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ambright Elementary School teacher Katie Harnish has been selected to participate in the Grosvenor Teacher Fellowship, a professional development opportunity that is a partnership between the National Geographic Society and Lindblad Expeditions. Harnish, who teaches fifth grade, is one of only 50 educators in the United States and Canada selected for the program. As a Grosvenor Teacher Fellow, she will embark on a voyage aboard a Lindblad Expeditions ship to one of the world’s most remote and rich environments, such as the high Arctic, southeast Alaska, Central America or the Galápagos Islands.
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During the pandemic and the subsequent changes to shopping, dining, and business practices, websites have been indispensable. “More and more during COVID, (the internet) becomes the place where transactions happen. (People are) placing orders and buying products (online),” explained marketing expert Adam Grim. “ Websites are the first impression for the business. In most cases these days, people are looking at your website before they’re willing to have a call with you or stop by your location.” Grim has worked in digital marketing in Lancaster County for nearly a decade. With a business partner, he built Sparrow Websites before recently shifting his focus from doing the design work to helping business owners develop content and opening Bootstrap Local.
Katie Harnish (right, wearing bandana) helps students prepare to take water samples for a stream study at the Little Conestoga Creek.
ing Hambright in a research project titled “The World in Our Backyard.” She also led a teaching unit on refugees in which her students invited recent immigrants living in Lancaster to Hambright to hear their stories firsthand. Students talked via Skype with a refugee in a camp in Kenya and interviewed refugees and immigrants from Cambodia, Syria, Iraq, Somalia, Nepal and Nicaragua. This year, Harnish’s students are participating in a project called “Watershed Explorers: Examining and Protecting Our Local Waterways,” funded by the Lancaster County STEM Alliance. Students are conducting research on humans’ impact on the ecosystems of nearby waterways and raising 200 rainbow trout from eggs to be released into a local stream.
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INSIDE THIS ISSUE Woman’s Club Presents Plaque . . . . . . . .2 Benefit Concert Planned . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2 Free Community Meal Scheduled . . . . . . . . . . . . .3 Sports . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .4 Business Directory . . . . . .6 House Of Worship . . . . . . .8 Katie Harnish addresses students in her fifth-grade classroom at Hambright Elementary School.
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She and other Grosvenor Teacher Fellows will work with marine biologists, geologists, historians, undersea specialists and National Geographic photographers to learn more about these environments. Teachers will return home with curriculum resources to share with their students and colleagues. The Grosvenor Teacher Fellows were selected to participate through a competitive application process based on their “impactful work to further students’ understanding of the planet and its people, empowering them to generate solutions for a healthier and more sustainable future,” according to National Geographic. In recent years, Harnish has introduced her students to new technology while exploring the wetlands, woodlands and farmland surround-
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Harnish has introduced her students to new technology while exploring the wetlands, woodlands and farmland surrounding Hambright in a research project titled “The World in Our Backyard.”
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