June 3, 2026
Dear Rochester Public Schools families, students, staff, and community members, As we bring the 2025-2026 school year to a close, I want to extend my deepest gratitude to each of...
May 29, 2026
By Bethany Dunn At John Adams Middle School, the gymnasium is occupied by the students of the Drone Club run by Mr. Travis DeSart, who is a Project Lead the Way teacher. The busy...
December 15, 2023
More than 60 RPS students participated in the annual IBM Lego Outreach Competition (ILEO) on Wednesday, December 13th. Since October, students have been building robots made of LE...
October 17, 2023
Rochester Community Education celebrated National Chess Day on October 14th by hosting a youth chess tournament. More than 60 students in grades K-8 participated. Players in the A...
August 10, 2023
Originally published on June 28, 2023 Embarking on a journey beyond classroom walls, Michael Olson's fifth-grade class at Folwell Elementary reimagines education by connecting ...
August 7, 2023
The fall session of one-day bus trips has a full schedule this year. We will kick off the season with “No Town Like Motown” at the Ives Auditorium in Bloomington, followed by “Bee...
August 4, 2023
"Space, the final frontier,” is the famous phrase spoken at the beginning of nearly every episode of the TV show, Star Trek. With every discovery astronomers make, we are more con...