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6 December 2017.  Mark Leisher volunteers his time and expertise to teach computer programming to students.  He has two groups of students, grades 3-5 and grades 6-8.  He teaches each group for two consecutive class periods each week.  The younger students are...

Friday, 1 December 2017.  Bryan Stein and colleagues from Washington  Federal bank donate their time and expertise about 6 times a year to educate our students about finances, especially savings accounts.  They help students start accounts, then engage the students in...

A bit more outreach by the Las Cruces Academy...Vince Gutschick hosts a show, Science: let's take a look, on KTAL LP FM, Tuesdays at noon. It's at 101.5 on the FM dial or streaming on http://www.lccommunityradio.org/stream.html. The inaugural show is on December 5th.

30 November 2017. As outreach to the community, here and statewide, Board Chair Vince Gutschick gave a presentation about the biological effects of climate change on October 28th. It's on YouTube now (https://youtu.be/Ep2kYE7zigo). John Nelson was his co-organizer...

Thursday & Friday, 16 & 17 November 2017.  The middle-schoolers, in the company of teacher Ellen Armitage and parents Frank Holguin and Brian Cockriel, explored the Gila wilderness in beautiful weather.  They camped out and hiked, enjoying the history, the...

Thursday, 9 November 2017.  The young LCA students took a field trip to Downtown Las Cruces to see the museums and the Branigan Cultural Center.  It was a long, fruitful day for them.  At 9 AM they all rode the bus that stops very near our school.  Six hours later...

14 November 2017, Tuesday. We have another great open house event coming up. Come see our school, engage with our outreach in science and world culture, view classes (8:30-10:00 AM), talk with teachers (5:30-6:30 PM). We welcome families considering enrolling their...

1 November 2017.  Students in grades early K - 2 and then 3 - 8 got to see a selection of 36 images out of the 5500 taken by Vince Gutschick and Lou Ellen Kay in June of this year.  Vince, the Board Chair, and Lou Ellen, the Head of School, toured the beautiful...

31 October 2017 - when else?!  Students, teachers, parents joined in the fun.  The older students planned the games and food for a couple of weeks, then engaged the younger students in some classic games - wrapping older students with tissue paper as mummies, pin the...

30 October 2017.  The middle-schoolers treated the 1st- and 2nd-graders to a demonstration of how motion (momentum, to be more precise) is exchanged among colliding steel balls.  After a goodly amount of planning and testing, they brought Newton's cradle to the front...