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May 2019: Arielle Lane, our teacher of early childhood grades since 2015, recently completed all her work for her Master of Science degree in education with a reading specialty from NMSU.  She expects her degree in good time.  We support our teachers in professional...

Sunday, 5 May 2019: We were so pleased to see Yi Li, wife of LCA board member David Gutschick, get her PhD diploma in person at the Ohio State University in a huge commencement ceremony attended by 70,000 people.  She was formally awarded her doctorate in Materials...

Thursday, 9 May 2019: NMSU’s Insect Zoo came to the Academy to show the students a great diversity of both mounted and live insects.  The students paid rapt attention, particularly when they themselves handled a giant millipede, a Madagascar hissing cockroach, and a...

9 May 2019: a recap and a prospectus: Big event on the 11th: our twice-yearly end-of-term performances by our students for families and friends, 5 PM.  Students and teachers worked on this all semester. Big event on Wednesday, the 29th: Food for Thought, our signature...

26 April 2019: Our students completed their nationally used Iowa Tests and enjoyed the challenge; many said “Why are these so easy?”   Yes, we have students with talent.  We ran the tests this week, as our second year of doing so.  Only two to four mornings were...

26 April 2019: The Iowa Tests took up some mornings for two to four days this week, and the afternoons were devoted to fun and other learning – music, a classic movie or two, some regular classes, and play.  One of our kindergarteners, Alden, took the time to read...

Thursday, 18 April 2019.  The deadline to get all the text, imagery, and layout to Entourage came.  Yearbook club students and faculty advisor Kelly Lin got it all together!  We have a gallery of pictures of students working at that last minute. [unitegallery...

15 April 2019. Sixth-grade student Erika suggested that we try an experiment to see how fast an enzyme, pepsin, can break down egg white protein.  Pepsin is a protease, which breaks bonds in proteins by hydrolysis, adding water to the peptide bond between amino acids...

Our signature fundraiser and community event, Food for Thought, is coming up on Wednesday, May 29th, 5:00-8:30 PM.  It’s an evening of scintillating discussion with 10 engaging people from the community, augmented with a full dinner, wine, coffee, tea, dessert, and a...

13 April 2019, at the Las Cruces International Space Festival on the plaza: Vince Gutschick, Board Chair and teacher at the Las Cruces Academy, met LCA graduate Arabella.  They joined in a brief demo of the force of atmospheric pressure, using a small Magdeburg sphere...