Here’s Your Very Own 4-Leaf Clover

4-Leaf Clovers are near-impossible to spot, hidden in a green sea of everyday 3-leaf clovers. Luckily, you don’t have to waste hours searching for a bit of good fortune. Because you stumbled on to this post, you just found one Extra-Lucky 4-Leaf Clover! Just...

Happy Bissextus!

Today is the “double sixth,” the extra day in the calendar inserted every four years. The story goes that the Romans started their Julian Calendar on the 24th of February, 6 days (sextus=sixth) before March 1st. In Leap Years, they had two 24ths, or bis-sextus (second...

Teachers say video games build persistence

I was reading the paper on Sunday (yes, people still read the newspaper) and I came across an article about teachers using video games as a centerpiece to teach specific lessons.  For example, playing Angry Birds and having kids calculate the trajectories of the...

2016 wasn’t supposed to start like this

It’s February, and the first month of 2016 has come and gone. I didn’t expect 2016 to start the way it has, nor did I expect 2015 to end the way it did. We had no business doing what we were doing that afternoon. The Scornavacco family and Dr. Karla’s sister’s family...
Please Help, Last Day to Vote for SMAA

Please Help, Last Day to Vote for SMAA

Please vote for us RIGHT NOW for Yellow Scene’s “Best of the West.” The Deadline is Today! We need Your Help to pull off a win, so don’t let your school down. Vote in an election where your vote actually matters. Just click on the linked text...