Parents Magazine
How to Celebrate Lunar New Year as a Family
Lunar New Year is the biggest holiday of the year in many Asian countries. It's a fabulous fifteen-day celebration filled with fireworks, special food dishes, and parades. In the United States, Here's how you can teach your own kids about Lunar New Year, plus a few ways to celebrate at home.
Celebrating Mid-Autumn Festival with Kids
The Mid-Autumn Festival is a traditional East Asian holiday that's celebrated with mooncakes and a fanciful picnic under the moon. Here's how you can involve your children.
San Diego Magazine
Best of San Diego 2021
California Legoland expands with a new play area called Lego Movie World with new rides like Emmet's Flying Adventure.
Knowledge@Wharton High School
He’s 18, and He Works for Facebook!
In June 2014, after graduating from high school in Miami, Florida, Michael Sayman headed to one of the most coveted internships on Earth: Facebook in Menlo Park, Calif.
Mentors: Knowing How and When to Listen to Feedback
A great idea and financial backing are not always enough to launch a successful new business. While entrepreneurs are often characterized as independent self-starters, they also need advice, expertise, criticism, guidance and encouragement to make any kind of meaningful progress. M
An Arctic Teen’s Viral Tunes Save His Language from Extinction
“Waqaa” – that’s how you say “hello” in Yup’ik. It’s an Eskimo-Aleut language spoken by just 10,000 people in Alaska, including 18-year-old Byron Nicholai, who posts himself on new media singing Yup’ik songs and doing traditional drumming.
#ExploreMuseums: Using Social Media to Improve Your Future Prospects
So often we hear of the digital footprint that has gone awry – over-the-top party pictures coming back to haunt jobseekers during an important interview, or college admissions officers discovering profanity-laced Instagram posts as they assess a prospective student’s strengths and weaknesses.
Career Spotlight: Studying to Be a Veterinary Technician
Alex Miller, 19, of Purcellville, Virginia, spent a lot of quality time with cats, dogs and hamsters growing up. So it’s no wonder that she has chosen to pursue a career as a veterinary technician.
Nextstudent.com
Nuts and Bolts of National Merit Scholarships
Every year, you might hear about the local National Merit Scholarship winners in your community from your school or newspapers. Besides sounding like a prestigious honor, what exactly does it mean to be a National Merit Scholar?
In general, it’s a $2,500 award for high school kids who get top scores on the PSATs.