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The great outdoors classroom

Kelsey Dayton Casper Star Tribune

Last updated Tuesday, May 15, 2012 - 1:56pm

LANDER -- Jennifer Adams held the rope, leaned back and stepped over the rock ledge

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Great leaders know how to communicate well

Alan Hall Standard-Examiner

Last updated Tuesday, April 24, 2012 - 8:22pm

Famous entrepreneurs are known for communicating on a regular basis with employees, vendors, investors and clients.

They have learned it is a vital aspect of their business. Whether the news is positive or negative, they know it is best to be forthright, honest and timely. They know people appreciate transparency and truth.

Thoughtful leaders communicate via various meetings, speeches, emails, tweets and phone calls. They write blogs and articles, and deliver information via the media.

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Student conference on 'Real World' to be held at Weber Stat

Nancy Van Valkenburg Standard-Examiner

Last updated Thursday, April 19, 2012 - 11:50pm

OGDEN -- Weber State University will host a "Preparing for the 'Real World'" conference April 27 and 28.

The multicultural conference, aimed at high school students, will feature keynote speakers, workshops for students and advisers, and a talent show. All events will emphasize college options, leadership roles and cultural identity.

The conference is free for students who register, including an overnight stay at a local hotel and shuttle transportation to and from events. For more information or to register, visit www.weber.edu/myc.

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Maegan Tingey, of Bountiful High School, adjusts her project, a dress made from Harry Potter books, for the "recycle and redesign" category at the Family, Career and Community Leaders of America State Conference at the Davis Conference Center in Layton on Wednesday. Students from across Utah competed in different subjects like culinary arts, fashion design, leadership, nutrition and wellness and more. (ERIN HOOLEY/Standard-Examiner)

Students learn life skills as they serve others

April Hale Standard-Examiner

Last updated Thursday, March 22, 2012 - 11:02pm

LAYTON — Junior high and high school students from across the state met Wednesday to share their knowledge and talents in family and consumer sciences.

The annual Family, Career and Community Leaders of America State Conference allowed approximately 1,000 students to compete in one of 28 categories ranging from culinary arts and interior design to applied technology and job interviews.

Education, Environment, Careers, Clothing, Community service, Competition, Consumers, Cooking, Culinary skills, Down syndrome, Family, Health, Leadership, Learning, Medical, Recycle, Recycling, Science, self-esteem, Technology, Teenagers, Teens, Utah, Youths, Environmental concerns, Featured Read more Comments

Horace Mann Elementary fifth-graders control their station during a mock orbiter launch at Odyssey Elementary School's Astro Camp in Ogden on Thursday. (KENDAL RUSSELL/Standard-Examiner)

Astro Camp initiates learning about mission control in 5 ... 4 ... 3 ...

Nancy Van Valkenburg Standard-Examiner

Last updated Thursday, March 22, 2012 - 10:48pm

OGDEN — Liftoff was touch and go for the cockpit crew of the orbiter Phoenix. For one thing, the astronauts got only little more than an hour of mission training, as opposed to the 18 months usually required by NASA.

Then there was the fact that the ground staffs of both Mission Control and the Operations Center, also new to their jobs, could not pronounce some of the complex names of the technical systems they were trying to power up and lock down. And to top it off, there was the distracting group of kindergartners standing around a piano in the hallway, singing about colors and raindrops.

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(From left) Zaynab Alshakhiss, Weber State University student senator-elect, Nancy Collingwood, director of Student Involvement & Leadership, and Hamad Al Yami, International Student and Scholar Center admissions assistant, pose for a portrait. Alshakhiss has stirred interest in her home country of Saudi Arabia because women there don't usually get to take major leadership roles. She says the media there has been largely supportive of her elected position. (Photo courtesy of Hamad Al Yami)

Saudi woman’s election at WSU stirs interest back home

Nancy Van Valkenburg Standard-Examiner

Last updated Friday, March 23, 2012 - 6:10am

OGDEN — When Zaynab Alshakhiss won her bid for the Weber State University student Senate, it didn’t draw much attention in Ogden, but when the news hit in Alshakhiss’ native Saudi Arabia, the media mobilized.

Over spring break, more than a dozen print and online newspapers approached Weber State representatives and Alshakhiss for the story of her groundbreaking win as the international student senator for the 2012-13 year.

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Davis Chamber of Commerce honors Fruit Heights woman who returns the favor

Dana Rimington Standard-Examiner

Last updated Monday, February 6, 2012 - 11:47pm

FRUIT HEIGHTS -- Life changed dramatically for Shelley Nettesheim when her husband died in a car accident and she became a widow at 24.

The Fruit Heights woman wanted to finish her education for the sake of her two young children. She put herself through school and earned a marketing degree from the University of Utah.

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(MARY ALTAFFER/The Associated Press) In this Friday, Oct. 14, 2011 file photo, demonstrators affiliated with the Occupy Wall Street protests confront New York City police officers as they march on the street in the Wall Street area. One month after the Occupy Wall Street movement burst onto the scene and inspired similar protests across the country, it remains stubbornly decentralized, complicating everything from enforcing camp rules to writing a national platform.

Can ‘Occupy’ protests last without leaders?

Chris Hawley, David B. Caruso The Associated Press

Last updated Saturday, October 15, 2011 - 4:43pm

NEW YORK — They were out to change the world, overthrow the establishment and liberate the poor. But first somebody would have to do something about those bongo drums.

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