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Wednesday, May 22, 2013

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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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Imagine a playground

KaBOOM! Imagine Schools Phoenix playground

Last week, 200 volunteers from Shutterfly and Imagine Schools at Camelback built a playground in one day. KaBOOM!will build 150 playgrounds across the country this year, but the students at Imagine Camelback likely were focused on the one for their school, which reflected the input they’d given on the design and features during a brainstorming [...]

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Following the child

Dobson Montessori

Dobson Montessori Elementary and Junior High School is a farm-like oasis surrounded by densely packed apartment complexes across from a city park in Mesa. You can’t even see the school from the street. The simple, unadorned buildings are surrounded by lush vegetation. As you walk through a small office area to the courtyard connecting the [...]

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RACHEL BENNETT YANOV: What perseverance looks like

Rachel Bennett Yanov

Rachel Bennett Yanov never intended to be a teacher; she planned a career as a politician, or maybe an investment banker. But after a chance meeting with representatives recruiting for Teach for America during her junior year at Georgetown University, Rachel’s path took a yearlong detour. When she graduated in 2003, she came to Arizona [...]

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IMAGINE CAMELBACK: Making a difference

Phoenix City Councilman Greg Stanton with Imagine Camelback students (from left): Yotzin Corona, Cesar Quintero and Karely Corona.

I came to Phoenix in 1980 and I lived in the area of 19th Avenue and Camelback Road, not far from Christown Mall, which this year celebrates its 50th anniversary. It was the mall we frequented and the Broadway department store was where I signed up for my first credit card. We ate at Miracle [...]

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