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Lathrop juniors AnnMary Robinson, left, and Anna Hill keep the beat during their Japanese drumming group practice Jan. 30 at Lathrop High School.
Lathrop students drum up music Japanese style
FAIRBANKS — Fourteen arms swung high as they alternately banged a stick against the wide top of the drum. The drums were Japanese taiko drums, made locally from old wine barrels. Their size m...
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Ben Parker
Student of the week: Ben Parker
FAIRBANKS - Ben Parker, 7, is already showing great work ethic in his classroom at Anderson Elementary School. According to his second-grade teacher Amber Ables, Parker is a great reader and produ...
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Karli Fitzgerald
Student of the week: Karli Fitzgerald
FAIRBANKS - An eighth grade student at Tanana Middle School, Karli Fitzgerald, 14, is active in athletics and sets high goals for herself. Fitzgerald has participated in soccer, basketball, volley...
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Katey McMurrough
Student of the week: Katey McMurrough
FAIRBANKS - Katey McMurrough, 11, was chosen as student of the week by her sixth-grade teacher, Rachel Woodhull, for showing excellence in the classroom. McMurrough is her student council’s presid...
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Linnaea Uliassi
Student of the week: Linnaea Uliassi
FAIRBANKS - Linnaea Uliassi, 9, is a talented fourth-grader at Pearl Creek Elementary. She does ballet and karate and is part of the school orchestra. Her teachers Kristi McEwen and Brent Rodenbe...
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Evan Buchanan tosses a pizza crust while Steven Isaac and Colleen Andrew look on in this September 2011 photo.
Galena students learn what makes pizzas go ’round
FAIRBANKS — It’s not just about mixing the ingredients, tossing the dough or applying the fixings. It’s about the business model — ordering supplies, marketing the product and selling the pizzas. ...
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Reba Lean/ News-Miner Hip hop dance choreographer Jeremy Knutsen leads Tanana Middle School students in a warm-up exercise.
Respect and learn: Hip hop choreographer teaches Tanana Middle School the steps
FAIRBANKS - It’s not about looking good, Jeremy Knutsen says, it’s about having fun. Hip-hop dance instructor and choreographer Knutsen arrived in Fairbanks this week for the 11th time to tea...
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Kodiak teen nearly recovered from spinal injury
KODIAK, Alaska - As the holiday season comes to a close, Aaron Cooper has many things to be thankful for, most importantly his life. Four years ago in Fairbanks, Cooper, a 2007 Kodiak High School ...
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University Park Elementary School principal Kyra Aizstrauts enjoys the singing as first graders go Christmas Caroling from classroom to classroom at University Park Elementary School Wednesday morning, December 21, 2011. Eric Engman/News-Miner
University Park carolers go class to class singing
FAIRBANKS — It’s tradition. For the past 10 years or so, first graders at University Park Elementary School have gone classroom to classroom singing merrily for all their peers to see. This y...
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Student of the Week: Jill Phillips
FAIRBANKS - Jill Phillips does it all as a senior at West Valley High School. Phillips, 17, participates in cross country running, tennis, basketball, soccer, the National Honor Society and studen...
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Student of the Week: Liam Putman
FAIRBANKS - Liam Putman, 13, is an eighth grade student at Two Rivers School. His teachers believe he represents the kind of student they want an entire roomfull of. Principal Dana Evans said Putm...
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Heather Parsons, left, and Robert Parsons, right, teach Kayla Roberts, Lareina Ketzler and Caitlin Adams how to program robots at the John Fredson School in Venetie.
Venetie students learn about robotics while playing with LEGOs
FAIRBANKS — Students of Venetie’s John Fredson School learned a thing or two about robotics in November when they were visited by some Fairbanks experts. Robert Parsons, an employee of the Univers...
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Ben Eielson High School cadets celebrate their five top-three team performances after the JROTC drill competition.
JROTC drill teams compete at Eielson
FAIRBANKS — Nine schools competed Dec. 3 at Ben Eielson High School during a Junior Reserve Officer Training Corps drill competition. The nine teams came from Bethel High School in the Southwest,...
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5 young Alaskans win scholarship accounts
ANCHORAGE, Alaska - Five young Alaskans have received college scholarship accounts through the University of Alaska College Savings Plan. The giveaway, in its second year, was aimed at encouraging...
