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[Robert McKanna], who will be paid $175,000 a year, has been superintendent of Warren Township High School District 121 in Gurnee since 1999. He also served as superintendent in New York, Massachusetts and Stevenson High School District 125 in Lincolnshire. Earlier in his career, he was an assistant superintendent, principal and math and science teacher.

Four teams from School District 15 walked away with trophies. Gray Sanborn of Palatine team STRIPES won a Rookie of the Year award; the Quantum Knights from Sandburg Junior High School in Rolling Meadows won the award for teamwork; and the Thomas Jefferson Jaguars from Hoffman Estates and the Stuart R. Paddock Panthers of Palatine both won \"Against All Odds\" awards for overcoming obstacles in preparing their entry.

To get pupils excited about math and science, Conyers initiated a partnership with Northrop Grumman Corp. of Rolling Meadows to develop the Space Shuttle Project, Mission Control mobile classroom and Owen Garriott Discovery Learning Center. Another partnership with the Planetary Studies Foundation extended the classroom beyond the school when a teacher accompanied an expedition to Antarctica in 2000 and communicated with pupils via satellite.

In exchange for on-campus office, performance, classroom and workshop space for set construction, the staff of Talisman Theatre of Elgin will provide classes and internships for Elgin Academy students.

[Jack Lampert] (left), who stars as the emcee of the Kit Kat Klub, takes direction from [Scott Rosengarden] during dress rehearsal. [Alexis Armstrong] plays Sally Bowles during dress rehearsal for \"Cabaret,\" staged by Buffalo Grove Park District Fine Arts at Stevenson High School in Lincolnshire. The show runs through Sunday.

The Commission on Accreditation for Law Enforcement Agencies recently awarded accreditation to the department, which puts it among only 3 percent of 18,700 police agencies nationwide that have achieved the distinction.

PHOTO; [Barb Grisaffe], who has been teaching 1st and 2nd grade at Willow Bend Elementary School in Rolling Meadows for 19 years, says mentors are the key to national board certification.

[Sandra Moore], a 5th grader at Kimball Hill, touches a display that shows 22 different rock samples and fossils from every time period. Members of Kimball Hill Elementary School's Space Cadets Club look at a display of planets at the new [Owen K. Garriott] Discovery Learning Center.

As Buffalo Grove continues to gain a reputation for producing quality community theater, the program draws actors from greater distances. This summer's cast members hail from not only Buffalo Grove, but also Chicago, Deerfield, Evanston, Highland Park, Niles, Northbrook, McHenry, Vernon Hills and Wheeling.

In the next two years the district will spend roughly $3.9 million on infrastructure improvements at Ned Brown/Busse Woods in Elk Grove Township, Crabtree Nature Center and Preserve in Barrington and South Barrington, Deer Grove Forest Preserve in Palatine, and Highland Woods Golf Course/Paul Douglas Preserve and Poplar Creek Preserve in Hoffman Estates.