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Black
History Month Building
African-American heritage resources
Art gallery owner Robert A. Powell
and author/newsman Julius Hunter often
serve as local spokespersons on trends
in the field of African-American arts-from
fine arts to fine writing.
Boy
Band What's a
"didgeridoo"? Or a "tubulum"? The
garage band called Cyclic Redundancy likes to
play what members call "experimental" music.
But, they also like to play experimental musical
instruments.
Book
Reviews This month's
book reviews
Books reviewed for February include ones about
(1) the origin of the Loch Ness Monster, (2)
kids involved in the Industrial Revolution
of 1830's England, (3) a boy's adventures
in the Amazon rain forest, and (4) a girl
and her family making a new life during the
California gold rush of 1849
Figure
Skating Planning
a career in figure skating
Amanda Kennedy of Hillsboro has been figure
skating for 10 years since she started at
age 5. Now, she's beginning to plan how to
make a living out of skating once she's older.
Boys
Basketball Local team
seeks another national berth
Coach Matt Brobeck is making sure his Vetta
Maverick 12&under team doesn't think it'll be
easy to qualify again for the National AAU Boys
Basketball Tournament.
Scientist
Showcase Magic introduces
kids to science principles
Kids visiting the Minority Scientists' Showcase
last month got a chance to pick up some good
magic tricks that they could do at home.
Math
Mania Math
Mania seeks relationship answers Ms. Math Mania has come
up with a series of clues that can help you
figure out the seating chart in an imaginary
classroom. Whether you find the correct relationships
between the various clues will determine whether
you solve the February Math Mania.
Two
winners in Math Mania contest Two kids figured out all of the correct
answers to the January Math Mania questions.
The puzzles were aimed at getting you to know
the correlations between yards and miles and
inches and yards.
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