School Buzz

A sophomore at Canon City High is already creating buzz by earning national recognition for a law competition. Brooke Watley is just 16-years-old, yet won the top spot in the national Marshall Brennan Constitutional Literacy Project Moot Court Competition. Basically, Brooke was named best overall petitioner in the country, winning a national championship, based on

Graduations and sports have made a return to our local high schools. Now you can add musical theater to that list, at least at Vista Ridge High School. The Colorado Springs school is running their first musical at the Wolfpack Theatre since before the pandemic with Little Shop Of Horrors. The performance will go live

The pandemic shut down countless activities this past year, including the performing arts. Theater students at Pueblo County High are now ecstatic to be returning to the stage for the first time since Covid-19 stole their limelight last March. It was more than a year ago when students at Pueblo County High were about to

Covid has certainly changed how we tackle education. Thankfully, we do have technology on our side. Ask Savannah Storm. She’ll be the first to tell you how much technology has helped her, and countless other students, during the pandemic. Savannah is a junior at Fountain-Fort Carson High School who teaches online for fun, on her

Being in a military family can sometimes be hard for kids, often moving to a different city or, sometimes, a different country. At Webster Elementary in Widefield, where there is a healthy population of military family students, educators wanted to do something special for those kids who will be leaving Colorado Springs at the end

We’ve all heard of “simple acts of kindness.” What about simple words of kindess?” One local student is hoping to make a big difference with small sticky notes. Students and teachers at Odyssey Early College and Career Options have likely seen Hadi Alhamdani’s project already. He’s posted encouraging and inspirational sticky notes across the school

What makes a Kindergarten teacher special? Sure, teaching the A-B-C’s is important. But amazing field trips sure help, even if those “trips” are still at school. Two local Kindergarten teachers at Chipeta Elementary in Colorado Springs are getting high praise from parents for going above and beyond for keeping their kids engaged during the pandemic.

A gifted student recently moved from Texas to join a gifted program within D-11. Jacie Bradley is in the 8th grade and she moved here to the Springs from Amarillo Texas simply to get a better education. She started learning through D-11 remotely. And now that she’s here she’s at Sabin Middle School as a

Colorado natives may be familiar with the Boettcher Scholarship, an extremely competitive scholarship given out to just 42 Colorado high school seniors each year. It gives them an all-expenses-paid education to any Colorado university. Palmer Ridge High School is very proud one of their own is one of the lucky 42 seniors across the state

High school students at Pueblo South interested in criminal justice are certainly taking advantage of a great opportunity. Pueblo South students competed in what’s called the Skills USA challenge last week. It’s for high school students who are interested in any criminal justice career and they compete against other students around the country in a

Spring Break has felt more like winter this past week in Colorado. But the cold weather hasn’t stopped several Centennial Elementary School students from lending a helping hand. Students, former students and staff from Centennial volunteered with Care And Share Food Bank this past week to help distribute food to local families. As part of

A long-time Colorado Springs charter school administrator was recently honored with a state-wide award, recognizing him for his decades of service with one school. Colin Mullaney is the executive director at The Vanguard School in Colorado Springs. He recently received the 2021 Lifetime Achievement Award from the Colorado League of Charter Schools, part of the

Gabby Apodaca is a middle school teacher at Fox Meadow who goes “above and beyond” for her students. According to a school district spokesperson, Apodaca “welcomes her students into class with her heart on a daily basis.” Apodaca works in the CLD department, Culturally and Linguistically Diverse students. She helps her students succeed by creating