A Colorado Springs 8th grader has been turning heads after her impressive chess wins. Tanya Prabhu is making a name for herself across the country after taking home 1st place in the 7 through 12 division at the Colorado All Girls Scholastic Chess Championship recently. She scored a perfect five out of five. But, in
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A Discovery Canyon Campus High School teacher is being recognized by MIT because of his positive influence on a former student. Jonathan Bluff is an engineering teacher at DCC in Academy D20. He recently received a prestigious recognition from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology because of his former leadership with current MIT student Taylor Wagnor.
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO)– The Community Partnership for Child Development (CPCD) is joining Harrison School District 2 (D2) for a preschool enrollment event. The enrollment event will be held on Wednesday, August 30, from 8:30-10:30 a.m. and 3:30-5 p.m., at Centennial Elementary School. There, parents and guardians can complete all the paperwork necessary to place
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Lori Padgett is a librarian at Gateway Elementary School. She’s also been an unsung hero, outside of Woodland Park, until now. After years of doubling as a crossing guard, Padgett has taken action to make students, and their families, safer while entering the school. Padgett noticed potential safety hazards in front of the school’s parking
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO)– Amaya Hinojosa wrestles with a lot. Wrestling with her dreams? Not so much. Hinojosa is just a sophomore at Widefield High School, and she just qualified to represent Team USA Wrestling for the U-15 team during the Pan-American games in Panama City, Panama this upcoming November. It’s an accomplishment she’s
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WOODLAND PARK, Colo. (KRDO) – Woodland Park High School students can expect armed security guards, and not a police officer, to be patrolling their hallways this upcoming school year. The move comes after the district learned it wouldn’t have a Student Resource Officer, or SRO, given to them by the local police department anymore. It’s a move that some
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO)– The largest school districts in southern Colorado are welcoming kids back to school this Tuesday, August 15, but one school district is now seeking help from its communities as its students make their way to the classrooms. School District 20 is one of the State’s 15 largest districts but the district
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PUEBLO, Colo. (KRDO)– On Tuesday, August 15, kids in Pueblo are getting ready to head out for school and it’s the first day of school for the entirety of School District 60. As K-12 students make their way to the classrooms, not only are they going back to see their friends and teachers, but many
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO)– Students and staff are getting prepared to go back to the classroom, and Monday, August 14, is the official first day of class for kids in School District 3. At Webster Elementary School, students are not only coming back to a new school year with new teachers and new classmates, but
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) — The University of Colorado Colorado Springs (UCCS) announced it will be offering a tuition assistance grant to active-duty military personnel who are currently using military tuition assistance. The new Active-Duty Tuition Assistance Grant will be offered at the start of the 2023 fall semester and will help bridge that gap
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COLORADO (KRDO) — Some families looking to get free full-day pre-school for their children through the state’s new Universal Pre School program have so far been met with confusion and frustration. Some have struggled to even get their children enrolled in a school, while others are now without crucial funding they thought would be there
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO)– Colorado Springs School District 11 kicked off the school year for district administrators in the U.S. Olympic and Paralympic Museum (USOPM). The kick-off was held on Tuesday, August 1, and celebrated the first day of team building, district leadership, and elevating excellence. Colorado Springs School District 11 Colorado Springs School District
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO)– Early signs of expansion efforts at Vista Ridge High School (VRHS) are underway ahead of the start of the 2023-2024 school year. Officials with VRHS stated a perimeter of temporary fencing is standing between a portion of the east parking lot and will soon become an additional VRHS academic wing. The
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO)– Even though our calendars say we’re still in the middle of summer, the break is over for one of the first local school districts going back to school. Classes resumed yesterday Tuesday, August 1, and will re-start on Tuesday, August 2-3, in District 49. Since it’s that time of the year,
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DENVER, Colo. (KRDO) – The Colorado Bureau of Investigations (CBI) is announcing the winners of its national Missing Children’s Day poster contest. Every year the Department of Justice (DOJ) holds a national Missing Children’s Day poster contest open to all fifth-grade students across the country. The purpose comes in an effort to promote awareness amongst
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The Colorado Springs School recently held a ‘Market Day’ to help young students understand what it takes to become an entrepreneur. And they got help from a local business owner. With the help of Christina Voreadis, owner of Go Fish, a food truck in Colorado Springs, first-graders got a hands-on lesson on what it’s like
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Nationally, there were 161 high school students named a Presidential Scholar this year. One of them is from Colorado Springs. Dana Ko, who is graduating from Pine Creek High School with a 4.74 GPA is the only local student to receive the prestigious honor this year. The award recognizes academic success, a commitment to community
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One local high schooler is going above and beyond to make his dreams come true. And he’s just been recognized with an extremely prestigious award. Even though he’s still a student at the Vanguard School in Colorado Springs, William Mays is already a lieutenant colonel in the Civil Air Patrol, an auxiliary program for the Air
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BOULDER, Colo. (KRDO) – In an impressive scientific feat, students at the University of Colorado Boulder have helped solve scientists’ most burning question about the sun: How does the star’s outermost sphere get so hot? Research began at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic and a team of physicists recruited roughly 995 undergraduate and graduate
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A Colorado Springs senior was one of several in Colorado recently surprised with a giant scholarship. Chris Mendez, a senior at St. Mary’s High School, was awarded Amazon’s “Future Engineer Scholarship,” which totals $40,000 towards the university of his choice, granted he studies science or engineering. It also comes with a guaranteed paid internship at
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