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Kaiserslautern High School culinary team prepping for nationals, raising trip funds

by Ikea Simmonds Kaiserslautern High School

Slicing through last month’s competition in Europe has earned the Kaiserslautern High School culinary team a spot at the national competition April 18 to 20 in Anaheim, California.

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Students from Ramstein High School participate in an attentive exercise as part of the Student 2 Student program March 5.

Ramstein students welcome peers to new home

Story and photo by Senior Airman Jonathan Stefanko
86th Airlift Wing Public Affairs

Ramstein High School students trained on how to establish and sustain peer-based programs helping support military children as part of the Student 2 Student program March 5 and 6 at Ramstein.
The program teaches multiple coping techniques, which can help ease the transition of military children at a new location.

March 19, 2015 ×

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Courtesy photoEpic Pi DayKaleo Chase is definitely the Pi King at Landstuhl Elementary Middle School. Kaleo recited 84 digits of pi March 14 for Epic Pi Day (Mrs. Stolee-Kiefer’s pi sign only goes up to 75 digits). Kaleo has researched the others and is still learning more.

School Notes – events & notices

Up to date events and notices for KMC schools.

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Courtesy photoTech. Sgt. Chris Vanwy, 603rd Air Operations Center, reads to Vogelweh Elementary School students on National Read Across America Day.

Happy Birthday, Dr. Seuss!

March 12, 2015 ×

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Photo by Heidi BuschStudents vs. staff basketball matchKaiserslautern Elementary School fifth-grader DeShawn Ladipo dribbles the ball past Toni Dailgle during a friendly match of basketball that set KES students against staff members. During the game, which was sponsored by the student council, the fifth-graders beat the staff 18-17 in a last-second shot.

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March 5, 2015 ×

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Kaiserslautern Elementary District hosts 2nd annual chess tournament

Kaiserslautern Elementary District hosts 2nd annual chess tournament

Photos by W. Jack Woodfork

On Feb. 28, over 50 students in grades kindergarten through ninth grade faced-off in the Kaiserslautern Elementary School’s gymnasium for the district’s second annual winter chess tournament.  The daylong tournament ran from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. with the top two players in each of the nine teams receiving trophies. […]

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Photo by Brandon BeachTara Gentz (left), and Quatia Thompson, members of the Kaiserslautern High School culinary team, prepare whole chickens Feb. 25 during the 2015 Culinary Fair at KHS.

KHS culinary team chops up competition

by Ikea Simmonds
Kaiserserslautern High School

The Kaiserslautern High School culinary team will head to Disneyland. The five-person team out-cooked the competition during the Department of Defense Dependents Schools Europe-sponsored Culinary Fair Feb. 25 at KHS. The home team diced, chopped and sliced their way to a trip to the national high school competition to be […]

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RianSimone Harris, 
2015 U.S. Air Forces in Europe Military Youth of the Year

USAFE Military Youth of Year announced

Courtesy of Andrea Hoover

The Vogelweh Teen Center announced RianSimone Harris, daughter of Shaun and Tatineesha Harris, as the 2015 U.S. Air Forces in Europe Military Youth of the Year.

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Travis Gentry (left), Kuk Sool Won instructor, and Manfred Bemme, Loveless Okinawan Karate Academy, explain the rules of the sparring division to participants during the 15th annual U.S. Air Forces in Europe martial arts tournament Feb. 28 at Ramstein.

Ramstein holds youth martial arts tournament

Photos by Senior Airman Timothy Moore
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Photo by Sgt. Maj. Michael PintagroTiger Cub Jayden Moffit receives his stripes from Achley Lyons during the Blue and Gold banquet held Feb. 22 at the Vogelweh Elementary School cafeteria.

Birthday bash marks Scouting anniversary

Courtesy of 21st Theater Sustainment Command

The 2015 edition of the annual Blue and Gold (the Cub Scout colors) banquet at Vogelweh Elementary School commemorated the 105th anniversary of the founding of the Boy Scouts of America and the Cub Scouts program’s 85th birthday, Feb. 22.

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