by Sarah Green | Apr 4, 2018 | News, Student Issues
The Regeneron Science Talent Search (Regeneron STS) is the oldest and most prestigious of student science competitions. Finalists win purses that add up to nearly $2 million from the Society for Science and the Public, a Washington, D.C.-based nonprofit. The...
by Sarah Green | Mar 28, 2018 | News, Student Issues
Philando Castile was a school cafeteria supervisor in a public school in St. Paul, Minnesota, before he was killed in 2016 by a police officer during a traffic stop. His death made him famous. But he was a star in life, too. “Philando was ‘Mr. Phil’ to the...
by Sarah Green | Mar 14, 2018 | Student Issues
School is exhausting. We all know it. Whether you’re in middle school, high school, college, or a graduate program, school is a never-ending intellectual effort. And whether it’s trying to do two hours of homework every night after soccer practice, cramming for a test...
by Sarah Green | Jan 10, 2018 | Student Issues
“I want to know if something isn’t right at Mt. Juliet High School,” said Principal Mel Brown, about the new app he’s using in his school to let students speak up anonymously about bullying. STOPit, an app developed by Todd Schnobel, calls itself a...
by Sarah Green | Dec 13, 2017 | News, Student Issues
Tiernan Kriner is eight years old, attends, Maine Memorial Elementary, and likes technology and robots. He’s also sick. Tiernan has Fanconi anemia, an inherited disease that makes him seven-hundred times more prone to cancer than the average person, as well as prone...
