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Summer Fun Indoors! Outdoors! 2016 Special Bonus Issue Full house! Four generations under one roof KIDS AT Summer The bucks PLAY fun indoors! stop here Ten-year-olds Outdoors! saving ... for a house?! Everywhere in between! Summer yummin' Cool recipes for little foodies The Dawson Difference At The Alexander Dawson School, we can’t predict the future, but we can teach children how to shape it. Stellar academic programs, an emphasis Dawson gave me the room to be As a Dawson student I developed a solid Whether it’s delivering a presentation on holistic education, and adaptability to creative. For example, I wrote my foundation in writing, study skills, and or taking a test, there isn’t a single student interests make Dawson a fantastic first play in the eighth grade. It was problem solving. While it has been over identifiable thing that has been more place to learn, explore, and grow. Dawson’s a western melodrama we performed 15 years since I first attended Dawson, I beneficial to me than my educational decision to be the first middle school in for the entire School. People thought still rely on those basic foundational skills experience at Dawson. I was Las Vegas to offer Mandarin allowed me it was funny and I loved that reaction. to guide me through the challenges of encouraged to be an independent to establish a strong lingual foundation I Dawson’s performing arts teacher my Ph.D. program at Wake Forest thinker and I still use the tools I was continued to build through high school told me to take that feeling and try University Medical School. I know my given at Dawson to put forth 110 and college. Additionally, Dawson’s ability applying it to screenwriting. That must experience at Dawson prepared me for percent effort into whatever I am trying to accommodate my desire to attend a have stuck with me because I chose to success in high school and beyond. to accomplish. I was taught to question boarding high school made a daunting major in screenwriting and directing Now, I am in my third year of graduate what was questionable, and to discover process much more approachable. I believe at Boston University. I believe a lot of school studying the molecular what was undiscovered. Dawson has the academic preparation and opportunity my confidence came from the creative mechanisms of Alzheimer’s disease. not only made me the person I am I received at Dawson has been opportunities I was given early on at today, but has made me the person I instrumental to my academic success. Dawson, and from the people there Brenna Beckelman will be for the rest of my life. that helped me realize my strengths. Dawson Class of 2004 Wake Forest University Medical School Pascal Cevaer-Corey Jonathan Walton Dawson Class of 2010 Lida Nasseri Dawson Class of 2012 Stanford University Dawson Class of 2007 National Merit Scholarship Finalist 2016 Boston University (702) 949-3600 www.alexanderdawsonschool.org 10845 W. Desert Inn Road | Las Vegas, Nevada | 89135 MONTH 2015 MONTH 2015 2 DESERTCOMPANION.COM DESERTCOMPANION.COM 3 The Dawson Difference At The Alexander Dawson School, we can’t predict the future, but we can teach children how to shape it. Stellar academic programs, an emphasis Dawson gave me the room to be As a Dawson student I developed a solid Whether it’s delivering a presentation on holistic education, and adaptability to creative. For example, I wrote my foundation in writing, study skills, and or taking a test, there isn’t a single student interests make Dawson a fantastic first play in the eighth grade. It was problem solving. While it has been over identifiable thing that has been more place to learn, explore, and grow. Dawson’s a western melodrama we performed 15 years since I first attended Dawson, I beneficial to me than my educational decision to be the first middle school in for the entire School. People thought still rely on those basic foundational skills experience at Dawson. I was Las Vegas to offer Mandarin allowed me it was funny and I loved that reaction. to guide me through the challenges of encouraged to be an independent to establish a strong lingual foundation I Dawson’s performing arts teacher my Ph.D. program at Wake Forest thinker and I still use the tools I was continued to build through high school told me to take that feeling and try University Medical School. I know my given at Dawson to put forth 110 and college. Additionally, Dawson’s ability applying it to screenwriting. That must experience at Dawson prepared me for percent effort into whatever I am trying to accommodate my desire to attend a have stuck with me because I chose to success in high school and beyond. to accomplish. I was taught to question boarding high school made a daunting major in screenwriting and