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Contributed By Teresa Cleary | Winton Woods Schools Communications Department

Winton Woods Elementary School received a first place award for local impact at the elementary-age level at this year's Global Youth Service Day at the Duke Energy Center on Saturday, April 17. Students Kenny Greer, Nick Kress, Ramiro Sotelo and Makaila Ware--along with Principal Steve Denny and fourth grade teacher Susan Fisher--represented the school at the event.

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BY CARRIE WHITAKER • CWHITAKER@ENQUIRER.COM

QUEENSGATE - Foot by foot, Michael Karaus pulled out the short intestine from Stuffee, a stuffed character used to teach children about what's inside the human body.

Students from William H. Taft Elementary School visiting the Museum of Natural History and Science on Wednesday for its very first STEM Science Night stretched the stuffed tube to the back of the group.

"Hold it up," said Karaus, an employee with the museum inside Union Terminal. "It is 21 feet long, the average length of your small intestine."

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For ten weeks, students throughout the state of Ohio are competing in an online simulation that introduces students to the stock market offered by the UC Economics Center for Education & Research called the Stock Market Game (SMG) Ohio. Students have created simulated portfolios by investing virtual money and researching companies. They are following real time stock market and learning about the economy.

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The UC Economics Center is excited to bring this opportunity to the educators they serve. If you are involved in economics education, grades 5-12, you may be interested in this study tour program.

The Council for Economic Education (CEE) is now accepting applications for a Study Tour on Economic Education to the Republic of South Africa. The Study Tour is an activity conducted by CEE with funding from the U.S. Department of Education for the Cooperative Education Exchange Program (CEEP). CEEP is carried out in coordination with the U.S. Department of State

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Cincinnati, OH – More than 1200 area elementary students from fifteen schools representing diverse Cincinnati communities will put their entrepreneurial spirit into practice at the Market Madness event on Wednesday, May 12 from 10:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. at the University of Cincinnati Recreation Center. All students participate in the Economics Center’s Student Enterprise Program (StEP) – a program in which students learn personal financial skills as they design and operate their own school economy.

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Recent concerns about employment and the economy have been exacerbated by a local unemployment rate over 10 percent. While everyone has felt the effects of the recession in some way, men and women likely have experienced the economic environment differently in terms of employment.

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By Richard Wilson, Staff Writer

LEBANON — For the last couple of years, reports on the national economy have provided fresh, teachable moments in Frank Back’s classroom just about every day.

Back, 42, has taught economics at Lebanon High School for seven years. He was recently selected as the Economics Teacher of the Year by the University of Cincinnati Economics Center.

“Every day you open up the paper and there are things that are relevant to these students as consumers,” Back said. “We can draw on those lessons and drive home the major points of economics.”

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Ranked as the #1 Economics Center of its kind nationwide, the UC Economics Center for Education & Research provides financial education programs to students and teachers throughout the Greater Cincinnati community.

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