In honor of Native American Heritage Month, the University of Wyoming is hosting a cultural event called ‘Good Medicine’. Three Indigenous community leaders will be speaking at the event, including Tatanka Means, who most recently appeared in the Martin Scorsese film, ‘Killers of the Flower Moon’.
The City of Casper is starting what may become an annual tradition of naming a city snow plow ahead of the winter season. Third and fourth grade students are being asked to submit their silliest, punniest, and most creative names for the contest.
This week the Natrona County School District Board of Trustees celebrated Melanie Kelly for earning the Alpha Delta Kappa Excellence in Education Award for Wyoming, the Northwest region, and internationally.
Saturday, October 21 was the annual Creativity Camp held at CY Middle School in Casper. Kids got the opportunity to explore their interests within arts and sciences and get their hands dirty.
The trucking industry is big in Wyoming and growing across the country. Yet, only a small number of the people in that field are women. Girl Scouts of Montana and Wyoming partnered with Eastern Wyoming College to provide girls a hands-on experience of what possibilities in trucking could look like.
The first day of school for the Natrona County School District is Monday, August 28. For some students, this will be their first time in the classroom. To help them prepare, NCSD held a transportation practice run for those first-time bus riders.
Back to school season means back to school shopping. With inflation rates soaring, some parents are struggling with the costs of getting their kids prepped for the school year. A few Casper businesses are working to help ease the burden.
The Advanced Manufacturing and Material Center at Laramie County Community College opened its doors on April 14. Only a few months later, some students are already being launched into professional life.
Glenrock High School held a special event on Wednesday night to benefit their award winning culinary students. The evening was called the “Dinner of Champions.”
The Wyoming SkillsUSA championship is taking place in Casper. It’s a three day event in which college and high school students from around the state compete.
The Wyoming Department of Education, along with Governor Mark Gordon and the Wyoming Military Department, awarded Wyoming’s first two Purple Star Schools.
According to the agency, the replacement buses will not only curb emissions, but will sport improved safety features to make transporting students safer.
The goal will be to discuss school security, identify school district needs, and understand how the Wyoming Department of Education (WDE) can support school security across Wyoming
The purpose is to provide teachers with an opportunity to network and learn from each other about how to integrate and utilize technology in their classrooms
In light of the tragedy in Uvalde, Texas, this week, Wyoming schools are looking at their own schools’ security. With local authorities preparing for the unthinkable, we spoke to LCSD1 officials to better understand what they are doing to help students and staff stay safe.
“We’ve been blessed to participate in the distribution of over 250,000 hardback books to first graders. It’s been a labor of love, this is our 24th year here in Casper doing it," said Jorgensen.
Three students have been named recipients of UW’s Tobin Memorial and Rosemarie Martha Spitaleri Outstanding Undergraduate Award. The award recognizes students for exhibiting the finest leadership, academic integrity, and citizenship qualities.
The end goal is for the Wyoming Department of Education to create their own system in the state, while using existing program’s as inspiration and to provide the foundation
Degenfelder is a 6th generation Wyomingite and a product of Wyoming’s K-12 public school system and the University of Wyoming. She is a conservative business leader in the fields of coal and oil & gas and a former executive at the Wyoming Department of Education.
About $128,000 of the funds will be used to purchase equipment for the Geographic Information Systems and Geology departments and to fund a part-time position at the Tate Geological Museum. The remaining $4,000 will be put towards scholarships for Casper College students.
“For Rebecca Junge, education is a living experience where students learn to think independently, explore self-identity and engage as productive citizens in our society. I commend Rebecca for blazing this important path at Journey, and proudly welcome her into the national Milken Educator Network,” said Gallagher.
After a meeting with Mayor Patrick Collins, Air Force Officers, and the Superintendent of Laramie County School District 1, to discuss discriminatory behaviors Military members and their families were facing in local schools and with the city, it became evident that discriminatory bias needed to be addressed.
Following a presentation on the history of standards and how the standard’s development process has evolved over the past thirty years, the board identified key questions the evaluation will address. These include the volume of state standards in relation to instructional time, methods for collecting and utilizing stakeholder input, and innovative approaches to developing standards that would have a positive impact on the challenges facing teachers and students in the classroom.
On Wednesday, the Wyoming Department of Education released their graduation rate for 2021at a virtual conference. Despite the pandemic, the Wyoming graduation rate has continued to increase for the 8th year in a row. “Especially the last couple of years, to make sure that we are continuing to graduate more students than the year before really speaks to how highly we value education in this state. That is work by families and teachers and school staff,” said Kari Eakins, Interim Superintendent of Public Instruction.
Laramie County Community College has received a $101,000 award from the Microsoft Community Empowerment Fund to support the recruitment and retention of veteran and military-associated students. The award will be used to help create awareness of the educational and career pathways at LCCC for students who have served, or are currently serving, in a branch of the U.S. Armed Forces.
“Computer science is not just coding or computer programming. It is an umbrella term for a lot of really interesting and enticing fields in technology,” said Balow.
If you’ve ever been interested in a career before investing in a degree, an apprenticeship may be a better way to go. “It’s a huge benefit to the employees, steady pay increases. It’s great for the employers because you’ve got this train skilled workforce that you’ve built yourself. So its a win-win for both the employers and employees,” said Jeff Schulz, Center Manager, Cheyenne Workforce Center, DWF.
