Compass Stories

Science and Engineering for the WIN!

March 2nd, 2020

Congratulations to the Compass students who competed at the regional Colorado Science and Engineering Fair last Wednesday! Everyone brought home an award, which is particularly awesome ESPECIALLY for first-time contestants.

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Student Accomplishments

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STEM

Learning Doesn’t Just Happen “At School”

February 25th, 2020

Here are great ways to engage students in learning outside of the classroom.

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News

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Project Based Learning

Compass Students Help Our Global Community

February 24th, 2020

Compass students raised over $1,000 for Feed My Starving Children, a non-profit that packages food for malnourished children in over 70 countries.

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Compass Snapshots: Learning never stops at CCCS!

February 23rd, 2020

Snapshots From Compass Life!

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News

Compass Self Science Class Visits Amani Farm to Learn from Horses

February 18th, 2020

Last week, the Compass Self Science class went on a much anticipated field trip to Amani Farm to interact and learn from horses. With the guidance of Jill Cantor Lee, an equine facilitated learning specialist and psychological counselor and their teacher Pamela Barker, they participated in equine facilitated experiential learning.

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Community Partners

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Intensives

The Community Experience Venture Visits Front Range Community College

February 17th, 2020

The Community Experience Venture led by the Futures Counselor, Wendy Rose, attended a graphic design class at Front Range Community College (FRCC) last week. Maggie Adams, Multimedia Graphic Design Program Director at FRCC, let us visit her Illustrator class and gave us an overview of the program.

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Community Partners

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Ventures

Compass Juniors are Exploring Career and College Opportunities

February 10th, 2020

Students in 11th-grade have been working with Bonnie and Wendy to determine the kinds of educational options and professions they wanted to learn more about as part of their postsecondary readiness venture experience.

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Community Partners

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Futures

MathCounts Team Hard at Work on a Snowy Friday Evening

February 7th, 2020

The MathCounts team met Friday night from 6-10pm to prepare for Regionals at UNC in two weeks. The team has now completed 2800 problems this school year. This is 93% of their goal of 3000 problems solved!

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News

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STEM