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Success Starts Here | Feb 23, 2021 During the height of the coronavirus shutdown in the spring of 2020, Middletown Area High School art teacher, Mrs. Elizabeth Strite, challenged her students to use their thoughts about the pandemic to create a social commentary piece...
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MONTCO.TODAY | Mark Hostutler | Feb 12, 2021 The record-breaking success of Netflix’s The Queen’s Gambit has revitalized global interest in chess, with significant spikes in sales of chess sets and “how to play chess” searches. However, as people set up their new...
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Started in Exeter, summer education program expands to benefit city kids. Reading Eagle | Jeremy Long | July 7, 2018 Kayla Welsh sat in the shade outside Reading’s 3rd and Spruce Recreation Center reading to a group of kids sprawled out on a picnic blanket....
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ALEX GELI | Staff Writer | Jul 29, 2018 It’s not often parents witness their children racking their brains on a mathematics problem over the summer — especially in Cynthia Brooks’ case. “It’s pretty hard to keep them engaged,” the Manheim Township mother said of her...
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Natasha Dillow wanted to hold a frosting bag and roll fondant again. The 34-year-old cake decorator from Chambersburg no longer could do that after losing her right hand, and several other limbs, to a flesh-eating disease last summer. With the aid of two Gettysburg...
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Peyton Klein started the Global Minds Initiative after-school program at Pittsburgh Allderdice High School after she saw her homeroom teacher struggling to communicate with a refugee student from Syria. She wanted to help new students from other countries to build...
