North Middle School recently started a new club that’s atypical of what you might find at most schools. It doesn’t involve music, athletics, or career readiness, but monsters, magic and spells. And it’s bringing students together in ways sponsors didn’t see coming. The Colorado Springs middle school’s Dungeons and Dragons club has been bursting with
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PUEBLO WEST, Colo. (KRDO) — Pueblo West High School Students and staff are hard at work putting together the Unified Prom meant to bring Pueblo County teens with disabilities together. “It is just so much fun just to see them out there enjoying themselves,” said Lindsey Moore, Student Council Sponsor at Pueblo West High School.
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Pikes Peak State College held a friendly culinary competition recently that’s creating campus school buzz. It was called the Create Plate Present Culinary Arts Recipe Competition. It featured 20 PPSC students, along with some high school students, all challenged with creating masterpieces in four categories: appetizers, bread and pastry, mocktails and beverages, and desserts. And
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A Vanguard 8th-grader is grabbing national attention for her artwork that some are considering a masterpiece. Amanosi Agebdor spent nearly an entire semester working on a self-portrait made of charcoal. In the Scholastic Art and Writing Awards, her drawing won a regional Gold Key Award; nationally it took home a national Silver Award; she also
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There’s a neat competition that helps students prepare for the real world in a fun way. It’s called LifeSmarts. And Calhan High School continues to show they have some of the smartest students in the country when it comes to being life-smart. Those on the team from Calhan competed in the national LifeSmart competition this
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO)– Across the City of Colorado Springs, nearly 2,000 community membered gathered together to serve for the Spring “City Serve Day,” a day of volunteering coordinated by the nonprofit COSILoveYou. According to the nonprofit, people worked on 108 different project sites. Around 50 of them were schools across Colorado Springs. KRDO went out
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With easier access to equipment and resources, student-led morning news is increasingly becoming more popular. Atlas Prep is the newest school to brag about a new student-led broadcast. The Colorado Springs charter school recently launched a new media club. That club has recently started a new, morning school newscast called The Morning Gryphon. It’s a
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Another local marching band is creating the sweet sound of success. It’s quite an accomplishment to qualify to play at Disney World. Doherty High School is the latest marching band, that KRDO has been made aware of, which has performed for Mickey and his friends, right down Main Street. The Spartan Legion Marching Band played
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With the Space Symposium happening in the Springs this week, Woodland Park first-graders are timing their latest project perfectly. And it’s out of this world! First-graders at Merit Academy in Woodland Park recently held a big night to celebrate Astronaut Day. Each first grader picked their favorite all-time astronaut, learned everything they could about them,
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If there’s one thing Vanguard has, it’s “determination.” The Vanguard School (Colorado Springs) has been participating in The American Rocketry Challenge (TARC) since 2003. They’ve sent teams to the TARC national finals eleven times. Unfortunately, no teams from the school qualified this year. But it hasn’t stopped them from being eager to prepare to qualify
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The Air Academy marching band is coming off a thrilling performance at Disney World. The band performed at the Florida theme park over spring break. It’s an opportunity that popped up when the band auditioned for the Festival of Fantasy parade in March 2022. And they, evidentially, impressed. They’ve been rehearsing like crazy and it’s
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Some high schoolers in Pueblo are being taught life-saving skills thanks to the Army. Members of the Army’s Medical Corps spent four days at Centennial High recently, teaching JROTC cadets what’s called Critical Life Saver (CLS) skills. The workshop was similar to the Army’s Combat Lifesaver Training, which is one of the most intensive training
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It’s not often fourth graders lead a charge to help the environment. However, Venetucci Elementary School is lucky to have a remarkable pair of fourth graders truly making a difference. Meagan and Alexander are young, but they’ve started an effort at Venetucci in Colorado Springs that few adults have taken on by starting their own
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D20 fifth-graders are learning the impact one book can have on other kids. For the second year in a row, kids at Discovery Canyon Campus Elementary are teaming up with Children’s Hospital Colorado to donate 500 books to their neonatal care unit. The school is having a read-a-thon, while also encouraging families to donate new
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) – A group of high school students in Colorado Springs were invited to attend a reception with Mayor John Suthers at the Colorado Springs Pioneer Museum to celebrate being recognized as outstanding students. Unbeknownst to parents and students, the event was a surprise announcement where eleven Colorado Springs students were awarded
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WOODLAND, PARK, Colo. (KRDO) – Woodland Park School District (WPSD) is now offering students at Merit Academy the same district school bus transportation offered to all other WPSD schools. In partnership with Durham Bus Services, those attending Merit Academy will receive expanded bus services through the WPSD starting this fall for the 2023-2024 school year.
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) – Dr. Angela Valdez with Harrison School District 2 was named the 2023 Elementary Principal of the Year. According to D2, Dr. Valdez is entering her fifth year as principal at Mountain Vista Community School and has been in education for over 20 years. In a statement on Facebook, the district
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A Palmer Ridge High School student may be a once-in-a-generation talent after being named All-State to all four musical categories. Raleigh Eversole, a senior, has been named All-State in choir, jazz, orchestra, and band. Instrumentally, he plays bassoon and tenor saxophone. Raleigh says earning the All-State honors has been mostly hard work, spending countless hours
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PUEBLO, Colo. (KRDO– Students at Chavez-Huerta K-12 Preparatory Academy and Swallows Charter Academy will be rewarded for reading their way to earning $100. ‘Reading Pays,’ is a summer reading program that pledges a $1 Million Reading Challenge to help encourage students to foster a love for reading. The program offers Pueblo County youth the chance
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Two young students at Palmer High School are proving yet again that girls belong in STEM. Natalie Muro and Cami Wolkow, both freshmen at Palmer High School in Colorado Springs, took home major hardware recently from the Pikes Peak Regional Science and Engineering Fair. Natalie investigated buoys that capture wave energy and then convert it
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