Facebook makes $450K COVID-19 relief grant to Crook County schools
Facebook, Crook County School District on Wednesday announced a $450,000 COVID-19 relief grant to help support its online learning program.
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Bend-La Pine’s Class of 2020 to get billboard-sized salutes
Starting Monday morning, local contractors will be high above the ground, giving five billboards fun, fresh makeovers to celebrate Bend-La Pine Schools’ Class of 2020.
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Madras to celebrate HS seniors with special street banners
The Madras High School Class of 2020 will be celebrated by its community and all those passing through with personalized banners hanging from city street light poles beginning May 25th.
Continue ReadingOSU pigment expert went true blue, now he’s looking for a very special red
Mas Subramanian, distinguished professor of chemistry at Oregon State University, has received a special $200,000 grant from the National Science Foundation to pursue the holy grail of color research: an inorganic red pigment that’s vivid, safe and durable.
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OSU-Cascades offers virtual admissions events for prospective students, parents
BEND, Ore. (KTVZ) — High school juniors and seniors engaged in college searches can meet with Oregon State University–Cascades faculty and staff to learn about degree programs, the student experience and career exploration during a series of upcoming virtual events. The Bend Beavs Live Chat events enable prospective students and their families to learn more
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University of Oregon plans for in-person classes this fall
University of Oregon students may have in-person classes this fall, officials said.
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Bend- La Pine Schools announce plans for virtual graduation ceremonies
Graduation is right around the corner, but instead of having an opportunity to walk across the stage to get their diploma, Bend-La Pine Schools seniors will have a virtual ceremony, due to COVID-19.
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COCC nursing program receives national accreditation
Central Oregon Community College’s nursing associate degree program recently attained national accreditation from the Accreditation Commission for Education in Nursing, a status that the school says puts the program on a new level of recognition and quality.
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OSU making intellectual property available to help fight COVID-19
CORVALLIS, Ore. (KTVZ) – Oregon State University is joining universities and academic health centers nationally in making licensing agreements for its intellectual property quickly executable to speed up the development of technologies that can be used to diagnose, treat and prevent COVID-19. The COVID-19 Technology Development Framework, spearheaded by Stanford, Harvard and Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
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‘Transfer Tuesdays’: Sessions for adults seeking to finish degree at OSU-Cascades
Students interested in enrolling at Oregon State University–Cascades are invited to register for a personal online or phone appointment with a transfer admissions specialist.
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Oregon parents sign petition to oppose grading system changes
Oregon students and their families, like many others across the nation, are experiencing a disruption right now. The Oregon Department of Education decision to administer only pass or incomplete as grades for student in grades 9-12 is concerning many families, thousands of whom have signed a petition to keep letter grades.
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Redmond School District launches online kindergarten registration
REDMOND, Ore. (KTVZ) — The Redmond School District has launched online registration for incoming kindergarten students for the 2020-2021 school year. Registration for incoming kindergarten students will only be available online during the statewide school closure. Parents can now access online registration on the district’s website www.redmondschools.org. Required documentation such as birth certificate, immunization records
Continue Reading OSU-Cascades to offer first engineering science degree at West Coast public school
Oregon State University–Cascades will offer a new bachelor’s degree this fall to address employer needs for engineers that can work across a wide range of engineering disciplines.
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Redmond Proficiency Academy duo take 2nd in virtual State Science Fair
REDMOND, Ore. (KTVZ) — Redmond Proficiency Academy seniors Stephen Fawcett and Clara Garza recently won second place in the virtual State Science Fair with their investigation of the effects of potassium iodide on Staphylococcus epidermidis (a common bacterium). The science fair is normally in-person, but due to COVID-19, students submitted their materials through the Northwest
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Bend-La Pine Schools open fall kindergarten registration
Bend-La Pine Schools families are invited to register kindergarten students for the coming 2020-21 school year, beginning Friday. Online registration is open now for all incoming kindergartners.
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Bend High seniors gather for unique prom photo shoot
Prom is an event that many high school students look forward to from the day they become a freshman. But no one could have predicted the coronavirus and how it’s shut down schools, effectively canceling prom this year.
Continue Reading Late-start classes extend spring term options at COCC
BEND, Ore. (KTVZ) — While Central Oregon Community College’s spring term is currently underway, the college is offering a lineup of late-start courses, condensed in format, that are designed to extend more academic opportunities to laid-off workers, high school seniors, university students at home and others during the pandemic. The online courses begin May 11, with an admission deadline
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OSU partners with USGS on electrical mapping project to help protect power grid
Oregon State University will carry out large-scale mapping of the electrical properties of Earth’s crust and mantle beneath the southern and southwestern U.S. under a new two-year, $2.5 million cooperative agreement with the U.S. Geological Survey.
Continue ReadingSenators announce $116 million in cash grants to Oregon college students
Sens. Jeff Merkley and Ron Wyden, D-Ore., announced Friday that over $116 million will be distributed among 73 colleges, universities and community colleges throughout Oregon to provide direct emergency cash grants to college students whose lives and educations have been disrupted by the coronavirus outbreak.
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C.O. high schools honor seniors with ‘Friday Night Lights’
Several Central Oregon high schools have come up with a way to show all students and faculty, and especially the senior class, that, while they may be gone from campus, they are not forgotten. You could call it ‘Friday Night Lights.’
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