Iowa Education News (United States)

In today’s economic landscape, higher education is often out of reach for many students. To make the dream of post-secondary education more attainable for students, ODYSSEYWARE recently announced its first-ever scholarship essay contest.

Mr. Tutor Mobile Tutoring Service will be holding a Mock ACT Test on Sat., November 12, 2011, from 9 AM-1 PM, at the Iowa City Area Association of Realtors Building, located at 847 Quarry Road #110, in Coralville, IA.

Mr Tutor LLC, along with the Mississippi Valley Regional Blood Center, is sponsoring a Halloween Blood Drive this Saturday, Oct. 29, from 8 AM-12 Noon, at the Kirkwood Oureach Center, located at 3375 Armar Drive in Marion.

On Saturday, October 8th, there was excitement in the air at the Herbert Hoover Presidential Library/Museum as three Herbert Hoover Uncommon Students were named $5000 Scholarship winners.

Breakthrough Basketball and NBA Coach Don Kelbick Will Host Camps in Boston, Chicago, Los Angeles, Florida, Utah, and Iowa in Spring, Summer and Fall of 2012

Picnic tables built in kid sizes are a perfect landscape element for playgrounds and activity areas.

In today’s economic landscape, higher education is often out of reach for many students. To make the dream of post-secondary education more attainable for students, ODYSSEYWARE recently announced its first-ever scholarship essay contest.

Nancy Gruver, Founder of New Moon Girls, has joined the faculty of the Global Alliance for Preventing Relational Aggression (GAPRA). Gruver is the fifth national expert to step up to provide bully prevention training to schools and individuals.

Now, parents, counselors, educators and other youth workers can join the Global Alliance for Preventing Relational Aggression (GAPRA) to receive affordable, effective training to help children manage bullying and relationship problems.

Educators, parents and youth group leaders know that emotionally charged friendship problems, a.k.a. relational aggression, between girls can leave them stuck in the drama. Now, adults can empower girls by teaching them techniques to let go of drama.

Mr. Tutor Mobile Tutoring Service will be holding a Mock ACT Test on Sat., November 12, 2011, from 9 AM-1 PM, at the Iowa City Area Association of Realtors Building, located at 847 Quarry Road #110, in Coralville, IA.

Mr Tutor LLC, along with the Mississippi Valley Regional Blood Center, is sponsoring a Halloween Blood Drive this Saturday, Oct. 29, from 8 AM-12 Noon, at the Kirkwood Oureach Center, located at 3375 Armar Drive in Marion.

The Global Alliance for Preventing Relational Aggression (GAPRA) is excited to announce the addition of faculty member Nancy Fox-Kilgore, M.S., who will help provide bully prevention training to schools and youth organizations.

On Saturday, October 8th, there was excitement in the air at the Herbert Hoover Presidential Library/Museum as three Herbert Hoover Uncommon Students were named $5000 Scholarship winners.

Girls gravitate toward teasing, taunting, name-calling and intimidation to get responses from other girls. But educators and youth group leaders can teach girls more effective ways to respond to those verbal jabs. Learn how with this free teleclass.

QA Graphics is pleased to be selected as a presenter at the upcoming Green California Schools Summit & Exposition. It’s the go-to event to learn about all aspects of green schools.

Alpha Omega Academy is pleased to announce the release of three new courses for the 2011-2012 school year. New courses include personal financial literacy and music appreciation for grades 9 through 12 and a revised edition of 6th grade math

Waste Management and the University of Iowa unveiled a new single-stream recycling program today. The new recycling program is designed to help the university meet and even exceed its goal to divert 60% of the waste generated on campus by 2020.

Many organizations have been formed as “anti-bullying” platforms. However, the Global Alliance for Preventing Relational Aggression (GAPRA), takes a pro-social skills approach to prevent relational aggression (RA), a.k.a. emotional bullying.

PerfectPitch.com Celebrates Their 30th Year Anniversary with Huge Discounts and Free Shipping Worldwide

B4 Brands and Flannigan Sales Group announced today that the two companies have teamed up to offer environmentally-sensitive hand hygiene products to distributors and end users in Georgia, Alabama, Tennessee, Mississippi and northwestern Florida.

On July 25, 2011, Alpha Omega Publications will hold its Summer One-day Sale with 20% savings on everything and free shipping on orders over $50.

Meet and Greet the traveling Fly Away Zine Mobile, a traveling zine library, mini reading lounge, and self-publishing skillshare at Finder's Creepers on Wednesday, July 27th.

To keep lessons relevant, Alpha Omega Publications recently updated Ignitia and SOO Bible-based curriculum with new MyPlate icon and guidelines from the USDA.

