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he Mars rover Curiosity is still hard at work, two years after it began exploring the Red Planet, but NASA is now getting ready to NASA’s next Tsend another rover to Mars, and this one will be able to do much more than Curiosity was ever designed to do. NASA considered 58 different proposals from around the world be- Mars mission fore deciding on the design for the Mars 2020 Rover that will launch in six years. The new rover will not simply explore the planet but will do more complex research with an eye to future Mars projects. beginning to For instance, besides analyzing samples and streaming data to Earth, the rover will gather them so a future rover can actually carry them take shape back. It will also collect information on how manned projects could make oxygen there, both to breathe and for use as rocket fuel, rather than having to carry it to Mars. Photo/NASA-JPL CK Reporter Nikki Dresen, ColoradoKids Winter Park August 19, 2014 ‘GivEr’ WEll-capturEd on film he Giver,” written by Lois Lowry over 20 “Tyears ago has fi nally been made into a movie starring nEvEr mind lEGo: HErE’s Brenton Thwaites as Jonas and a rEal stEm rolE modEl Jeff Bridges as The Giver with Meryl Streep, Odeya Rush, Tay- ast week, we told how lor Swift, and Katie Holmes. LLego is making minifi gures of women in STEM careers so little girls can have toy role By Kaitlyn Pierce, models to play with. 12, a CK Reporter from Arvada Since then, they’ve gained a real one: Maryam Mirzakhani, a math professor at Stanford This is an extraordinary fi lm. University, became the fi rst Even without reading the woman ever to win the Fisher book fi rst, the movie is very easy medal, one of the most impor- to understand. The whole con- tant awards in mathematics. cept of the society and plot was Mirzakhani knows how im- explained well. portant it is to be encouraged: It follows the book pretty She almost quit studying math closely; only a few changes were as a young girl growing up in made, and, whether or not you Sameness. knows he has to try. Iran because a teacher told have read the book, this is a Having never seen colors or But is he strong enough to get her she wasn’t any good at it. movie worth seeing. felt emotion, Jonas is now able there? But her teacher the next Jonas’s story is one you will to truly appreciate everything The movie is a little over an year believed in her and now never forget. he learns about the world, from hour and a half long and very Mirzakhani says she hopes her In his society, people live by things as simple as the color red emotional. You will feel what example will help other girls the concept of Sameness. to the complexity of love. Jonas is feeling throughout the realize that they can do math Everybody lives in an identical He begins to see the world as movie, and will be entertained and that solving diffi cult prob- dwelling, with the same family it really is, but when Jonas real- the entire time. lems is even fun: “It is like structure. izes that only he and the Giver “The Giver” is PG-13 and being lost in a jungle and try- They have no emotions and have any knowledge of this defi nitely a movie for mature ing to use all the knowledge senses like sight are dull. beauty, he is anxious to share it audiences. The violent scenes that you can gather to come Jonas is chosen to become the with his family and friends. are over quickly, but younger up with some new tricks, and Receiver of Memory and dur- When he discovers there might kids might not understand the with some luck you might fi nd ing his training, Jonas receives be a way to give the memories plot, so I recommend it for kids a way out.” Photo/Stanford Univ. memories of the time before to everyone and save lives, he 12 and up. we asked, you answered Back-to-school leaves readers divided hen it comes to the end Here’s what we asked you, and Here’s our next question: Wof summer and the start what you told us: The Broncos are about to of school, there wasn’t much kick off the new season. How Summer vacation is down to its agreement among CK readers do you feel about that? D last bits. How do you feel about A who answered our question. A. Best time of the year! Go school starting up again? Only a quarter of you were Broncos! A. I can’t wait! 26% truly excited about the new B. I enjoy watching the B. I don’t mind. Summer’s long school year, and that barely games with my friends. enough, I guess. 30% C outnumbered those who were C. I might check out a game C. I want to see my friends, but B completely bummed out by it. or two, if they’re winning. you can keep the “school” part. A little over half of those D. Not on my radar. who responded pretty much 24% To answer this question, go to shrugged it all off. D. Are you kidding me? 20% www.nextgen.yourhub.com ck Kids and adults can find live links to information about stories in Colorado Kids at www.ColoradoNIE.com Colorado Kids Yasidis rescued by their fellow Kurds is produced by Denver Post Educational Services Executive Editor: Dana Plewka here was a bit Iraq have often been [email protected] of good news able to act almost from Iraq last as if they were an CK Editor: Mike Peterson T [email protected] week, where ISIS, a independent country, We welcome your comments. violent movement of because they were far religious extremists, enough from Baghdad For tools to extend the learning in has been trying to and well-organized this feature, look under take over the region. enough that the Iraqi “eEdition lessons” at: ISIS forces had government, of which www.ColoradoNIE.com trapped a group of they were a part, had people known as the other problems to eEditions of the Post are Yasidis on a mountain concentrate on. free of charge for classroom use. and were closing in When ISIS first be- Contact us for information on all on them. gan to sweep through our programs. American and Iraq, the Iraqi army Denver Post Educational Services other Western forces did a poor job of 101 W. Colfax Ave. dropped food and fighting back, but the Denver CO 80202 other supplies to the Yasidi refugees, no longer trapped in Iraq, cross a bridge regional forces in the (303) 954-3974 Yasidis, but it seemed over the Tigris River into Syria AP Photo/Khalid Mohammed Kurdish part of the (800) 336-7678 they might all be country resisted. killed, until Kurdish What is particu- Stories without bylines were fighters from Syria crossed over the larly interesting about the way the written by the editor. border and came to their rescue. Syrian Kurds came to the Yasidis These Kurds fought to clear a safe rescue is that, unlike nearly all pathway for thousands of Yasidis to other Kurds, the Yasidis are not Beyond these four pages escape to Syria, where there were Sunni Muslims. CK Readers who responded refugee camps with food, shelter In fact, they aren’t Muslims at all. to the question about going and medical help. Yasidis follow an ancient reli- back to school were divided The rescue came at a time, and in gion that is older than Islam and on the topic. Take a poll in a place, where there has been very is not related to any of the sacred your classroom and see what little good news for a long time. teachings that Muslims, Jews and results you get. Like those who came to their aid, the Yasidis Christians -- “The People of the Book” -- follow. are Kurds, an ethnic group whose homeland is Sunni Muslim and Shiite Muslims have been Educate yourself! Find out spread throughout northern Iraq, Iran, Syria and fighting with each other for years, while ISIS how taking a poll is different Turkey. members, who are extremist Shiites, have killed than letting people answer The Kurds have their own language and cul- both Sunnis and Christians for being different. a question if they feel like ture, and have long wanted independence. They But the Kurds from Syria were not interested in it. This year, watch for news have fought against the governments in their fighting or hating over religion. They simply de- reports that misuse the term homeland to try to secure their own nation. clared that they wanted to help protect their fellow “poll.” (CK just asks questions.) Since the first Gulf War in 1991, the Kurds in Kurds, and so came to the aid of the Yasidis. Easy, fun kids’ book Great man is honored umphrey’s Re- car and she also mentions how ecently, a memorial ser- He was very active in church- ally Wheely Racing Humphrey really wants one. vice was held for Vincent es of all different religions, and “HDay,” by Betty G. The next day, Humphrey RHarding, a civil rights ac- everybody who spoke about Birney is a cute little story for receives a box with something tivist, at the New Hope Baptist him expressed how under- little kids to read.