RENSSELAER, N.Y. â The Rensselaer Center for Economic Opportunity (CEO) held a ribbon-cutting at its Family Resource Center (FRC) recently to celebrate the opening of the FRC s new STEM-inspired playground.
STEM stands for education in the areas of science, technology, engineering, and math. It is a current hot topic in the education industry as more and more educational leaders call for increased emphasis on teaching STEM curricula.
The new playground at the Rensselaer FRC has many structures that are designed to inspire opportunities of STEM thinking and learning for the children that attend the daycare there. On the preschool side of the playground is a climbing structure that looks like a rocket ship, a pretend car that looks like the Mars Rover, a music station, and a structure with gears and other manipulatives that demonstrates cause and effect. On the toddler side of the playground is another cause-and-effect structure and a kitchen play center.
ASO s Miller surprised by second Grammy
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Richard O Neill, the Violist who performed the winning pieceRichard O NeillShow MoreShow Less
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David Alan Miller didn’t think he would win a Grammy. The music director of the Albany Symphony was out food shopping and was walking back to his parked car when his daughter yelled to him from it that the symphony had won the Grammy in the best classical instrumental solo category. The piece that won was a viola concerto composed by Christopher Theofanidis, and performed by violist Richard O’Neill.
“I m thrilled. And I was quite stunned by it because I had really emotionally prepared myself not to win for a number of reasons,” said Miller, who had been nominated for a Grammy six times before, winning only once before this. Second among his reasons for not expecting to win was being up against some of the most celebrated orchestras in the world, including the Boston Symphony and the Philade