Jupiter High Once Again A Winner At NASA Moonbuggy Race
Jupiter High School has taken second and third place at the 20th NASA Great Moonbuggy Race at the U.S. Space & Rocket Center in Huntsville, Alabama. Team 1 from Teodoro Aguilar Mora Vocational High School of Yabucoa, Puerto Rico, won first place in the high school division. Finishing in second place was Jupiter High School Team [...]
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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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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 [...]
Spring Plant Sale Funds Field Trips For Jupiter High School Agriscience Students
The Jupiter High Agriscience Department will have its annual spring plant sale on Saturday, April 13th. The school’s one acre landscape nursery offers a wide variety of plants grown by Jupiter High Agriscience students. “We have a wide selection of native and naturalized plants available along with several types of fruit trees and plants for [...]
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Veteran Teacher Awarded Florida Coach of the Year
Kristen Taylor has taught and coached forensics since 1981. Her former students include a law professor at the University of California at Berkeley Law School, a writer for the television show Castle, numerous educators, and many many attorneys. At the recent Florida State Championship Speech and Debate Tournament held in Tampa, the Jupiter Community High [...]
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Jupiter High FFA Students Compete At South Florida Fair
The National FFA Organization (formerly Future Farmers of America) envisions a future in which all agricultural education students will discover their passion in life and build on that insight to chart the course for their educations, career and personal future. Jupiter High FFA students recently competed in four events at the South Florida Fair. In [...]
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Jupiter Community Donates To Fallen Officer’s Scholarship Fund-Scholarship To Be Awarded To Jupiter High Student
Jupiter Police Officer Bruce St. Laurent was killed in the line of duty this past fall. A valued member of the community he began his career with the Jupiter Police Department in 1992. He also worked closely with the schools in the Jupiter area. On Thursday, December 20, 2012, The Jupiter Ale House is donating [...]
Elementary School Mother Son Movie Night Moves To Jupiter High School
When faced with no place to hold the 6th annual Mother Son Movie Night, Jupiter High School stepped in to assist their neighbor schools of Beacon Cove and Lighthouse Elementary by opening their football field for the event. Tonight’s Mother Son Movie Night will be held for the first time at Jupiter High School. [...]
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Palm Beach County Students Featured at the Armory Center
Palm Beach County student photographers were selected to represent their schools at the 25th Anniversary of the Armory Art Center. They are celebrating all things artful and as part of this initiative invited middle and high school art teachers to select three great works from their school for the exhibit. Palm Beach Daily News is [...]
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Community Comes Together For Jupiter Elementary Teaching Garden-Celebration, Tuesday, November 20th
This year, the students, faculty, family and friends of Jupiter Elementary School began their first teaching garden. The purpose of implementing a teaching garden is to create an interactive learning environment that reinforces existing curricula while promoting health, responsibility, cooperation, recycling and an appreciation for the natural world. Keeping with the school’s efforts as a Green [...]
Jupiter High Agriculture Plant Sale Features Natives Species
The Jupiter High Agriscience Department will have its fall plant sale on September 22nd. Many different varieties of plants will be for sale including native species. Varieties such as Cocoplum, Spicewood, Jamaican Caper are just a few of the native plants that will be for sale. According to Jupiter High teacher Derrick Crum, “The school [...]
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Jupiter High Moonbuggy Team Featured In John Hopkins University Magazine
Malachi Rosenfield, a junior at Jupiter Community High School, recently had an article titled “From Jupiter to the Moon” published in Image Magazine from the John Hopkins University Center for Talented Youth. Malachi, a member of the NASA Moonbuggy Team at Jupiter High, helped build a moonbuggy and compete in the race in Alabama. [...]
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Outstanding Student Performance at State Green, Energy and Climate Conference
Five secondary students from the School District of Palm Beach County were selected to read their winning essays about environmental issues on the radio program Radio Green Earth which airs on WQCS 88.9 FM at 9 a.m. on Thursdays and repeated on Seaview Radio 960 AM at 6 p.m. They participated in an essay contest [...]
