Zhorie'l Tapo, a first-grader at Plantation Elementary in Lafayette, is one of the grand prize winners for The Leader in Me Student Speech Contest. She, along with students in other age brackets, won a $500 Leadership Grant. Nearly 250 students participated in the nationwide contest.
Sometimes stories hit close to home and this is one has certainly hit home for me. Several students at Mamou High School have been saving their money for an upcoming Senior trip, but their money was recently stolen during a break-in.
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All of us have done something wrong in school that could have called for a detention or even worse, a suspension. What if a student actually acts responsibly? You might say this deed deserves praise, maybe even an award. WRONG. 17-year old Erin Cox was suspended from North Andover High School in Massachusetts for driving her intoxicated friend a ride home from a party.
NBC33 is reporting that more than two dozen students from Sandy Hook Elementary School are heading to New Orleans this weekend to take part in some of the pregame festivities prior to Super Bowl XLVII.
As a way to help combat obesity, new federal guidelines were recently put in place stipulating that schools serve meals totaling no more than 850 calories. Since then, some students say the new low-cal lunches simply aren't enough. One group of students at Wallace County High in Kansas even created a protest song called 'We are Hungry' that parodies Fun.'s 'We are Young.'
The University of Louisiana School System has received permission to raise it's parking fees on the nine campuses throughout the state. The bad news for students at UL-Lafayette is that this campus falls under the University of Louisiana School System.
If you're a Danish high school student, you have a lot to look forward to like graduation, senior trip, and just maybe a little porno flick in front of your parents. O.k., maybe your only looking forward to a few things, you wouldn't want to watch a romantic movie in front of your family right?
Call it a "modern day world problem," but we have all sat over our plate of dinner once waiting for ketchup to pour from a bottle. Often we resort to tapping the bottle several times until our ketchup slowly begins to pour, but that problem may soon be a thing of the past thanks to a few students at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Yes, the students may have come up with a solution
Because of the flooding across the Acadiana area, the following roads remain closed to traffic.
US 190 at La 104 in St. Landry Parish
La 93 in Lafayette and St. Landry Parish
La 182 (University Ave.), in Lafayette Parish, is closed north of Pont des Mouton to LA 358
La 98 (Gloria Switch Rd
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So what happens during finals week at a college? Most people think of studying, boat loads of stress, staying up late hours, etc. The students this semester at UL Lafayette had a better idea though, FLASH RAVE!!!!!!!!!