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

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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Susuki Cortez (right), a member of Ogden High School’s Future Educators Association, helps elementary students Devin Kent (left) and Diana Godinez (center) with a project at Odyssey Elementary School in Ogden on Wednesday.

Gaining hands-on experience at Odyssey Elementary

Rachel J. Trotter Standard-Examiner

Last updated Thursday, December 22, 2011 - 12:32am

OGDEN -- First-graders at Odyssey Elementary School got learning mixed in with fun Wednesday on their last day of school before Christmas vacation.

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AYP report failures for Ogden schools

Nancy Van Valkenburg Standard-Examiner

Last updated Thursday, September 8, 2011 - 11:37pm

A previous posting of Ogden School District schools failed to make Adequate Yearly Progress, based on a Utah State Board of Education report, mistakenly included schools that were granted AYP waivers because they made significant progress from the previous year.

The list that follows is updated.

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(Standard-Examiner file photo) Odyssey Elementary School in Ogden is the only school in Utah with a life-size space shuttle poking out over the front door.

Principal: Odyssey magnet school exceeds expectations, is out of this world

Charles F. Trentelman Standard-Examiner

Last updated Sunday, August 28, 2011 - 9:53am

OGDEN -- Odyssey Elementary Principal Dale Wilkinson shifted easily between Spanish and English as he discussed one child's work with his mother, congratulated a second for getting his testing done, and commiserated with a third who looked quite green and said he was sick in class. It is fortunate Wilkinson is bilingual.

Odyssey Elementary, built to be a magnet school for science education for students throughout the Ogden School District, has turned out to be primarily a community school in a part of Ogden that is mostly Hispanic.

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School districts offer free summer lunches

Nancy Van Valkenburg Standard-Examiner staff

Last updated Tuesday, May 31, 2011 - 10:43pm

OGDEN -- The summer free-lunch program for children up to age 18 begins Monday in most local school districts.

At schools where 50 percent or more students were eligible for free or reduced lunches during the school year, the meals continue through most of the summer. All local school districts except Morgan have schools that qualify.

"It's so students can have something to eat when school is out," said Charlene King, child nutrition coordinator for the Weber School District. "It's open to anyone 18 or younger, and it's because of the importance of good nutrition."

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Savannah Espinosa, a fifth-grader at Odyssey Elementary School in Ogden, holds one of her favorite books in the library at her school on Thursday. Upon hearing about a grant awarded to the school’s library, Espinosa was inspired to offer to donate more than 30 of her own books.

Odyssey Elementary get $6K book grant

Rachel J. Trotter, Standard-Examiner correspondent

Last updated Monday, November 1, 2010 - 10:43pm

OGDEN -- Savannah Espinosa excitedly sorted through a stack of new books Thursday in her school's library, pointing out the ones she has read in the last two weeks.

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(KRISTIN HEINICHEN/Standard-Examiner) Teacher Becky Weeks explains to Taylor Canyon Elementary School fourth-graders how the Braille language works before her student, Paula Ward, an 11th-grader at the Utah School for the Deaf and the Blind in Ogden, uses Braille to read them “The Snowy Day” on Thursday as part of the nationwide Read for the Record Day.

Team Effort / 11th-grader reads Braille, students listen up -- all to help break world record

Rachel J. Trotter, Standard-Examiner correspondent

Last updated Friday, October 8, 2010 - 12:04am

OGDEN -- Some Taylor Canyon Elementary students experienced two new things Thursday morning: They helped break a world record, and they were read to by a Braille reader for the first time.