FOCUS ON EDUCATION
MJC ORCHESTRA DAY
Nine Stanislaus County high schools will perform at Modesto Junior College’s High School Orchestra Day from 9:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. Nov. 6 in the Performing and Media Arts Center on the east campus, 435 College Ave. Anne Martin, MJC Community Orchestra conductor and string professor, will host the free event. Free parking will be on South Campus Way and in parking lots 104 and 105, both near the music building on Stoddard Avenue. MJC music major Anthony Houth will be the soloist on Haydn’s Concerto for cello in C major, accompanied by the Teachers’ Chamber Ensemble. Participating high schools are Beyer, directed by Marcos Rivera; Downey, directed by Joanne Neuffer; Davis, directed by Mark Davila; Turlock, led by Joe Tovar; Pitman, led by Don Grishaw; Enochs, directed by Phil Vallejo; Modesto directed by Matt Cover; Gregori, led by Dan Bryan; and Johansen, led by Brad Hart. For more information, contact Martin at (209)575-6646 or martina@mjc.edu.
APP CONTEST FOR KIDS
Middle and high school student teams can compete in the Verizon Innovative App Challenge, dreaming up ideas and creating concepts for mobile apps to solve problems in their schools and communities. Past smartphone apps can be downloaded for free in the Google Play Store. The Media Lab at Massachusetts Institute of Technology will be available to help teams develop their app concepts. The submission deadline is Nov. 24. Register and find more information at www.verizonfoundation.org/appchallenge.
RESOURCES FOR TEACHERS
The Stanislaus Historical Quarterly has placed all 31 past issues of its publication online, with indexes, dating back to the spring of 2008. See them at http://library.csustan.edu/shq. ... Teachers have free access to Tripod’s new platform for annual, classroom-level student surveys. Find the service at http://tripoded.com. ... The National Park Service has partnered with EarthCam to provide live views of U.S. monuments. EarthCam engineered a live streaming webcam to fit inside a pre-existing hole in the Washington Monument’s pyramidion, or aluminum cap, 500 feet in the air. To visit, go to www.earthcam.com/usa/dc/washingtonmonument. ... For the 2014-15 school year, the California Milk Advisory Board has activated Fuel Up to Play 60, a national in-school physical activity and nutrition program founded by the National Dairy Council and National Football League teams: the San Diego Chargers, San Francisco 49ers and Oakland Raiders. Qualifying schools may be eligible for up to $4,000 to help support their health and wellness programs. For more information, go to http://FuelUptoPlay60.com.
FREE HOMEWORK HOTLINE OPEN
Students at Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology in Terre Haute, Ind., are available on the college’s Homework Hotline five nights a week through the school year to provide free math and science tutoring to students in grades six through 12. The hotline has fielded 500,000 calls, online chats and email resources since opening in 1991. Hours are 4 to 7 p.m. PST, Sunday through Thursday, through May. Call (877) 275-7673. Submit questions by email at www.askrose.org. Tutors do not give answers, but are trained to guide callers through homework problems. They have access to current math and science textbooks. The service is funded by the Rose-Hulman and Lilly Endowment Inc.
This story was originally published October 23, 2014 at 10:48 AM with the headline "FOCUS ON EDUCATION."