Alumni Success Story: Shelby Hadley

Shelby Hadley and her family

After two tours in Iraq and Bosnia, Shelby Hadley, a former McKinley Area Learning Center student and 1997 Apollo High School graduate, has found her passion and niche as a vocational rehabilitation specialist for the St. Cloud Veterans Hospital. Her primary responsibility is to assess veterans returning from deployment in order to transition them into … Read more

My Number Was XIII-1-408

Giving hugs.

Inge Auerbacher is an 81-year-old storyteller and she loves hugs. Her personal story is one of survival, perseverance and healing from the Holocaust. Eighth grade students from South Junior High listen to Auerbacher’s story. They’ve just finished reading “The Diary of Anne Frank” and have been studying the holocaust in class. They hear Auerbacher’s first-hand account as a … Read more

More in Common Than You Think

Common Ground Students

Area students are coming together to discover that they have more in common than they think.  Students from Apollo, Tech, Sauk Rapids-Rice, ROCORI  and Foley high schools are meeting every month to break down prejudicial barriers and find their shared experiences. Dr. Eddah Mutua, a communication studies professor at St. Cloud State University (SCSU), created … Read more

Kids Empowering Kids: FAB Crew

Walking through the halls of North Junior High School, you’ll see some students with an extra badge attached to their lanyard.  These students are setting themselves apart. They are members of the FAB [Friends Against Bullying] Crew. The idea stemmed when two students, Chiel Mach and Nyamal Jang, then eighth grade students, set the club in motion. … Read more

Bringing up a Baby Is Tough Homework

Working with Children I

It gets real pretty fast in Evangeline Froelich’s consumer science class at Apollo High School. “Why did you take this class [Working with Children I]?” Froelich asks her students. The question is especially pertinent because students in her class began lugging around infant simulators the past few weeks. “I’ve never held a baby, ” states Madelyn Pull. “I … Read more