Lyons Elementary students explore environmental leadership with STEM focus

Lyons Elementary fifth graders on Thursday donned waders and grabbed screens, then walked into a shallow section of the North St. Vrain River in LaVern Johnson Park. Two students held the screen, while a third loosened rocks to disturb the riverbed and the macroinvertebrates living there. Then they took the screens to the bank and
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Lyons Middle Senior hosts former Broncos player, cheerleaders

Fans at Lyons Middle Senior High School got to meet Super Bowl Champion and Hall of Famer Steve Atwater before the football game on Friday night. Lyons was among five selected host sites for the Denver Broncos High School Game of the Week. Fans attending the game were able to meet former Denver Bronco, Atwater,
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SVVSD welcomes students back to school this week

Two Lyons Middle/Senior teachers opened a wall between their classrooms Thursday, allowing them to address the entire sixth-grade class at the small school. Julie Vasquez — who teaches language arts, social studies and speech and debate — and Kevin Schafer — who teaches math and science — introduced their “oops” passes program.
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‘Future heroes’ celebrated in St. Vrain Valley School District’s Class of 2022 commencement

High school for Bruno Gallegos Sanchez and the rest of the Class of 2022 was unexpected. Addressing graduates Saturday, Gallegos Sanchez said students likely didn’t imagine that they would spend part of their high school career trying to figure out how to make a COVID-19 mask fashionable and navigating a network of online learning tools
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St. Vrain graduates look toward future with big goals

Approximately 2,000 students are graduating from St. Vrain Valley School District this week, all of them looking toward their unique futures. Diana Garcia Garcia, a senior at Skyline High School, has already graduated from Front Range Community College. A Pathways in Technology Early College High School student, Garcia Garcia earned her associate degree with a
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Lyons students present ecological efforts to town advisory board

Confluence 2022 highlights science, leadership skills at every grade level The youngest presenter to the Lyons Ecology Advisory Board on Tuesday was a pre-schooler who talked about the science and conservation he learned about in class. “Science is fun!” he concluded to applause. The preschool student was one of a slate of presenters at the
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Boulder County graduating seniors celebrate accomplishments after pandemic school disruptions

Monarch High graduating senior Hannah Rowton dressed a cardboard cutout of “Harry Potter” villain Draco Malfoy in different outfits as a backdrop to keep herself engaged as online classes dragged on during her junior year. “It was hard mentally,” she said. “It was so hard not knowing when things would end, if I would get
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St. Vrain high schools achieve status as U.S. Best High Schools

Eight high schools in the St. Vrain Valley School District have been named as a 2022 U.S. News Best High School. The U.S. News ranks uses data on more than 24,000 public high schools, ranking nearly 18,000 schools on six factors. Those factors included college readiness, state assessment proficiency, state assessment performance, underserved student performance,
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Celebrate local conservation at the northern redbelly dace fish release event

Saturday, August 28, from 10 a.m. to noon will be a celebration of over two years of conservation efforts by multiple organizations with the release of the Colorado native, endangered northern redbelly dace, into Webster Pond at Pella Crossing. The event will include St. Vrain Valley Schools Future-Ready Innovation Lab and hands-on activity stations for
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