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With the start of high school football practices about a month away, Rhode Island fans can circle the following dates on their calendars: Sept. 9 and 16.

Nonleague games are scheduled to start on Friday, Sept. 9 with 21 games to be played that weekend. Sixteen of those games will be played on Friday night and five on Saturday.

League games are slated to begin the following week, Friday Sept. 16. The schedule features 13 Friday night games and six on Saturday.

Injury Fund games will take place Sept. 1-3.

Here are a few key Week One league matchups:

Defending Division I state champion Hendricken will host La Salle, a playoff team a year ago, while last year’s runner-up, Portsmouth, will host Cranston East.

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PHILADELPHIA—New engineering research at the University of Pennsylvania demonstrates that polaritons have increased coupling strength when confined to nanoscale semiconductors. This represents a promising advance in the field of photonics: smaller and faster circuits that use light rather than electricity.

The research was conducted by assistant professor Ritesh Agarwal, postdoctoral fellow Lambert van Vugt and graduate student Brian Piccione of the Department of Materials Science and Engineering in Penn’s School of Engineering and Applied Science. Cha

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Students from Ada, Allen, Asher and Stratford High Schools have been selected to attend the Upward Bound Math/Science Center this summer at East Central University in Ada. The intensive six-week session is designed to encourage students to think about possible career opportunities in math and science and to enroll in upper-level math and science courses while still in high school.

Students from Ada High School are Stephanie Skinner, Janis Frazier and Robert Frazier, children of Robert and Janis Frazier; Shyla Sanders, daughter of Buddy and Pam Delozier; and Keenan Walls, son of D.J. and Marnie Walls.

Rio Jones of Allen High School is the daughter of Bryan and Cassi Elliot.

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MARQUETTE — Marquette area kids can learn some grown-up lessons at the U.P. Children’s Museum this summer.

The Kid Bizness program is designed to teach kids, ages 8 to 18, about business through real, hands-on training.

The young entrepreneurs create their own products and sell them in the museum store, Sprout.  They come up with their first prototypes, figure out their profit margins, and then run them by the Dragon Committee who will decide which products will go on the shelves.

“This group here this morning have already walked in with the idea of duct-taped formal wear for ties and hats.  They have ideas for jewelry, for clay creations,” said Jim Edwards of the U.P. Chi

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