Student Mathematics And Science Enthusiasts Named Sunshine State District Scholars
The Sunshine State Scholar Program began sixteen years ago through the efforts of the Florida Department of Education, the Florida Education Foundation, and Florida universities. The goals of this program are to recognize student achievement and to increase the number of students with outstanding mathematics and science credentials who choose to attend Florida colleges and [...]
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Park Vista Educator Named Florida High School Physical Education Teacher Of The Year
Diana Smith from Park Vista High School is the 2011-2012 Florida Alliance for Health, Physical Education, Recreation, Dance, and Sport (FAHPERDS) High School Physical Education Teacher of The Year. Mrs. Smith has been teaching Physical Education for the past 30 years.
Her principal, Mr. Reggie Myers explains, “Park Vista Community High School opened its doors eight [...]
Jupiter High Strikes “Gold” In California
The Jupiter High School student members of Health Occupations Students of America (HOSA) attended the 34th National Conference in Anaheim California this summer. The National HOSA Conference registered over sixty-five hundred participants. Jupiter High School’s HOSA club sent a delegation of thirty six students and chaperones. The students were searching for gold at the conference [...]
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Suncoast High Graduate Wins Prestigious Student-Athlete Scholarship
Jennifer Tilton of Suncoast Community High School is the 2011 winner of the Sam Budnyk Scholar-Athlete of the Year scholarship. She will be honored at a recognition dinner later this summer.
Jennifer competed against 23 other nominees and ten other finalists. Chair of the panel of judges for the Sam Budnyk Scholarship Committee, Dave McIntosh, said [...]
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Students Make Impact With Essays on NPR’s Radio Green Earth
Five secondary students from Palm Beach County were selected to read their winning essays about environmental issues on the radio program Radio Green Earth which airs on WNPR 90.7 FM at 5:00 pm on Saturdays. They participated in an essay contest as part of the 2011 Florida Green, Energy & Climate Conference. In their essays, [...]
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Palm Beach County Council of PTA/PTSA Awards Scholarships
The Palm Beach County Council of PTA/PTSA awarded three scholarships this year. Scholarship winners were chosen based on an original essay and letters of recommendation. The first two scholarships went to graduating high school seniors and for the second year in a row a scholarship was awarded to an active adult PTA member.
The student applicants’ [...]
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County PTA and PTSA Units Honored At Annual Membership Appreciation and Awards Recognition
The Palm Beach County Council of PTA/PTSA recently held its annual Membership Appreciation and Awards Recognition, May 20th in Boynton Beach. The theme for this year’s event was Mardi Gras. The evening was spent honoring the VIP’s (Very Important PTA’ers) and installing a new board of officers.
The Membership Appreciation and Awards Recognition is a way [...]
Award Winning Suncoast High Chemistry Teacher Named Siemens STEM Institute Fellow
Marilynn Pedek, International Baccalaureate Chemistry teacher at Suncoast Community High School, has been selected a 2011 Siemens STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math) Institute Fellow. The Siemens STEM Institute is an immersion program that promotes hands-on, real-world integration of science, technology, engineering, and math in the classroom. Fifty educators were selected as STEM Fellows to [...]
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Dreyfoos Student Named Presidential Scholar In The Arts
Tyler Rabinowitz, a senior in the Communication Arts department at the Alexander W. Dreyfoos School of the Arts and an aspiring filmmaker, is one of 20 high school students in the country named a Presidential Scholar in the Arts. Tyler and his film teacher, Ancil Deluz also named one of the top 20 most influential [...]
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2011 Beginning Teachers of the Year & Mentor Teachers of the Year Honored For Outstanding Performance
The 4th Annual Beginning Teacher of the Year Award Ceremony and the 1st Annual Mentor Teacher of the Year Ceremony took place at Forest Hill High School on Thursday, May 19. The Department of Professional Development and the Education Foundation of Palm Beach County, Inc. co-sponsored the event in support of first year teachers and [...]
Exciting Journey To New York City Ends With Top Award At Heritage Festival For Jupiter Middle School Music Department
On May 5, students from the Jupiter Middle School of Technology Band and Chorus, under the direction of Paul S. Destito and Dr. Jerri Goffe, met at Palm Beach International Airport at 4:45 am to begin their journey to New York City. Over one hundred students and twenty five chaperones made the trip to compete [...]
Students Committed To Environment Take Top Honors In State Competition
The 19th annual Florida Envirothon Competition, pitting County Champion Teams against each other, recently convened at Jonathan Dickinson State Park in Martin County. The Palm Beach County team Shrub Patrol took top honors. The team of Becky Meiser, Elizabeth Isner, Stephanie McCrate, Veronica Gall, and Shayna DeRuysscher, scored first in three of five subject areas [...]
