Anya Snyder, 14, an eighth-grader at Mountain Middle School, learns how to escape an attack as Tim Smith, a fifth-degree black belt and owner of Kenpo Studio, teaches her and several other girls how to defend themselves during the Keys to High School Success conference Thursday at Fort Lewis College. The daylong program helps prepare eighth-grade boys and girls for high school, where they will have more responsibility, more homework and more life stress. The boys and girls conferences were held separately.
Jerry McBride/Durango Herald<br><br>Julian Colby, 14, participates in a drumming group led by Jeroen van Tyn, executive director of Stillwater Music, on Thursday during the Keys to High School Success conference at Fort Lewis College. The daylong program helps prepare eighth-grade boys and girls for high school where they will have more responsibility, more homework and more life stress. The boys and girls conferences were held separately.
