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KMES gets surprise grant through STEM Forward

Jessica Marquardt, got a great surprise recently, when her classroom was surprised with a grant from Nasco, a leader in STEM/STEAM education curriculum, supplies, and solutions. Nasco teamed up with Southeast Service Cooperative’s STEM Forward to help her classroom with science, technology, engineering and math(STEM) resources for her classroom to increase STEM awareness and excitement with students.

Mother like daughter

It can sometimes get a little confusing around Triton Elementary School,  if you are looking for a first grade teacher. Especially if you are not sure if you are looking for Mrs. Henslin or Ms. Henslin.
Once you figure it out it really quite simple. Mrs. Henslin is Dawna and Ms. Henslin is her daughter Emily.

Bernards career at K-M an unexpected turn of events

In the past 36 years, the Kasson-Mantorville school district has seen plenty of change. There have been new faces, new buildings and new programs that have been injected into the district over the years and have made it what it is today. However, over that same time there has been one constant in high school math teacher Jeff Bernards.

Another Snow Day? No, Flex Day! Byron tries out newest way to learn

At the regular school board meeting Feb. 19, Superintendent Joey Page explained to school board members that the district was ready for “flex-learning days” the next time the district had to declare a snow day. He commented that that didn’t mean the flex day would be used the next day but the district was ready, if it did.
And sure enough, the next day, Feb. 20 was another snow day for Byron schools.

Block Kids comes to KMES

There was plenty of creativity from Kasson-Mantorville fourth graders last week as 40 students competed in a Block Kids event hosted by the Southeast Minnesota Chapter of the National Association of Women in Construction.
During the evening, students have a limited amount of time to build a structure out of Legos, poster board, tin foil, and string.

Triton students preparing for ‘Technovation’ challenge

Three teams of Triton students, two from the middle school and one from the high school, are busy building apps that will be entered in the upcoming Minnesota Technovation challenge.
Technovation is an international competition that is designed to get more girls interested in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM), said Triton Middle School math teacher Patrick Floryance, the advisor for the students.

‘WE ARE TRITON’

The interview process for a new superintendent of schools did not go exactly as Triton School Board members had expected, but at the end of the process the board unanimously agreed to offer the position to Triton High School Principal Craig Schlichting.

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