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Two Canyons educators fly amongst stars, to share experience with students

Feb 22, 2022 08:03PM ● By Julie Slama

“It’s pretty incredible and I was just blown away how technologically-advanced that telescope is,” said a Brighton High educator after traveling in the stratosphere aboard SOFIA, the world’s largest flying observatory.

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Granite to offer new hands-on entrepreneurial program this fall

Feb 22, 2022 08:01PM ● By Julie Slama

In a new entrepreneurial program, 20 selected high school seniors tour local companies, talk to CEOs and CFOs and business leaders and are partnered with someone in the industry as a mentor as students create their own viable business.

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Looking into Utah’s judicial courtrooms: a former court watcher’s observation

Feb 22, 2022 08:00PM ● By Julie Slama

A former court watcher shares how she provided information to voters about judges coming up for retention and her assessment of Utah’s judges.

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High school students learn engineering offers variety, creativity, advancements

Feb 22, 2022 07:53PM ● By Julie Slama

A recent high school engineering career day attracted about 250 students to examine careers ranging from aerospace to thermodynamics.

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Ridgecrest student wants peers to be superheroes in fight against drugs

Feb 03, 2022 10:21AM ● By Julie Slama

“A little fifth-grader does a really cool shirt about being kind and being thoughtful and no bullying. I thought, ‘Wow! That is really inspiring,’” Cottonwood Heights Police Chief Robby Russo said.

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Ridgecrest stacks up fun with sport stacking world record attempt

Feb 03, 2022 10:19AM ● By Julie Slama

The interest in attempting a sport stacking world record had students inspired to look up other records in the “Guinness Book of World Records” “to look beyond what every day brings,” said Ridgecrest’s PlayWorks coach Angi Williamson.

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As pandemic continues, Canyons School District navigates students’ social-emotional learning

Feb 03, 2022 10:16AM ● By Julie Slama

As numbers of infected people increase due to the omicron variant of COVID-19, and the Canyons’ school board voted not to continue using its third-party social-emotional curriculum, the district’s new student services director leads the charge into what social-emotional learning may look like for students in the future.

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Brighton High students bond together over passion for art

Feb 02, 2022 11:52AM ● By Julie Slama

“Right now, with the art club, we want to build on students’ interests, give some instruction, allow them to try new techniques and build camaraderie,” Brighton High art teacher and art club advisor Jordan Brun said.

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Students get a look into manufacturing principles, careers at Rock West Composites

Jan 13, 2022 11:38AM ● By Julie Slama

“One of the cool things they make is a lightweight, portable X-ray machine, that…is able to use on football fields as well as Third World countries,” said Christy Bond, Jordan High work-based learning coordinator who escorted approximately 25 students from Canyons School District high schools through Rock West Composites in West Jordan on National Manufacturing Day.

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Canyons honors those who provide excellence, commitment, leadership

Jan 10, 2022 03:16PM ● By Julie Slama

The district's Apex Awards honor everyone from teachers and administrators to volunteers and support staff.

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