DREYFOOS SENIORS BEN BATALLA AND JOSEF SAMARGIA WIN DOWNBEAT MAGAZINE’S PRESTIGIOUS STUDENT AWARD
The School District of Palm Beach County today announced that The Alexander W. Dreyfoos School of the Arts has two students who have won the prestigious Downbeat Magazine 36th Annual Student Music Award. Ben Batalla (Piano major; Palm Beach Gardens) and Josef Samargia (Vocal major; West Palm Beach) have been named as two of the [...]
Dreyfoos School of Arts Junior Launches First CD
Seventeen-year-old Dreyfoos School of the Arts theatre student Micailah Lockhart is busy as a vocal performer and now she has a CD, Introducing Micailah Lockhart, with a single available on iTunes. The dynamic daughter of Lake Worth High School Principal George Lockhart and his wife, said although she does plan to pursue a career [...]
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Dreyfoos Student Wins Top Honors, Trip, and Cash in Cleveland Institute of Art National Competition
Best in Show and Best in Category/Visual Art for Striving, a linoleum print, has earned Dreyfoos School of the Arts senior, Kathia St. Hilaire, a trove of prizes. The West Palm Beach resident wins $500 along with each category winner, but also wins an additional $2,500 as winner of Best in Show for the 2D3D [...]
District Seniors Among the Corporate-Sponsored National Merit Scholarship Winners
Some District students are among the first group of approximately 1,000 distinguished high school seniors who have won corporate sponsored scholarships in the 58th annual National Merit Scholarship Program. Student School Gina Carlene CassuloProbable career field: Environmental engineering National Merit Nextera Energy, Inc, Scholarship Jupiter resident; Jupiter Community High School Hanna B. Rubin Probable career field: Undecided [...]
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Dreyfoos Senior To Tour With the National Youth Orchestra of the United States of America
Alexander Dreyfoos School of the Arts is proud to announce that senior, Nikolette LaBonte of Palm Beach Gardens, has been selected to perform with this summer’s National Youth Orchestra (NYO) tour. Each summer, Carnegie Hall’s Weill Music Institute brings together 120 of the brightest young players from across the country to form the National Youth Orchestra [...]
District Students Named National Achievement Scholars, Earn Thousands in Scholarships
Four District seniors are among approximately 800 outstanding Black American high school seniors who have won Achievement Scholarship awards through the 49th annual National Achievement Scholarship Program. The program is a privately financed academic competition started in 1964 specifically to honor scholastically talented Black American youth and to provide scholarships to a substantial number of [...]
Dreyfoos Student Artist Wins Summer Trip to Costa Rica
Dreyfoos School of the Arts junior, Heather Grace, created a DVD in Spanish that was so impressive that she was named a national winner of the Bertie Green Travel Award. The annual competition is sponsored by the Sociedad Honoraria Hispanica, the National Honor Society of the American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese. The [...]
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Students Clash In Battle Of The Books, 1,770 Compete In Unique Reading Contest
2013 marks the fifth year of the School District’s Battle of the Books competition. Six teams recently competed to be crowned champions of the Grand Battle of the Books. Competitors in the grade 3-5 category were Team BOB from Palm Beach Public Elementary, sponsored by Cheryl May and the Ninja Wallabies from Limestone Creek Elementary, [...]
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Five Dreyfoos Seniors Nominated For Prestigious Presidential Scholar Award
Five seniors from The Alexander W. Dreyfoos School of the Arts have been nominated for the prestigious Presidential Scholars Award. Daniel Shuter (visual art major; Palm Beach Gardens) and Michael Margaritoff (vocal major; West Palm Beach) have been named as two of the more than 3000 candidates in the 2013 Presidential Scholars Program. Inclusion in [...]
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28th Annual A Team Competition a Test of Cross-Content Knowledge and Rapid Response
Ninety of the District’s high schools’ brightest and best came together to answer questions such as “what is the theory that defines space and time as relative concepts and not absolute as in Newtonian physics” during this year’s A Team Competition. The County contest—held in January– is over and the high school that will represent [...]
Palm Springs Middle School Students Create Legacy Mural
A group of Palm Springs Middle School students recently put their artistic talents and environmental interests into a collaboration with Alexander Dreyfoos School of the Arts alumnus Marianne Romeo. Their efforts resulted in a colorful, expressive mural that’s part of the multinational social empowerment initiative called the Mural Project. Ms. Romeo graduated from Brooks [...]
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Dreyfoos School Graduate Christian Marrero Receives Prestigious Full Scholarship to Attend Berklee College of Music
Christian Marrero, a trumpet player from Boynton Beach, received the prestigious Berklee College of Music Presidential Scholarship, granting him a four-year education at no cost to him or his family. The scholarship’s total value over four years is approximately $225,000. Presidential Scholarships, awarded to the world’s best young musicians, cover all tuition, housing, and fees. While [...]
