This summer, The Lutheran Schools Partnership will again provide a fun, hands-on learning experience to students in grades three through eight during two STEAM camps at Suburban Bethlehem Lutheran School, 6318 West California Road.

Offered Monday through Friday, July 9-13, the STEAM camps are open to students from all area schools, but enrollment is limited. To register, go to www.cuw.edu/STEAM.

STEAM is an acronym for science, technology, engineering, arts, and math. Each STEAM camp is an exciting look at how things work from a scientific perspective. This year’s half-day camps will be ideal for fledgling entrepreneurs—an exploration of product development, testing, and marketing.

Students at St. John–Emmanuel Lutheran School in Monroeville have raised more than $4,400 in cash and pledges to benefit God-Ndonyo Primary School in Kenya.

The money raised by St. John-Emmanuel students will be used for latrines, a hand-sanitizing station, and a well at God-Ndonyo School.

The fundraising was for H20 for Life, a nonprofit organization that connects schools in the United States with schools in developing countries to complete WASH (WAter, Sanitation, and Hygiene) in Schools projects.

St. Peter’s in Fort Wayne and St. Peter–Immanuel in Decatur have joined the growing number of The Lutheran Schools participating in the Indiana Choice Scholarship Program.

Other schools participating include Concordia, Woodburn, Suburban Bethlehem, Lutheran South Unity, St. John in Kendallville, Emmaus, Ascension, St. Paul’s, and Concordia Lutheran High School.

Choice Scholarships—also known as vouchers—enable families that meet financial-eligibility guidelines to choose accredited nonpublic schools for their children. The scholarship amount represents the money allocated by the state to educate a student in a public school.

From sending gifts to other children around the world, to sponsoring families in need, to entertaining older adults, students of The Lutheran Schools spread the spirit of Christmas in many ways in 2011.

Here are just a few examples.

One of the most ambitious projects took place at Central Lutheran School in New Haven, where students packed more than 400 shoeboxes with gifts for less fortunate children all over the globe. Central’s effort was part of Operation Christmas Child, a program of Samaritan’s Purse, an international nondenominational evangelical Christian organization.

The Lutheran Schools—17 elementary schools and Concordia Lutheran High School—will host open houses from noon until 3 p.m. on Sunday, February 19.

“We want to give the public the opportunity to discover what The Lutheran Schools have to offer—the highest-quality education in a caring, nurturing Christian environment,” says Mark Muehl, director of the The Lutheran Schools Partnership. “And because we have so many schools in the area, there’s probably one close by for parents who want to see how they can provide their children with better educational and extracurricular experiences.