The Education Foundation of the Summit, Mountain Top Explorium and the Summit Historical Society were all recently awarded grants from the Bessie Minor Swift Foundation. The nonprofit is owned by the previous owners and founder.
Mountain Top Explorium, previously known as Mountain Top Children’s Museum, reopened to the public Saturday, Jan. 29, after a roughly four-month remodel. The nonprofit lost its home in 2019 due to a hotel expansion. It.
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Breckenridge Elementary School students on Tuesday were the first of 1,400 Summit School District students to receive blue light glasses thanks to Mountain Top Children’s Museum.
Mountain Top raised $3,600 for the glasses, which will be given out in the coming days to all elementary students in the district. Blue light glasses can help to reduce headaches, tiredness and other visual symptoms from extended time looking at computer screens.
Mountain Top Executive Director Tiernan Spencer said she came up with the idea earlier in the school year out of a desire to help students who were struggling at home with Zoom meetings.
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As restrictions loosen and the weather warms, more people are venturing out of the confines of their homes to resume favorite pastimes or pick up a new hobby. Art studios are ramping up in-person classes and workshops to provide a creative outlet. in Frisco has offered drop-in classes since opening in 2018, and making tie-dye shirts outside has been a common summer sighting, but winter activity slowed down until the holidays. Drop-in classes now take place in the upstairs studio loft, and The Sunny Side Up Studio owner Ashlie Weisel said the format has been working well.