Lyon County Limelight

  Lyon County School District Student Focus Group and Equitable Initiatives LCSD Hosts Student Focus Group to Hone in on the Student Experience and Welcomes Educational Equity Professionals to the LCSD Silver Springs, NV, September 19, 2019 – Equity in education aims to address what is necessary and appropriate for each individual student to succeed, knowing that what is necessary and appropriate for one student may not be the same for all.   Equity is often times compared to equality, a system where all students receive the same tools and access regardless of their individual needs.   LCSD aims to address the needs of all students so that it may fulfill its vision of graduating all students to be successful in college and career.   To kick off the 2019-20 academic school year, LCSD District administration brought together students from all middle and high schools throughout the district, including Dayton, Fernley, Silver Springs, Smith and Yerington. ...

Lyon County, NV, August 19, 2019 – From Monday, August 12 to Friday, August 16, Lyon County School District (LCSD) educators from the middle schools have participated in a robotics curriculum training by Project Lead The Way (PLTW) in preparation for bringing a robotics grant into their classrooms.  LCSD was fortunate enough to receive the Tesla robotics grant with PLTW at every middle school in the District – Dayton, Silverland (Fernley), Silver Stage, Smith and Yerington. The grant is $15,000 per middle school.  The middle school curriculum, Gateway to Technology (GTT), is being taught to the LCSD educators by PLTW Master Teachers who use this curriculum in their own classrooms and travel the country to share their knowledge with other educators.  GTT is designed for middle school students – it is meant to bridge the gap between the elementary curriculum that introduces students to robotics and the high school curriculum that expands on a student’s interest in th...

Our 500 Lyon County School District graduates received hundred of thousands in scholarships! 50 students also graduated with an Associate's Degree through the JumpStart program! Many students received the Nevada Promise Scholarships, the Millennium Scholarships and UNR Scholarships! Yerington High School - 72 Smith Valley High School - 18 Silver Stage High School - 56 Fernley High School - 204 Dayton High School - 150 Soroptimist University of Alabama Elmo Pecetti Memorial Lyon County 4-H Leaders Counsel Stocman Copper King Above and Beyond UNR Pack Pride Historical Society Scholarship SSHS Booster Club Pack Advantage Alyce McCracken Memorial UNR Presidential Award Nancy Pagni Scholarship Reno Rodeo Foundation Masonic Scholarship Denise Pugh Adversity Robert Z. Hawkins DHS Booster Club  Utah State University NASA CoP  BYU Academic  Voice of Democracy Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University UNR President...

  Silver Springs Schools Community Event – Zulily’s Reno Fulfillment Center Gives Back Silver Springs, NV, June 10, 2019 – Two rural Nevada Title I schools and the surrounding community indulge in a shopping spree made possible by online retailer Zulily and its many vendor partners.   The schools walked away with over $10,000 a piece to complement their fundraising efforts and the community indebted.   On June 1, 2019, the Silver Springs community benefitted tremendously from a community and employees sale held at the Silver Springs Community Center.   Zulily, through its thousands of vendor partners, provided the enormous pallet loads of product to be sold at the community sale.   In the months leading up to the sale, 45 team members from Zulily’s Reno, NV Fulfillment Center (NVFC) joined in the effort and volunteers from Silver Stage Elementary and Middle schools spent their free-time organizing the community center, and on t...