Des Moines Public Schools students qualified a district record 100 entries for the State Science Fair, held on March 28th at Hilton Coliseum on the campus of Iowa State University, and twenty-three students brought home a total of …

Assists are a key basketball statistic. They acknowledge the player who makes the pass that enables someone else to score. Saturday afternoon the students and families served by Des Moines Public Schools got tremendous assists from the Iowa …

North High School students gathered around a small desk rigged with three computer screens, a steering wheel, gas and brake pedals. “Whoa!” the crowd said in unison as Cesar Marfal attempted to drive while texting. He crashed when …

First things first: STEM = science, technology, engineering and math … Educators from far and wide gathered Friday for the Iowa Statewide STEM Conference III at the Community Choice Convention Center in downtown Des Moines, and Hoover High …

Three Hoover High School teachers, one AmeriCorps volunteer and Principal Doug Wheeler sat covered in plastic, bracing for the Cool Whip facial to come.  They were center court in the gym at the last assembly of the year.  …