As you walk into any Early Childhood Family Education (ECFE) class in District 742, children and parents are engaging in numerous activities. It’s no different in the Art, Science and Music Sampler class for 3 and 4-year-olds. There is a small hum in the room, but not the kind of hum that says there are a … Read more
Some Technical High School graduates head for the Olympics, others like Erin Saupe go on to become Oxford professors. Saupe, a 2003 Tech grad, recently crossed the ocean to become an associate professor of earth science at the University of Oxford. Her impressive education journey includes degrees from the College of St. Benedict, University of Kansas … Read more
Sometimes education is a lifelong passion. Mary Jane Brewster, even in retirement, is still educating teachers, counselors and other educational staff on the importance of how to help kids get along better. Brewster worked in St. Cloud Area School District for 26 years as a counselor. While at Lincoln Elementary, she piloted a program called … Read more
He calls himself a third generation landscape painter and jokes that he is genetically expected to paint! His father and great-grandfather were landscape artists. Dan Mondloch, a 2001 graduate of Apollo, is well-known for his beautiful, award-winning, watercolor paintings. He’s been featured in PBS “Postcards,” SPLASH 17 book and Pleinair Magazine’s “PlenAir Collector.” Mondloch has … Read more
Have you ever wondered about what it would be like to be an astronaut, an engineer or a veterinarian? Maybe you wanted to be one as a child. Students from St. Cloud Area School District 742 were able to get a glimpse of astronauts, mechanical engineering, technology and manufacturing during their two weeklong Summer Career Academy. The academy, in … Read more