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March 8, 2010
Hillsborough County Bus Driver Wins Literacy Award
Timothy Driggers, a school bus driver with Hillsborough County Schools, was honored with the Celebrate Literacy Award for implementing a literacy program on his school bus.
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March 8, 2010
Lee County School Receives National Honor
Dunbar High School in Lee County has been named a Magnet School of Distinction for the third time in the past four years.
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March 8, 2010
Polk County Students Receive Presidential Award
Four students from Lakeland High School in Polk County were named recipients of the President’s Volunteer Service Award at the Florida Learn and Serve Conference last month in Orlando.
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March 8, 2010
Orange County School Named a Florida School of Character
The Golden Rule Foundation has recognized Lancaster Elementary School in Orange County as a 2010 Florida School of Character.
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March 8, 2010
Edison State College Student Honored for Heroic Service
The Lee County Board of County Commissioners recently recognized James Leavor, a student in the Evening Nursing Program at Edison State College, for Meritorious, Exemplary and Heroic Service.
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March 8, 2010
Pensacola Junior College Marketing Team Wins National Awards
The marketing team at Pensacola Junior College has won nine awards in the nation’s largest educational advertising awards competition.
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March 3, 2010
Future Educators of America Conference Promotes Education Careers
More than 400 Florida high school and college students recently attended the Florida Future Educators Conference in Orlando to learn about education as a career and to compete in competitions.
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February 8, 2010
Celebrate Literacy, Florida! Public Service Announcement Winners
This year’s Celebrate Literacy, Florida! public service announcement (PSA) contest winners were in Tallahassee Jan. 25 to receive their awards from literacy-partner Walt Disney World.
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February 8, 2010
Miami-Dade Professor is Florida’s Professor of the Year
Miami-Dade College Professor Sandra Shultz has been named the 2009 U.S. Professor of the Year for the state of Florida by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching and the Council for Advancement and Support of Education.
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February 8, 2010
Gulf Coast Community College Responds to Job Training Needs
In response to increased demands from state and local employers, Gulf Coast Community College’s Technology Division developed a new certificate program and is expanding an existing Associate in Applied Science degree program.
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February 8, 2010
Hillsborough Community College Offers Biotechnology Course
Hillsborough Community College, in partnership with the Center for Excellence for Bimolecular Identification and Targeted Therapeutics at the University of South Florida and the Florida Advanced Technological Education Center, is offering the first course in its Associate of Science in Biotechnology degree program.
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February 8, 2010
Brevard Teacher Wins National Recognition
Linda Cornman, an Adapted Itinerant Physical Education Teacher with Brevard County Schools, has won the Every Body Can! Adapted Physical Education Activity Video Contest sponsored by the American Alliance for Health, Physical Education, Recreation and Dance (AAHPERD).
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February 8, 2010
Lee County School Gets Grant
Bonita Springs Middle School in Lee County was recently awarded a Lowe’s Toolbox for Education Grant totaling $4,565.
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February 8, 2010
Florida Student Places First in National Competition
Charlton Cheng, a senior at Ferguson High School in Miami-Dade County, recently placed first in the engineering division of the National Agriscience Fair sponsored by the National Future Farmers of America Organization.
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January 26, 2010
Pensacola Junior College Coach Inducted Into National Hall of Fame
Bill Hamilton, Pensacola Junior College (PJC) Athletic Director and longtime PJC baseball coach, was named to the National Junior College Athletic Association (NJCAA) Hall of Fame on Jan. 7, 2010 in Dallas, Texas.
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January 26, 2010
Florida State College at Jacksonville Garners Grant for Job Trainin
The Florida State College at Jacksonville (FSCJ) recently received a $2.2 million grant from the U.S. Dept. of Labor to train people for “green jobs.”
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January 26, 2010
Santa Fe College Entrepreneur Incubator Graduates First Two Companies
The Center for Innovation and Economic Development (CIED) at Santa Fe College recently graduated its first two companies as part of its Entrepreneur Incubator initiative.
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January 26, 2010
Three Students Win State Contest
Three Florida students have been named winners of the 2010 Florida State Radon Poster Contest sponsored by the Florida Department of Health.
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January 08, 2010
Lee County Librarian One of Top Ten in Nation
Dana Thomas, librarian at Cypress Lake Middle School in Lee County, has been named one of the 2009 I Love My Librarian Award winners, recognizing her as one of America’s Top 10 Librarians.
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January 08, 2010
Nassau County Schools Earn StormReady® Supporter Designation
The National Weather Service in Jacksonville recently recognized Nassau County Public Schools as the first StormReady® Supporter School District in the country.
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January 08, 2010
Innovative Partnership Brings Laser Photonics Academy to Orange County School
Florida’s first high school Laser Photonics Academy was recently unveiled at Wekiva High School.
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January 08, 2010
Two Polk Educators Recognized by Professional Organizatio
Polk County educators Chad Garcia of Lakeland High School and Diane Bondurant of Tenoroc High School were recently honored by the Florida Council of Teachers of English (FCTE).
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January 08, 2010
Grant to Benefit Brevard Engineering Program
The PiraTech Engineering Program at Palm Bay High School in Brevard County will benefit from a $25,000 grant from AT&T to the Brevard Schools Foundation.
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January 08, 2010
Lake City Community College Honored with First Place Award
The National Council of Instructional Administrators (NCIA) recently recognized the mathematics department at Lake City Community College with a first place award in the Curriculum and Program Innovation category of the 2009 Exemplary Initiative Competition.
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January 08, 2010
Seminole State College Student Wins International Scholarship
Seminole State College recently announced Brava Reyes as its first recipient of the Benjamin A. Gilman International Scholarship. Reyes, a film and media student, will spend the 2010 spring term attending the International College of Seville in Seville, Spain, through a program sponsored by Broward College and the College Consortium for International Studies.
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