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nated in Canyon Crest's after-school Envision Conservatory humanities program and is run by six local students and over 20 student volunteers world-wide. Aquascope is currently creating a STEM curriculum for schools in Belize and beyond, assisting teachers in brining sustainable agricultural systems — aquaponics, distance learning curriculum — into classrooms. Ella Sobhani, a senior at Canyon Crest and president of Aquascope’s president, explained the
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group’s three main pillarsenvironmental sustainability, greater accessibility to STEM education and youth empowerment. With the onset of COVID-19, the group’s initial plans to travel abroad visiting participating schools were canceled. However, according to Sobhani, this created an opportunity to offer summertime virtual events to students abroad. The virtual speaker series encouraged students to take leadership roles, TURN TO AQUASCOPE ON A22
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Students promote STEM, youth leadership around the world ENCINITAS — Local students from Canyon Crest Academy in Carmel Valley have created a program providing STEM-based learning curriculums to less advantaged schools around the world, fostering leadership and empowerment among local youth interested in sustainability and entrepreneurship. Rapidly growing through the height of the summer months and into AQUASCOPE PRESIDENT Ella Sobhani holds a FoldScope, the fall academic year, the $1 sustainable origami microscope used in Aquascope’s the student-run initiative, STEM curriculum. Photo by Caitlin Steinberg “Project Aquascope,” origi-
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stakeholders, are exploring new, more efficient ways of providing safety and administrative services in the Harbor area and waters. The city has organized a committee of varRANCHO ious SFNEWS Harbor leaders and stakeholders to look at proposals to reorganize the Harbor Patrol Unit. Currently, the Oceanside Small Craft Harbor District allocates approximately $2.6 million to the Oceanside Police Department (OPD) to provide public safety services in the Harbor. The original Harbor Police Department was absorbed by OPD in 2009. Since then, Harbor tenants say there has been a degradation of services, despite the Harbor District being charged more throughout the years to fund the unit. “It’s not to say they haven’t done a great job, it just comes down to the fact that OPD is a law enforcement agency and harbor safety and rescue is not really in their wheelhouse,” said Oceanside Yacht Club Commodore Mark Mallaby. Mallaby is one of the leaders part of the Harbor committee looking into the different proposals to enhance services in the district. According to the Harbor group, the loss of services, since the merge, includes the elimination of emergency medical
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