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By Ben Lambert,  Updated 5:23 pm EDT, Thursday, June 14, 2018

HAMDEN — Students and faculty at the Wintergreen Interdistrict Magnet School gathered to mark the end of the school year with “WIMS Palooza,” a celebration featuring games, food, and attractions. Young people enjoyed a series of attractions on the WIMS campus — laser tag, a petting zoo, video games, balloons, cotton candy, inflatables, basketball, face-painting — as music pumped into the summer evening and the rain held off. Principal Todd Solli said he wanted to help grow a sense of community in the school and signal a fresh start at the beginning of the year, as he was new to the job — an idea that prompted the first WIMS Palooza.

A recent Harvard School of Education on the value of preschool education found that getting kids into center-based care is a good idea. Many researchers from Harvard University to Stanford University espouse the value of preschool education. Benefits of preschool are many.A positive preschool experience provides children with growth opportunities. Preschool provides ample opportunities to learn to share, follow instructions, and acquire the foundations that will set children up for success in elementary school. Further, preschool offers a nurturing environment for helping children develop their motor skills, language and cognitive abilities as well as pre-literacy and math skills. A positive preschool experience promotes social and emotional development. A high-quality preschool will help children build trusting relationships with adults and children. With so many preschool options, however, it can be difficult for parents to know which option is the right option for their child. This challenge may seem compounded by parents of special needs children. 

Students participate in CAMPY (Connecticut Association for Mathematically Precocious Youth) program at Southern Connecticut State University.

Summer Arts Institute program at ECA.

The Skills 21 Expo Fest will take place on Saturday May 19^th from 9am-3pm at the Toyota Presents Oakdale Theater in Wallingford.

ACES is offering several learning opportunities for students this summer.

Area Cooperative Educational Services' Education Foundation held its 15th Anniversary Gala on Thursday, March 23, 2018.

ACES Thomas Edison Middle Schools receives national recognition from Project Lead the Way.

The CT Tigers were featured in WTNH’s CT Families segment. WTNH reporter Sarah Cody interviewed ACES ACCESS consumer Tim Koshak along with CT Tigers founding director Erika Forte and her son choreographer, Brian Forte. 

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