The Eden Prairie School Board is scheduled to meet for a regular business meeting at 6 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 9, at the Administrative Services Center, 8100 School Road.

Items on the agenda include monitoring the "Life Skills" policy, as well as information on the district's Aspen Contract and facilities options.

Click on the attachment to this post for the agenda.

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Two Hopkins Nordic skiers to compete in National Junior Olympics

The Foundation for Eden Prairie Schools recently awarded the following grants:

* $10,128.84 to Katy Anderson at Cedar Ridge Elementary to “provide six classes of fourth-grade students with an engaging, science/technology related, experience with LEGO Robotics equipment.”

* $6,105.60 to Kristin Gabel at Eden Prairie High School to “provide approximately 160 high school students (AP biology and enriched biology) with a polymerase chain reaction machine. This machine is found in colleges, research laboratories and criminal investigation labs.”

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Four Hopkins seniors participate in Rites of Passage Program
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The fifth annual Eden Prairie School District Science Fair was Saturday at the High School.

Scroll down for a slideshow of photos from the event. In the video, the following students describe their projects:

12th-grader Qian Long and her project, “Stereochemistry of Sulfoxamide Ring Closures.”

Kindergarteners Christian and Bode Springer and their project, “How Much Water?”

Eighth-grader Benjamin Hicklin’s project discussed “The Effects Acid Rain has on Different Metals.”

Maria Olson and Cara Truksa, fifth-graders, with their project, “Mousetrap Car – Wheel Size Study.”

The Foundation for Eden Prairie Schools recently awarded the following grants:

* $10,128.84 to Katy Anderson at Cedar Ridge Elementary to “provide six classes of fourth-grade students with an engaging, science/technology related, experience with LEGO Robotics equipment.”

* $6,105.60 to Kristin Gabel at Eden Prairie High School to “provide approximately 160 high school students (AP biology and enriched biology) with a polymerase chain reaction machine. This machine is found in colleges, research laboratories and criminal investigation labs.”

By Karla Wennerstrom

The Eden Prairie School District signed on this month to be part of the state’s application for Race to the Top funds.

A news release from the Minnesota Department of Education said that the 1,000 page application to be part of the Race to the Top program was submitted. In Minnesota, “300 school districts and 116 charter schools, representing over 93 percent of the students in the state” signed memoranda of agreement. The state’s grant request was for $330 million.

The Eden Prairie School Board is scheduled to meet from noon to 4 p.m. Tuesday, Jan. 26, at the Administrative Services Center.

The board meets in the Administrative Services Center, 8100 School Road. Those wishing to comment at a meeting are asked to call or e-mail the superintendent’s office in advance of the meeting at jpexa@edenpr.org or 952-975-7115, jsimmons@edenpr.org or 952-975-7015.

Click on the attachment for an agenda for the meeting. Topics on the agenda include facilities plans.

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Twenty-two Hopkins students earn prestigious art awards
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Hopkins students reach out to help Haiti
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Hopkins earns District Award of Distinction

The Eden Prairie Council for the Gifted and Talented sponsored its annual Family Science Night on Saturday, with entertainment at Eden Prairie High School by Laura and Colin from Mad Science.

Click here for a video of one of the experiments.