Education

Lanai Rickteroff gathered her Shiprock High School teammates under a canopy at the FIRST Tech Challenge Robotics World Championship and read from a list on her phone.

Utah State University Blanding awarded degrees and certificates to 158 students during its April 25 commencement ceremony at San Juan High School.

College graduates finishing school this spring are not expected to be affected by a new federal rule that will limit how much money graduate students can borrow beginning July 1.

Principal Carmen Jodie watched students move through the Lukachukai Community School gymnasium Thursday, April 30, as Diné professionals from the area set up tables for a career day that academic counselor Arlinda Betone started two years ago to answer a problem the school’s leaders have watched for years.

Maudicel Chavez, the great-granddaughter of Big Mountain matriarch Katherine Smith, will graduate as salutatorian of Odessa Career & Technical Early College High School on May 15, one week after she walked the stage with an associate degree in criminal justice from Odessa College.