Speech contest addresses school safety
March 23, 2012 by sttalbot
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Those attending the 58th annual Toastmasters International Henry Greve Speech Contest on March 22 knew going in that the topic would be a challenge for the seventh and eighth-grade student competitors. Bakersfield Toastmaster’s Club #270, who hosts and judges the contest each year, picked “How Can We Create a Safe School Environment?” They probably did [...]
History as students see it
March 17, 2012 by sttalbot
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When it comes to historical events on Kern County History Day, it is hard to come with one better than Bryan Garcia’s story. Garcia was the only student from his school, Blake Elementary, let us take it even further, the only one from his school district, Blake Elementary School District, to enter the 29th annual [...]
Science that benefits, wins
March 14, 2012 by sttalbot
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When you have a keynote speaker whose best selling book is “The Calculus Diaries: How Math Can Help You Lose Weight, Win in Vegas, and Survive a Zombie Apocalypse,” the event must include a lot of people interested in seeing how. Well, the 24th annual Kern County Regional Science Fair held on March 13 at [...]
Discovering a flair for talent
February 25, 2012 by sttalbot
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Many will tell you that the Kern County Oral Language Festival, which concluded its 41st annual competition on Feb. 25, is all about elementary school children showcasing their appreciation of literary works through verbal expression. It is, but it is also much more than that. Approximately 300 Kern County children in grades 4-8 spent half [...]
Young students see instruments as people
February 10, 2012 by sttalbot
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Did you ever think of a bird as a flute? How do you feel about an oboe as a duck? Well, Russian composer Sergei Prokofiev gave that a lot of musical thought about 76 years ago when he wrote “Peter and the Wolf.” It is a musical play in which different instruments are assigned to [...]
Brain – not brawn – wins this competition
February 4, 2012 by sttalbot
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When they opened East Bakersfield High School on Saturday, Feb. 4, it was not for disciplinary reasons or to host an athletic competition. Well, competition? Yes. Athletic? No. This was an event to exercise the brain, known as the Kern County Academic Decathlon. Nineteen high school teams were in competition to show how much they [...]
Practice made it ‘Grand’
February 2, 2012 by sttalbot
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Approximately 400 high school age band, choir and orchestra members spent the morning of Jan. 31 going over and over what they had already been going over and over since Jan. 14. Only this was the last time they would be going over the music they would play before hundreds of family and friends at [...]
Learning more than ‘who did it’
January 21, 2012 by sttalbot
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When 20 Kern County high school teams tackled the question of Ryan Buschell’s guilt two months ago, they were looking for more than a verdict. All were taking part in an annual competitive event called Kern County Mock Trial, which this year featured the fictitious case of People v. Buschell alleging Buschell murdered university student [...]
Subjective talent important in ‘Academic’ event
January 20, 2012 by sttalbot
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Dozens of high school students converged on Bakersfield’s University Square on Jan. 19 with one goal in mind — to prove they could be just as persuasive in a subjective setting as in a classroom. It was Speech, Interview and Essay Day, providing competition in the first three events of the Kern County Academic Decathlon. [...]
Charter students offer food handling solution
January 5, 2012 by sttalbot
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Everyone’s heard the old adage, “If you can build a better mouse trap, the world will beat a path to your door”…or words to that effect. Students at Tehachapi’s Valley Oaks Charter School have not come up with that mouse trap, but maybe something even more useful - a solution to food handling issues. Their [...]
