Local Education News

- YUHSD graduations streaming live online
- BY SARAH WOMER - @YSSARAHWOMER
- No matter where you are around the world, if you have an Internet connection you will be able to stream any of the Yuma Union High School District graduations live this Friday. Beginning at 8 p.m., all graduations will be streamed live online from th... Full story

- Yuma Sun Scholars: Foreign language
- Eight high school seniors have been nominated by their school counselors or teachers to be recognized by the Yuma Sun Scholars program for outstanding achievements in the field of foreign language. They are among nearly 50 students chosen to be honor... Full story

- Tierra del Sol Sun Dragon Band and Choir wins big at Disney contest
- BY DR. FRANK KIDD - SPECIAL TO YUMA SUN
- For the second year in a row, the Tierra del Sol Sun Dragon Band and Choir has earned significant awards at a competition sponsored by Disneyland.For the 2013 contest, 34 fourth- and fifth-grade students from Tierra del Sol Elementary School traveled... Full story

- Yuma students awarded $60K in scholarship funds
- BY CHRIS McDANIEL - @YS_CMCDANIEL
- The Yuma University of Arizona Alumni Club has awarded $60,000 in scholarships to 37 high school seniors or junior college students heading to Tucson in the fall.Since 1991, the Yuma Chapter has awarded over 500 scholarships worth $877,000 to Yuma yo... Full story

- Gifts help students learn about growing plants, healthy foods
- BY SARAH WOMER @YSSarahWomer
- Fourth-grade students in Vicki Peterson's GAP (Gowan Achievement Program) science class watched with curiosity as she walked around the room with a worm farm for them to see up close.
The thin red invertebrates crawled through the soil as she explai... Full story

- Yuma Sun Scholars: career/technical
- FROM STAFF REPORTS
- Nine high school seniors have been nominated by their school counselors or teachers to be recognized by the Yuma Sun Scholars program for outstanding achievements in the field of career/technical. They are among nearly 50 students chosen to be honore... Full story

- Pair of college students deliver commencement
- BY SARAH WOMER - @YSSARAHWOMER
- Both speakers for the recent 2013 commencement at Arizona Western College and Northern Arizona University-Yuma share a love for higher education and the possibilities it provides. AWC commencement speaker Stephanie Rivas had her start at the local co... Full story

- 11 children were all Crims, Matadors, Wildcats
- BY SARAH WOMER - @YSSARAHWOMER
- On Thursday evening, George and Barbara Rouff accepted an award at Arizona Western College for instilling the importance of pursuing a higher education in the lives of their 11 children.
With 19 and a half years separating the youngest and oldest ... Full story

- A little 'goodbye' music
- BY SARAH WOMER @YSSarahWomer
- Cibola High School's end-of-the-year choir concert will not only serve as a send-off for the students that will be attending a 10-day performance tour in Ohio this summer, but also for their teacher who will move shortly afterward.“With plans t... Full story

- Yuma Sun Scholars: Arts
- Eight high school seniors have been nominated by their school counselors or teachers to be recognized by the Yuma Sun Scholars program for outstanding achievements in the field of arts. They are among nearly 50 students chosen to be honored this year... Full story