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OCDE NEWSROOM
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Students use STEM skills to solve real-world problems at 2022 ocMaker Challenge |
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More than 650 enterprising students showcased their creativity, ingenuity and ability to tackle real-world problems at this year’s ocMaker Challenge, which featured more than 160 STEM-infused projects. Organized by OCDE’s Career Education and STEM teams, the ocMaker Challenge annually calls for elementary, middle and high school students to design and build — or significantly repurpose — a product to solve a problem, need or want. |
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https://newsroom.ocde.us/students-use-stem-skills-to-solve-real-world-problems-at-2022-ocmaker-challenge |
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ORANGE COUNTY REGISTER
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Mater Dei High School to close campus through Friday after ‘credible threat’ of violence |
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Reports of a “credible threat” of violence discovered by administrators at Mater Dei High School on Tuesday, May 31, has prompted them to close the campus through Friday.
Details regarding the nature of the threat and how it came to the school’s attention were not immediately released. Administrators consulted with Santa Ana police and were advised that the threats were potentially legitimate, school officials said.
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https://www.ocregister.com/2022/05/31/mater-dei-high-school-to-close-campus-through-friday-after-credible-threat-of-violence/ |
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Kids ‘Share Joy’ with the ocean during beach cleanup |
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The students stood side-by-side to form a message on the sand: Share Joy.
It was their statement after a morning at Huntington State Beach about the importance of keeping beaches and the ocean clean. Hundreds of students from nine inland Orange County elementary schools visited Huntington Beach on Tuesday, May 31, for Kids Ocean Day, the first time in three years the educational program has been held in person.
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https://www.ocregister.com/2022/05/31/kids-share-joy-with-the-ocean-during-beach-cleanup/ |
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EDSOURCE
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Debate turns hot over UC proposal to set criteria for high school ethnic studies |
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An influential University of California faculty committee has shelved a draft policy to require criteria for high school ethnic studies courses that critics characterized as narrow, ideological and activist. The professors who wrote the draft are vowing to fight for it, in what could become a combative and very public battle over who gets to decide what California high school students will learn about the heritage, history, culture and struggles of the state’s historically underrepresented groups. |
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https://edsource.org/2022/debate-turns-hot-over-uc-proposal-to-set-criteria-for-high-school-ethnic-studies/673084 |
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OTHER NEWS OUTLETS
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Orange County 8th grader eliminated in Spelling Bee quarterfinals |
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An eighth-grader who attends McAuliffe Middle School in Los Alamitos was eliminated in the fourth round of the 2022 Scripps National Spelling Bee Wednesday, misspelling lepper, a horse skilled in jumping. Jason Khan spelled it leper. Jason was among the 88 spellers from the original field of 234 competing in the quarterfinals. Jason advanced to the quarterfinals by correctly spelling two words and giving the right answer to a multiple-choice word meaning question for a third Tuesday. |
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https://spectrumnews1.com/ca/orange-county/education/2022/06/01/orange-county-8th-grader-advances-to-national-spelling-bee-quarterfinals |
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Parents, students protest ban on unvaccinated students at LA charter school graduation |
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A group of parents and students at Granada Hills Charter High School rallied outside the campus Tuesday in opposition to a policy that will bar students who aren’t vaccinated against COVID-19 from participating in graduation ceremonies. “I think it’s terrible,” parent Tom Luna told KNX Newsradio at the rally. “I think it’s unfair to these kids that they’re being discriminated against just because they’re unvaccinated. I think that Granada Hills Charter should go along with the rest of LAUSD and let these kids go to school and graduation. There’s no reason not to.” |
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https://spectrumnews1.com/ca/orange-county/education/2022/05/31/parents--students-protest-ban-on-unvaccinated-students-at-la-charter-school-graduation |
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