Kids and Education

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Development News Butterflies in Bloom typically attracts thousands of visitors to Dow Gardens.

Butterflies in Bloom take flight at Dow Gardens


Longform Staff and clients at Hope Clinic in Ypsilanti.
Longform Rogen poses for a picture at Garden of Dreams Preschool in Battle Creek
Longform New Harvest Christian Center
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Longform Head Start students at St. John's Universal Church of Christ in Jackson learn about cucumbers and dragonfruit in a lesson on mindful eating.
Longform Kids in Lansing's pre-K classrooms achieve academic readiness along with social-emotional skills.

Lansing School District: Free, universal pre-K well worth the effort


Longform Stamps School students helping YIES students work on artwork for their capstone projects.
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$250,000 gift to benefit SC4 students


Longform Tiana Haygood (left) at Feed The Need Sensory Zone at Unique Care Connect Community Center.
Innovation News Casseia Fifelski as Scales and Olivia Allen as Ronnie in "Ronnie and Scales' Magnificent Tale." Set and puppet by Mia Irwin, costumes by Shea Dennie.
Longform Girl getting vaccinated

Boosting childhood immunization rates vital to community health


Longform Orchestra Jammbo'laya
Longform Dr. Kelsey Sala-Hamrick is the Michigan Public Health Institute's MI ACE project director.
Development News Miriam Andrus is the director of the Grace A. Dow Memorial Library.

Profile Q&A with library director, Miriam Andrus


Development News Erica Sprague is in her 20th year of teaching.
Development News Sap collection at the Chippewa Nature Center
Innovation News Ypsilanti Police Chief Kirk Moore speaks to Ypsilanti Community Middle School students about policing as the students prepare to interview the candidates for Washtenaw County sheriff.
Partner Content Adrienne Luckenbacher, Mental Hhealth First Aid Trainer at St. Clair County Community Mental Health leads the training with a group of Blue Water Developmental Housing employees.

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