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Friday, May 24, 2013

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Metro Arts performs Spring Dance Concert

Gabrielle Battaglini, a 16-year-old Metro Arts student from Phoenix. Photo courtesy of Metropolitan Arts Institute.

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 [...]

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Art exhibits feature student works

Photography by Children First Academy student Eric Navarro that's included in a photography exhibit coming to Burton Barr Central Library in Phoenix.

Photographs taken by 19 students charged with documenting their own lives are part of an exhibit headed to Burton Barr Central Library in Phoenix thanks to seven professional photographers from an organization called Through Each Other’s Eyes, which seeks to help people from around the world understand and appreciate cultures different from their own. Freelance [...]

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Tempe students perform Disney musical

Dallas Diaz, Kessley Butler, Jordan Barton, Kristian Torres and Allison McClelland backstage before opening night. Photo: Lynn Trimble.

A bookworm named Belle, a prince transformed into a beast and an ensemble of enchanted objects took to the stage at McClintock High School in Tempe Thursday for opening night of “Disney’s Beauty and the Beast,” being performed again at 7pm tonight and Saturday, Jan. 26. The family-friendly performance stars senior Mackenzie Abbott as Belle, [...]

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Girls engineer project for water safety

Phoenix Girls LEadership Academy

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 [...]

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The Valley’s first Montessori high school

Camelback High School

Most of us attended high school in our own neighborhoods or a short school bus ride from home. Our parents didn’t think to question otherwise. Today, however, parents have more choices: public, private, parochial, magnet, charter, technical and more. Included on the list is Montessori, an educational approach developed in the late 19th century by [...]

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