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College Community News- Prairie Fest Raises $50,000 May 16, 2012The Prairie School Foundation would like to extend our thanks to everyone that attended and contributed to Prairie Fest 2012. […]
- Million T-Shirt March May 15, 2012The Million T-Shirt March Against Bullying is designed to raise awareness about our schools’ bullying prevention efforts and also take part in the nation’s largest and most ambitious anti-bullying rally ever. […]
- Café la Prairie May 15, 2012The Prairie Point student-run restaurant Café la Prairie is open May 23-24th. This café is organized and run by Prairie Point 9th grade Business and Family and Consumer Science students. […]
- Attention Prairie Athletes May 10, 2012Prairie athletics and the Prairie Booster Club are proud to, once again, offer elite training opportunities for our 7th-12th grade athletes. […]
- Point Students Reach Out May 3, 2012Students celebrated volunteerism by using their time and talents in the communities of Cedar Rapids, Ely, and Walford. […]
- New Dietary Guidelines May 3, 2012New USDA Dietary Guidelines requiring schools nationwide to adjust the way they run their Nutrition Programs. College Community Schools Nutrition Program will begin requiring students to take a serving of fruit or a serving of vegetables at lunch beginning in the month of May 2012. […]
- Digital Literacy Q & A III May 3, 2012Laptop s for Students in Grades 9-12 Next Fall […]
- Prairie Fest Raises $50,000 May 16, 2012
- Your Voice
- Young and ResponsibleXavier sophomore Ben Valentine has started a “Young and Responsible” initiative at Xavier High School where he promotes responsible decisions with custom designed wristbands. Today, Ben talked about the initiative with the students at Regis Middle School and he will … Continue reading → […]Jessica Schneider / Xavier High School
- 4th Avenue Jazz Company ResultsResults from the 4th Avenue Jazz Company try-outs were posted today in the main foyer. Some students rejoiced upon reading the results, while others turned away sobbing. The list is as follows: Girls: Liliana Coelho Kellee Darner Taylor Dengler Taylor … Continue reading → […]TheLittleHawk.com
- Young and Responsible
- Latest headlines from Iowa Higher Education
- Iowa City man sues UI, regents over mold in rental house May 16, 2012
- Coe College students quiz Culver on leadership May 14, 2012
- Djalali to start as UI liberal arts dean in August May 14, 2012
- Karl Rove, Dee Dee Myers to speak at Cornell May 11, 2012
- Kirkwood board approves 3.9 percent tuition increase May 11, 2012
Category Archives: Solon
Solon students tinker in New Zealand snail genetics
Updated 12/16 to fix misspelling SOLON — There is a snail in New Zealand with species that reproduce both sexually and asexually. University of Iowa scientists and graduate students are interested in these snails, as their DNA could offer important information … Continue reading
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The science of plummetting: Solon students drop flour bag from airplane for class experiment
SOLON — A small plane descended toward a corn field three miles south of Solon on the morning of Friday, Dec. 9, 2011, as a group of teenagers watched from below and readied their cameras. The plane passed over the … Continue reading
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Coming soon to a library near you! Book trailers increase students’ interest in reading
SOLON – The music is eerie, the words forbidding. “Thirteen years ago, a plane appeared out of nowhere … no pilot, no crew. The only passengers were 36 babies.” It sounds like the introduction to television’s next “Lost,” but it’s … Continue reading
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Tagged book trailers, QR codes, Solon High School, Solon Middle School
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Grilling for science: Solon High School students participate in ethical taste-test
SOLON — The students had two hamburger sliders on their plate. Both came from animals who were the same age and weight. However, one cow was cornfed, the other grass-fed. “This is a taste-test,” Shawn Cornally said. “Which one tastes … Continue reading
Station to station: Eastern Iowa schools connect through web video
By Meredith Hines-Dochterman and Patrick Hogan About 40 fourth-through-sixth-graders sit in rows facing a wall filled with the projected screen of a computer desktop in the Lincoln Elementary Media Center in Iowa City. At the same time, across town at the … Continue reading
Skype in schools
I visited Lakeview Elementary School in Solon today for an article I’m working on about Skype in schools. Teacher-Librarian Kathy Kaldenberg was leading a group of students in a Skype video chat session with a parochial school in Omaha, Nebraska. … Continue reading
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Tagged Lakeview Elementary, Skype, Solon, Solon school district, video
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Kirkwood education centers planned for high school students in Johnson, Linn and Washington counties
Tanner Fellinger’s class recently finished a big project for the Monticello Fire Department by mapping all of the fire hydrants in the city. But Fellinger and his classmates didn’t walk around town marking locations by hand, and the class wasn’t … Continue reading
Posted in Anamosa, Cedar Rapids, Clear Creek-Amana, College Community, education, Iowa City, Linn-Mar, Marion, Solon, Springville
Tagged Cedar Rapids school district, Dave Benson, Iowa City school district, Jones Regional Education Center, Kirkwood Community College, Monticello, STEM, Stephen Murley, Washington School District
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Solon students create MacBeth rap music video
Here’s one way to learn your Shakespeare. A group of tenth grade language arts students at Solon High School created this video rapping through the plot of Macbeth.
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Solon school dismisses early due to power outage
According to a message sent on the the district’s official Twitter account, Lakeview Elementary School in Solon will dismiss at 10:30 a.m. today due to a power outage. The middle and high school will still dismiss at their regular times.
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Solon Senior’s Family Calls ‘Homecoming King’ a Blessing
SOLON – Amid the thousands and thousands of people at the Williamsburg-Solon football game, senior Josh Klein was unlike many of his classmates. Klein, 18, watched the game on a blanket with his parents. On Thursday, Klein was named ‘Homecoming … Continue reading