News Briefs

The week of Oct. 12 is National School Lunch Week. To help celebrate, watch the video to learn three ways Dallas ISD’s Food and Child Nutrition Services fuels student success. Also, students who submit photos of their school lunches through Nov. 13 have a chance to win prizes in the School Lunch Snapshot contest. Find out more here. Food Services launched a new Instagram page where it will share photos at @DallasISDFood.

Children, parents and volunteers chipped in this week to help build an outdoor classroom/garden at San Jacinto Elementary School. REAL School Gardens helped make the garden a reality. Click here for the full story from the Dallas Morning News. Photo courtesy Dallas Morning News.

For Hillcrest High School alum Katherine Hall Jelliffe (Class of 2004), the lessons she learned from one of her favorite teachers taught her that women can excel in science. Today, Jelliffe is a fourth-year Obstetrics & Gynecology resident physician at Parkland Hospital where she teaches younger residents and interns. AlumNow, a Hub feature that checks in with district alumni for an update on what they’ve been doing, checked in with Dr. Hall to find out how things are shaping up for her. What are you doing now? Each month, I work in a different area of OB/Gyn (gynecology, obstetrics, gynecology oncology,…

Hugo Duran, a student at Garza Early College, spent part of his summer at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston as part of the High School Aerospace Scholars program. Duran was one of 270 students across Texas who will participate in the program. The students worked in teams to develop a mission to Mars. His team was the Alpha Team, and it was their job to develop the space base where the astronauts would live. Other teams developed space suits, rovers, and rockets. The Aerospace Scholar teams created videos showing off their work, and the team with video that gets the…