Career and Technical Education (CTE) of St. Johns County
Three teams from Creekside High School participated in the 2025 St. Johns County Project Innovation competition, held in January at First Coast Technical college. The competing teams represented the Engineering Academy, Teaching Academy, and Environmental Science Academy. The Engineering Academy, Go Trax team, which included Tristan Smith, Chris Roa, Andy Tran, Parvathi ArathiPraveen, and Luke …
During 2018, CMiC, a long-time national ACE sponsor, and the family of the company’s late founder Allen Berg, announced a pledge of $10 million to advance the construction industry in memory of its founder, Allen Berg. The initial grant established the CMiC-Allen Berg Memorial Scholarship Awards, administered through the ACE Mentor Program of America. These …
Creekside’s Environmental Academy recently completed a project where they designed and painted float boats sponsored by the University of Washington. These boats are then geotagged and released in the arctic to track sea ice changes and ocean circulation. Environmental students also participated in this project last year. A few days after their boats were released, …
Students in the Engineering strand of the Academy of Engineering and Environmental Sciences at Creekside had the opportunity to travel to Hastings, Florida, where they built a wheelchair accessibility ramp for a disabled veteran’s home. This project was represented by St. Johns Housing Partnership and was separate from and unaffiliated with Creekside and the Academy …
Creekside High School is pleased to congratulate Ali Pressel for being selected as one of only eight National Geographic’s Emerging Explorers from around the world this year. She is only the second educator to receive this honor in the program’s 18 years of existence. We are very proud of Ali and pleased that she is …
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Hands-on experiential learning comes alive when Creekside High School’s Environmental Academy worked in collaboration with the St. Johns River Water Management District. See the full story here: https://www.sjrwmd.com/streamlines/blue-school-grant-delivers-hands-on-learning-in-the-great-outdoors/.
Congratulations to Creekside High School, Class of 2020 graduate, Lauren Philip, U.S. Presidential Scholar. Lauren is one of only six students selected in the State of Florida for this prestigious honor, with only 161 recipients nationwide. She is an engineering student in the Academy of Engineering and Environmental Sciences at Creekside High School.
Creekside High School is one of 20 schools nationwide selected to partner directly with a National Geographic explorer actively conducting field research through the National Geographic Explorer Exchange program. The students in the Academy of Environmental Science, taught by Ali Pressel, have been working hard to research their assigned Explorer, Tutilo Mudumba. Mr. Mudumba is …
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Creekside senior, Tarynn Kaelin, was surprised with a $10,000 scholarship at CHS’ Academy of Engineering & Environmental Sciences Advisory Board meeting on Wednesday April 10th. Advisory Board Member, Jacob Thurlow, from Haskell presented the award on behalf of the ACE Mentoring Program.
Students in both strands of the Academy of Engineering and Environmental Sciences visited the Northwest Wastewater Treatment Facility in St. Johns County. The visit was hosted by long-time business partner, Tony Cubbedge of St. Johns County Utilities and showcased the processes of cleaning water resources and become informed citizens. This facility is one focused on …
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Creekside High School, along with the American Water Works Association (AWWA) hosted the 8th Annual Model Water Tower Competition on Saturday October 20th. Dozens of students from St. Johns County and from our surrounding counties designed and entered their model water towers, and their prototypes were judged based on 4 categories including cost efficiency, hydraulic …
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Students in the Environmental Science strand of the Academy of Engineering and Environmental Science at Creekside High School received a grant from the St. Johns River Water Management District’s Blue School Grants Program in 2017 – 18 along with 9 other schools in the Water Management District. These funds were used to pay for the …
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Students in the Environmental Science strand of the Academy of Engineering and Environmental Science at Creekside High School have been able to use new technology to collect data on water quality and marine life. Funds for this technology and the field trips to do the data collection were provided from a Blue School Grant through …
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174 students from the Engineering and STEM-related Career Academies attended the NE FL Construction and Career Day on February 13, 2018 at the Jacksonville Equestrian Center. Over 100 businesses participated in this three day event to expose students from the northeastern FL counties to careers in the construction and transportation industries. The booths were very …
CH2M, a global engineering company with an office in Jacksonville, has a charitable giving arm called “Bikes-n-Bytes”, which gives bicycles and laptop computers to worthy charitable organizations and youth. The week before Thanksgiving 2017, they gave laptops to the students below. This came about from a grant request from Tony Cubbedge with the St. Johns …
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On Tuesday October 24th, eleven students from the Environmental strand of the Academy of Engineering and Environmental Sciences at Creekside High School participated in the Student GIS Mapping Competition at the URISA GIS-Pro Conference in downtown Jacksonville. Students presented their research to business professionals from around the country This was a fantastic learning experience for …
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Congratulations to Griffin King and Aubrey Miller of the Academy of Engineering and Environmental Sciences at Creekside High School. Their StoryMap presentation on the St. John’s River won the Florida Geographic Alliance competition in June, 2017. They will move on to compete in the nationwide competition in July. Our business partner, Rocky Agbunag, with the St. …
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About 100 students from the Construction and Engineering-related Career Academies in St. Johns School District attended the Northeast Florida Construction and Career Day held on March 28, 2017 at the Equestrian Center in Jacksonville. Five other school districts also participated. Sixty-five businesses set-up interactive programs for the students to learn more about the variety of …
On Saturday, April 1, 2017, sixteen students from the Civil Engineering strand of the Academy of Engineering and Environmental Science at Creekside High built a wheelchair ramp for a local resident in a wheelchair. This was organized by the St. Johns Housing Partnership (SJHP). This was the 12th ramp the students have built over several …
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For the second year, the Career Academies of St. Johns sent students in academies related to engineering and construction to the NE FL Construction and Career Day held on April 5, 2016 at the Equestrian Center in Jacksonville. Over 100 businesses had interactive booths to expose students to a wide variety of careers in the …
