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Michael Ericson, 10, bowls using the Xbox Kinect Tuesday at Bright Field Middle School in Bentonville during the Technology Showcase. Michael’s school, Cooper Elementary School, has a Xbox Kinect lab with 12 stations for students to use during physical education class. The lab was created in partnership with Microsoft.
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Danielle Leitch, senior vice commander for Bella Vista’s Veterans of Foreign Wars post, mops up mud and water April 18 in the post’s kitchen after the building was inundated with floodwater from nearby Lake Bella Vista.
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Swat team members from the Benton County Sheriff’s Office walk down Dallas Avenue Southeast on Tuesday near Gravette Middle School after it was reported a resident had been shot during a burglary attempt. Police later learned the man had accidentally shot himself.
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Swat team members from the Benton County Sheriff’s Office gear up near 307 Dallas St. S.E. in search of a shooting suspect.
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Alex Miles, Rogers Heritage senior, is a favorite to win the 50th annual Arkansas High School Decathlon after finishing second as a junior last year.
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Deion Jones, left, Rogers Heritage senior, sits at a table with his mother, Leta Young, during a signing ceremony on Tuesday at the school.
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Mabel Wise, left, and Mallory Price, both Eastside Elementary School firstgraders, get a hug from Clifford the Big Red Dog during a visit Tuesday, courtesy of the Arkansas Educational Television Network. The two earned the canine’s visit for placing well in the PBS Kids Go! Writing Contest. Mabel took first place among first-graders in statewide competition for her story, “The Dancing Zebra.” Mallory placed third with her entry, “A Cat Party.” The two are in Lourdes Kinney’s class at Eastside. Mabel’s story will advance to national competition. The contest encourages students in kindergarten through third grade to write and illustrate stories.
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Kristii Buttrey watches as her son, Deqlyn Buttrey, 10, sets up his research project Tuesday at Elmwood Middle School in Rogers. Deqlyn is a fourth-grader at Reagan Elementary School. Elmwood hosted the Reach Showcase Fair which featured about 400 projects and inventions from gifted and talented third- through fifth-graders from Rogers schools.
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Abby Newman, 10, lowers her ponytail Tuesday at Happy Hollow Elementary School in Fayetteville as physical education teacher Erin Rains adjusts a helmet for her. The third-, fourth- and fifth-grade students are participating in Bike Ed, a hands-on program started by the Bicycle Coalition of the Ozarks to teach students how to ride a bicycle responsibly. The students watched safety videos, walked an obstacle course and were fitted with helmets Tuesday. In the next couple of days the students will have the opportunity to practice skills learned on a course.
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Lawson Albey, an intern with the University of Arkansas Community Health Promotion program, paints the bicycle course.
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Sophia gives a flower to Adalyn Nicholson-Dennis, 2, on Tuesday at Tyson Park in Springdale. Adalyn was with her grandmother, Kelley Nicholson.
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Will Pruett smells a flower his niece, Sophia Medlin, 18 months, presents to him Tuesday at Tyson Park in Springdale. Pruett watches Sophia a couple days of the week so his sister can work.
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Kate Lee,6, is blasted by a jet of water Wednesday while on a school outing at the Lawrence Plaza Splash Pad in Bentonville. Kate was at the park with two classes of kindergarteners from Thomas Jefferson Elementary School. The splash pad opened for the summer Saturday and is open from 9 a.m. to 10 p.m. daily.
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Adelyn Schaffer, 2, left, plays in a jet of water Wednesday, May 15, 2013, while enjoying an outing to the Lawrence Plaza Splash Pad in downtown Bentonville. Adelyn was visiting the park with her aunt Callie Edwards and older sister Arabella, 4. The splash pad officially opened for the summer season on Saturday and is open seven days a week from 9 a.m. to 10 p.m.
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Kiren Brown, left, and Amelia Harrison lean into the tugof-war competition Wednesday during Reagan Elementary School’s field day in Rogers. Students were treated to games of all types indoors and outdoors during the event.
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Wynn Dickenson sits in the coxswain’s seat and coaches new rowers on Saturday during an introductory rowing class at Lake Fayetteville. The Rowing Club of Northwest Arkansas offered a taste of the sport at the event. Students learned the basic stroke on the dock, then got a chance to row one-person and four-person boats on the lake.
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Getting into the boat can be a difficult proposition. Margaret Britain, left, with the rowing club, helps rowing students on Saturday get into the four-person shell. Read story »
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A talent for rowing is another feather in Roy Rom’s hat as he teaches from the coxswain’s seat before a cruise in the four-person boat on Saturday.
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Students tried their hand on Saturday at rowing a single-person shell tethered to an instructor. After a few sculling strokes, the instructor retrieved the boat and passenge Read story »
The 2012-13 Arkansas deer season was a success in several ways.