Flip open any history book and look at the names. What do you see? That's right — most of them are men. Oh, a few women pop up here and there. But mostly it has been a man's world.March, though, is a time to focus on the other half of the world's population. It's Women's History Month. As ...

<em>Jeremy Madsen is a junior at Mountain View High School. He writes that his real writing background (in part), came from the wonderful counsel received from his mother. His essay Water and Life recently won third place in the BYU Re-write writing contest for high school ...

Crowds of students lined the pool at the Lehi Legacy Center on Wednesday as they took part in the 2014 Utah Underwater Robotics Competition hosted by BYU's Splash Lab on Wednesday.Teams deployed remotely-operated underwater vehicles they built themselves and attempted to complete four tasks in ...

<em>Max Jones is a seventh grader at Karl G Maeser Prep Academy. Max's short story won a gold key for humor in the 2014 Scholastic writing competition.</em>Even though the peephole was duct-taped over while he waited for the delivery of his Automated Solicitor ...

<em>Mckenna Spencer is a sophomore at Salem Hills High School. This personal narrative was a runner-up in the UVU high school writing contest.</em>I mustache you a question. Bacon: breakfast’s mustache. Don’t trash the ‘stache. ‘Staching through the snow. ...

Identical twins Mark and Scott Kelly share more than looks. For 15 years, they shared the same job — astronaut.Both have a great deal of experience in space. But one of them — Scott — will be spending a whole lot more time there come March 2015. He will be the first American astronaut to ...

To most of us, the sun might as well be a massive light bulb in the sky. Each day it looks the same. But if you were to somehow take a space ship to its surface, you would see a constantly changing world.Sometimes the surface of the sun is quiet. It’s just a simple million degree burning ball ...

<em>The Utah Valley University English Department sponsors an annual high school writing contest. Over the next few months, In the Classroom will highlight the contest winners in poetry, personal essay and short story.</em><em>Katherine Fredrickson ...

An old adage tells us "Character is what you do when no one is watching."So it is with the Internet. Online, people can feel invisible and capable of doing things they normally wouldn't do in person or in public - things that they know might be wrong. As the Internet becomes an indispensable ...

<em>Ashton Wiersdorf is a senior at Maeser Prep Academy</em>I remember the very first computer program my dad taught me to write. He took me to the FreeBSD server that lurked in the craftroom closet. This time, instead of teaching me how to edit files or send email ...