Photo: Gaurav Nene, Cooper Eastwood, William Knoblauch and David Hadley pose in Embry-Riddle’s Aerospace Experimentation and Fabrication Building with their reusable suborbital rocket. (Photos: David Hadley) As Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University students are designing a rocket that can soar through the Earth’s atmosphere and reach outer space, only to be recovered through a parachute system for
Misinformation abounds about the newly established Empowerment Scholarship Account program that makes any student eligible for an ESA to attend the school that best meets their needs. Here are the facts. What is an ESA? A parent of any Arizona student who is eligible to attend school from kindergarten through twelfth grade may establish an
For teachers and librarians, returning to school means getting students back to stories. Stories matter, and they make a difference in our lives. Often, the jarring stories are most magnetic and make lifelong readers. An angry little boy sent to his room for punishment finds it transformed into a jungle with monsters (and feelings) he
Prescott, Arizona has experienced a garden renaissance of new gardeners hungry for local content and an ever-diverse choice of plant options. #Plantparents of the rarest houseplants lead this new generation of gardeners. “We find the best introductory plants to gardening are houseplants. First-time home buyers, college students, and apartment dwellers are leading the way,” says
Nine years ago, I warned readers about “eyelock biometric readers” adopted by Florida schools to track them on buses. Under the guise of fighting guns and vaping, countless schools this year are now installing surveillance sensors in bathrooms that can spy and record students’ alleged “aggression” and red-flag “spoken key words.” Eight years ago, I
Rising Inflation is Costing a Majority of Arizonans at Least $200 Monthly A new survey commissioned by September Group, LLC and conducted by OH Predictive Insights measured the impact of inflation on the monthly budgets of Arizonans. According to the latest Arizona Public Opinion Pulse (AZPOP) Survey, 63% of Arizonans have seen a monthly spending increase of $200. This
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