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Mary Maisch s fourth grade class posses with their three-dimensional map and research of Alaska on Friday, Nov. 18, 2011, in the Pearl Creek Elementary commons. “It was a long process,” Maisch said. It took about a month to complete. “It has been a great learning tool for the kids,” she said. They were able to get their hands on places like the Yukon River and the Brooks Range, and memorize the places that way. Sam Harrel/News-Miner
Pearl Creek fourth-graders create 3-D map of Alaska
FAIRBANKS — Some fourth-grade students at Pearl Creek Elementary School have grasped the enormity of Alaska. Teacher Mary Maisch’s class has created a huge, three-dimensional map of Alaska, comple...
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Students in Alison Koss s fourth grade class at North Pole Elementary School hold up their map of Alaska during a Geography Awareness Week classroom visit Nov. 17.
GeoFest a hit with kids at University of Alaska Fairbanks
FAIRBANKS — From the latest high-tech Google Earth and GIS programs to the low-techness of squishing “glacier goo” between fingers, the second annual GeoFest appealed to young people and their pare...
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University of Alaska seeks match for federal mentoring grant
JUNEAU, Alaska - The University of Alaska is trying to raise $1.5 million as a match to a $15 million federal grant for a teacher mentoring program. The university system faces a Dec. 9 deadline t...
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Music teacher Cynthia Sibitzky conducts fifth and sixth grade choir students at Crawford Elementary School as they sing patriotic songs at Friday s Veterans Day celebration, Nov. 11, 2011.
Fairbanks students celebrate everyday heroes
FAIRBANKS — Every student sat facing the speaker at Crawford Elementary School Friday. It was Veterans Day, and the third- through sixth-grade students gathered in the gymnasium with some of their ...
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Chugiak students get lessons in life outdoors
CHUGIAK, Alaska - Chugiak High junior Sam McCall enjoyed cutting class recently. "Perfect way to end a Friday," McCall said. As he spoke, McCall used a small saw to prune a dead branch from an am...
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Winning poster in the ninth through 12th grade category, by Kathy Ahrens from Ms. Grubis’ class at West Valley High.
Fairbanks kids learn the power of voting
FAIRBANKS — As the election season warmed up in September, kids warmed up their thinking caps, coming up with ways to encourage their peers to vote. Every year with every election, kids in school ...
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Students of the week: Ember Mara
FAIRBANKS — University Park sixth-grader Ember Mara, 11, is an adventure-lover and a hip hop dancer with a great attitude in the classroom. Teacher Julie Ortis said Mara has a long list of qualiti...
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Students train in Fairbanks to ‘Kick Ash’
FAIRBANKS — A dozen high school students from three different school districts arrived in Fairbanks last week to try their hand at rescue training. They will take home the lessons they learned to t...
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In this Oct. 8, 2011 photo, Denali Schijvens, 4, stands next to his pumpkin cake, which he made from scratch in Juneau, Alaska He bakes from scratch and without a recipe at hand. He measures ingredients, but seems to be guided only by an understanding of the ratios and consistencies necessary of baking. (AP Photo/Courtesy of the Schijvens family)
4-year-old Juneau boy takes the cake in baking
JUNEAU, Alaska - Denali Schijvens has been baking for longer than he can remember and he is only 4 years old. His mother, Meilani Schijvens, owes it to his Montessori schooling, where toddlers help...
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Juneau sixth-graders learn gun safety
JUNEAU, Alaska - After spending hours in the classroom, half a day outside and a thrilling 30 minutes in an indoor shooting range, some 200 sixth-graders are now well-versed in firearms safety and ...
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Kodiak musician drumming up music education
FAIRBANKS — The students sat, formed in a large circle, each with a drum between their legs or on their laps. They were poised, waiting to hit their drums, focused on their teacher. “Boom, pada-pa...
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Chugiak students learn cooking with local produce
CHUGIAK, Alaska - There are subtle but obvious differences between locally grown produce and that which is trucked thousands of miles before reaching Alaska. "It just has more of that crunch," sai...
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Boy Scouts decorated at semi-annual 'Court of Honor'
Active is the name of the game if you are a member of Boy Scout Troop 92. More than 100 merit badges representing a wide range of outdoor skills and interests, including geology, environmental sci...
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Lathrop family hosts Japanese exchange student for a week
FAIRBANKS — My family was so excited to be able to host a Japanese student. After sending emails throughout the summer and going to preparation meetings, it was finally time for our guest to arrive...
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Ticasuk Brown Elementary hosting chili cook-off
FAIRBANKS - Ticasuk Brown Elementary School will have its ninth annual Chili Cook-Off Thursday. The event is a fundraiser for the school and its technology. Resource teacher Kristie Calvin said t...
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Tanana School rededication ceremony set for Friday
FAIRBANKS — Renovation of the Maudry J. Sommer School in Tanana is nearly finished, turning the oldest operating school on the Yukon River into a like-new facility. A rededication ceremony will be ...
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