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Weekly Media Roundup: April 6, 2016

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Weekly Media Roundup: April 6, 2016

‘This Is Greenwood’s Book:’ Kids Help Neighborhood Heal After Blast (Seattle Times, Washington)

After the Greenwood neighborhood suffered a gas explosion that leveled two buildings and damaged more than 50 others last month, an afterschool writing and tutoring program is joining in the repair efforts. Kids in the Greater Seattle Bureau of Fearless Ideas (BFI) program had been collecting stories and poems about Greenwood to fill their “Encyclopedia Greenwoodia,” an anthology dedicated to the neighborhood, and will now donate all proceeds from the book’s sale to the Greenwood Relief Fund to help repair damage from the explosion. BFI executive director Teri Hein said that, given the nature of the anthology, it was only natural that the proceeds should go back to the community. “It’s a love letter to Greenwood,” she told the Seattle Times.  

Granby High Program to Get Girls in Engineering Is Growing (Virginian-Pilot, Virginia)

An engineering afterschool program at Granby High School is giving girls the confidence to program robots, develop their own engineering designs and plan their future careers. Career and technical education teacher Roger Lagesse started the Girls in Engineering Program four years ago and has since seen interest in the program spike dramatically, even leading to the introduction of an all-girls introductory engineering class at the high school. “We had three percent females in the engineering courses four years ago, and now it’s up to 20 percent,” he told the Virginian-Pilot.

After-School Programs Worth the Investment (Santa Barbara Independent, California)

Olympic swimmer Gary Hall Jr. is working with the Santa Ynez Valley Community Aquatics Foundation and the Chumash Tribe to make afterschool swimming lessons available to kids throughout the community. He took to the Santa Barbara Independent to argue why these afterschool programs deserve support: “To do away with our culture of inactivity and promote a culture of health, we need to encourage children to make physical activities a part of their regular routine, just like washing their hands and brushing their teeth. We need more programs… to provide safe spaces for kids to exercise and play in the hours after school…. Shorting kids the opportunity to be physically active, healthy and happy is woefully short-sighted.” 

Pupils Get Some Pre-Med Perspective (Omaha World-Herald, Nebraska)

University of Nebraska at Omaha medical student Seif Nasir wishes he had known more about his chosen field when he was younger, so he and colleague Jenna Christensen are working to spread some medical school insight to high schoolers throughout the city, according to the Omaha World-Herald. The pair recently presented before Omaha Westside’s afterschool medical club, discussing the academic rigors involved in preparing for, getting accepted to and progressing through medical school. They also introduced the high school freshmen to some of the health care career options they might pursue once they finish their education. 

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