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MCAS school board executive session setMonday, September 6, 2010 @ 6:25PMMICHIGAN CITY — The Michigan City Area Schools board will meet in executive session from 5 to 8 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 7, at Northern Indiana Education Foundation, 111 E. Fourth St., for members to train with an outside consultant about the performance of their role as public officials.

Registration Open for 2011 NASA Lunabotics Mining CompetitionMonday, September 6, 2010 @ 6:25PMNASA is challenging U.S. and international undergraduate and graduate student teams to design and build a remote-controlled or autonomous excavator that could be used on the moon.

As you pass go, collect health insuranceMonday, September 6, 2010 @ 6:25PMWith health-care reform laws taking effect, students should check how they’re affected. Health care is a complicated, boring and expensive mess that most college students would like to ignore for as long as possible. In most cases this isn’t hard to do, since most insurance plans allow full-time students to latch onto their parents’ plan [...]

Proposed Vancouver school closures draw protestMonday, September 6, 2010 @ 6:23PMParents and students rallied in East Vancouver Monday in a bid to save three schools facing possible closure.

Interactive online tools help teenagers battle depressionMonday, September 6, 2010 @ 6:23PMInteractive online mental health resources combined with traditional counselling help improve the mental wellbeing of teenagers, according to new research by the University of Sydney published in the Journal of Technology in Human Services.