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Walk creates awareness of violence against women
Truck Day in Lino Lakes
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Chris Swenson and bus driver Mike Archer help Oscar Swenson out of a bus at Truck Day Saturday, May 7 at Rice Lake Elementary School. The event was put on by the Centennial Area Education Foundation (CAEF). See more photos on page 9.
Centennial High School course prepares students for global society BY SHANNON GRANHOLM STAFF WRITER
CIRCLE PINES — Students at Centennial High School are enhancing their engineering, design and communication skills while collaborating with students from other states. This is Centennial's second year offering the Project Lead the Way Science, Technology, Engineering, Math (STEM) course “Intro to Engineering and Design.” “The course is to introduce students to all aspects of engineering and to really get them to start thinking like an engineer through documentation and sketching,” said technology education teacher Andy Angell. “It is taking the idea in their head and being able to translate that and make it understandable to anyone.” Throughout the course students explore topics including computeraided design (CAD), precision measurement, properties and shapes, sketches, statistics and 3-D printing. During the course, the students work on three large
ANOKA — It is not every day that you see men wearing high heels, but on May 21 in Anoka County, that will be a common sight as the community rallies together for Walk a Mile in her Shoes. All of the dollars raised from the event will benefit Alexandra House, an organization in Anoka County that provides domestic and sexual violence services to women and men. The international march aims to create awareness about domestic, sexual and gender violence. Although the event originally was a men's march, now men, women and families participate in the event to generate the conversation. “It really enlists the male voice in the conversation. People think that it's a woman's issue. Because it primarily happens to women, they feel that women need to solve the issue. But we know that it is a community issue, and so we really need the other half of the population working on it as well,” said Alexandra House Communications Marketing Director Tina Bronson. During the event, men are asked to put themselves into women's shoes — quite literally — by wearing high heels for the one-mile walk. Women and children are also welcome to participate, and no one is required to wear high heels. Last fall, a committee comprised of various SEE VIOLENCE AGAINST, PAGE 13
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Centennial High School Sophomore Matt Burlowski uses computer-aided design (CAD) software to design a bike rack in the Project Lead the Way STEM “Intro to Engineering and Design” course May 3. Pictured in the background is freshman Trent McIntire.
projects. Currently, the students are working on the final project, the virtual design challenge. The objective of the project is for students to be able to communicate
effectively and create correctly modeled parts. For the project, each student SEE GLOBAL SOCIETY, PAGE 14
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Stuart Mills and Kellie Schmidt, community volunteer and event coordinator with Nystrom & Associates, at the Walk a Mile in her Shoes event in Brainerd last summer.
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