School Scene Articles

Attention mathletes and numbers enthusiasts: The seventh annual North County Math Superbowl will take over the Santa Maria Fairpark on May 17 from 8:30 a.m. to noon. At the event, students from 27 schools—from Lompoc to Santa Ynez to Santa Maria—will battle it out to be the North County’s top mathematicians. Fourth-, fifth-, and sixth-grade […]

Students in Laura Stenzel’s third grade class at Tunnell Elementary School recently pulled off a trifecta by winning all three of the awards for the city of Santa Maria’s 2012 Water Awareness poster contest. The Santa Maria Utilities Department invited local third graders in the school district to create water conservation posters. Participating students were […]

In one year, the average American will use more than 2,000 paper napkins. If each person used one less napkin every day, billions of napkins and trees could be saved. Second graders from Saint Mary’s of the Assumption School are taking a stand against over-using napkins through an awareness project. According to a recent press […]

The Mathematics, Engineering, and Science Achievement (MESA) program recently presented its third annual Math Challenge competition. With nearly 200 students competing from 21 community colleges, it was Allan Hancock College’s own German Morales who took the top spot. According to a recent press release, seven Hancock students participated in the competition, held at the MESA […]

Nowadays there are summer camps of all different kinds for children focusing on everything from cooking to fashion design. Located across the street from Cachuma Lake, Circle V Ranch is offering a more traditional, but nonetheless exciting, summer camp experience for children ages 7 to 13. There will be a free open house tour and […]

The campaign against bullying in schools continues to gather public attention with the national release of, and ratings controversy surrounding, the documentary film Bully. Locally, the Santa Maria Recreation and Parks Department and PLAY, Inc. are continuing the anti-bullying conversation with an interactive workshop on April 21. Teens and adults are invited to attend the […]

Get a tour of local greenhouses and nurseries as part of the Central Coast Greenhouse Growers Association’s 11th annual open house on April 14. From 9 a.m. to 3 p.m., association members throughout Nipomo and Arroyo Grande will open their doors to the public to raise money for a scholarship fund. Many growers will offer […]

The Allan Hancock College summer class schedule is now available online, and it lists nearly 300 credit classes being offered at its Santa Maria, Lompoc Valley, and Vandenberg Air Force Base locations, college officials announced in a press release. Class subjects include art, anatomy, dance, English, film, geography, math, paralegal, political science, Spanish, viticulture operations, […]