Glendale’s Community Newspaper
Vol. 77 No. 28
Inside This Week
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Grammys honor music teacher Julie Trent BY CHRISTINA FUOCO-KARASINSKI
Glendale Star Executive Editor
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SPORTS ........ 14 Coyotes’ new coach sees a fresh start for the team
July 8, 2021
Julie Trent doesn’t think about herself when she recalls her spot as a quarterfinalist in the Recording Academy and Grammy Museum Music Educator Award. Her students come first. “I think it’s cool for the kids,” Trent said. “They’re the ones who make it happen. They’re so awesome. Just seeing them and how much they grew this year was really cool. When I received this announcement, I told the kids about it.” The fourth-year Glendale High School educator is among 219 music teachers from 204 cities who are quarterfinalists for the Music Educator Award presented by the Recording Academy and Grammy Museum.
The Music Educator Award was established to recognize current educators (kindergarten through college, public and private schools) who have made a significant and lasting contributions to the field of music education and who demonstrate a commitment to the broader cause of maintaining music education in the schools. A joint partnership and presentation of the Recording Academy and Grammy Museum, the recipient will be recognized during Grammy Week 2022. The award is open to current U.S. music teachers, and anyone can nominate a teacher — students, parents, friends, colleagues, community members, school deans and administrators. Teachers are also able to nominate themselves, and nominated teachers are notified and invitSEE MUSIC PAGE 3
Julie Trent is a music educator at Glendale High School. She attended nearby Ironwood High School. (Photo courtesy of Julie Trent)
UA creates ‘Monsoon Fantasy’ game BY TYLER WEGLEITNER Glendale Star Staff Writer
FEATURES .... 16 Historic Downtown brings holiday cheer to July
OPINION..................... 10 BUSINESS.................. 13 SPORTS ...................... 14 FEATURES.................. 16 RELIGION ................... 19 YOUTH........................ 21 CLASSIFIEDS ............. 23
The University of Arizona recently launched a new game, in which the public can estimate rain measurements during the monsoon season and win prizes. The game, called “Southwest Monsoon Fantasy Forecasts,” is aimed at engaging with the public and giving them a way to start conversations about the monsoon, said Zackry Guido, assistant research professor at the Arizona Institutes for Resilience at the University of Arizona. “Each month, players can make a pro-
jection of total rainfall for that month at five cities across the Southwest,” he said. These five cities are Tucson, Phoenix, Flagstaff, Albuquerque and El Paso. Guido said before players make their rainfall predictions, they will be given some assistance. “We have some data visualizations that people can use to help them make their estimates. … We give descriptive statistics like the mean and the median,” he said. Players can guess how much rainfall each of the five cities will get each month. They will make their predictions one
month at a time for the months of July, August and September. Guido said that people must make their guesses at least one week before the start of the month so that people can’t use weather forecasts to help predict rainfall. “They have to make their guesses a week before the beginning of each month, so for those of them that have not tuned in already, they don’t have the ability to participate for July,” he said. “But we do offer prizes for August and September, and it is totally possible that very good forecasters SEE MONSOON PAGE 4
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