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In the spirit of learning!
Congratulations to Forest City Elementary fifth-grader Caelyn Cochran, who won first place out of 2,400 entries in the McGraw-Hill My Math “What Math Means To Me” art contest. Her drawing, called “The Angles of Ballet,” will be featured in the Museum of Mathematics in New York, N.Y., and Forest City will receive $15,000 in classroom resources for math instruction.
|Caelyn Cochran (photo courtesy Forest City Elementary School)|
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Students in teacher Adam Sherman’s leadership class at Lake Brantley High School have launched an anti-bullying campaign. They are spreading their message to the community through Facebook, the school’s website, signs around campus and partnerships with local media.
Also, congratulations to student Michelle Pope, who officially signed to swim with the Florida State University Seminoles next year.
|Michelle Pope (photo courtesy Denise Pope)|
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A group of middle school students from Maitland Montessori School has launched a program called Generation Green to spread awareness about green living practices. The students are working on getting recycling bins at their school and they’re planning to invite speakers to talk to students about how to live green. They also plan to hold fundraisers for their cause and go on educational field trips in the future.
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Wekiva Elementary School teachers Karyn Cook and Julie Gabrovic recently launched the Eco-Rangers Club in conjunction with Amy Conyers, the assistant park manager at Wekiwa Springs State Park. The club meets weekly after school at the park. The students have been studying the park’s sandhill ecosystem as well as its plants and wildlife.
Also at Wekiva Elementary, students on the robotics team will soon participate in the regional robotics competition.
|Eco-Rangers Club (photo courtesy Wekiva Elementary School)|
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Markham Woods Middle School is home to many aspiring writers in Abby Scherer's Writing Club, but eighth-grader Lindsay Martin and seventh-grader Jacqueline Baron are on the path to becoming published authors.
Lindsay entered a winning essay in the 2011 Teen Read competition sponsored by local libraries. Demonstrating writing techniques and whimsical imagination, her poem captured the theme, “Picture This at Your Local Library.”
Jacqueline had the grand-prize entry for the 2012 Drug-Free Essay contest sponsored by the State Attorney’s Office. Her poem demonstrated the dangers of drugs in a powerful way and wove a narrative that encourages a drug-free life. Lindsay also wrote a poem for this competition and earned second place
Congratulations, Lindsay and Jacqueline -- Markham Woods Middle School and the Writing Club are proud of you.
|Lindsay Martin and Jacqueline Baron (photo courtesy Markham Woods Middle School)|
