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The Elkhart Area Career Center offers specialized programs for students in Elkhart County, St Joseph County, Marshall County, and Cass County who are in their junior and senior years of high school.
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Jillian Hoover discusses her experience in the culinary program at the Elkhart Area Career Center and what sparked her interest in food.
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Education Counts connects bright ideas in education with the community. Learn about a reading program the Bremen Public Library launched about the 100 Books every middle schooler should read and why it matters. See how project based learning in Elkhart has led high school students to create a book and video presentation about health and safety programs. Discover how SMASH Academy is changing how students see STEM careers through its free three-year college prep program. Watch Saint Mary's College students limit the impact on landfills by becoming Food Waste Fighters.
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Education Counts is back for a new season of programs and initiatives in education. Learn about a leadership and ethics program at Culver Academies that's teaching students how to incorporate ethics into everyday decision-making and discussion. Journey with us to Ox Bow Park to learn about Books and Boots and the collaboration between the Elkhart Public Library and Elkhart Parks for families. See how students are gaining access to the internet in St. Joseph County through Citywide Classroom. Always wanted to write a novel? Discover an international writing initiative that offers a doable challenge to would-be authors.
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This week on Education Counts Michiana we learn about the Bremen Library's reading challenge of 100 Books Before High School. We meet the Ivy Tech Dual Credit Teacher of the year. We learn how Citywide Classroom is expanding to offer digital equity to 200 additional families at School City of Mishawaka. We also follow up with 574 Stories initiative and witness the anthology created through the project.
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This week on Education Counts Michiana, we feature a digital storm produced by students at Lincoln Junior High in Plymouth, see the benefits of reading to a therapy dog at the New Buffalo Township Library, learn about education inclusion and venture to a classroom of engineering and design students for GoBabyGo!
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Saint Mary's College students are taking a stand against food waste. Students, staff and faculty limit food waste and utilize composting and have saved at least 2000 pounds of food from landfills each year since the program was started.
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Project based learning at Elkhart High School can take many forms. In this instance, high school students worked on a presentation, book and video instruction for elementary students about how K9 dogs work with local police.
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Juniors at Culver Academies are immersed in a nine-week course in ethics and the cultivation of character. Students learn to discuss modern ethical issues while developing their own virtue ethics and civil discourse. The course provides space for the 11th graders to practice wisdom, courage and moderation in everyday life.
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NANOWRIMO is a free, global opportunity every year in which anyone can participate. The goal is to write 50,000 words during the month of November. Writers, students, teachers and new participants connect locally and online to be part of the NANOWRIMO community.
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SMASH Academy is a three year college prep program. It empowers students to deepen their talents and pursue STEM careers. This free program also connects students to professionals that reflect their same demographics creating powerful mentorships from STEM scholars to rising students.
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South Bend Connectivity Coalition partners, South Bend Community School Corporation and enFocus, are excited to report Citywide Classroom has provided free at-home solutions to over 4,200 South Bend students without adequate internet connection at SBCSC schools. The Citywide Classroom program is now expanding to School City of Mishawaka and aims to connect an additional 200+ students and their families.
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Ivy Tech's Regional Dual Credit Teacher of the Year, Tiffany Reddick, is a local Career and Technical Education teacher who has built amazing Entrepreneurship, Supply Chain, and work-based learning programs. Her family's unfolding story is also exceptional as her son, Nah'Shon Williams, not only graduated with an Ivy Academy Associate Degree (Ivy Tech) as a high school Senior, but also was named by the Posse Foundation for a full ride scholarship to Purdue University.
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100 Books Before High School
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Bremen Public Library has launched the100 Books Before High School challenge. The program not only prepares middle school students for high school but helps develop a life-long love of reading.
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574 Stories Anthology
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574 Stories was a one-week creative writing workshop launched in South Bend. The idea is based on the 826 Valencia Project. Students discover the significance of writing about "place". An anthology of 574 Stories was unveiled in September.
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History can really come to life through hands on or interactive experiences. The Kidsfirst Musem at The History Museum in South Bend offers a variety of topics ranging from history to geology.
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