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Adaptive Bike Camp helps students add another skill to their tool belts

July 1, 2016 AAPS News Editor

Ann Arbor Rec & Ed partnered with LightUp (lightupnow.org) to hold an Adaptive Bike Camp this week, and most of the students happily ended up with a new skill just in time for summer […]

Rec and Ed camp gives middle school students taste of television production

December 28, 2015 AAPS News Editor

“A lot of the kids are learning wonderful communications skills and how to really work as a team because that’s what directing and making TV is all about,” says CTN Training and Facility Coordinator Alysha Mae.

Rec and Ed Department continues to strive to meet needs identified over 75 years ago

December 11, 2015 AAPS News Editor

“I want to keep encouraging you all to create the plethora of programs that you offer, there’s nothing more exciting, even in our house, to get the actual magazine and thumb through it and see what’s available,” says School Board Member Simone Lightfoot.

AAPS summer day campers are Hooked on Fun

July 23, 2015 AAPS News Editor

By Jo Mathis AAPS District News Editor Lot of school districts offer summer programs to keep the kids busy and learning. In Ann Arbor, kids can choose from among about 200 Rec & Ed day […]

Safety Town is a summertime tradition

July 10, 2015 AAPS News Editor

By Jo Mathis AAPS District News Editor Thousands of AAPS graduates over the past 35 years have warm memories of attending Safety Town for a week during the summer before they entered kindergarten. Whether it’s […]

Connecting children to the source of their food is goal behind AAPS School Gardens Workshop

March 24, 2015 AAPS News Editor

Story and photos by Jo Mathis AAPS District News Editor It may be nippy this week, but those attending the Ann Arbor Public Schools Farm to School Collaborative’s School Gardens Workshop Monday set their thoughts […]

‘Yoga is for everyone,’ say Rec & Ed teachers, a mother-daughter team committed to wellness and outreach

March 5, 2015 AAPS News Editor

Victoria Cendrowski and her daughter, Chelsea, each teach weekly yoga classes for Ann Arbor Public Schools’ Community Education & Recreation. In addition, they team-teach karma yoga once a month, and donate all proceeds to charity. […]

Tigers Mascot

Rec&Ed Opening Day for Youth Baseball June 15

June 10, 2013 AAPS News Editor

Ann Arbor Rec&Ed will host its third annual Opening Day celebration for Youth Baseball at the newly refurbished fields at Veterans Memorial Park on Saturday, June 15, beginning at 8:30 a.m. Detroit Tiger’s mascot, PAWS, […]

JT Quon leads a youth yoga class at Slauson Middle School.

Rec&Ed’s Youth Yoga program shows kids love yoga too

April 10, 2013 AAPS News Editor

By Tara Cavanaugh An Northside third grader is crashing to the ground in a melodramatic fashion, splintering her voice like a lightning bolt. And she’s not going to get in trouble. Just the opposite: she’ll […]

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