BrightSide Theatre will present free outdoor theater performances at five Naperville parks this summer. “Enchanted Broadway: A Magical Journey of Showtunes and Superstitions,” an hour-long show featuring songs from such Broadway musicals as “Into the Woods,” “The Wizard of Oz,” “Pippen,” “Wicked” and “The Addams Family,” will be staged at 7 p.m.
on: A 2 p.m. performance is scheduled for Sunday, Aug.
18, Arrowhead Park, 711 Iroquois Ave. The National Science Foundation has awarded North Central College a $1.45 million grant through the Robert Noyce Teacher Scholarship Program.
The grant will go towards the college’s Commitment to Recruit, Educate and Assist Teachers in Equity project, known as the CREATE project. It helps prepare and support culturally responsive high school teachers in biology, chemistry, physics, environmental science and mathematics, a college news release said. More than $800,000 will go to scholarships for undergraduate students seeking to become STEM teachers in high-needs schools in the Chicago area, with a focus on recipients with financial needs and those who are underrepresented in the field of education, the release said.
“This grant increases our ability to recruit, support and train new Illinois STEM teachers, who will then educate diverse populations of students in local, underserved communities and work proactively towards reducing academic opportunity gaps,” Lindsay Wexler, NCC associate professor of education, sai.
