Local Veterans Seeking Comrades For Palm Beach County Schools Speakers Bureau
The Jewish War Veterans of Palm Beach County are holding their next meeting to recruit new members to The Veterans Speakers Forum. The Forum was recently created to provide a vehicle for veterans to give students their unique perspective on Veterans Day and military service. A number of veterans attended recent School Board Meetings, and [...]
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Forest Hill High Boasts Two Winners in the National Scholastic Art and Writing Competition
Several Forest Hill Community High School students participated —and two were proud Silver Key and honorable mention winners in several categories of the National Scholastic Art & Writing Competitions. Karina Velez and Kyara Velez were recognized for their talent in Digital Art, Design, and Mix Media. Principal Mayra Stafford said she’s delighted for her students. [...]
Everglades Elementary Student Becomes “Sheriff for a Day”
Gabriana Joseph a student at Everglades Elementary School was delighted to visit the Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office along with her principal, teachers and mother. “Gabriana was so excited for her day to begin. She slept very little the night before. She wanted to learn more about the crime lab,” said Mrs. Doreen Milfeld. One [...]
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Plumosa School Of The Arts’ Students Read For Touchdowns!
Publix Super Markets, Sun Sentinel News in Education (NIE), GameWorks, Dave & Busters, and The Reading Warehouse partnered to promote literacy with a motivational reading program called, Reading for Touchdowns. Forty-five thousand students participated in Miami-Dade, Broward, and Palm Beach County, earning yards for minutes of reading, book reports, sports map and the use of [...]
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Dreyfoos School of the Arts Junior Selected to Play in the 2011 Grammy Jazz Ensemble
The Alexander W. Dreyfoos School of the Arts is proud to announce the very first student in the history of the school has been accepted to the 2011 GRAMMY Jazz Ensemble Program! Christian Marrero, a junior in Evan Rogovin’s band program is one of only 17 students selected nationwide for the GRAMMY Jazz band and [...]
Golden Grove Elementary News Crew Meets WPTV
The Golden Grove Elementary News Crew toured the WPTV Channel 5’s West Palm Beach studio. Thanks to Marge Keller, Media Specialist and GGN (Golden Grove News) Director, and her persistence, special arrangements were made with News Channel 5 to have our aspiring media gators tour the local NBC facility and interact with actual news anchors [...]
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South Grade Elementary Awards Winner Scholarships
Five South Grade Elementary School students have each been awarded $1,0000 for their college education through the Winner Scholarship Fund. The students–Anne Felix, Yuleysi Jimenez-Lopez, Manuula Reyes, Mirian Texta-Ponce, and Edgar Velasquez-Morales—were selected based on their academic initiative, attendance, financial need, and parent involvement in their children’s education. Like many past recipients, most of these [...]
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Facilities Services Department Brings Holiday Support To Homeless Children
The generosity of the employees in Facilities Services, who have opened their hearts and wallets during these tough economic times, is providing toys for children from group homes, foster care or who are homeless and are serviced by the School District’s student intervention program. The 540 trades and support personnel of the Facilities Services Department [...]
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Suncoast High School Club Supports Troops This Holiday
A Suncoast High School club formed this year by sophomore Jacob Beer, undertook an expanded version of Suncoast’s annual donation drive for deployed troops this past fall. The Fisher House Club’s mission is to support the Fisher House facility at the V.A. Medical Center in Riviera Beach and to bring attention and services to our [...]
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Miami Heat To Score Big With Timber Trace Elementary Students
Miami Heat Sales Manager Dave Mack will be reading to Tory Broedell’s 4th grade class tomorrow morning, December 17th at 9:30 AM. Mr. Mack will read The Polar Express to the students at Timber Trace Elementary School in Palm Beach Gardens. He will also be bringing holiday goodies from the Miami Heat. For more information [...]
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Royal Palm Beach High Brings a Smile to Migrant Families
Royal Palm Beach Community High School’s Interact Club completed a very successful toy drive. The club collected over 300 toys that where donated from the students on campus. The toys will go to the Farm Workers Coordinating Council of Palm Beach County. The toys will be given to migrant farm workers children, who will not [...]
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Pioneer Park Elementary Meets Principal’s Reading Challenge – Principal, Mr. Miller to Perform a Step Routine
All Pioneer Park Elementary school students have met the Principal’s Star Reader Challenge! Students needed to increase their reading level, read 200 pages, earn 50 Reading Counts points, read a book for the first time, or make another reading milestone to earn a Star Reader Pass to read with the Principal. Since all students earned [...]
Athletes and Coaches Collaborate for Turning Points Academy’s Athletic Symposium
A group of athletes, and coaches from around the county and students from Turning Points Academy got together on a recent Saturday morning to talk about what students must bring to the table if they’re serious about participating in inter-scholastic athletics programs in the Palm Beach County School District. As it turns out, characteristics and [...]