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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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Palm Beach Students Campaign, Prepare To Elect New Leaders-Top Student Officials To Sit On School Board
It’s a Presidential election year and there is also an important election taking place right here in Palm Beach County. The Palm Beach County Student Council End of the Year Banquet is May 24th, 2012 and county Student Council elections will be held during the banquet for the upcoming school year. The banquet, one of [...]
Jupiter High Agriscience Students Hold Plant Sale To Support Program
The Jupiter High School Agriscience Program will be having their spring plant sale, Saturday, April 21st. The plants, grown and maintained by Agriscience students, include many native varieties and naturalized plants in many different sizes. The sale will run from 8:00 am to Noon. The programs nursery is located on Tony Penna Drive just west [...]
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Jupiter High French Language Students Celebrate Mardi Gras
Jupiter High School’s French language students recently celebrated their annual Mardi Gras observance with the school’s courtyard and cafeteria transformed into the streets of Paris and New Orleans. It has been an annual event for over 10 years with all French students required to participate. As each level of students sees and feels the atmosphere [...]
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Jupiter High School’s Spanish Competition Team Successfully Competes at State Contest
Jupiter High School’s Spanish competition team, known as Los Amigos Vagabundos, successfully competed at the 56th Florida State Spanish Conference in Orlando. Leigh Clark, team sponsor, took a team of 16 students to compete in Impromptu Speaking, Dramatic Presentation, and Declamation. Receiving Superior ratings for impromptu speaking were Diego González, Samantha McGovern, Alisson Soriano, and [...]
Jupiter High Future Farmers of America Students Score Big
The Jupiter High School Future Farmers of America (FFA) chapter recently took part in the South Florida Fairs annual youth judging contests. Jupiter FFA dominated the horticulture contest having both the first and second place teams. Students on the first place team were Christina Orth, Allyson Causey, Brian Hemphill, and Kelsay Mackey. Christina Orth had [...]
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Dedicated High School Speech And Debate Coach Receives Prestigious Award
Over the years, Jupiter High School Speech and Debate Coach, Kristen Taylor, has won numerous awards and honors. In 2007, she was named the Regional Coach of the Year. In 1989, 1998, and 2000 she was honored with Teacher of the Year Awards. Ms. Taylor was named State Championship Coach in 2008 and is a [...]
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Students Perform With “Saturday Night Live” Jazz Musician
Saxophonist Ron Blake, Julliard Professor and member of the “Saturday Night Live Band” will visit Jupiter this week to provide workshops and to perform in concert with Jupiter Middle School, Independence Middle School and Jupiter High school band students. Mr. Blake has gained international acclaim as a clinician, artist and performer. He has appeared on [...]
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Former Student Returns To Elementary School To Produce Labor Of Love
Mason Hutchinson, a freshman at Jupiter High School and former Jr. Volunteer at Lighthouse Elementary wanted to give something back to the students of Lighthouse that he had enjoyed while attending Lighthouse Elementary. The school had a small nature trail open to students that he had really been fond of. While volunteering at Lighthouse, Mason [...]
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Jupiter High Debaters Begin Year With A Bang
The Speech and Debate Team at Jupiter High School received notification in late September that they have earned a slot in the prestigious 100 Club of the National Forensic League. This honor is bestowed only to those teams that earn 100 or more degrees in a single year of forensic competition. Only 10% of all [...]
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Plants Are Yielding A Profit For Jupiter High School’s Agriscience Program
Fall is in the air and on Saturday, October 8th from 8:00 AM to 12 Noon, students in the Jupiter High School Agriscience Program will be holding a fall plant sale. Over 100 varieties of plants will be on sale including many native plants such as Red Maple and Cocoplum. Proceeds from the plant sale go to [...]
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Marsh Pointe Elementary Receives Donation Organized by High School Student
Stephen McDow is a freshman at Jupiter High School; he is 14 years old and has been a Palm Beach Eagle Scout since first grade. He decided to help the school continue its journey to become a Green School of Excellence by asking local business for donations in order to complete 5 fitness stations for [...]
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