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Thinking Big
What most intrigued State Senator Wendy Davis during the What's Your Big Idea Art and Essay Entrepreneurship Contest Saturday was the shoe that changes colors with a touch of a button. For NBC 5 reporter and event emcee Mola Lenghi, it was the neat idea of taking his station anywhere with a foldable flat-screen TV. | Some of the What's Your Big Idea Entrepreneurship Contest winners celebrate by raising their trophies.
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$1 Million to the AISD
How's this for a novel idea: replace old, beat-up novels with new ones. Sounds simple, but when books - novels, dictionaries, thesauruses, you name it - are being held together by scotch tape, students find themselves imagining what's on the page that fell out and never made its way back. | Amos Elementary teacher Suzanne Dudek hugs Education Foundation Executive Director Kathy Jackson.
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Shack's Gift
Achieving Gold Award status among Girl Scouts is a lofty honor. Eighty service hours is the amount one needs to secure the award, and it can be a number of mini projects pieced together to achieve that total. Or you can do what Lamar High School sophomores April S. and Leann R. did: do one massive service project. | Lamar High School sophomores Leann R. and April S. achieved their Girl Scout Gold Awards through service at Shackelford Junior High.
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Notable Alumna: Gretchen Polhemus
 Funny what we do for a dare. Take Gretchen Polhemus. While a student at Arlington High School, she was the self-described eternal cheerleader. It was a dare, of all things, that made her enter a pageant in Bedford. She won it, then won another. And another. | Gretchen Polhemus, Arlington High School alumna, was Miss Texas and Miss USA in 1989.
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