Made in Italy in Space Takes Center Stage in the USA
A sector that is growing in both business volume and its foothold in the U.S. market, with an increasingly significant presence at the major global aerospace events. Italian is widely spoken in Colorado during the days of the Space Symposium, the main meeting point for the global space community. The event brings together over 10,000 professionals,...
Play as Possibility: The Reggio Emilia Approach Convenes in Denver
From April 10 to 12, Denver will host a new edition of the international project P.E.R., Play, Explore, Research, promoted by Fondazione Reggio Children with the support of The LEGO Foundation. The event brings the core of the Reggio Emilia Approach to the United States, an educational vision that sees play not only as a break, but as a form of kno...
Welcome Prof. Paolo Scartoni to Washington University in St Louis
We welcome Prof. Paolo Scartoni as lecture of Italian at Washington University in St Louis. Paolo Scartoni’s research focuses on the relationship between music and language in medieval Italian literature. He earned his Ph.D. in Italian Studies from Rutgers University (2024) where he defended a dissertation entitled The Sound of Morals: Figures of G...
Sons of Italy Scholarship Application is Now Open
The Order of the Sons and Daughters of Italy, Christoforo Colombo Lodge #1309, in Salida, is offering a $500 Scholarship to a Salida High School or Horizons Academy Senior. The scholarship deadline is April 25, 2025. If you’re Italian and graduating from Salida High School or Horizons Exploratory Academy this spring, listen up — there’s a scholars...
Eye-opening Experience: UNK students spend 3 weeks in Italy
It wasn’t Lauren Morrow’s first time traveling abroad. The University of Nebraska at Kearney senior has spent time at all-inclusive resorts in the Bahamas and Cancún, Mexico. Those family vacations are fun, but you don’t get to truly experience the culture, she noted. Morrow was looking for a chance to really explore a foreign country and dive deep...
Italy comes to Lingle, WY
If there’s one thing to be said about entering a new high school, it takes a bit of courage. Adolescence is by no means is a walk in the park. For some, high school can be four years of wonderful memories, or four years they would just like to bury as deep in the mind as they can go. Having said that, choosing to finish your last year of high schoo...
Sons of Italy seeks scholarship applicants
The Sons of Italy announced the group is accepting applications for its $500 Italian Heritage Scholarship until April 1. Each applicant must be of Italian descent, a senior at a high school in Salida with at least a 2.5 grade point average and have been accepted to an accredited institution of higher learning or trade school, a press release stated...
Order of the Sons and Daughters of Italy Offers $500 Scholarship
The Order of the Sons of Italy Lodge #1309 is offering their annual $500 Scholarship to Salida High School Seniors. The local lodge offers the scholarship every spring to graduates of Salida High School or Horizons Exploratory Academy, to be used towards college or a trade/vocational school. Students must be graduating this May, 2024 and must be o...
Grand Opening of Ciao Bambini
Ciao Bambini is an interactive and immerse children's exhibit at The Magic House, the St Louis Children's Museum which officially opened to the public on Saturday, September 23, 2023. When Beth Fitzgerald, President of The Magic House, contacted our community a year and a half ago about this project, we were more than honored to participate.After 1...
Ciao Bambini in St. Louis, MO
The Italian Community of St Louis is proud to partner with The Magic House, St. Louis Children's Museum (516 S Kirkwood Rd, St. Louis, MO) in creating CIAO BAMBINI, an interactive exhibit for kids which opens September 23rd. Special thanks to the following individuals from the Italian community who have participated in the advisory board for an ent...
Italian Vineyard Serves as Tommie Science Lab
When most people imagine a cutting-edge scientific laboratory, donkeys, wine and vines rarely make an appearance. But for University of St. Thomas student and biochemistry major Clara Lucero ’24, that was exactly the kind of laboratory she embraced this summer. Instead of a long parade of beakers and microscopes, this laboratory featured plenty of...
Omaha Westside graduate finds new life and love in Italy
Caroline Cimino went to college in Italy and never left. The Omaha Westside graduate wakes up each morning in her studio apartment to the smell of the lemon grove outside her window and to the ringing bells from the church next door.She cycles each day around some of the most beautiful scenery in the Mediterranean. “My family went on vacation to It...