It’s the fourth annual Discovery Theater Day at the College of Saint Benedict (CSB) and one group of Discovery Community School students are on a scavenger hunt. However, these students get a surprise right away. The stage they are standing on begins to lower them down under the stage where many of the props are stored. … Read more
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
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
Nothing connects communities quite like art. Especially when the artwork is done by students from multiple communities. Each year, Apollo High School and Tech High School participate in an art collaboration with other area schools: Becker, Foley and Sauk Rapids-Rice. The art collaboration formed by these schools is in its seventh year. This year’s project was funded … Read more
Driving along Division Street in St. Cloud last fall, you may have seen a chain link fence go up around the parking lot across from Tech High School. Soon after, cement blocks and floor trusses were placed inside the fence. Fast-forward in time and you saw walls, a roof and several construction workers diligently working on a house. Looking … Read more