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 [...]
Boca Raton High School Drama Department Students Present ‘The Man Who Came To Dinner’ To Open Season
The award-winning Boca Raton Community High School Drama Department will open its season with a high-energy production of the fast-paced, razor-sharp farce ‘The Man Who Came to Dinner’, by George S. Kaufman and Moss Hart. With a lively cast of more than 30 students playing a truly extravagant array of eccentric characters, ‘The Man Who [...]
Boca Raton Hiigh School’s Homecoming Queen Also World Martial Arts Champion
Boca Raton High School senior Micayla Johnson is a force to be reckoned with and she’s having a red-letter year. Micayla was crowned Homecoming Queen at this year’s Homecoming game earlier this month and she also won the 2011 US Open World Martial Arts Championship with a heart-stopping performance. The lacrosse player holds a 4.7 [...]
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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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A Conversation With the Education Commissioner at Boca Raton High
Those with concerns or questions about public education issues are urged to attend an event scheduled to give the public a chance to have their voices heard. The event featuring Florida Education Commissioner Gerard Robinson, takes place Friday, May 25, starting at 6:00 p.m. at Boca Raton High School. Other education notables on the itinerary include State [...]
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Two Palm Beach County Teachers Awarded Facing History Scholarships
Two Palm Beach County teachers have been awarded the Herbert C. Lee Scholarship through the Palm Beach County Fellowship of Christians and Jews to the Facing History and Ourselves Seminar in Boston, Massachusetts this summer. The two teachers are Krystal Lamb from Park Vista High School and Teodora Kamburov from Boca Raton High School. For [...]
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Glade View Elementary Students Soaring in Writing
Glade View Elementary‘s Fourth Grade Writes Rally was recently held. As a prelude to the Rally, students joined in with the Testing Rap song by K-Bezzie (artist Kevin Brown) followed by an introduction of special guest to include Palm Beach County School Board Member, Marcia Andrews, and former administrators of the Palm Beach School District, [...]
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Boca Raton High Operation Warm And Fuzzy Help Safety Patrol Trip Students At Barton EL With Warm Clothes
For the second year, Boca Raton Community High School Leadership class collected and delivered newly knitted hats, scarves, and gloves to Barton Elementary School in time for their winter Safety Patrol trip to Washington, DC. Two juniors, Sims and Calder Alfano, have led the drive working with Project Linus and Boca Care knitters, both knitting [...]
Auntie Mame Launches Drama Season Of Big Productions At Boca High November 3-5
The award-winning Boca Raton Community High School Drama Department will open its season with a richly-staged production of the much loved and lauded Auntie Mame, by Jerome Lawrence and Robert Lee. With a lively cast of more than 30 students in vibrant period costumes and sets, Auntie Mame will run from November 3rd through 5th [...]
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Boca Raton High NJROTC Bobcat Battalion Won First Place At The National Academic, Athletic, And Drill Championships
The Boca Raton Community High School Naval Junior Reserve Officer Training Corps (NJROTC) Bobcat Battalion, led by Lieutenant Commander Kenneth A. Bingham and Chief Petty Officer Edwin A. Morales, took first place at the National Academic, Athletic, and Drill championships at Pensacola Naval Air Station in Pensacola, Florida on the 8th and 9th of April, [...]
Palm Beach County Robots Rule At State Competition
Florida FIRST (For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology) Robotics Education Foundation recently hosted the 13th Florida FIRST Regional Robotics competition for high school teams in Orlando and the robots from Palm Beach County powered to a win. The Inlet Grove High School and Suncoast High School team sponsored by Pratt & Whitney/EDF/Florida Turbine Technologies took 1st place along [...]
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Over 750 Boca High Students And Teachers To Participate In “Yoga Wave”
Last year, Stefanie Gross, a Boca Raton High School English teacher and trained yoga instructor, introduced yoga to faculty members and students prior to the FCAT’s as a way to mitigate the stress felt by all. Based on that success and the support of Principal, Dr. Geoff Mckee, Ms. Gross is now teaching a Yoga [...]
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Veterans Day Celebration At Boca Raton High Features Ex-prisoner Of War Irwin Stovroff
On Thursday, November 11th, the Boca Raton High Leadership will host a special Veterans Day Assembly in celebration of veterans. The event will take place at 10:15 a.m., in the Boca High theater. The program will include a speech by ex-prisoner of war, Irwin Stovroff, performances by Boca High’s ROTC, the Boca High Chorus and recognition [...]
Eleven Palm Beach County High Schools Among Top Six Percent In U.S.
Atlantic Community High, Boca Raton Community High, Dreyfoos School of the Arts, Dwyer High, Olympic Heights High, Palm Beach Gardens High, Park Vista High, Spanish River High, Suncoast Community High, Wellington Community High and West Boca Raton High are celebrating their distinction of being among the top in the nation. They are listed in Newsweek [...]
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Four Palm Beach County Schools Rank Among Top 100 In Newsweek America’s Best High Schools For 2010
Suncoast Community High, Dreyfoos School of the Arts, Boca Raton High and Atlantic High, are among the top 100 Newsweek America’s Best High Schools in the nation for 2010. Each year, Newsweek picks the best high schools in the country based on how hard school staffs work to challenge students with advanced placement college-level courses [...]
Boca Raton High Wins NJROTC Florida State Championship
This past Saturday the Boca Raton High School Bobcat Battalion traveled to Oviedo High School in Orlando to compete against 23 other high school finalists in the Navy Junior Reserve Officers Training Corps (NJROTC) Florida State Championship. The field meet came down to the last two events. It was between Boca Raton High and their [...]
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Boca Raton High Teacher, Katherine Roberts, Receives The 2009 Siemens Award For Advanced Placement
Katherine Roberts, science department head at Boca Raton High School, was honored as the recipient of the 2009 Siemens Award for Advanced Placement for teachers. This prestigious award that honors 50 teachers nationally, recognizes their dedication to students, to the Advanced Placement Program, and their undeniable success teaching a rigorous curriculum. Established in 1998, the Siemens [...]
BOCA HIGH SEEKS TO EXTEND CAPPIES RUN: Lerner and Loewe’s “My Fair Lady” most ambitious play yet
The students of Boca High’s Drama Club have a precious few days until the opening of their spring musical, “My Fair Lady”, and the flurries of preparation are well under way. In a corner of the theater, a chorus of singers is perfecting a piece of four part harmony. The stage is strewn with half-finished [...]
