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Fairgrieve Elementary students who have made academic or behavioral gains throughout the month of February were recently honored with Most Improved awards.

Quirk’s Players of G. Ray Bodley High School will present the entertaining Broadway musical, “The Addams Family,” with four show-stopping performances March 9, 10 and 11 in the auditorium at GRB. Based on characters created by Charles Addams, “The Addams Family” tells the story of young Wednesday Addams who is now grown up.

How many people do you know that can say they are a published author? Well, the students in Maria Walter’s and Hannah Weigel’s second grade class can all say they are and they just held a publishing party to celebrate receiving copies of their beautiful hard-cover books entitled: “When I Grow Up I Will Be…”

Fifth graders from Altmar-Parish-Williamstown Elementary School were tasked to engineer and design an apparatus that would protect an egg from breaking, if dropped from a height of up to 20’ in an Engineering Design Egg Drop Challenge.

Morning and afternoon programs are offered in partnership with Oswego County Opportunities, the Fulton YMCA, First Step Universal Pre-K and Pinnacle and are held at each FCSD elementary school: Volney, Granby, Fairgrieve and Lanigan.

The Fulton City School District has worked toward bridging communication from school to home to help increase family connections and enhance student achievement. The district aims to accomplish that by hosting the third annual Parent University, to be held from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. April 1 at G. Ray Bodley High School, 6 William Gillard Drive, Fulton.

The students, who constructed and programmed their own robots in an after-school robotics club, were deemed tournament champions during the recent Bodley Bot Bash at GRB and Starstruck in Baldwinsville.

Nurses from the St. Luke Family of Caring are teaming up with the Oswego YMCA to offer the community bone density screenings on March 13 from 9:30 to 11 a.m., at the Oswego YMCA, 265 W. First St.

The program, coordinated by teacher Mike Thurlow, is open to students in grades 11 and 12 who aim to utilize theories and skills they gathered in their classroom and apply them to real-world work environments.