Engaged Community
First-Day Makeover
The first day of school is usually the one where students come all decked out and spruced up in new duds, looking their best. The same can be said for the school they are attending. Members of the Dads Club at Pope Elementary understand this all too well. Each year, about a week before students return, they arrive early to spruce up the exterior of the school and make it look its best. | Members of the Pope Elementary Dads Club met up before school started to spruce up the school and prepare it for a new year.
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Inspired Learners
Having FUN with STEM
Designing and constructing bridges out of toothpicks is tedious but fun. And building and launching bottle rockets is, well, a blast. Six dozen junior high students got to experience those things and much more this summer at UT-Arlington's Texas Prefreshman Engineering Program, or TexPREP. | More than 70 students, mostly from the AISD, participated in this summer's TexPREP to learn more about science, technology, engineering and math..
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Inspired Learners
AVID Success in the AISD
AVID is hardly a new phenomenon. For years, it has worked well as a college-readiness program designed to increase the number of students who enroll in four-year institutions. Nowhere has AVID (it stands for Advancement Via Individual Determination) been more effective and popular than at Lamar High School and Carter and Hutcheson junior highs, which explains why those campuses are AVID National Demonstration Schools. | Last year's AVID students at Lamar took trips to Texas State University and the University of Oklahoma, as shown here.
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