Silver Creek High School – St. Vrain Valley Schools

Hundreds run, walk for education grants at 38th Sunrise Stampede 5K race

About 700 community members showed up bright and early Saturday morning to participate in the Sunrise Stampede, a 5K race supporting St. Vrain Valley School District Teacher Innovation Grants. The event was put on by the St. Vrain Valley Schools Education Foundation, a nonprofit that helps fund certain SVVSD programs. The race raised roughly $25,000 this
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SVVSD embraces early college P-TECH program

Abraham Tinajero was an eighth grader when he saw a poster in his Longmont middle school’s library advertising a new program offering free college with a technology focus. Interested, he talked to a counselor to learn more about P-TECH, an early college program where he could earn an associate’s degree along with his high school
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‘Future heroes’ celebrated in St. Vrain Valley School District’s Class of 2022 commencement

High school for Bruno Gallegos Sanchez and the rest of the Class of 2022 was unexpected. Addressing graduates Saturday, Gallegos Sanchez said students likely didn’t imagine that they would spend part of their high school career trying to figure out how to make a COVID-19 mask fashionable and navigating a network of online learning tools
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Boulder County graduating seniors celebrate accomplishments after pandemic school disruptions

Monarch High graduating senior Hannah Rowton dressed a cardboard cutout of “Harry Potter” villain Draco Malfoy in different outfits as a backdrop to keep herself engaged as online classes dragged on during her junior year. “It was hard mentally,” she said. “It was so hard not knowing when things would end, if I would get
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St. Vrain high schools achieve status as U.S. Best High Schools

Eight high schools in the St. Vrain Valley School District have been named as a 2022 U.S. News Best High School. The U.S. News ranks uses data on more than 24,000 public high schools, ranking nearly 18,000 schools on six factors. Those factors included college readiness, state assessment proficiency, state assessment performance, underserved student performance,
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Students ‘Do Democracy’ by proposing solutions to tough topics

The three groups of finalists for the 12th annual Doing Democracy Day tackled topics related to homelessness, social-emotional health and school resource officers. The presentations by the student groups on Thursday at the Longmont Museum were the culmination of a day’s work teaching students to collaborate and prepare solutions to local issues. The event brought
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Silver Creek student teaches game design class

Silver Creek High School senior Joe Looney is teaching a six-week game design course as part of his Leadership Academy capstone. He taught a class on Friday to 13 students at the Innovation Center of St. Vrain Valley Schools. Looney was a student of Tom Darcy, the director of advanced technologies and innovation at the
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Students use novel science in effort to reintroduce endangered fish

Taryn McDermid did not think at 15 she would be working to save an endangered fish species, but on Thursday she stood in front of a room of wildland biologists explaining her work doing exactly that. The Niwot High School sophomore and the other four members of the northern redbelly dace data science project team
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Local robotics team beats world record

Robotics competitions in the St. Vrain Valley School district have consumed the attention of many young minds. Of the two local competition styles, one has broken a world record while they both rank in the world. Working with SVVSD, Up-A-Creek Robotics is a high school team that competes in the FRC, or FIRST Robotics Competition,
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Marching forward: Band Night performances connect students, communities across St. Vrain

Trumpets blared and flags twirled as student performers stepped into the spotlight Wednesday night at Everly-Montgomery Field for the return of the district-wide Band Night.
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