Today’s kids love to play games on mobile devices. What better way to get kids engaged in creative, artistic, technology-based learning than to design an app and then sell it on iTunes as a fundraiser for the school? That is just what South Junior High School did. Bruce Klemz, a local college professor, loves to give … Read more
Bonjour! Guten tag! Hola! There are several different ways to say hello down the 600 hallway of Apollo High School. Posters align the hallways giving students a feeling of walking into another world at Apollo. Amanda Bailey teaches French at both Apollo and Tech High School. She loves all things French! Every flag hanging in her room … Read more
I wonder . . . Heather Ebnet, a District 742 teacher on special assignment for the Young Scholars program, has an entire wall of post-its filled with “I wonder” statements from her students. She calls it her “wonder wall.” It is this wonder wall that helps to inspire kids to create projects. Students in the … Read more
Greg Borders is a business education teacher at Tech High School, but he is also a certified emergency medical technician (EMT). Border’s first responder class in the Discovery Academy is about saving lives. The Discovery Academy is just one of the post-secondary enrollment options (PSEO) available in District 742. PSEO allows 10th, 11th and 12th grade students … Read more
John Pederson is an entrepreneur, inventor and graduate of Apollo High School, class of 1977. “Most people in the world see my inventions every day,” says Pederson. Those everyday inventions are in the form of police lights, security lights and architectural lighting. Pederson is the current CEO and Chairman of the Board for LVX Systems, … Read more
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