The US National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) needs your help select a next-generation space suit. A team of engineers designed these suits, but NASA wants you to vote on which design is best. Let’s meet a space suit designer. Yes, that is really her job title! Amy Ross is a NASA engineer. It is…
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Costa Rica Global Student Leaders Summit
Student Summit in Costa Rica Laurel Springs students who are enrolled full-time in grades 9 to 12 have the opportunity to attend an Earth Day Conference in beautiful Costa Rica as part of the Global Student Leaders Summit program. The nine-day program will include a guided ecological tour, and all participants will be part of…
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Casey Ross – Online Teaching Experience
Casey Ross Brings Robust Online Teaching Experience to Laurel Springs Casey Ross is a veteran teacher in every sense of the word. She has over ten years of experience teaching in brick and mortar classrooms, and ten more years of online teaching experience. She has worked in curriculum development, as an education advocate, and serves…
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Get Ahead with Online Summer Courses from Laurel Springs
Summer School Program at Laurel Springs Summer is a great time for kids to relax with family and friends, travel, volunteer or work, and explore their passions. It’s also the perfect time to get ahead with an online course or summer school program. Laurel Springs understands the lives of busy middle and high school students,…
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Laurel Springs School Hosts Online Symposium with Ted Turner
Ted Turner Speaks at Laurel Springs School As part of our series of exclusive, interactive symposia, Laurel Springs School hosted an online environmental symposium with businessman and environmentalist Ted Turner on Wednesday, April 4. Turner joined a long list of notables who spoke as part of Laurel Springs’ “Meetings with Remarkable Men & Women” series, which…
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Teaching to Inspire – Christian Tourenne
Christian Tourenne: An Experienced Educator at Laurel Springs In the words of Laurel Springs student Nabil Wessel, Christian Tourenne “is simply a very, very good teacher.” But that only scratches the surface of what Tourenne brings to the Laurel Springs School community. He is an experienced educator who also has significant business experience with practical…
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Laurel Springs School Represented at Clinton Global Initiative
Clinton Global Initiative by Marilyn Mosley Gordanier I was honored to be invited to the Clinton Global Initiative America conference held in Chicago on the weekend of June 29th. Participants included 750 heads of state, governmental officials, business leaders, educators and non-profit leaders. The purpose of the event was to “inspire, connect and empower a…
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Antarctica: Journey of a Lifetime
Laurel Springs High School Student Maddi Stevens’ Antarctica Journey Most people will never visit Antarctica. It is a place of extremes: the coldest, driest, windiest continent. It is technically a desert, and there are no permanent residents. To reach Antarctica, travelers must cross the Drake Passage, which is known to be the most dangerous stretch of ocean in…
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