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Dunbar junior earns Siemens AP award
The Siemens Awards for Advanced Placement go to the nation’s top achievers in AP science and mathematics courses. For 2011, that includes Jessie Li of Paul Laurence Dunbar High School. Li, a junior, scored a 5 on the Computer …
Robotics teams take ‘Rebound Rumble’
on the road for next round of competition
By Tammy Lane Fayette County Public Schools In a variation of March Madness, the Fayette County Public Schools’ High School Robotics Team will take its best game to Knoxville for the 2012 FIRST* Robotics Competition. Members recently showed …
Mentors help Fayette’s at-risk students
remove barriers, see ‘life can be different’
By Tammy Lane Fayette County Public Schools Motivated All Day Every Day. That’s the goal for at-risk students chosen for the MADE mentoring program, coordinated by the Martin Luther King Jr. Academy for Excellence. The man behind MADE, …
Trigg County library employee first
to complete NKU college informatics program
Betsy Herndon Garland, a employee at the John L. Street Public Library in Trigg County, is the first graduate of the new library informatics bachelor of science program at Northern Kentucky University. The Trigg County resident was also a …
Berea’s New Opportunity School for Women
holding fundraiser, settling in to new space
By Judy Clabes KyForward Editor Reeling from an arsonist’s destruction of their school facility last December, the New Opportunity School for Women at Berea is regrouping and aiming for full operation for a June session. Executive Director Lori …
Fayette schools boast 10 of state’s
Presidential Scholars candidates
Fayette County Public Schools has produced 10 of Kentucky’s 49 candidates for the 2012 Presidential Scholars Program, one of the nation’s most prestigious honors for high school students. Each year, as many as 141 seniors are named Presidential Scholars for …
Health and Family Services Cabinet
Health Grants Awarded to 41 High Schools
The Kentucky Department for Public Health (DPH) and its partners have selected 41 high schools, including several from Lexington, to receive grants to develop or improve the nutritional, physical activity or tobacco prevention policies at their schools. The $500 …
Jacy Good coming to Northern Kentucky
University for ‘Hang Up and Drive!’event
The Northern Kentucky University Activities Programming Board, in partnership with the Greek community, will host a public presentation by Jacy Good titled “Hang Up and Drive!” in the University Center Otto Budig Theater on Feb. 23 at 5 p.m. …
Campbellsville University students attend
Christian Student Leadership conference
Two Campbellsville University students, Emily Shultz of Mt. Sterling, Ky., and Joseph Yates of Shepherdsville, Ky., attended the Christian Student Leadership Conference in Washington, D.C., hosted by the National Association of Evangelicals. “The conference was amazing to say the …
Free book provides information for
adults considering returning to college
Kentucky adults considering returning to college have a free resource to help them make decisions about higher education. “Adults Returning to School” is published by the Kentucky Higher Education Assistance Authority (KHEAA), the state agency that administers Kentucky student …
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