Four Kennedy High School students recently entered Rocket21’s Dream Green competition, in which they were challenged to devise campaigns to spread environmental awareness or develop blueprints to reduce humans’ impact on the world. All four came up big in the national competition.
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By Scott Brinton
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2/18/15
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Poetry went from the printed word to dramatic performance when students at schools across the Bellmore-Merrick Central High School District recently took part in Poetry Out Loud recitation …
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2/18/15
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Smiling parents snapped photos of their children as they walked across the floor of Harold D. Fayette Elementary School’s general-purpose room. The occasion: an award ceremony for the young winners of the Keep-A-Merrick-A-Beautiful contest.
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By Casey Pinner
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6/12/14
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Special-needs students from around Nassau County came last Wednesday to Calhoun High School for a field day centering on fun and engagement with mainstream students.
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5/28/14
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Catholic school students from across Nassau County recently gathered at Sacred Heart School in North Merrick to receive awards in the Catholic Daughters of the Americas, Court Bishop Kellenberg …
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4/23/14
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The 13 sixth-graders in the Merrick School District’s Alternative Program for Enriching Experiences recently spent more than four months drawing blueprints for and meticulously crafting toothpick bridges. They even visited the Center for Architecture in Manhattan to study bridge construction, from beam to cantilever, truss and arch bridges, before undertaking their projects.
Then the students destroyed their creations.
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By Scott Brinton
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3/20/14
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Kennedy High School students recently had the chance to get in touch with their inner poets during a school-wide “Poetry Out Loud” competition.
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2/5/14
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Children at Merrick Woods, the day camp on Merrick Avenue in Merrick, took part in a cavalcade of games and competitions last week as part of the camp’s Olympics. In between the opening ceremonies on Wednesday and closing ceremonies on Friday, campers played sports, ran relays, jumped rope, climbed over obstacles, learned cheers, wrote sing-a-longs, made plaques and banners, and carried out a scavenger hunt.
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By Brian Racow
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8/23/13
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At a June 5 ceremony at the Woodbury Country Club, Herald Community Newspapers took home four honors in the Press Club of Long Island’s annual Media Awards contest.
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6/12/13
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The Pirettes weren’t the only ones forming a kickline at Mepham High School last week. Their male peers executed the choreography, in addition to showing their talents on stage, in an effort to be crowned the next “Mr. Mepham.”
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By Julie Mansmann
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2/25/13
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