The Vail School District is holding a job fair Wednesday, June 16, from 8 a.m. to noon at Desert Sky Middle School, 9850 E. Rankin Loop.
The school district is recruiting for teachers, special education staff, bus drivers, transportation monitors, child-care staff, custodians and school support staff.
Complete an application and register for an interview at VailSchoolDistrict.org. Masks will be required while indoors.
For more information on the job fair, contact Ally Armenta at armentaa@vailschooldistrict.org or 520-879-2047.
Four students awarded $2K eachFour graduating seniors from the Sahuarita School District are each receiving $2,000 scholarships from the Valle Verde Rotary Club of Green Valley.
Scholarship recipients: Emma Vaterlaus, Troy Garcia and Gianna Alvarenga from Sahuarita High School and Ayah Ghannam from Walden Grove High School.
Vaterlaus will attend Brigham Young University-Hawaii in the fall where she will major in cultural anthropology and minor in psychology and foundations of foreign language in Chinese and Spanish, a news release said.
Garcia plans to attend Universal Technical Institute in Avondale to become a certified master technician in automotive mechanics and eventually work on and restore classic vehicles.
Ghannam will be attending the University of Arizona Honors College, majoring in law.
Alvarenga plans to attend New Mexico State University this fall and study nursing.
Tucson teacher is STEM Scholar
A Flowing Wells teacher was among 11 middle school teachers nationwide selected to participate in the National STEM Scholar Program, a professional development program providing advanced training, network building and project support for middle school teachers in science, technology, engineering and math.
Jaime Camero from Walter Douglas Elementary School and the other applicants were selected based on the description of a “big idea” challenge project, a news release said.
The program, a partnership between the National Stem Cell Foundation and The Gatton Academy of Mathematics and Science at Western Kentucky University, chose applicants based on their project’s ability to have maximum impact in middle school classrooms.
