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Open house for Ann Arbor student-built home 1-5 p.m. Sunday
View the finished house in the Sumerset neighborhood off of Dhu Varren Road between Nixon Road and Pontiac Trail. The event is open to the community. […]
Month: June 2011
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Carpenter memories: New yearbook offers students a year in review
Students will have an abundance of memories from the 2010-11 school year, thanks to the work of the new Yearbook Club, a group of fifth-graders who published the 60-page project. […]
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Huron freshman’s T-shirts bring hope, dollars to friends in Japan
Andy Hsiao created a shirt with a “Fight on, Japan!” message, which became a hot item sold throughout the Ann Arbor community. He sold 443 shirts, raising nearly $2,500 for the Rotary Japan Disaster Recovery Fund. […]
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Survey on coyote sightings sets the pace for Skyline biology conference
Coyotes were a featured presentation during the school’s first Conference on Evolution of Michigan Wildlife, a project of the ninth-grade ACIS I Biology classes. […]
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Agrarian Adventure, Chartwells, bring garden produce to cafeterias
Seventh-graders harvested produce last week that was cleaned and served in the district’s middle school cafeterias. The pilot project is the first of its kind in Ann Arbor and may be repeated in the fall. […]
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Cancer survivor continues push to raise money for research
AAPS employee Amy McConnell will walk with a district team in this year’s Relay for Life Ann Arbor. The event will feature more than 400 walkers in the 24-hour relay on June 25 at Washtenaw Community College. […]
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Abbot 5th-graders learn about dissection from surgeon
Abbot Elementary fifth-graders took part in deer heart and lungs dissection with a local doctor to supplement their study of the human circulatory and respiratory systems. […]
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Google donates 35 classroom Chromebooks to AAPS
The notebooks, which run on the Chrome operating system and use the Chrome web browser, have been tried out over the past few weeks in classrooms at Skyline High School and Ann Arbor Open @ Mack. […]
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Red carpet treatment: Logan ‘Oscars’ laud students for being team players
Logan Elementary School teacher Emily Fairless thanks her third-graders with a special “Oscar Night” ceremony with food, fun and families. […]
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School Bells: Monday is registration for free, summer GED classes
A series of briefs from around the district, including: WAY Washtenaw meeting June 14, Kiwanians give scholarships, One Million Reasons foundation fundraiser under way, Carpenter Girl Scouts donate to C.S. Mott Children’s Hospital and more. […]