Teacher of the Month Amber Jenstad from Cortina Elementary
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Amber Jenstad teaches fourth grade at Cortina Elementary. This is her seventh year of teaching at Cortina, but she was gone for a short while as she explored a different career.

Jenstad grew up in Arizona. She says she knew at a young age that she wanted to teach. Because of her passion... Read more

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Spider-Man swinging in the city. Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse

The latest animated Spider-Verse film follows Miles Morales as he reunites with Gwen Stacy and encounters several new versions of Spider-People in the multiverse. The Brooklyn teen first felt his spider...Read more

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Trinity Fossil Facts: • Trinity’s age: 65 to 67     million years old • Trinity sales price: $5.3 million • Measurements: 38 feet long and 12.8 feet high
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“Trinity” the Tyrannosaurus rex sold at auction last month for $5.3 million.

The T. rex is composed of 293 bones excavated from three sites in Montana and Washington. The bones were dug up between 2008 and 2013 and assembled into a single skeleton, known as a composite. The figure... Read more

Snailfish swimming in the ocean.
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Scientists recently released footage of the deepest fish ever filmed off the coast of Japan—cruising along at more than 27,000 feet, almost five miles, below the surface! The record... Read more

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The Phoenix Zoo is a great place to learn about close to 400 different animal species and their habitats. In the Tropics Trail, you will find the orangutans. Orangutans are a great ape in the genus of pongo . There are three species of an orangutan—Sumatran, Bornean, and Tapanuli—and all come from Indonesia.

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Hughes helped me through tough times –Abed Z. We take you further.
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"I heard about a Hughes scholarship through my sister and applied. The application included a question about "financial goals I've learned." That spoke to me because the pandemic impacted my family's finances, and I was helping make ends meet.... Read more

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