Tami McConnell, science department head at Navarre High School, smiled broadly as she and colleagues from Escambia, Okaloosa and Santa Rosa counties toured the Navarre Beach Marine Science Station last week.
“I’ve found my people!” she exclaimed.
The past is the future at Hobbs Middle School.
Several students from the school are heading to Washington, D.C. in June for the 2023 National History Day competition. Abraham Jordan, Brooklyn Bentley and Brenna Delezen will be competing June 12-15 with research projects they put together over the past year.
A rainy day gave way to clear skies in time for 435 Milton High School seniors to walk across the stage and accept a diploma Tuesday at Haywood Hanna Panther Stadium.
The school year is coming to a close.
With that in mind, Santa Rosa Press Gazette sat down with Santa Rosa District Schools’ superintendent Dr. Karen Barber to talk about the school year’s biggest successes, challenges and the new things coming to county schools in fall 2023.
For nearly an hour of the more than three and half-hour school board meeting earlier this month, concerned citizens, most of which were with Moms For Liberty members, spoke on the appropriateness of certain books in Santa Rosa District Schools and questioned the process by which parents can make decisions about the reading material available to their children.
Moms for Liberty claims that there at least 28 books found on the Santa Rosa District Schools website that had sexually explicit or culturally indoctrinating language in them. The group provided three examples including “A Court of Thorns and Roses” by Sarah J. Maas and “Triangles” by Ellen Hopkins, both of which have been targeted by other Moms for Liberty chapters.
At the May 4 Santa Rosa County School Board meeting, students who participated in the 2023 Commissioner’s Academic Challenge state tournament were recognized.
Braxton Parker always knew he wanted to be a chef; he just didn’t know he would be recognized for it at such an early age.
Parker, a third-grade student at Rhodes Elementary School, won Santa Rosa County District Schools’ 2023 Sodexo Future Chefs Challenge. His official title after winning the competition is Santa Rosa County Future Chef Grand Champion.
Pace High School NJROTC program is proud to announce that it has won the Navy National Academic Athletic & Drill Championship for the third time.
This prestigious championship is a test of academic, athletic and drill skills of Navy Junior ROTC cadets from around the nation. The competition was held in Pensacola and teams from all over the nation competed in the event.
“We’re going to Chicago!” members of the King Middle School Academic Team shouted after accepting a $5,000 check from Woodmen of the World Life Insurance Society that will help them pay their way to the national championships in May.
Families of East Milton Elementary School students got a taste of what their children have been learning in school when they came to the March 23 STEAM night event.
STEAM is short for science, technology, engineering, art and mathematics. According to East Milton Elementary principal Nadia Colin, they hold a STEAM night for families once a year in spring. Throughout the rest of the year, they host quarterly parent involvement events focusing on literacy, math and other topics.
