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Wednesday, March 15, 2017.  We’re very pleased to announce that our 7th-grader, Arabella, has received a scholarship for the US Space Camp in Huntsville, Alabama.  She has her choice of any of the 5-day programs over the next year.  The participants learn a lot of...

Tuesday, March 14, 2017.  We’re so pleased to announce that Kannon Pearson has received a scholarship from the National Science Foundation for his studies at Foothill Community College in San Mateo, California.  Kannon is 16 years old and is already in advanced...

Monday, 13 March 2017: Ten of our students in grades 3-8 visited the research laboratory of Prof. Graciela Unguez for 3 hours.  She and her group study weakly electric fish (Stenopygus species), who use their electrical sense to find food and avoid predators. They...

Tuesday, March 14th, 2017. We have another great open house event. Come see our school, engage with our outreach in science and world culture, view classes (8:30-10:00 AM), talk with teachers (5:30-7:00 PM). We welcome families considering enrolling their children, as...

Wednesday, 1 March 2017.  Our LCA Community Meeting brought 12 of our families together, along with board members and teachers, for an evening of news, good food, and camaraderie. The students had fun before we set up the dinner. One item, among the many we discussed,...

Friday, March 17, 2017.  The story of critical moments as well as of little details is done so well at Alamogordo's Museum of Space History.  Our students in grades 3-8 will visit the museum on Friday for an all-day educational trip, as we've done in the past.

Monday, February 13, 2017.  Emily Guerra, host of Puentes on KRWG-FM, interviewed Lou Ellen Kay and Vince Gutschick.  They talked about the Las Cruces Academy - why the Academy came about, how we work, how we fit into the community.  We hope it's enlightening to the...

Monday, 13 March 2017.  Learning about great research on electric fish. Our students in grades 3-8 will visit the laboratory of NMSU Biology Professor Graciela Unguez and her students.  The fish, Sternopygus macrurus, have modified muscle cells that generate electric...

'15&16 February 2017.  Learning About the Legislative Process.  Senator Mary Kay Papen in the New Mexico legislature invited our middle-school students to be pages in the Senate for a day.  They departed our school at 8:30 AM on the 15th to ride to Santa Fe with...

14 February 2017, of course.  Older students planned a party for the younger students.  They created games and decorated the rooms the day before, after classes.  On Valentine's Day, all went as planned!