeneration scholarships: Flo Awuah and Claudia Peck, Las Vegas Academy.
The announcement made the entire table of Coronado High School students gasp Monday.
Prom never entered his mind, not even when he rolled to the ledge and saw rose petals strewn over the school’s wheelchair ramp, down to her. Ben Bunker instinctively turned the other way.
Wednesday night’s School Board meeting started out ugly, and it got worse from there.
Camp Invention is returning to Henderson to offer weeklong programing for first- through sixth-grade students. “While some camps are more sports oriented or physically oriented, this challenges children intellectually,” said Annette Phillips, the regional program manager for Camp Invention.
Miller Elementary students have embarked on a monthlong study of Mars and the solar system, beginning with a videoconference April 9 with Steven Squyres, a professor of astronomy at Cornell University and the principal investigator of NASA’s Mars Exploration Rover Mission.
The Marty Hennessy Junior Tennis Foundation offers local kids an opportunity to learn the game of tennis. In return, they have to become upstanding young people. Members are expected to volunteer with the foundation, perform community service, be stellar students and act as mentors for younger kids.
