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15 Minutes: Meziah Smith, 17-Year-Old Poet Jade Wilson Next month, Meziah Smith will represent North Carolina’s Knightdale High School of Collaborative Design in the upcoming Poetry Out Loud competition. Competitors read poetry aloud, competing for a $20,000 prize and the title of National Champion. When did you realize your love for reading poetry? I've always liked poetry, especially reading it from different authors. I used to be very soft-spoken. And if something were to bother me, or if I was having a bad day, I wouldn't verbalize how I was feeling. But getting into Poetry Out Loud,...

FSU researchers collaborate on NSF-funded science education project March 10, 2021 | 1:27 pm | SHARE: A research team led by faculty from the Florida State University College of Education is helping science educators teach their students to think like scientists. Findings from the first phase of their project “Learning through Collaborative Design — Professional Development” were published last month in the journal Scientia. “Science, like many disciplines, has specific ways of working through problems and questions,” said Ellen Granger, director of the FSU Office of STEM Teachi...

Metropolis The Rudy Bruner Award Continues Its Speaker Series: Engaging Communities via Food and Education A partnership with Northeastern University, "Inspiring Design: Creating Beautiful, Just, and Resilient Places in America" draws on the award organization's national network. Courtesy Steve Hall / Hedrich Blessing Inspiring Design: Creating Beautiful, Just and Resilient Places in America series highlighted the ability of collaborative design to empower people, build communities, and advance change. Speakers associated with RBA winners in Chicago, Memphis, and New Orleans shared stories of...

  City Park calls its collection of 30,000 trees its most treasured asset, with some of the park’s storied oak trees dating back 750 to 900 years. But none may be as beloved as the Singing Oak, which with its wind chimes — including one that is 14 feet long — rings a pentatonic (five notes per octave) scale upon every breeze. Located adjacent to Big Lake near the intersection of Wisner Boulevard and Lelong Drive, the oak is one of the most popular and relaxing gathering spots in the park, but the frequency of usage has caused damaged to its exposed roots. Park officials think a sitting...

Rochester's newest parking ramp needs $100,000 fix City council, with four new members, will be asked Monday to start process for work to address some problems found with the parking ramp that opened in 2019. 8:00 am, Jan. 1, 2021 × The city's new parking ramp near the intersection of First Avenue and First Street Southeast was slated to include housing, but city officials say more study is needed to determine if the structure will handle the added load. (Joe Ahlquist / jahlquist@postbulletin.com) The first step toward ensuring the structural integrity of the city’s ...