Join the ACES Associate Board for delicious tacos and craft beer, show off your trivia smarts, and support Twin Cities students! On Thursday, April 21, La Doña Cervecería will donate $1 to ACES for every drink sold in their Minneapolis taproom between 5-8pm. Grab a pint and stick around for a friendly game of pub-style trivia, hosted by Minnesota United FC Color Commentator Kyndra de St. Aubin, starting at 6:30! We’ll have free raffles, awesome prizes, and lots of fun – all in support of ACES’s mission to eliminate education disparities and help students succeed!

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Last week, our Minnesota United FC played their first home game of the 2022 season at Allianz Field! Meanwhile, in the ACES classroom, our students have been practicing their algebra and calculating the volume of standard shapes. For your March Problem of the Month, celebrate the beginning of the soccer season and see if you can the find the volume of a sphere!

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The ACES All-Star Evening is BACK and better than ever! Join us on Thursday, May 12th at the stunning Fillmore Minneapolis for delicious drinks and heavy hors d'oeuvres, bid on fabulous live and silent auctions, and experience a program like no other, honoring champion for education equity Justice Alan Page and hosted by internationally acclaimed performer Jearlyn Steele! Our flagship fundraiser, the All-Star Evening helps ensure students most impacted by pandemic learning loss and the academic opportunity gap have the support they need to succeed.

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On February 17th, ACES students from Northeast College Prep bundled up for their very first ice fishing experience, made possible by our friends and partners at Rapala. At Lake Minnetonka, students learned how to use an auger, set up a “tip-up”, and caught sunnies, crappies, and even a few bass! Making the day extra special, ACES athlete ambassador and Minnesota Wild defenseman Matt Dumba stopped by for fishing and a chilly game of touch football!

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We stand with our Twin Cities community in this time of grief. As we mourn for Deshaun Hill, Amir Locke, and Jahmari Rice, we must continue to demand justice. We must continue to insist that Black Lives Matter. The work to achieve real change in our communities is on all of us.

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This month, our students at Global Arts Plus practiced identifying edges and faces on 3D geometric figures (polyhedrons) while creating models with toothpicks and marshmallows! For our February Problem of the Month, we challenge you to identify the number of edges and faces on some common polyhedra.

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On January 28, ACES Athlete Ambassador Matt Dumba achieved an important milestone, becoming only the 9th player in Minnesota Wild history to play 500 career games in the NHL! In addition to his impressive performance on the ice, Matt is leading the way to fight hate and racism in hockey as co-founder of the Hockey Diversity Alliance.

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Ready for the next step in your leadership journey? Passionate about education equity and closing the opportunity gap? Join the dedicated team at ACES to exercise your vision and creativity, set strategy, and build an effective program model that makes a real impact for Twin Cities students.

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This month in the ACES classroom, 4th and 5th graders are practicing measuring and adding angles during one of our most popular unites, “Technology in Sports”! Can you identify each of the five types of angles? Test your memory and geometry skills with our January problem of the month!

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The results are in! The Loons’ 61 yellow cards and 2 red cards raised an impressive $6,469 for our Twin Cities students thanks to the Dark Clouds Charity Card Club! Talk about getting good results from bad behavior. We can’t thank the Dark Clouds and their members enough for their incredible support and partnership.

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