It was just one seat in the Rose Garden, but the way Amber Nichols saw it, she had the whole expanse filled, metaphorically. “That seat was for every West Virginia kid,” the state’s 2023 Teacher of the Year said. “I carried every single one with me.” Nichols, who teaches ...
From Elephant Toothpaste — to nearly 19,000 miles on the odometer. That’s how it’s going these days at WVU for an intellectual road-trip exercise designed to bring fun, hands-on lesson plans to middle school students across the Mountain State. It’s known collectively as the ...
If December went out like an angry snowman for Monongalia County Schools, then May’s conclusion is going to hit it just like Santa on a Jet Ski. District Superintendent Eddie Campbell Jr. announced this week that the last day of school for the county will be Wednesday, May 31 — given ...
The West Virginia Office of Emergency Medical Services has awarded Monongalia Emergency Medical Services (Mon EMS) a five-year accreditation as an EMS educational institution. “We are very excited to achieve this honor and to continue the growth and development of Emergency Medicine in ...
It took about two minutes last week for the Monongalia County Board of Education to level a 365-day expulsion on a student for violating West Virginia’s Safe Schools Act. Under the mandates of state code, neither the BOE nor Superintendent Eddie Campbell Jr. could give the student’s ...
FAIRMONT — No, that wasn’t a time-portal to a 22nd century ESPN telecast you wandered into Saturday at Fairmont State University. Those really were small-scale robots, in real-time, playing disc golf on a mini-course set up at the Feaster Center. The science-fiction enhanced sport was the main event of the 2023 Robotics Championship, featuring top high school teams from across the Mountain State. Except, as said, it’s not science fiction. It’s science fact — and the West Virginia Secondary Schools Activities Commission made it so in 2021 when it officially ...