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Two Jupiter High School Seniors Among Scholastic Achievement Foundation Scholarship Recipients
The Scholastic Achievement Foundation of Palm Beach County awarded $1,000 college scholarships to two Jupiter High School students recently. The students, Lindsey Minahan and Kaitlyn Larkin are two of 29 scholarship recipients selected from the 171 outstanding high school seniors in attendance at the foundation’s 33rd Annual Student Recognition Dinner held at The Breakers, Palm [...]
Bak and Suncoast Receive Prestigious National Magnet Award
Bak Middle School of the Arts and Suncoast Community High School have been recognized as 2011 Magnet Schools of Excellence by Magnet Schools of America.
Magnet Schools of America (MSA) established the Magnet Schools of Merit Award to recognize the top magnet schools in the United States. The Magnet Schools of Merit Award recognizes magnet schools [...]
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Students From Across The County Take Top Honors In National History Day/Florida History Fair
Over one hundred students participated in the 2011 Palm Beach County National History Day/Florida History Fair on February 21st at Spanish River Community High School. Each year more than half a million students nation-wide choose a historical topic related to the annual theme and conduct research of primary and secondary sources. The 2011 theme is “Debate [...]
Del Prado Elementary, Roosevelt Elementary, Glade View Elementary, and Beacon Cove Intermediate Take the Top Spots at the 2011 Palm Beach County SECME Elementary Olympiad
Over five hundred students from 52 schools participated in the 2011 Palm Beach County SECME Elementary Olympiad on February 12 at Santaluces High School. The following schools were the overall district winners:
1st Del Prado Elementary School
2nd Roosevelt Elementary School
3rd Glade View Elementary School
4th Beacon Cove Intermediate School
The following schools placed in [...]
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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Local Educator Receives Prestigious National Speech and Debate Coaching Award
Traci Lowe, the Speech and Debate coach at Suncoast High School has received the National Forensic League (NFL) Diamond Award. She was one of eight high school coaches across the country to receive the award. The mission of the NFL is to promote high school and middle school speech and debate activities as a means [...]
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Grove Park Elementary Teacher Receives “A Day Made Better” Surprise From OfficeMax
Grove Park Elementary Reading Coach Darlene Staley received a surprise visit from OfficeMax where she was honored and recognized with an award and $1000 worth of school supplies as part of the “A Day Made Better” national cause event celebrating teachers for their extraordinary efforts in the classroom.
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Four Palm Beach County Teachers Receive Prestigious 2010 Excellence in Teaching Award
The Foundation for Excellence in Education has named four Palm Beach County educators 2010 Excellence in Teaching Award recipients. These teachers’ students made the most progress in reading or math from one year to the next for the last three consecutive years. The students learned at least 1.5 times, or 50 percent, more than the [...]
West Boca Raton High Business Partner Selected National Outstanding Service Award Winner
J.C. Perrin, Business Partner and Advisory Board member to West Boca Raton Community High School, has been selected to receive the 2010 Carl Perkins Outstanding Service Award from the Association for Career and Technical Education (ACTE) during the General Session at the ACTE Convention and Career Tech Expo on Friday, December 3, 2010, in Las [...]
2010 Beginning Teachers Of The Year Honored For Outstanding Performance
The 3rd Annual Beginning Teacher of the Year Award Ceremony took place at the School District of Palm Beach County on Tuesday, May 25. The Professional Development Department and the Education Foundation of Palm Beach County, Inc. co-sponsored the event in support of first year teachers.
The award was presented to an elementary, middle, and high [...]
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Two Palm Beach County Teachers Named Regional Reading Coaches of the Year
Just Read, Florida! and the Florida Literacy Coaches Association have named Gisele Lowe from Palm Beach Lakes High School and Brenda Darr from Boca Raton Middle School, Regional Reading Coaches of the Year. Ms. Lowe was recognized as one of five statewide winning regional reading coaches in the high school category and Ms. Darr was [...]
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Marsh Pointe Elementary Students To Walk In Footsteps of U.S. Leaders At Junior National Young Leaders Conference
Marsh Pointe Elementary students Victoria Wildhorn and Cody Kellner have been accepted to attend this year’s Junior National Young Leaders Conference in Washington D.C. The conference offers mature, high-achieving students the opportunity to learn about leadership by studying the leaders of the past and by focusing on social advocacy to make an impact on their [...]
Palm Beach County Students Win At The International Science and Engineering Fair
The Intel International Science and Engineering Fair was held in San Jose, California this past week. There were 1625 participants from 69 countries. Congratulations to the four students representing Palm Beach County:
Tucker Sterling Elliott – Junior, Suncoast Community High
Project: Grammar Agnostic Syntactical Validation of Natural Language
Zachariah Quinn Moustafa – Sophomore, Alexander W. Dreyfoos High School [...]
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