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In today's newsletter:
- How Dickinson High is drawing the line between AI help and cheating
- How a Dickinson teen turned a school project into a $50,000 startup
- Remember these classic holiday recipes from a beloved Dickinson teacher?
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Today's riddle: The doctor told me to drink carrot juice after a hot bath. - Did it help? 🤔 (Answer below!)
- Wednesday: A couple of showers, with a high of 45 and low of 5 degrees. ⛄️ Brr!
- Thursday: Colder; breezy in the morning, temps: high: 14, low: 10.
- Friday: Breezy with a little snow, with a high of 45 and low of 15 degrees.
📰 News we're reading
1. ND schools hope to embrace the best of AI, shun the rest (journalnd.com) — Dickinson High School Principal Jefferey Brandt says the toughest part of using AI in classrooms is teaching students where helpful support ends and academic dishonesty begins. Educators across North Dakota, including in Dickinson, Mandan, Fargo, and Bismarck, are scrambling to balance AI’s promise for personalized learning with concerns about cheating, outdated state guidance, and limited teacher training time. 
2. Big goals for a better world: Local student awarded grant to support her groundbreaking medical research (thedickinsonpress.com) — A Dickinson High School junior has turned a science fair project into Clinivue, an AI-powered blood diagnostic device aimed at low-resource communities worldwide, and just secured a $50,000 Innovate ND grant to advance clinical trials. Supported by Dickinson teachers, her dad, and a local business coach, she’s now forming an LLC, pursuing patents, and planning FDA testing while still in high school.
3. Pig's ears, cream wafers and deep-fried turkey: a holiday edition of The Recipe Box (thedickinsonpress.com) — A beloved longtime Dickinson teacher, Edna Guenther, shares her holiday recipes and traditions that many locals may remember from a 2002 Dickinson Press feature. The story revisits her life in Dickinson, her church and volunteer work, and detailed instructions for pig’s ears, cream wafers, and deep-fried turkey that still fit today’s holiday tables.
4. Free skate rentals in five cities across ND (kfyrtv.com) — Dickinson residents can get free skate rentals all winter thanks to a Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Dakota initiative, with rentals available now through March. The program, also running in several other cities, aims to cut costs and help people stay active and connected during the cold months.
5. Talented photographer moves to ND and falls in love (kxnet.com) — A traveling nurse-turned-photographer who settled in Dickinson says North Dakota’s landscapes and people convinced him to make the state home for good. Now engaged to a partner he met while working in Dickinson, he’s pursuing wildlife photography in the Badlands and hopes to lead licensed photo expeditions in Theodore Roosevelt National Park to share the region’s beauty.
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