Seminole Ridge High Creates Handmade Portraits To Honor Sandy Hook Elementary

When Ms. Gwenn Sueling told her students that Sandy Hook Elementary was the first school she ever worked at, they felt the need to make a statement acknowledging the lives lost and the sadness and helplessness that event made us all feel. After much discussion and hard work the students painted a mural in memory [...]

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In an effort to promote healthful eating along with physical activity and in conjunction with the March National Nutrition Month®, the School Food Service Department has organized an educational health fair to be held at Seminole Ridge Community High School.  This year’s theme is: “EAT RIGHT, YOUR WAY, EVERY DAY”  All students will be exposed [...]

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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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The modern three-bedroom home, built entirely by the students of the Seminole Ridge High (SRCH) School Construction Academy for Habitat for Humanity of Palm Beach County, now sits quietly in its new neighborhood in Westgate. After many months of planning, preparing, drilling, electrical and plumbing work, the house is ready for its excited new owners, Tina Cromatie and her family. The work [...]

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Students from the Seminole Ridge Community High School chapter of the National Honors Society were invited by the administration at Palms West Hospital in Royal Palm Beach to design and paint the mural for the children’s dayroom during the weekend of June 8th, 9th and 10th 2012.  One of the main goals of the National [...]

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The Junior Reserve Officers Training Corps (JROTC) Hawk Battalion at Seminole Ridge High School will name their Raider Team after a World War II hero Brigadier General Albin F. Irzyk. The General will address the students on Monday May 21st, 2012 at 1:00 p.m. in the Dr. Lynne K. McGee Auditorium.  There will also be [...]

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The Seminole Ridge Community High School Construction Academy is building a house for Habitat for Humanity. The Seminole Ridge Habitat Hawk House project will be featured on WXEL-channel 42, Monday, April 30th at 5:30 PM. The Education Network has also produced a segment about the project which can be viewed at https://vodcast.palmbeachschools.org/player/BFBTN . The home [...]

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Virginia Lynn Moylan, Seminole Ridge High School English teacher has been chosen as the 2012 Florida Book Award Silver Medal recipient in the category of non-fiction for her literary biography Zora Neale Hurston’s Final Decade, published by the University Press of Florida.  Moylan and this year’s other Florida Book Award winners were recognized at the [...]

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The voices of young, African American males will be heard during the panel discussion scheduled for early March at Bear Lakes Middle School.  High school students have been identified to participate as presenters during the discussion that will include topics such as History, Education, Character, and Careers.  We Read to Lead is the theme for [...]

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Maria Lloyd, Assistant Principal at Seminole Ridge Community High School has been selected by the Florida Department of Education as one of the two High School Literacy Leaders of the Year. These individuals are selected from district and school level administrators from around the state, who demonstrate superior leadership qualities and advance policies to foster [...]

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Virginia Lynn Moylan Authors “Zora Neale Hurston’s Final Decade”   Mrs. Virginia Lynn Moylan, English Teacher at Seminole Ridge High School, has written a biography, published by the University Press of Florida, dealing with the final years of 20th-century American writer and folklorist Zora Neale Hurston, most famous for her novel Their Eyes Were Watching God.  [...]

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Mierka Drucker receives National Diamond Coach Award Mierka C. Drucker, English Teacher at Seminole Ridge Community High School recently received the Diamond Coach Award by the National Forensic League (NFL) for her excellence in coaching speech and debate activities.  Diamond Awards recognize excellence, and Ms. Drucker’s receiving this honor represents more than 2,000 speech performances [...]

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For the first time, Palm Beach County students riding the bus this week were greeted with colorful, positive underage drinking prevention messages inside their buses. Project SMART partnered with the Acreage Loxahatchee Rotary Club to present the Alcohol Prevention Poster Contest to invite county students to give their peers a positive alcohol abuse prevention message.   [...]

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Student Intervention Services in the Department of Safe Schools developed Project SMART to address the issues of underage drinking in Palm Beach County schools. As part of the initiative’s numerous prevention activities, Project SMART is partnering with the Acreage Loxahatchee Rotary Club to present the Alcohol Prevention Poster Contest. Approximately 500 entries were submitted from Palm [...]

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Seminole Ridge High School is holding a “groundbreaking” ceremony for the new modular house project the students will build in partnership with Habitat for Humanity Palm Beach County.   When? Friday, February 4, 2011 at 8:30 a.m. Where? Seminole Ridge High School’s Cafeteria. 4601 Seminole Pratt Whitney Rd., Loxahatchee, FL 33470 A first-of-its kind venture [...]

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Seminole Ridge High School is holding a “groundbreaking” ceremony for the new modular house project the students will build in partnership with Habitat for Humanity When? Friday, February 4, 2011 at 8:30 a.m. Where? Seminole Ridge High School’s Cafeteria.  4601 Seminole Pratt Whitney Rd., Loxahatchee, FL 33470 A first-of-its kind venture in Palm Beach County where [...]

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Seminole Ridge High continues achieving good grades according to the latest report released by the Florida Department of Education.  The school is now “A” rated and will strive to maintain this grade in the future years. The teachers and administrators have been implementing various strategies such as Book It, an initiative that encourages all students [...]

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Seminole Ridge High School Army Junior Reserve Officer Training Corps (JROTC) participated in the West Palm Beach Veterans Day Parade that recently took place which honored our American Veterans.  The Hawk Battalion marched with 124 Cadets nearly a mile on Clematis street along with three other JROTC Cadet Battalions from W.T. Dwyer, Forest Hill, and Atlantic [...]

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Seminole Ridge High School Television Production students competed in the 1st Annual L-Dub Film Festival and won in several categories.   The Film Festival was sponsored by the Lake Worth Playhouse and challenged teams to write, shoot and edit a 7 to 10 minute movie in just one week. Each team had to incorporate specific elements into [...]

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Seminole Ridge High School Biotechnology Academy students are National Champions in the United States Army eCybermission Competition that recently took place in Baltimore, Maryland.  eCYBERMISSION , a web-based science, math and technology competition had more than 2,005 teams nationwide made up of 12,000 students of sixth, seventh, eighth and ninth grades. Their online research focused [...]

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Each year Palm Beach County schools are invited to participate in the Women in the Visual Art exhibit at Sugar Sand Park in Boca Raton. This year 77 students received over $14,000 in scholarships, monetary awards and art supplies from generous donations to the organization by private benefactors. Women in the Visual Arts, Inc. is a [...]

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Seminole Ridge High School students will participate in the Binding Artists and Writers Through Book Arts exhibit. The student show will take place at the Jaffe Center for Book Arts (JCBA) located at Florida Atlantic University in Boca Raton and will be on display until May 21, 2010. The opening reception will be on Friday, [...]

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Seminole Ridge Community High School Construction Academy will be hosting an on-campus dedication ceremony for the new ticket sales and outdoor storage building, completely designed and built by the school’s construction academy students. The ceremony will take place on Friday, April 30, 2010 at 9:00 a.m. in the school’s Media Center. Immediately after the ceremony [...]

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Royal Palm Beach High School obtained remarkable awards at the Palm Beach County Art Teachers Association Student K – 12 Art Exhibition, “AMERICA’S NATIONAL PARKS,” that took place at the South Florida Fairgrounds in West Palm Beach. The event was sponsored by the South Florida Fair and the Palm Beach County Art Teachers Association. The [...]

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Seminole Ridge High School is extremely aware of the needs of its hearing impaired students. For this reason, the students in American Sign Language (ASL) class 3 and 4 came up with the idea of interpreting the TV morning announcements as a way to bring deaf awareness to the high school.  The project was initiated [...]

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