Next week USD 475 is celebrating Week of the Engineer in quite a few of the schools.

 

Tues. Feb 23	5:30pm	Spring Valley	Whole School	Family Engineering Night- Families come and build together
Wed. Feb. 24	7:45am	Grandview	Whole School	Day of the Engineer Celebration- Engineer coming in and Whole School Building
	10:00am	Ft. Riley El.	3rd-Sticca	Speedometry
	11:30am	Westwood	4th– Chillers	Engineering Balloon Cars
	12:45pm	Morris Hill	5th-Pierce	Egg Drop Challenge
Thurs. Feb. 25	8:15am	Franklin	2nd– Berges	Start Planting Seeds
	9:30am	Sheridan	2nd– Graham	Teeth and Inventing Toothpaste
	10:15am	Franklin	1st– Wilkinson	Cinderella Engineering Challenge
	11:30am	Sheridan	Kdg	Lunch and Legos with Family
	12:30pm	Lincoln	Kdg-Micheel	Engineering Leprechaun Traps w/ Parents
	1:45pm	Sheridan	2nd– Graham	Rapunzel Pulley Engineering
	2:00pm	Lincoln	Kdg-Harms	Engineering Leprechaun Traps w/ Parents

 

 

Kansas State University has awarded nearly $6 million to projects that will help improve food securities in six countries.

The money is directed through the university’s Feed the Future Innovation Lab for Collaborative Research on Sustainable intensification, which was funded for $50 million in 2014.

Feed the Future innovation labs are part of the U. S. government’s global hunger and food security initiative, and are administered by the U.S. Agency for International Development. Twenty-five such labs are hosted by universities across the United States, with four of those labs at Kansas State University.

 

The Junction City Area Chamber of Commerce conducted the Navy Federal Credit Union ribbon cutting Friday.

The business is located at 227 West 18th Street.

During the ribbon cutting Navy Federal Credit Union donated $1,000 to Operation Santa Claus, the annual effort to provide toys and gifts for needy children at Fort Riley at Christmas time.

 

Fire and EMS were sent to Washington Elementary School at 11:36 a.m. Friday. Students were evacuated from the building for about five minutes.

But checks with the Junction City Fire Department and police dispatch confirmed that it was a false alarm call. There were no injuries.

The Fire and EMS departed the school at 11:43 a.m.

The Grandview Plaza Police Department has reported the arrest of a 20-year old Junction City man, Richard Charles Goodrum Jr., on suspicion of Rape.

Goodrum was arrested at 402 State Avenue on Thursday.

Five p.m. today ( Friday ) is the deadline to register for the next Military Affairs Council breakfast. It is scheduled next Thursday, Feb. 25, at Riley’s Conference Center at Fort Riley.

CW3 Jeffery Price, former commander of the 1st Infantry Division Band, will share how music is an integral part of the Army.

Cost of the breakfast is $12 per person, payable by check or cash at the door. Call the Chamber to register at 785-762-2632, or email at info@jcacc.org.

 

Michelle Munson, chief executive officer for Aspera Inc. . Berkley, California, will present “How engineering ( actually ) changes the world — my experience as an inventor, entrepreneur and tech CEO” at Kansas State University.

The event at 3 p.m. Thursday, March 3, is scheduled in 1109 Engineering Hall at K-State. It is part of the College of Engineering’s Eyestone Lecture Series, and is open to the public.

Munson, formerly of Junction City, is a 1996 graduate of Kansas State University in electrical engineering and physics, where she was a Goldwater scholar for achievement in science and mathematics. She was later a Fulbright scholar at Cambridge University where she received a postgraduate diploma in computer science.

She is the co-inventor of Aspera’s fasp transport technology, responsible for overseeing the company’s direction in collaboration with co-founder Serban Simu.

Munson’s lecture will highlight how engineering brings fundamental solutions to scientific and societal “big problems,” focusing on the example of the birth and growth of Aspera’s high-speed transport platform. She will address the origin of the company’s transport technology, the invention of the platform, financial enablement and evolution in an ecosystem of distributed cloud computing, and the explosion of data.

The Geary USD 475 Board of Education Celebration meeting is Monday ( Feb. 22 ) at Junction City Middle School at 5 p.m.

Kansas Teacher of the Year nominees will be recognized along shining star award recipients and the district’s Master Teacher nominee.

The Board holds celebration meetings on a quarterly basis.

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Wednesday ( Feb. 24 ) will be a late start day at Junction City High School. Classes will begin at 9:55 a.m.

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Friday ( Feb. 26 ) will be an elementary plan day for teachers in the school district. There will be no classes for students in grades Kindergarten through five.

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) – A proposal to build a new veterinary laboratory at Kansas State University is one step closer to reality.

The Kansas Board of Regents on Wednesday approved the university’s proposal for a Kansas State Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory, with an estimated cost of $43.2 million. The project still must be approved the Kansas Legislature.

The Manhattan Mercury reports (https://bit.ly/1KZalqD ) the university plans an 80,000-square-foot facility. The new building will allow the university to consolidate its diagnostic and research labs with offices and support facilities.

Regent Bill Feuerborn said Kansas State will seek $10 million in private donations for the project.

A timeline for the construction, if the project is approved, has not been set.

MANHATTAN- Prior to Saturday’s 5p.m. Sunflower Showdown with the #2 Kansas Jayhawks, Kansas State University has issued a video on how to treat guests with class.

Last season, KSU Athletic Director John Currie apologized to KU officials for students storming the court after the game in Bramlage Coliseum and Big 12 Conference Commissioner Bob Bowlsby publicly reprimanded Kansas State.

No injuries resulted from the court-storming.

In May, the Big 12 Conference passed a measure under which schools could face fines or even the loss of future home games for failing to control fans who storm courts or rush fields after games.

Kansas State has 4 wins at Bramlage Coliseum against Kansas in the last 8 meetings, including back-to-back victories in 2014 and 2015. The Wildcats have not won 3 straight at home in the series since 1981-83 (4 wins).

The rivalry ranks as the 8th-longest continuously played in the country (met every season since 1921) with the 6th-most games played (282). The Jayhawks lead the series, 189-93, including 75-47 in Manhattan.