Education + Enrichment

Students from three Plano ISD schools advanced to the “Top 32” round of the International Public Policy Forum (IPPF). The advancing schools are Jasper High School, Plano Senior High School and Plano West Senior High School.

The Texas Music Educators Association (TMEA) has announced the selection of 76 Plano ISD students for positions in the coveted 2017 All-State music ensembles.

The beautiful Saigling House sits in the midst of Haggard Park.

Award-winning children’s illustrator E.B. Lewis kicks off this year’s ALLen Reads at 2 p.m. Saturday, January 28, a the Allen Public Library. Drop by the library’s Meeting Room between 12:30-1:30 p.m.

Learn to build a castle brick by brick at the Frisco Sci-Tech Discovery Center. Unleash your imagination at Frisco’s Sci-Tech Discovery Center with the Castle Builder Exhibit open through January 22.

Sci-Tech Discovery Center, Frisco’s leading family-friendly cultural and educational destination, is mixing science with play this New Year’s Eve with “Countdown to Noon.

One in every 4 children (or 289,000) in North Texas are food insecure. Primrose kindergartners are helping to fix that.

Plano’s most famous police officer is without a doubt Arthur Parker, fondly known as “OP” in the community. He was named Plano Police Department’s 2015 Officer of the Year last May.

The search for DFW’s best young creative writers kicks off in January.

Jack Ruby, By Eamon Kennedy Eamon Kennedy provided the public a front row seat to watch one of the most tragic chapters in American history—the drama that followed the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.