directing Now, I am in my third year of graduate what was questionable, and to discover process much more approachable. I believe at Boston University. I believe a lot of school studying the molecular what was undiscovered. Dawson has the academic preparation and opportunity my confidence came from the creative mechanisms of Alzheimer’s disease. not only made me the person I am I received at Dawson has been opportunities I was given early on at today, but has made me the person I instrumental to my academic success. Dawson, and from the people there Brenna Beckelman will be for the rest of my life. that helped me realize my strengths. Dawson Class of 2004 Wake Forest University Medical School Pascal Cevaer-Corey Jonathan Walton Dawson Class of 2010 Lida Nasseri Dawson Class of 2012 Stanford University Dawson Class of 2007 National Merit Scholarship Finalist 2016 Boston University (702) 949-3600 www.alexanderdawsonschool.org 10845 W. Desert Inn Road | Las Vegas, Nevada | 89135 MONTH 2015 MONTH 2015 2 DESERTCOMPANION.COM DESERTCOMPANION.COM 3 TICKETS FROM $49* 866.439.9272 • cirquedusoleil.com/las-vegas AT NEW YORK-NEW YORK AT MANDALAY BAY AT TREASURE ISLAND AT BELLAGIO HOTEL & CASINO AT MGM GRAND AT THE MIRAGE RESORT AND CASINO LUXOR *Price varies depending on show, date and time. Does not include tax and fees. Valid through September 30, 2016. Blackout dates apply. Valid on select seating areas and categories. Cannot be combined with any other offer. Management reserves all rights. Subject to availability. Some restrictions apply. The offer for “O” and Michael Jackson ONE is up to 25% off tickets. Tickets for KÀ and The Beatles LOVE start at $55. Tickets for Zumanity and Criss Angel MINDFREAK LIVE! start at $49. Tickets for Mystère start at $49.50. Zumanity has been created for guests 18 years and older. EDiTOR’S Note HIGHER ED cience education through robots, financial literacy, But our 2016 Family Issue isn’t all work and no play. volunteerism — scanning the topics and issues we There’s plenty of diversion for summer, fall and beyond. cover in our third annual Desert Companion Fam- While the heat reigns well through August, keep this ily issue, I’m struck by, well, what a serious, grown- issue handy for a plethora of indoor activities that’ll S up enterprise being a kid has become. (The closest occupy everyone from toddlers to teens (“The great in- I think I ever came to entering a robotics competition doors,” p. 24), whether they like tumbling, trampolining was playing smash-up derby on our bikes. Not sure what I or trying their puzzle-solving skills in the latest craze, learned about science beyond an intimacy with the struc- escape rooms. When the mercury drops to survivable hu- ture and morphology of my bruised shins, though.) If such man levels, our “Wild in the streets (and trails)” (p. 18) concerns represent the New Childhood, then this year’s guide is a great tool for peeling the little ones away from Desert Companion Family Issue should serve as a more the iPad and introducing them to the flora and fauna than capable user’s manual. In “Go team science!” (p. 54), of the Southwest. But who says you even have to leave Sarah Vernetti explores the latest trend in STEM educa- the house to leap into adventure? In “Hot outside, way tion — and it doesn’t involve a tangled thicket of formulas cool inside” (p. 34) Scott Dickensheets scrawled on dry-erase boards. Rather, it’s about igniting has put together a crunchy snack bowl kids’ imaginations for science and engineering through of creative games, books and crafts that exciting robot battles and intense drone competitions. In are perfect for constructive indoor sum- “Common cents” (p. 45), Jason Scavone surveys courses mer fun. And, in what’s become a sort of and programs about financial literacy, a bedrock life skill culinary tradition, Oksana Marafioti is that’s fallen by the wayside in the traditional classroom back with more kid-friendly recipes for (to the peril of several generations mired in consumer and budding chefs and foodies (“Flight of fla- student debt). Today, proponents of financial literacy are vor,” p. 40). And don’t forget our resource teaching kids about much more than merely how to bal- guide (p. 59), our expanded compendium ance a checkbook; they’re hoping to instill money habits of events, amusements and organizations that will empower youth for a lifetime of wise saving and that offer services — and in many cases, thoughtful spending. Such education is itself an invest- just pure fun — to families like yours. Andrew Kiraly ment. And in “Advanced degree in charity” (p. 31), Heidi editor Kyser profiles a group of teens who, encouraged by their parents, formed a tight-knit volunteerism club called TeenMD.
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