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Students In The South Area Schools Learn To Share And Care During The Holiday Season
Schools in the south area of the Palm Beach County School District have been busy collecting toys, clothing and books for their neighboring schools that they have adopted during this Holiday Season. Don Estridge High Tech Middle School’s National Junior Honor Society students, under the direction of Mrs. Adamo, have been busy collecting toys for [...]
Roosevelt Elementary School Generates Holiday Sprit for Students
Santa Claus may have more than a week before he’s expected at homes around the world, but Roosevelt Elementary School students will see proof of the holiday spirit when two 18-wheelers full of toys pull onto school grounds at 1:00 p.m. today. Michael and Phyllis Angel have some of the school’s neediest children repeatedly throughout [...]
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Turning Points Academy Hosts Its Fourth Semi-annual Student Auction To Reinforce Positive Behavior
Turning Points Academy hosted its fourth semi-annual student auction on Tuesday, December 14, 2010 for students. At Turning Points Academy, students accumulate points for positive behaviors that include complying with classroom and school rules. The auction is one of many school-wide incentives that support the Positive Behavior Support Initiative. At the end of each semester, [...]
Elementary Students To Bring Holiday Cheer To Sick And Elderly
Students from U. B. Kinsey/Palmview Elementary School of the Arts will be spreading holiday cheer throughout West Palm Beach with the Community Outreach Holiday Show. The student show will feature Dance, Chorus and Orchestra performances on Thursday, December 16th at: City Walk Home in City Place at 9:30 AM St. Anne’s Retirement Home at 10:30 [...]
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Army JROTC Instructor Voted Into 2011 Hall Of Fame Class
W.T. Dwyer High School, Army JROTC instructor Thomas Johnson will be inducted into the Florida Athletic Coaches Association (FACA) Hall of Fame, which will be held at the Daytona Beach, Hilton Oceanfront Resort on January 7, 2011. USA Track & Field (USATF) also named Mr. Johnson as the Assistant Coach of the 2011 USA World [...]
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Norton Museum of Art Exhibition Features Work by Local High School Photography Students
Too Cool for School, a student exhibition, features fifty-five photographs by high school photography students from nine Palm Beach County public high schools. The Norton Museum of Art is very pleased to exhibit this work in conjunction with the special exhibition Made in Hollywood: Photographs from the John Kobal Foundation. Last spring, Carole Gutterman, Associate [...]
Local Student To Compete In International WorldSkills Competition
Matthew Vicari of West Palm Beach, Florida, a graduate of South Tech Academy, and a current student at Florida Atlantic University, will represent the United States in London, England in the IT/PC Networking competition in the WorldSkills Competition. Vicari will compete as a member of the United States “WorldTeam.” The 41st international event will be [...]
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Olympic Heights High School Freshman Is A Santa Among Us
Luke Barron is a 14 year old boy who created an event that gives underprivileged children toys for Christmas. He began by selling candy to raise money to buy toys and has expanded into many other fundraising events. He then has volunteers help wrap each toy, marking it for a boy or girl, and they [...]
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2010-2011 Outstanding Student, Adult and Senior Volunteers Named
The 2010-2011 Palm Beach County Outstanding Student, Adult and Senior School Volunteers have been named. Dhruv Tank a senior at Suncoast High School is the Student Volunteer of the Year, Maryann Polizzi from Alexander W. Dreyfoos Jr. School of the Arts is the Adult Volunteer of the Year and Ivorine Martin from Benoist Farms Elementary [...]
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Forest Hill Community High School Offers Diversity of Online Courses and Certificates for Lifelong Learning
Adult students from all walks of life decide to take advantage of the wide range of offerings available to improve skills through Forest Hill High School’s “UGOTCLASS Online Course catalog. Some courses, such as the Green Buildings and LEED Green Associate Exam Prep class start at the end of January. Others, such as the Certificate [...]
Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Department Sponsors Safety Patrol’s Trip to Washington D.C. – Gabriana Joseph to be “Sheriff for a Day”
When Gabriana Joseph’s teachers at Everglades Elementary found out that she was unable to take part of the annual trip to Washington D.C. for the safety patrols, they decided to reach out and ask for support. Mrs. Doreen Milfeld, Mrs. Latheria Strowbridge and Mrs. Sandra Proch wrote a letter to the Sheriff’s Department explaining how [...]
Boca Middle Cobras Take A Stand Against Bullying
On Friday, December 10, 2010, students at Boca Raton Community Middle School (BRCMS) kick off their first annual Anti Bullying Pledge week. All students in first hour classes were reminded of the four anti bullying rules: We will treat everyone with respect. We will not cause others harm through words, cruel humor, gestures or physical contact. We [...]
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