Scottsdale Community College hosts the 2013 regional tournament for Odyssey of the Mind on Saturday, March 9. About 1,500 participants on 64 teams from kindergarten through college will demonstrate creative solutions to difficult problems and challenges they have worked on during the school year. Better yet, they do this in skit form, even in the [...]
It’s crunch week for dance students at Metropolitan Arts Institute in Phoenix, according to dance department director Nicole Olson, who notes that 70 students in grades 8-12 have been working since December on pieces they’ll perform during this Sunday’s Spring Dance Concert at the Herberger Theater Center. Metro Arts junior Gabrielle Battaglini recalls dancing on the Herberger Theater Center stage [...]
Scottsdale Country Day School was having a busy day. In addition to the 60 students attending school, parents with kids were getting tours of the facility at 56th Street and Shea Blvd in Phoenix, on the Temple Beth Israel campus. Phones were ringing with parents asking for information about the school and requesting tours of [...]
Back in the day, a bookmobile roamed rural areas to bring library books to people who lived far from a library. Now a digital bookmobile roams the country offering people the chance to access their local library’s digital books, audio and movies from the convenience of an 18-wheel tractor-trailer. To be persnickety, they call it [...]
Students at Metropolitan Arts Institute (Metro Arts) in Phoenix talked live to astronauts Chris Hadfield, and Tom Marshburn aboard the International Space Station as part of NASA’s Destination Station which promotes the science performed on board the space station as well as communicating the connection between the activities on the space station and our lives [...]
Two money-in-education topics. One for individuals looking for college tuition money, the other about public education and school choice. College Goal Sunday and Saturday Too is Feb. 9-10 at 26 locations around the state. There are eight locations in the Valley where prospective college students can get help filling out their Free Application for Federal [...]
Meg Kirby teaches second through sixth grades, but not all at once, and her students aren’t in a classroom, at least not the physical kind with plastic chairs, bulletin boards and rows of uncomfortable desks. She teaches for online charter school Arizona Connections Academy (ACA) from the upstairs office in her Gilbert home, her dog [...]
The STEM (Science Technology Engineering Math) class at Girls Leadership Academy of Arizona has developed a product designed to reduce the incidence of childhood drowning. The class, taught by Jess Horton, is divided into different task groups to engineer and build a shirt equipped with an air bladder that automatically inflates via CO2 cartridge if [...]
I was at Imagine West Gilbert Tuesday when I stepped into a middle school math class looking for photo possibilities for an upcoming issue. Math classes are rarely photogenic; students are usually hunkered down working problems or watching a teacher explain how to solve one. I was interested in the problem-solving exercise the students were [...]
Despite bad press the Boy Scouts have received lately, plenty of kids benefit from the many positive aspects of scouting. Connor McGettigan of Gilbert Boy Scout Troop 522, a Gilbert Classical Academy sophomore, has been in scouting for seven years and recently attained the rank of Eagle Scout, Gilbert Classical’s first. In addition to earning at [...]
A crash landing leaves teenager Kitai Raige (Jaden Smith) and his legendary father Cypher (Will Smith) stranded on Earth, 1,000 years after cataclysmic events forced humanity’s escape. With Cypher critically injured, Kitai must embark on a perilous journey to signal for help, facing uncharted terrain, evolved animal species that now rule the planet, and an [...]
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MAY 2013
$6.00Our 2013 directory of Valley aquatics programs — everything from learn-to-swim programs to diving, racing and synchronized swimming!
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April 2013
$6.00Our April 2013 issue features the 2013 Summer Solutions directory — more than 500 day camps in Maricopa County!
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March 2013
$6.00Our March 2013 issue features the 2013 directory of Overnight Camps in Arizona and the Southwest!
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February 2013
$6.00Our February 2013 issue is all about babies! Learn how to begin building your baby’s bookshelf, make your own baby food, find parent/tot classes and Daddy Boot Camps around the Valley. Plus: gifts, gadgets and great new looks for baby.
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January 2013
$6.00It’s our annual pregnancy issue! Learn about the latest trend among expectant parents: “gender-reveal” parties. Plus: Should you bank your baby’s umbilical cord blood?
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December 2012
$6.00Ice hockey in the desert? Our December issue tells you how to get your kids started. Plus, an insider’s tour of the Arizona Doll and Toy Museum. And two terrific holiday crafts your kids will love!
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