Education

Wesley Skidmore is Rotary Student of the Month

Wesley Skidmore. Courtesy photo

By LINDA HULL
Rotary Club of Los Alamos

Wesley Skidmore, a junior at Los Alamos High School (LAHS), was recently honored as Rotary Student of the Month. Skidmore is the son of Wendy and Cary Skidmore and the brother of Bradley, Gregory, Jeffrey and Stephanie.

The Rotary Club of Los Alamos selects one student each month of the school year to honor as a Student of the Month. This year’s recipients reflect a combination of both LAHS seniors and juniors; next year, only juniors will be recognized in hopes of inspiring their interest in Rotary programs that fall during Read More

Rotary Supports LAHS DECA Student

State Farm Insurance Agent Abe Dispennette thanks the Rotary Club of Los Alamos for its support of his intern Kaylen Pocaterra of Los Alamos High School to travel to a national DECA conference. They were joined at a recent Rotary meeting at the Manhattan Project Restaurant with LAHS DECA teacher Tammy Seidel. Photo by Carol A. Clark/ladailypost.com Read More

Mountain School’s Green Team Wins State Competition!

Mountain Elementary School Green Team are the state champions in the Trex Plastic Film Recycling Challenge. Courtesy photo

Mountain Elementary School Green Team state champions with their sponsors Michele Altherr and Karen Henderson. Courtesy photo

MOUNTAIN SCHOOL News:

This past year Mountain School’s Green Team took up the Trex Plastic Film Recycling Challenge. The 15 club members rallied the school and community and turned in a final count of 67,469 plastic bags and overwraps! 

They won the New Mexico competition. The school will receive a bird-nesting box and a bench made of Trex Read More

Senior Appreciation Night Needs 30 More Volunteers

Friends share a moment during 2013 Senior Appreciation Night at the Betty Ehart Senior Center. Photo by Salvador Zapien/ladailypost.com

SAN News:

Thirty volunteers are still needed to chaperone the community-sponsored, all-night senior graduation celebration known as SAN (Senior Appreciation Night) for shifts that begin at 6 p.m. Saturday, May 31.

SAN was created as a fun, safe alternative to dangerous celebrations for graduates. The event is in its 30th year and typically serves 350 students. 

Volunteers are needed to work a two to three hour shift at the Youth Activity Center, Read More

UNM-LA’s Student Housing Will Close This Fall While Campus Ponders Options for Aging Buildings

UNM-LA Advisory Board and staff ponder student housing options at Monday’s Advisory Board meeting held at the campus. Photo by Bonnie J. Gordon/ladailypost.com
 
UNM-LA Executive Director Cedric Page catches the ball as Team Y, the LAHS robotics team, demonstrates its robot at Monday’s UNM-LA Advisory Board meeting. The team uses UNM-LA facilities to build its robots each year. This year, the team took second place in the regional competition in Lubbock, Texas – the best the team has ever done in competition. Photo by Bonnie J. Gordon/ladailypost.com
 
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Namesake Honored With Painting in Griffith Gymnasium

Attending the unveiling of ceremony of the Thurston ‘Turk’ Griffith painting were classmates Lt. Col. Trevor Dupuy (US Army Retired), Lt. Col. Fred Sheaffer (US Army Retired), Lt. Col. Robert Wells (USAF Retired), Colonel Joe Gross (US Army Retired), and Colonel Jerry Janicke (USAF Retired). Attending, but not pictured, was Lt. Col. Andy Andrews (US Army Retired – West Point Class of 1964). Courtesy photo

LAPS News:

How many residents in Los Alamos know how Griffith Gymnasium got its name? Thanks to his West Point classmates of 1962, residents and visitors entering the foyer Read More

Rotary Club Seeks Young Leaders for Week-long Camp

ROTARY News:

The Rotary Club of Los Alamos is seeking young leaders with an interest in attending a week long camp in the Manzano Mountains in July. 

Rotary Youth Leadership Awards (RYLA) is a program that originated with Rotary International and has subsequently been specifically designed by Rotary District 5520 for the students in New Mexico. RYLA encourages servant leadership in youth by recognizing and rewarding deserving 11th grade students who are chosen to attend RYLA as an “award” for their past and present leadership and service activities.

These select young Read More

LAHS’s Sopahn Kellogg Selected For Yale Global Young Scholars Program

Sopahn Kellogg is selected for Yale Young Global Scholars Program. Courtesy photo
 
LAHS News:

Los Alamos High School junior Sopahn Kellogg has been selected for the Yale Young Global Scholars Program. She will be in the Studies for Grand Strategy for students with interests in international relations and security and learning historical lessons about leadership.

“I was very surprised to be accepted since my test scores are not nearly that of my peers,” Kellogg said. “The committee said they liked my essays and interest in global studies, thanks in part to Mr. Androski

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Public Invited to LAMS’ Production of ‘Hoodie’

LAPS News:

Director Mimi Adams will launch her production of Hoodie, written by Lindsay Price at 7:30 p.m. Friday, May 16 in room 163 at Los Alamos Middle School on Hawks Drive.

The play also will be performed at 2 p.m. and  7:30 p.m. Saturday, May 17. The production is free. Everyone is invited.

Directed by Adams and produced by Dana Kline, LAMS student Katelyn Skeen is the stage manager. Adult actors are Noonday Neese and Dana Kline.

