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The Illinois State Board of Education is taking applications from eligible high school students interested in serving on the state agency’s 15-member Student Advisory Council for the 2012-13 school year.
Kishwaukee College Engineering student Brandon Gigous has been selected for a summer internship with NASA’s DEVELOP program at the Langley Research Center in Hampton, Va.
What could Da Vinci have created with electricity and neon? What would Edison have invented with more of an artistic flair? Young artists and inventors and their parents are invited to see how artists work with light and electricity during the Bright Futures: Electric Art Lab at Northern Illinois University’s Faraday Hall Room 105 on Saturday.
Kishwaukee College students earned several top 10 place finishes, including three first place winners, in the Annual SkillsUSA Illinois State Leadership Conference and SkillsUSA Championships held in Springfield last month.
The following students were named to the honor roll at Sycamore Middle School in the third quarter:
Northern Illinois University is looking for dedicated and motivated students interested in having fun this summer and learning about global leadership and philanthropy. 
Three local students were honored by Xavier University in Cincinnati during the school’s All Honors Day on April 21.
Hiawatha’s horticulture students and FFA members have been growing perennials, vegetables and annual bedding plants this spring. The students use their classroom curriculum to help propagate plants. 
The Hinckley-Big Rock High School Agriculture Department’s greenhouse is open.
The Kishwaukee College Nursing Program held an induction ceremony May 1 for the Alpha Delta Nu Nursing Honor Society on campus. Twenty-three second-year nursing students were inducted as new members of ADN.
Henry Kai Deng of DeKalb, a student at the Illinois Math and Science Academy in Aurora, is the winner of a $2,500 National Merit Scholarship.
Indian Creek Education Foundation recently received a grant to sustain plans for improvement, thanks to America’s Farmers Grow Communities.
A DeKalb student received a statewide award during the annual Illinois History Expo held May 3 in Springfield.
Jessica Louis, a nursing major at Carroll University, traveled this week to Guatemala with her professor and classmates. Their trip is in partnership with Hearts in Motion, a nonprofit organization that provides medical treatment in Central and South America.
December Dionne Richardson of DeKalb was recognized during Alabama State University’s 2012 Honors Convocation.
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