Gorman Contribution Leads To Establishment of Theatre Outreach Program At Dreyfoos
Marcie Gorman-Althof is a local philanthropist with a love for children and theatre. Now, she combines these two passions with the establishment of the Marcie Gorman Theatre Outreach Program at the Alexander W. Dreyfoos School of the Arts. Thanks to Mrs. Gorman’s generous contribution of $10,000 to the School of the Arts Foundation, 1,000 disadvantaged [...]
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NYC Artist returns home as Hearst Artist to Work with Dreyfoos students
Sculpture-Installation artist returns to inspire visual arts students Kim Holleman, an award-winning artist who grew up in Palm Beach County and had her first piece of artwork displayed at the Norton Museum of Art at the age of eight, will be a featured Hearst Artist in the Dreyfoos Hearst Masterclass series this fall. Ms. Holleman [...]
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Four Palm Beach County High Schools Among America’s Best
Based on Newsweek Magazine’s Best High Schools In America 2012 article, Suncoast Community High School is ranked 9th, Alexander W. Dreyfoos, Jr. School of the Arts is ranked 37th, Boca Raton Community High School is ranked 200th and Spanish River Community High School is ranked 362th. To determine the rankings, Newsweek factored in six criteria: the school’s four-year [...]
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District Students Win College-sponsored Merit Scholarships
The following graduating seniors are among 2500 students nationwide who have been selected to receive college-sponsored National Merit scholarships. Alexander Dreyfoos School of the Arts Jillian T. Adams Delray Beach resident University of Florida Probable career field: Research Donald W. Meyers, IV Wellington resident University of Florida Probable career field: Materials Science Courtney S. Wayne Jupiter resident University of [...]
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Suncoast and Dreyfoos Among America’s Best High Schools – U.S. News
Suncoast Community High School and Alexander W. Dreyfoos Jr. School of the Arts have made the U.S. News 2012 list of America’s top high schools. U.S. News analyzed more than 21,000 public high schools across the United States. Suncoast is ranked 28th and Dreyfoos is ranked 60th in the national ratings. In the Florida ratings, [...]
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National Merit Corporate-sponsored Scholarship Winners Announced
Three District students earn prestigious scholarships Three area students are among approximately 1,000 scholars from across the nation who have won corporate-sponsored National Merit Scholarship awards. These seniors were selected from students who advanced to the Finalist level in the National Merit Scholarship competition and met the criteria of their scholarhsip sponsors. The following students [...]
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Dreyfoos Student’s Essay Wins Her a Trip to Azerbaijan
Alexander Dreyfoos sophomore Camille Sanches is headed to Kuwait and Azerbaijan for two weeks to study this summer. The Wellington resident was a winner for her entry in the National High School Essay Contest held recently on the topic of the Republic of Azerbaijan. She and two other local winners will be honored Friday, April13, [...]
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Dreyfoos Students Wow the Judges of The 2012 Scholastic Art & Writing Awards
Twenty-two students from Alexander Dreyfoos School of the Arts will head to New York City this June after winning in various categories of the 2012 National Scholastic Art and Writing Awards. Founded in 1923, the Scholastic Art & Writing Awards are the longest-running, most prestigious recognition program for creative teens and the largest source of [...]
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Dreyfoos Spanish Tournament Team Once Again Takes First At State
“Los Dragones de Dreyfoos”, the Dreyfoos School of the Arts Spanish tournament team won the Division II—4A Championship performance at the state Spanish competition. The team is led by Dreyfoos Spanish and French teacher, Michael Anand. The team earned 967 points out of 1000 possible. The 2012 Florida State Spanish Conference was held at the [...]
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Dreyfoos Theatre Students Perform for 2600 Audience Members and Win Awards and Scholarships at Tampa’s Florida State Thespian
Nearly one hundred students from the Alexander W. Dreyfoos School of the Arts descended upon downtown Tampa to participate in the Florida State Thespian Festival, the largest high school theatre festival in the world. The festival, held March 14-18 at Tampa’s David A. Straz Center for the Performing Arts and the Tampa Convention Center, hosted [...]
Dreyfoos Choral/Orchestra Concert Date Changed
Dreyfoos School of the Arts officials have announced a change in the date that had been set for the school’s chorus/orchestra performance An Evening of French Music featuring Gabriel Faure’s Requiem and Pavane. The City of West Palm Beach contracts with several schools to use their space for voting precincts on election day for its [...]
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A.W. Dreyfoos School of the Arts Performs Zimmerman’s Metamorphoses
The Dreyfoos School of the Arts Thespians are presenting a play with a modern take on the Greek myths of Ovid. Mary Zimmerman’s play, Metamorphoses runs from February 16-26 in the Brandt Black Box theatre on the school’s campus. Metamorphoses is a play about the enduring power love has to sustain us through the inevitable changes [...]
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Two Palm Beach County School Volunteers Recognized On State Level
The 2012 Outstanding School Volunteers have been named by the Florida Department of Education in recognition of their exemplary dedication and commitment to quality education in Florida. Keli Hodges, a sophomore at the Alexander W. Dreyfoos, Jr. School of the Arts is the Florida Outstanding Youth Volunteer of the Year and Kendra Palumbo from Eagles Landing [...]
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