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By Pearl Markovitz | April 22, 2021 Local winners include White Plains' Beni Romm and Highland Park's Elana Rosenbluth. All three of the U.S. contestants at the Worldwide Chidon HaTanach held on Yom Ha’atzmaut in Jerusalem placed among the top six winners. Beni Romm, a senior at Yeshivat Frisch, earned third place after Gilad Abrahamov of Netanya and Dvir Barchad of Kiryat Ata. Elana Rosenblatt, a senior at Bruriah High School, placed fifth, and Sara Shay, a sophomore at YULA, placed sixth. The USA contestants faced off in a rigorous three-part competition from their homes ov...

Posted on Through Zoom, agronomy professor brings farmers from around the world to his students In teaching students about crops and farming in other parts of the world, Valentín Picasso Risso often incorporates field trips closer to home — area greenhouses that grow tropical plants or Wisconsin farms operated by recent immigrants. Those opportunities, of course, had to be temporarily halted due to the pandemic. In their place, Picasso Risso has been using technology to give his students an engaging global perspective. Throughout the pandemic, he’s been bringing farmers from foreig...

Local Charities Unite with School for Virtual STEM Event The event was the culmination of a partnership between Science Olympiad, The Nora Project and Indian Knoll Elementary School. Published March 11, 2021 • Updated on March 11, 2021 at 9:06 am Indian Knoll Elementary fourth grade students and their families recently participated in a virtual science night focused on making science accessible for all, including students with learning differences and disabilities. Families participated in activities such as “Straw Towers” and “Gummi Bear Long Jump” to build STEM fundam...

THE ROWAN REPORT: Pandemic showed us need for Internet Mineral Daily News-Tribune By Del. Ruth Rowan The 2021 Session of the 85th Legislature has been like no other that I have ever experienced here in Charleston. Masks are required in The Capitol and only two rooms are large enough to hold committee meetings—the House Chamber and the Government Organization Room. Between each meeting members have to be evacuated from the rooms so that they can be thoroughly sanitized. Galleries are reserved for delegates not wanting to wear masks or not wanting to remain on the floor during sessions. T...

Wolves continue to show that things can always get worse.