Word: picacho
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...rain-soaked November afternoon in Las Cruces, N.M., Aaron Soto, 13, traded places with his former East Picacho Elementary School teachers and for two hours conducted an in-service technology-training conference for a dozen of them, arrayed before him around a horseshoe of computer terminals. Aaron, a freshman at Mayfield High School, ran through a series of sophisticated videoconferencing demonstrations. Later he provided individual assistance to his adult "students," pacing behind them, peering over the top of his gold-rimmed glasses to look at a screen or click a mouse...
...trick, he says, is to "get teachers to overcome their fears." Ralph Ramos, a teacher at Picacho Middle School, confesses that his computers were sitting idle in the classroom. "Then Aaron trained me, and now I have my class dissecting frogs on the computer with a CD-ROM program and doing research on the Internet...
Flowers of the desert stretched across Arizona; Picacho Pass, where the only far western encounter of the Civil War was fought, was splotched with pale yellow poppies, blue lupins, red Indian paint brush...
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