WEBVTT WIDE ASSORTMENT OF OBJECTS SOARING TOWARDS SPACE. REPORTER: MIDDLE SCHOOLERS AT THE ZOO ACADEMY GOT TO SEND UP A VERY UNIQUE WEATHER BALLOON THIS AFTERNOON. >> WE CUT A LEAF INTO THIRDS. WE PUT ...

CINCINNATI -- It's just past 8 a.m. when high school senior Trenet' Schill walks to her first class. While traditional students may be heading to English, math or science, Schill is off to the Reptile ...

While visiting the Cincinnati Zoo this year, I struck up a conversation with a few of the young people working at the zoo and was amazed to find out that they were both graduates of Zoo Academy – a ...

Photo by Kelsey Stewart Brittany Boyd, 17, and Brett Homme, 18, participate in the Papillion-La Vista School District's Zoo Academy. Both competed in the recent Metropolitan Science and Engineering ...

CINCINNATI (WXIX) - Students from the Zoo Academy at the Cincinnati Zoo & Botanical Garden built a special forest for the elephant yard on Monday. “This kind of novel enrichment is great for the ...

For the next eight weeks, middle and high school teachers and students can gain access to 22 free, self-paced online courses through the San Diego Zoo covering a variety of taxonomic groups and ...

She pauses, leaning against her rake in the elephant house. This is Katherine Wendeln's third day working with the elephants. Before that, the 16-year-old was with the primates. “A couple times, they ...

Kids can explore the three-story tall treehouse through a number of bridges, ropes and other child-sized openings. Incoming first-graders at Bancroft Elementary and zoo day camp students got a ...

Corrected: This story incorrectly reported the toxicity of a tarantula’s venom. The spider’s poison has little effect on humans and other warm-blooded animals. The story also implied that Nick Imholte ...