Three Square Food Bank to Provide Summer Meals for Children through “Meet Up and Eat Up” Program

Children who rely on free and reduced-price lunch during the school year do not need to go hungry this summer, thanks to Three Square Food Bank and its agency partners. The “Meet Up and Eat Up” program will provide free, nutritious meals to children 18 years of age and under beginning now through Aug. 10.  The program encompasses Three Square’s Summer […]

Opportunity Village and Clark County School District Celebrate 15th Year of their Job Discovery Program

Opportunity Village, in partnership with Clark County School District (CCSD), held their 15th annual event celebrating the Job Discovery Program on Friday, July 28 (Pictured: Job Discovery Program honorees celebrate at 15th annual event).  The event acknowledged CCSD students that successfully completed the job training and discovery program, acquiring invaluable vocational training in preparation for future successful employment. President […]

Thousands of Local K-12 Students to Experience Hands-on Science, Technology – CSN and the Clark County School District to host free Tech Expo April 28

With science and technology becoming a necessary component of our daily lives and careers, the next generation of schoolchildren will be able to explore and enjoy a fun day of learning at CSN’s upcoming Science & Technology Expo.  Held on the community college’s North Las Vegas campus each year, the expo partners CSN, the CSN […]

PROJECT 150 to Provide 3,000 Holiday Meals for Local Homeless High School Students

When the holidays come, most high school students celebrate a break from books and teachers. But for some 2,500 Clark County School District (CCSD) high school students who are homeless, displaced or disadvantaged, it is a time of stress because school is often the only place they have to find their next meal.  Project 150 […]

CCSD Superintendent Pat Skorkowsky Encourages Fun Exercise with New Technology at Boys & Girls Club

Last week, UnitedHealthcare and Konami Digital Entertainment, Inc., brought the DanceDance Revolution (DDR CE) Classroom Edition “exergame” to the Boys & Girls Club of Southern Nevada, where local youths use the popular dance game to have fun and improve their fitness.  The event was part of a collaboration with KONAMI and the Boys & Girls Club […]

Three-Time “Dancing With The Stars” Champ Derek Hough Gives a Dance Lesson to CCSD Students

Three-time Dancing With The Stars champion Derek Hough gave a dance lesson on Saturday to 15 lucky students in Las Vegas (Photo: © Erik Kabik/ RETNA/ www.erikkabik.com).  Photo: © Erik Kabik/ RETNA/ www.erikkabik.com. Hough, in conjunction with the Clark County School District School-Community Partnership Program and Fine Arts Program, taught an exclusive dance lesson to 15 […]

Nevada State High School Graduates Sixth Class May 29

Nevada State High School, a school that allows juniors and seniors in high school to earn up to two years of college credits for free, will graduate 92 students – an almost unheard of graduation rate of 100 percent of its senior class – at its graduation ceremony this Saturday, May 29. The ceremony will […]

Calling All High School Seniors Interested in Hospitality or Culinary Arts

Epicurean Charitable Foundation Las Vegas officials announced today the Foundation will host its first Scholarship Orientation for any students applying for the Foundation’s annual scholarship. The orientation will be held Thursday, Jan. 8 from 6-7:30 p.m. at the CCSD Curriculum & Professional Development Center at 3950 S. Pecos-McLeod. Any Clark County high school student who […]