Sweet! Mentors needed for Lemonade Day

When you see a little leaguer holding a bat the wrong way, you teach her to choke up. When a budding artist struggles with a pair of scissors, you gently turn them around. If your pint-sized pianist can’t remember the…

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Local Middle School Mathletes Advance to State Competition

If a 3-ounce can of tomato sauce costs $1.68, what is the price per ounce in cents? The first place team from Jefferson Middle School including Coach Venkata Nallamalli. In just seconds, local mathletes from Jefferson Middle School answered that and a variety…

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Math IS Cool!

Sporting shirts that said “We’re π– Lingual,” it was obvious Lewis and Clark Elementary School graders were into math. The two fourth and fifth grade teams, sponsored by SCJ Alliance, enjoyed great success in the Math Is Cool completion in…

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Businesses Helping Students Flex their Math Muscles

Lucas Richardson, a first-grader at Lakes Elementary School in Lacey, visited SCJ with his mother for the Math for Life event on Wednesday. Lucas’ father, Captain Adam Richardson in air defense, is currently deployed in Afghanistan. Dozens of school kids…

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SCJ Staff Show Middle Schoolers Just How MATHCOUNTS

Quick! How many integers between 1 and 500 are divisible by 3? In just seconds, local middle school mathletes from Jefferson and Aspire Middle Schools answered that and a variety of other challenging questions at Thurston County’s MATHCOUNTS competition at the end…

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Keeping Homeowners Warm, Safe and Independent

SCJ Alliance and Lifespan Construction Project team members with home owner John Nunneh (center in beige jacket). Sagging ceilings...Exposed bare wiring...Rotting bathroom walls...Missing window panes...Inadequate insulation...Inefficient lighting...Overgrown foliage. Joshua Sjoding hard at work updating trim, windows and doors. It had…

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