Monadnock Ledger-Transcript
Published: 11/30/2016 6:37:06 PM
Patrick Cogan sees potential in rusty grain scoops, old buckets, vintage cheese graters, glass bottles, teacups and silverware.
“It’s like the old saying goes; one man’s trash is another man’s treasure,” Cogan said at his home in Antrim on a recent Sunday afternoon.
Cogan, who is the owner of Recycled Illuminations and is also a music teacher at Great Brook School, repurposes tired items that he finds at the dump, various consignment shops, or is gifted from various businesses or departments.
He said he used to do wood carvings and while people would marvel at the items, they wouldn’t purchase the pieces, adding that there is no money in the craft.
Lab Girls lays the groundwork for female scientists
Lab Girls held its first virtual meeting last Thursday with presenter Mirka Zapletal, director of education at the McAuliffe-Shepard Discovery Center in Concord. Traditionally held once a week over the course of six weeks in local middle schools, the virtual Lab Girls format is held once a month through June and is open to students in grades 5 through 12. Staff photo by Tim Goodwin
Lab Girls held its first virtual meeting last Thursday with presenter Mirka Zapletal, director of education at the McAuliffe-Shepard Discovery Center in Concord. Traditionally held once a week over the course of six weeks in local middle schools, the virtual Lab Girls format is held once a month through June and is open to students in grades 5 through 12. Staff photo by Tim Goodwin
Monadnock Ledger-Transcript
Published: 1/12/2021 12:56:21 PM
When Mirka Zapletal was growing up, she knew of a few female scientists – Marie Curie and Jane Goodall to be exact. All the rest, she thought, were men.
“I just thought scientists were other people than me,” Zapletal, director of education at the McAuliffe-Shepard Discovery Center, told the latest batch of Lab Girls participants Thursday night over the first-ever Zoom meeting of the program.
But then after embarking on her career as an educator, she realized she could be.
“I wasn’t a scientist until someone gave me the chance to realize I was,” Zapletal said.
Downtown Antrim Staff photo by Abbe Hamilton
Published: 12/31/2020 10:57:09 AM
Modified: 12/31/2020 10:56:59 AM
Antrim
Search for snowflakes through Jan. 2
Antrim residents have a couple more days to seek out unique snowflakes “falling” around town through a “Hidden Snowflakes” hunt put on by the Recreation Commission.
Unique snowflakes began to appear on Dec. 27, and will continue to fall through Jan. 2. Two example snowflakes are hanging in the window of the recreation office in the community gymnasium opposite the Great Brook School entrance on School Street for snowflake seekers to calibrate their eyes.
“These aren’t just any snowflakes though… There is something hiding on each one! Can you figure out what each snowflake has hidden? If you can find them, and let us know who or what is hiding on them, you can earn a frosty treat!” the recreation commission wrote in an announcement for the event. Participants have until midnight on Jan. 4 to turn their ans
New Hampshire Schools Confront Student Broadband Issues
In a survey conducted this summer by the N.H. Department of Education, 32 percent of parents in Keene, H.H., and several other municipalities, said technical issues disrupt their child s remote instruction at times. by Caleb Symons, The Keene Sentinel / December 14, 2020 Shutterstock/Sue Tansirimas
Faulkner Elementary School in
Stoddard, where Bridges teaches 4th and 5th grade, transitioned to fully remote learning in March due to the COVID-19 pandemic. That meant battling the rural town s spotty Internet coverage, which she said created connectivity issues for about half of her students. You d teach a lesson, and like four kids would only hear half of it, she said. You d be calling them on the phone, trying to catch them up on what they missed.