Tulare County Office of Education’s Nutrition Education Obesity Prevention (NEOP) program and students from Terra Bella Elementary School and Summit Charter Intermediate Academy will be featured in the latest edition of ABC30’s Children First, airing Sunday, March 20. According to Feeding America, the number of children facing hunger in the United States rose during the […]
The annual STEAM Expo will return as an in-person event Saturday, March 12 at the Planetarium & Science Center. Organizers have assembled fun science, technology, engineering, art, and math (STEAM) activities for Central Valley families and children of all ages. In addition, visitors will have the opportunity to see a free planetarium show, which will run at […]
As planned, Fresno Pacific University will return to face-to-face classes Monday, February 7. This was the target date set by the FPU President’s Cabinet January 28, when it decided COVID numbers had climbed to the point a temporary return to primarily online education was necessary. The return affects all courses not previously scheduled to be […]
The Tulare County Office of Education will hold the final rounds of the 2022 Tulare County Academic Decathlon, a 10-event scholastic competition for teams of high school students, on Saturday, February 5, 2022. Teams of Tulare County students from seven high schools will compete in two school categories – large school and small school – […]
This spring, the Theatre Company is increasing its number of workshops and spreading them throughout the county. In lieu of its annual spring production, the group is focusing on providing short performance training opportunities. “We will be offering a variety of our favorite workshops with concentrations on audition preparation, dance technique, vocal technique, and vocal […]
The Sixth Annual Tech Rodeo is scheduled virtually for Saturday, January 15 from 8:00 a.m. until 4:00 p.m. The full-day educational technology conference features learning options for educators, administrators, and coaches to meet the needs of students in all grade levels, regardless of the content area or the devices/applications being used. Registration is open until […]
Video entries for the 2022 Slick Rock Student Film Festival are due March 11. Middle and high school students living in Tulare, Fresno, Kern, Kings, Madera, Mariposa, or Merced counties may enter videos in a total of 16 categories. New this year is a category entitled Opioids, Fentanyl & Marijuana, sponsored by the Tulare County […]
McKenna Friend-Hoffman, who has assisted on several recent Theatre Company productions, has been selected as the company’s new choreographer. Friend-Hoffman, an award-winning choreographer, succeeds Nicole Zweifel, who retired last week after more than 20 years of service. A classically-trained dancer since the age of seven, she has studied dance composition, production, and pedagogy at the […]
On November 13, the University Preparatory High School (UPHS) robotics team, Arborbotics, traveled to Madera for a two-day robotics competition. The team is part of the FIRST Robotics Competition created by For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology (FIRST), an international youth organization that also created FIRST LEGO League Challenge and other competitions. The […]
Visalia Unified School District has begun the process of redistricting its Board Trustee Areas based on the 2020 Census data. Board Trustee Areas are different from school attendance area boundaries and do not affect which schools students are assigned to attend. In order to provide the community an opportunity to engage in this process, Visalia […]