Student actors include:

  • Madison Peterson
  • Sebastian Chavarria
  • Thomas Chadwick
  • Michael Clark
  • Joseph Sarrao
  • Allegra Dougherty
  • Anna Lemke
  • Kristen Pimentel
  • Caleb
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Chick Keller Leads Monthly Wildflower Walks

Wildflower expert Chick Keller, right, leads a wildflower walk for PEEC. Photo by Josip Loncaric
 
Wildflowers along Quemazon trail. Photo by Yvonne Keller

PEEC News:

Starting this month, PEEC’s Jemez Mountain Herbarium curator, Chick Keller, will begin leading monthly Wildflower Walks.

These will be easy walks to identify some of the wildflower beauties found in and around Los Alamos. Each month, Keller will pick a different trail, depending on what is blooming at the time. The walks are free and there is no advance registration required.

The Wildflower Walks will take Read More

Learn to Protect Your Home from Fire at PEEC Talk

Las Conchas Fire. Courtesy/PEEC

PEEC News:

Learn how to protect your home from wildfires, and take measures to prevent house fires, in a free presentation at 7 p.m. Wednesday, May 14 at the Pajarito Environmental Education Center (PEEC). This event is free to attend, and no advance registration is required.

Fire Prevention and Outreach Program Manager for the N.M. State Forestry Division Dan Ware will talk about how New Mexico residents can prepare themselves for the upcoming wildfire season. Van Leimer of the Los Alamos Fire Department will discuss general fire safety measures that Read More

UNM-LA Advisory Board Discusses Student Housing Options Monday

UNM-LA News:

The UNM-Los Alamos Advisory Board meets at 5:30 p.m. Monday, May 12 in the Student Center Lecture Hall at UNM-LA.

Items on the agenda include discussion of student housing options, the FIRST Robotics Program, and reports from various departments and individuals. The public is welcome to attend. Read More

Three LAHS Students Conduct Trail Survey

Los Alamos County Trail Map. Courtesy/LAC

LAHS News:

The trail system in Los Alamos County is used for a variety of purposes by people of all ages. However, factors such as weathering, fire damage, and the degradation of the trails that occurs with normal use can make them less usable for the general public, and less accessible for some users.

As a part of their Humanities Final Project Los Alamos High School students Jeremy Goette, Tristan Goodwin and Jonathan Osden are exploring ways to improve the general state of the trail system as well as make certain trails more accessible for commuters and Read More

Blue Bell Honors Chamisa Teacher by Treating Entire School to Ice Cream Tuesday

SCHOOL News:

Blue Bell Creameries will honor Los Alamos and New Mexico Teacher of the Year Carolyn S. Torres of Chamisa Elementary School by treating the entire student body and staff of her school to Blue Bell Ice Cream.

Blue Bell employees will arrive at 11:30 a.m., Tuesday at Chamisa Elementary School in White Rock  with a truck full of ice cream. In addition, Blue Bell Creameries will present Torres with a cooler of her favorite Blue Bell flavors and a congratulatory letter from Paul Kruse, president of Blue Bell Creameries, L.P.

“At Blue Bell, we believe there is no finer work you can do Read More

LAHS Student Body President and Vice President Share Memories

Best friends since kindergarten, LAHS Student Body President Soumyo Lahiri-Gupta, left, and Vice President Justin Dunn look back over their achievements as high school graduation draws near. Photo by Rebekkah Varjabedian

By CAROL A. CLARK
Los Alamos Daily Post
 

Soumyo Lahiri-Gupta and Justin Dunn have been best friends for 13 years – they met in kindergarten. Now seniors at Los Alamos High School, Lahiri-Gupta is student body president and Dunn is vice president.

With just weeks until they graduate, the young leaders took time to reminisce about all they have accomplished

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School Board Meets 5 p.m. Tuesday

LAPS News:

The School Board has scheduled a Regular School Board Meeting and Executive Session at 5 p.m. Tuesday, May 13 at 2075 Trinity Dr., Suite V. 

The Regular Meeting will reconvene at the close of the Executive Session.

The Executive Session has been called to discuss certified and classified negotiations with employees.

Regular Meeting business will include policy and regulation reviews, an Aspen construction update, presentation of the tentative 2015 budget, staff presentations on teacher evaluations, and end-of-year exams and regular business and reports to the Board. Read More

PEEC Amateur Naturalist: Part 4 Erosion of the Pajarito Plateau

Amateur Naturalist: Part 4 Erosion of the Pajarito Plateau
By ROBERT DRYJA

There have been three major geologic events that have contributed to the creation of the Pajarito Plateau. Two events occurred 1.0 and 1.4 million years ago when major eruptions to the west of Los Alamos created the Valles Caldera. Volcanic tuff from these eruptions accumulated hundreds of feet deep and created a broad plain extending from the Caldera to what is now the Rio Grande.

These eastward and southeastward flows encountered basaltic lava flows coming from another volcanic field to the southeast of what is now Read More

Topper Choirs in Concert Monday

LAHS News:

Join the Los Alamos High School Topper Choirs at 7 p.m. Monday, May 12 at Duane Smith Auditorium for their Spring Concert and Silent Auction.

Before the concert and during intermission, the choirs will be auctioning off groups of teenagers to help with yard work, garden and landscaping projects, spring cleaning and more. Read More

Los Alamos Federation of School Employees President Ellen Mills Receives John O. Mitchell Award

Los Alamos Federation of School Employees President Ellen Mills receives the John O. Mitchell Award. Courtesy photo

AFT News:

Ellen Mills, president of the Los Alamos Federation of School Employees has received the John O. Mitchell Award at the state convention of the American Federation of Teachers (AFT).

The distinguished award is given for service to AFT New Mexico on behalf of public education and for exemplary and unselfish service as a representative of AFT and its goals to improve public education and enhance public school academic standards.

John O. Mitchell was a middle school teacher Read More

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