Education Notebook: Ferris’ Tyler Wallace wins trip to Denver

Tyler Wallace, an 11th-grade student at Ferris High School, has won the first-round grand prize in the online contest Step into German.

Wallace answered questions about music in Germany online, and now he, his best friend and a chaperone will fly to Denver to meet the German hip-hop artist Clueso.

The contest, sponsored by the American Association of Teachers of German and the Goethe-Institut, is open to middle- and high-school students and is accepting entries for round three of the competition.

Students can win a trip to Germany to study for three weeks at the Goethe-Institut.

The contest is available online at www.stepintogerman.org.

Physics on Wheels

Elementary students at Hamblen Elementary School, 2121 E. Thurston Ave., will get a visit from the Pacific Science Center’s “Physics on Wheels” van today and Friday.

Students will attend an assembly at the beginning of the day to learn about liquid nitrogen and a Van de Graaf generator.

Exhibits will be open throughout the day, and physics classes appropriate to age will be taught in classrooms.

Kids in kindergarten through the second grade will learn about magnetism, vibrations, lenses, laser beams and light waves.

Students in the third through the fifth grades will learn about levers, electric charges, vibrations and refractions.

Older students will discuss electric magnets, light refractions and pulleys.

The van visited Moran Prairie Elementary School on Tuesday and Wednesday.

Student Transition Conference

About 100 Spokane area high school juniors and seniors with disabilities are signed up to visit Spokane Community College on Tuesday, and there still is room for more.

The seventh annual Student Transition Conference is scheduled from 9 a.m. to 1:15 p.m., in the SCC Lair-Student Center, Building 6, 1810 N. Greene St.

The event will feature a visit to the career center and four break-out sessions to give students a feel for college life at SCC and for options available through other community organizations.

Sessions include “Higher Education and You,” presented by Dennis Johnson, manager of disability and support services at SCC; “Balancing Work, Money and Education”; and “How to Get and Keep a Job.”

Keynote speaker will be Logan Olsen, founder and creative director of Logan Magazine, a locally produced publication for youths with disabilities.

The conference costs $3 and includes lunch.

For more details, call the SCC Center for Students with Disabilities at 533-7169.