On March 31st Students from STAR Prep Academy will participate in a day of service at Cal Poly Pomona.  Students will work with the Agriscapes after spending the morning learning about agriculture.  This will be a culminating activity around the life of Cesar Chavez.  Students have spent time learning about the life of Cesar Chavez [...]

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Please click the link for this week’s newsletter—>3-30-091

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Blue Ocean Institute is now accepting applications from high school and college students for the 2009 Kalpana Chawla Ocean Journey Scholarship to the Galapagos Islands.
Applications are due April 30, 2009.
Please visit www.blueocean.org for an application and details about the program.
Honoring Kalpana Chawla
The scholarship is named for the NASA astronaut who perished aboard the Columbia Space [...]

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Twitter is a free service that lets you keep in touch with people through the exchange of quick, frequent answers to one simple question: What are you doing? Join today to start receiving STAR ECO station’s updates.  Click here to find out more.

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Don’t forget to dye, style, spike or cut your hair for tomorrow’s crazy hair day!

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STAR Prep Academy will be joining the rest of the world in participating in Earth Hour on March 28th, by cutting all essential power during our fundraiser/silent auction.  Culver City has also joined in.  Here is an excerpt from a recent press release:
“Culver City Public Works will support Earth Hour 2009, a global climate event [...]

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The National Association for Gifted Children (NAGC) has a list of summer programming listed on their website for children of all ages.  For a complete list of their prgrams, see their website.

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Teens Get a Peek into Public Health Careers
The CDC Disease Detective Camp is an academic public health day camp held at CDC’s headquarters in Atlanta, GA. The camp is open to upcoming high school juniors and seniors.
Students interested in working in a team environment with other motivated students are encouraged to apply!
Over [...]

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Michael Pollan, author of The Ominovore’s Dilemma and In Defense of Food amongst others, recently gave an interview to Mother Jones on the modern food industry, Obama’s pick for Sec. of Agriculture and writing in general.  You can find the interview here.

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Please see ths week’s newsletter for more information on the Academy —>3-23-091

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