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Skyview High students win app contest

December 27, 2017, 5:48am Community

Three Skyview High School students were honored by U.S. Rep. Jaime Herrera Beutler, R-Battle Ground, for an app they built as part of the 2017 Congressional App Challenge. Read story

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Charting the degrees that pay off

Dreamstime

December 22, 2017, 6:00am Business

A year after graduating from college, a student with a community-college degree in a health profession earns nearly double what someone with a bachelor’s degree in English does. Read story

Reid Swank, 9, of Vancouver works with his sister Tayden, 10, as they film a stop-motion movie Wednesday afternoon at Vancouver Community Library. Students used an application on tablets for the project, which allowed them to take photos and stitch them together.

Kids make movies in popular library class

Reid Swank, 9, of Vancouver works with his sister Tayden, 10, as they film a stop-motion movie Wednesday afternoon at Vancouver Community Library. Students used an application on tablets for the project, which allowed them to take photos and stitch them together.

December 21, 2017, 6:00am Clark County News

With all the confidence and slight frown of a Hollywood director, 10-year-old Tayden Swank watched as her younger brother slowly adjusted a stuffed bunny. Read story

Vancouver Public Schools foundation fundraiser brings in record amount

December 20, 2017, 5:56am Clark County News

Vancouver Public Schools announced Tuesday that patrons donated a record $263,000 to the district foundation's annual campaign. Read story

Dressed as Terry the T-Wolf, Heritage High School senior Robbie Meadors high-fives a long line of fellow students on Tuesday afternoon at Heritage High School. The school estimates that 150 students lined up to try to break the world record of 128 high-fives by a school mascot in one minute. Most saluted Terry the T-Wolf twice.

Heritage students, mascot try to break world high-five record

Dressed as Terry the T-Wolf, Heritage High School senior Robbie Meadors high-fives a long line of fellow students on Tuesday afternoon at Heritage High School. The school estimates that 150 students lined up to try to break the world record of 128 high-fives by a school mascot in one minute. Most saluted Terry the T-Wolf twice.

December 19, 2017, 7:21pm Clark County News

The rapid-fire smack smack smack of hundreds of high-fives filled the cafeteria at Heritage High School on Tuesday, as a line of about 150 high school students slapped palms with the school mascot, a timber wolf, in an attempt to break the world record for most high-fives by a mascot… Read story

Donation drive nets nearly $80K for Evergreen schools

December 18, 2017, 6:04am Clark County News

In what’s fast become a Christmas tradition for the Vancouver company, DiscoverOrg donated about $80,000 and 8,800 pounds of supplies to support students in need at Evergreen Public Schools. Read story

Vancouver iTech Preparatory freshman Emily Neumann, from left, junior Brooklyn Terry and freshman Elizabeth Zavala test out the wheels on their prototype during a robotics class at the school on Monday. The school boasts a curriculum preparing students for college and careers in science and engineering fields. But with a predominantly white student body, experts worry iTech and similar magnet schools are exacerbating barriers for students of color.

Minority students aren’t pulled to magnet schools

Vancouver iTech Preparatory freshman Emily Neumann, from left, junior Brooklyn Terry and freshman Elizabeth Zavala test out the wheels on their prototype during a robotics class at the school on Monday. The school boasts a curriculum preparing students for college and careers in science and engineering fields. But with a predominantly white student body, experts worry iTech and similar magnet schools are exacerbating barriers for students of color.

December 17, 2017, 6:01am Clark County News

Anastasia McAllister still remembers not feeling well when she left her interview at Vancouver School of Arts and Academics. Read story

Tuberculosis testing urged for 187 at Wy’east

December 13, 2017, 7:17pm Clark County Health

Clark County health officials are recommending tuberculosis testing for 187 students and staff at Wy’east Middle School who may have come into contact with someone with active TB. Read story