Education

Joey Begay, a bus driver for the Ganado Unified School District, has been named Bus Driver of the Year by the Arizona Association of Pupil Transportation.

First Mesa Elementary’s gifted and talented class took a first step into robotics by participating in NASA’s Apollo Next Giant Leap Student Challenge, a contest commemorating the 50th anniversary of the first human moon landing.

When she was in high school, Lauren Curran traveled from her tiny town north of Houston to the city to see the U.S. Coast Guard Band in concert.

Jerome Chee, 19, made standing on top of a newly trained horse look easy.