Mountain Brook High School students Maggie Hayes, Mariah Hoitt and Sarah Mouyal recently won awards in the Arts and Humanities Council of Tuscaloosa County’s eighth annual Double Exposure Juried Photography Exhibit.Hoitt won best of show in the junior division using a digital SLR camera. Hayes won one of four $250 cash awards, and Mouyal won two of three honorable … [Read more...]

To go along with a study of the 1920s, sixth graders at Liberty Park Middle School participated in a simulated “wax museum.”Parents were invited to see the students dressed as famous 1920s athletes, actresses, gangsters, politicians and other figures. They assembled with their classmates as “wax” figures ready to come to life when it was their turn to speak.Before the … [Read more...]

Some 100 local scouts from the Vulcan District volunteered Jan. 8 to clean the historic Oxmoor Cemetery at Birmingham’s Red Mountain Park. The event was part of a celebration commemorating 100 years of scouting. Red Mountain Park, a 1,200-acre urban mountaintop park, will eventually include walking and biking trails, recreational and picnic areas and green space. When the … [Read more...]

Oak Mountain High Tech Solutions, Oak Mountain High School’s robotics team, advanced to the B.E.S.T. (Boosting Engineering, Science and Technology) national/world competition in Orlando. The team qualified by earning the second place overall award at the South’s B.E.S.T. competition Nov. 19-21at Auburn University. The contest included 61 middle and high school teams from the … [Read more...]

Sixth grade students and teachers at Liberty Park Middle School recently participated in its annual Greek Day festivities. To prepare for this day, the language arts classes read the book “The Lightning Thief” by Rick Riordan. They also created iMovies based on their favorite Greek god or goddess. In math classes, the students learned about surface area then recreated Greek … [Read more...]