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- Yuma competition drives auto engineers to excel
- There's only so much a student can learn within the confines of a classroom when it comes to automotive engineering. In order to better equip future generations of engineers with hands-on experience, the U.S. Department of Energy and General Motors h... Full story
- Destination: The final frontier (photos)
- A project to build a moon buggy served as a final exam in each of Philip Nash's science classes at Yuma Catholic High School. Each of the teams then put their buggy to the test, which included surviving the "moonscape" and bringing back eight rock sa... Full story
- Class hoping to attend tech conference
- After spending the past few months raising funds, Cary Fields' advanced language arts class still has about $3,500 to go to be able to attend an upcoming international conference.Fields and her students at Castle Dome Middle School were recently sele... Full story
- San Luis Middle School improves showing in national rocketry competition
- Every year, the model rocket team from San Luis Middle School soars higher in its bid to win a national championship.For the first time in its history a year ago, a team from the school qualified for the finals of the Team America Rocketry Challenge,... Full story
- School Corner 5-16-13
- MOTHERS'S DAY PROGRAMWHEN: 6 p.m. todayWHERE: San Luis High School, 1250 N. 8th Ave.GOING ON: The Gadsden Elementary School District music department will have its annual Mother's Day program celebration with the performances of the district marching... Full story
- Gravity pulls in winning title among 453 science projects
- More than $5,000 in prizes, Bose products and a $500 scholarship were awarded Monday at the annual Yuma County Science and Engineering Expo.After being named the Overall High School Winner for her project, “Determining the Universal Constant of... Full story
- Crane superintendent’s pay to be linked to school ratings
- The Crane Elementary School District superintendent's revised 2013-2015 contract and alternative performance pay plan were both unanimously approved at a board meeting Tuesday. Superintendent Bob Klee explained that school boards have the ability to ... Full story
- Yuma colleges’ graduation Friday
- Students graduating from Arizona Western College and the Yuma branch campuses of Northern Arizona University and University of Arizona will receive their diplomas Friday. The 2013 commencement will begin at 8 p.m. at Veterans Memorial Stadium, 7150 ... Full story
- Uniforms OK'd for O.C. Johnson Elementary
- School uniforms at O.C. Johnson Elementary were unanimously approved Monday by the Yuma Elementary School District governing board. Of the 422 ballots distributed in English and Spanish to kindergarten through fourth-grade students to take home to th... Full story
- Second-chance program for dropouts marks 10 years in south Yuma County
- SAN LUIS, Ariz. — For a decade the YouthBuild Program has been giving a second chance to high school dropouts in south Yuma County.YouthBuild USA is a nonprofit organization that provides education, counseling and job skills to unemployed dropo... Full story
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