Alpha Omega Publications announces the release of six new online courses for the 2011-2012 school year for Christian schools.

Guest was Bernie Duis, Director of Economic Development at Iowa Western Community College

Union Auto and local community raised $5,100 for BCLUW High School at a recent Ford test-drive event. Over 250 Conrad-area residents who test-drove a Ford last April 16, Union Auto and Ford donated $20, funds going toward the Sports Booster Clubs.

The Global Alliance for Preventing Relational Aggression (GAPRA) is excited to announce three new faculty members. Christopher Burgess, Brenda Nixon and Sue Scheff will share expertise in parenting and cyberbullying for GAPRA training activities.

The Global Alliance for Preventing Relational Aggression (GAPRA) aims to head off physical bullying by preventing relational aggression, a.k.a. emotional bullying, which is often the precursor to violence and suicide among children.

Tri State Ford Lincoln is bringing Ford's innovative Drive One 4 UR School program to Bedford in an effort to raise up to $6,000 for Bedford High School. For every Ford test-drive at Bedford High School on May 14, $20 to Bedford High School.

Krieger Ford is bringing Ford's innovative Drive One 4 UR School program to Muscatine in an effort to raise up to $6,000 for Muscatine High School. For every Ford vehicle test-drive at Muscatine High School on May 6, $20 to Muscatine High School.

Surgery games, and other educational games are being used as tools for teaching more and more. Will they be implemented more in school system in the future?

Alpha Omega Publications has announced the start of its Annual Spring Sale. With biggest discounts of the year on all its Bible-based homeschool curriculum and resources, AOP’s sale includes savings of 20% off in April and 15% off in May.

MetaCommunications Offers Free Software to Iowa Students and Educators in Graphic Communications, Marketing, Business, and Computer Science.

Maya Angelou Live Video Feed and Pre-Conference Workshop Sessions still available

Box Tops for Education Program and Recycling Raise Money, While Preventing Boxes from Entering the Landfill

Eastern Mennonite University (EMU) uses QA Graphics’ Energy Efficiency Education Dashboard to demonstrate the campus’ real-time energy use and provide education about their new sustainable residence hall.

Midland Information Resources, a global provider of information management solutions, recently participated in this year’s Association of Test Publishers (ATP) Conference held in Phoenix, AZ.

Alpha Omega Publications® kicks off its 2011 homeschool convention schedule this weekend at the MidSouth Homeschool Convention in Memphis, Tennessee.

Midland Information Resources, a global provider of information management solutions, will participate in this year’s Association of Test Publishers (ATP) Conference.

On 3/3/11, A Way Through, LLC, will conduct the 2nd of 2 calls focused on helping young girls through friendship problems. Title: “When Girls Hurt Girls®: 3 Compelling Reasons to Start RA Prevention in Kindergarten (And How to Do It Right).”

The Original LaJames College Beauty School of Mason City, Iowa celebrates the holiday season in style! Multiple holiday-themed happenings will make the season bright at La James this December

Hyundai just announced their Omaha College Graduate Program starting December 1, 2010. Hyundai makes it easy for College Graduates and current students to get a loan for the new car of their dreams.

The Students for the Exploration and Development of Space USA (SEDS-USA) announced the winners of a successful video contest and yearly chapter awards at their national conference in November.

During the 2010 Students for the Exploration and Development of Space SpaceVision conference at the University of Illinois,SEDS chapters across the country voted to appoint twelve new board members to lead the national student organization.

Educators and parents of girls kindergarten through grade 2 are invited to a free teleclass series about emotional bullying (relational aggression) in girls. Join A Way Through, LLC on Nov. 16 at 3:30 p.m. central time.

QA Graphics deepens commitment to sustainability by joining Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education.

Every day in October, the “iTunes of Guitar TAB”, United We Tab, will provide a free cover video and 100 complimentary, officially-licensed guitar TABs exclusively to PremierGuitar.com readers.

QA Graphics is hosting a free webinar to show organizations how an educational display can be used to further promote environmental education and improve a building’s resource consumption.

Schools can increase their sustainable efforts with an educational display that shows how sustainable features work and display the school’s real-time utility data so that students can see how their actions impact the school’s water & energy use.

Rainscaping Native Landscaping and Soil Quality Restoration Design Training Program to be held in Ankeny IA on Friday September 24, 2010. Howard Bright of Ion Exchange a native plant and seed nursery will be one of the featured speakers.

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Solve, LLC Creates a Single-source Solution for Content Distribution to the "Best Available Screen".

Brothers and sisters in arms: Organization looking for help in offering healing power of music to veterans struggling with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder.