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Weekly Media Roundup: November 9, 2016

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Weekly Media Roundup: November 9, 2016

‘The Most Fired-up Kids’ (San Antonio Express-News, Texas)

Thanks to a donation from the Youth Orchestras of San Antonio, some 500 students will learn how to play music on refurbished violins and cellos in the Winston Strings Program. The program teaches string instruments to students of all grade levels during and after school. While the orchestra in the past has lent instruments and sent in teaching assistants, this is the first time they have fully donated instruments to the program. “We’re not trying to make them into musicians; we’re trying to help students have a large sense of their own potential,” orchestra music director Troy Peters told the San Antonio Express-News.

Late Artist’s Foundation Gives Core Academy Students at West Prep a Place to Showcase Art in Las Vegas (Las Vegas Review-Journal, Nevada)

An afterschool program is bringing art and creative opportunities to underprivileged students from fifth grade through college. Core Academy offers students afterschool enrichment opportunities and homework help, as well as support for basic needs like food, school supplies and health care, to help students find their way through high school and eventually make it to college or a successful career. “I knew from the students that I was working with that it was going to take a lot more than mentoring and tutoring to truly break the cycle of poverty,” chief inspiration officer Lindsay Harper told the Las Vegas Review-Journal. “Not every kid has the same opportunity in this community, and so we are here to inspire and empower.”

NASA to Help Local Kids with Projects (Great Falls Tribune, Montana)

Students from nine Montana schools will spend the next few months collaborating with NASA to design drag devices and pressurized containment suits as part of the Montana 21st Century Community Learning Center program. The engineering design challenge will give students in fifth through eighth grade the chance to employ their STEM skills in afterschool science clubs to build interstellar equipment to better protect astronauts and support space exploration. “These students will get a firsthand look at how science, technology, engineering and math can create real solutions for space exploration,” superintendent of public instruction Denise Juneau told the Great Falls Tribune. “Getting students excited about the STEM fields is how we’ll continue to be a worldwide leader in research and discovery.”

Kids Bring Garden Project to Life (Albuquerque Journal, New Mexico)

Fifteen children between the ages of four and 11 showcased their knowledge of road runners, scorpions, butterflies and more at the Kiwanis Learning Garden through “The Synergy of Animals and Plants” project. Students in the Family Stewardship Collaborative, an afterschool program through the New Mexico Museum of Natural History, each selected an animal as their research subject. They then put together mosaics depicting the animal and a report describing how the animal interacts with plants, according to the Albuquerque Journal. The project, funded by a grant from the American Forest Foundation’s Project Learning Tree, will be on display at the garden indefinitely. 

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