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to Stay Cool in School  Students, Teachers Try to Stay Cool in
School  Posted: Updated:  Mankato schools were feeling the heat
this afternoon. And while classes remained on schedule, faculty
and staff were forced to get creative to keep the students
motivated to learn.  Only a small portion of the schools in the
Mankato area have the luxury of air conditioning.  And with
today's hot weather, the students and staff were thinking
outside the box to find ways to beat the heat.  Brian Gersich
says, "Well the typical things we do is obviously we keep our
windows open and have a lot of fans blowing, really trying to
circulate as much fresh air as we possibly can. If you walk down
our hallways you can see that our teachers tend to turn off the
lights and we stop using some of the projectors, anything that
would emit some additional heat, trying to limit that use so
there are a lot of classrooms that are dark right now by design,
trying to use our natura