Around Town: Sage Hill School students bring robot to competition
Students from Sage Hill School in Newport Coast and 65 other high schools from California, Hawaii and Chile brought their robots to the 24th regional FIRST competition last weekend.
The robotics competition – its name is an acronym for For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology – was held at the Long Beach Arena. The object for student teams was to use their robots to weaken and capture their opponents’ tower.
More than 1,000 students participated.
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UCI programs make it to top 50 of national grad school rankings
UC Irvine schools earned spots in the top 50 of U.S. News & World Report’s annual ranking of the nation’s graduate school programs.
UCI’s School of Education ranked 25th on the magazine’s 2017 list of schools of education released Tuesday.
The Paul Merage School of Business placed 48th in business school rankings, jumping five spots from 53rd.
UCI’s law school moved up from 30th to 28th in its category.
Other graduate school rankings for UCI programs include the Claire Trevor School of the Arts (33rd), the Henry Samueli School of Engineering (37th) and the School of Medicine research program (44th) in their areas of study.
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Mariners Christian receives grant from Pacific Life Foundation
Pacific Life Foundation has presented a 3 T’s for Education grant of $3,000 to Mariners Christian School in Costa Mesa.
The grant will go toward enhancing the private school’s writing program with a focus on teaching writing within genre studies. Students will learn about narratives, research-based arguments and informational text.
Pacific Life Foundation, based in Newport Beach, offers 3 T’s of Education grants to K-12 schools attended by children or grandchildren of Pacific Life employees.
Mariners Christian students Camryn and Grace Porco’s father, Mike, and student Peter Thompson’s mother, Patricia, are employees of Pacific Life.
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Registration open for summer programs in Irvine
Registration is open for the Irvine Public Schools Foundation’s 2016 summer classes in engineering, art, SAT and ACT preparation and a new music course.
The foundation will hold its first Young Americans Camp for students in grades 3-12 from July 5 to 9 at Northwood High School. The class will include vocal performance, dancing, improvisational acting and songwriting.
The foundation’s Summer Enrichment Academy for kindergartners through eighth-graders will offer courses in science, technology, math, language arts, performing arts and sports.
The High School Academic Camps will provide classes such as test preparation and public speaking. Camps will be held June 13 through July 22 at Northwood and Woodbridge high schools.
For more information or to register, visit ipsfacademy.org.