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Academic Decathlon Takes Third Title in Four Years
The Highland Park Academic Decathlon team is accustomed, by now, to winning championships.
Principal To Get Fifth Elementary Ready for 2020
A name for the newest Highland Park ISD elementary school may not be decided until October, but the district wasted no time in choosing a principal for the campus.
Camps
Empty Nest Syndrome? No Worries
Be confident in your decision to send your child to camp. Camp will be a wonderful experience, and you wouldn’t have made that decision if you didn’t believe your child was ready for it.
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ESD Offers Campers Week at Wolf Run Ranch
When it comes to summer camps, The Episcopal School of Dallas has students covered.
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Camp iHope Offers Freedom, Family, Fun
Each June, campers skim the trees in Anna on a zip line, canoe the lake water, climb the rock wall, and forget about cancer for a week.
‘R Is The Roughest,’ But Not The Only Hard Sound
Cynthia Gould and Michelle Marlow have found a way to impart pronunciation tricks even when a child is not in the middle of a face-to-face session.
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It’s Normal To Feel Homesick
It’s not uncommon for first-time campers (and even second-and third-timers) to experience homesickness.
‘Roughing it’ on Campus: A University Park Tradition
Camping out on the school grounds has become an annual tradition for University Park Elementary families – one where students don’t mind the extra hours on campus.
St. Mark’s Freshman Photographs Troubled Borders
With politicians debating border security and immigration, a curious St. Mark’s School of Texas ninth-grader picked up his camera and headed to Brownsville.
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CSI: A Camp for STEM Investigation
In a trashed meeting room with papers strewn everywhere, tracks of fresh soil, and a blinking computer screen, teammates donned gloves and carefully searched for clues.
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A Camp For Children Who Like To Make Things
Inventors get the red-carpet treatment from the National Inventors Hall of Fame and then play starring roles in a summer camp curriculum.
Scholarship Program Helps Architecture Students
When Jenny Adair graduated from Highland Park High School in 2012 and went to pursue a degree in architecture at the University of Virginia, she left with the tools she needed to succeed.
Financial Tips For The First Year at College
Whether enrolled in your first year of college, or on your way to college next fall, there is a lot of planning to be done.
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Great Summers Start With Right Questions
How will you fill your child’s summer? Does he or she need to develop new interests, get a dose of self-esteem, improve skills in sports or arts?
New Planetarium Grows St. Mark’s Brand
St. Mark’s School of Texas has been at the forefront of science, math, and technology instruction dating back to 1961 when a planetarium was first built on the
Happenings on the Hill
A treasure-hunting smartphone app developed by SMU and Literacy Instruction for Texas (LIFT) to help low-literate adults learn to read tied for the grand prize in a competition hosted by the Barbara Bush Foundation Adult Literacy XPRIZE.
Student Achievements: Two to Celebrate
Henry Zhu was named MVP and won first place in fifth-grade individual Number Sense at the Texas Coaches Association Math & Science contest, where McCulloch Intermediate School/Highland Park Middle School won a variety of team awards.
SMU Ranks No. 1 in Graduate school Game Design
Neatly tucked within SMU’s Plano campus, students stay busy at SMU Guildhall, The Princeton Review’s No. 1 ranked graduate school for game design.
Student Achievements: Four to Celebrate
The Park Cities chapter of the Young Men’s Service League helped transform classroom spaces at Voice of Hope, a faith-based agency providing after school and