Mason Tovar, Kolby Nguyen, and Scotty Staylor, all third graders at Blessed Sacrament Huguenot School in Powhatan County, spent several months creating "The Life Saver." ...

In a program founded by Zena Brantuo, a senior at North Point High School student, third graders can stay after school to learn with hands-on STEM experiments.

City science teachers and center educators worked together and decided the program would best serve third-graders, Snyder said.

Amid a flood of news about Trump spending cuts, let’s pause to light a candle for a little program that will no longer brighten the days of thousands of Springfield third-graders.