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Creekside’s CyberPatriots Team 1st in State

Creekside High School took first place in the state in the CyberPatriots Platinum Division.  This team included Aidan McCabe, Josh Le, Adil Khan, Kylen Elliott, Nathan Bowman, and Adam Spees .  The team of Prateek Kalusani, Haasith Penmethsa, Shreyas Sindhaval, Yaozhou Xiong, and Sathvik Vegesna placed second in the Gold Division. National semifinals will be held …

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Nease Engineering Academy Students Take Part in Deck the Chairs Holiday Event

For the second year in a row, seniors in the Stellar Academy of Engineering are taking part in the Deck the Chairs charity holiday event.  Students are provided with a full-sized lifeguard chair, and tasked with dressing it up for the holidays while representing an assigned theme. This year, with the education-based chairs on display …

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Fashion Design program heads to the Jacksonville Fair!

Each year, the Fashion Academy participates in the Jacksonville Fair and students showcase their garments for all to see. Linda Cunningham, a local fashion designer, challenges the students with an unconventional material and this year’s challenge was party streamers. Students worked very hard for 3 weeks and are now anxiously waiting to see who will …

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Nease Academy Students Learn Skills, Earn Scholarships

Congratulations, Stellar Scholarship Winners! Congratulations to Nease’s Hannah DeVelder and Harry Ison, who were selected as the Stellar Scholarship Award Recipients for 2024.  The awards were presented by Stellar Engineer, and Nease’s Stellar Academy of Engineering Advisory Board Chairman, Briggs Kirby.  These Stellar Academy of Engineering students both plan to continue studying the subject at …

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2024 National ACE Scholarship Winner

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 …

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Creekside FBLA State Winners

Creekside’s FBLA chapter traveled to Orlando to attend the FBLA State Leadership Conference from March 15th through the 17th.  100 qualifying students competed in 51 different events over the course of the weekend.  This year was a record-breaking year for Florida FBLA ,with over 5200 people in attendance at the State Leadership Conference from around …

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Environmental Academy Float Boats

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, …

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Professionals Visit Nease Senior Engineering Classes As Part of the ACE Mentor Program

As Nease’s Engineering Design and Development students work through their ACE Mentor competition projects in class, they are bringing in professionals from a range of fields in, or related to, the Engineering industry to help open the students’ eyes to all that a major engineering project encompasses. On January 24th, landscape designer Cindy Burns, owner …

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SJSO Partnership Providing Opportunities for Law and Homeland Academy

The Academy of Law and Homeland Security proudly partners with the St. Johns County Sheriffs Office. The department has been been an outstanding supporter of our students. This year have provided regular guest speakers to our classrooms, helping to educate our students about numerous careers in law enforcement and public service. SJSO came out in …

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Nease Academy Students See the Sweet Side of Engineering

Stellar Academy of Engineering introductory-level students had the opportunity to see the power of engineering an unlikely place — a candy store. Nease students toured Whetstones Chocolate Factory — an institution in the Nation’s Oldest City — and learned the company’s founder, Henry Whetstone, was an engineer.  During his time in the chocolate business, Whetstone …

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Academy of Future Teachers Learning Human Growth and Development

Students in St. Augustine High School’s Academy of Future Teachers are learning what it takes to care for a developing infant child. Using RealityWorks High Tech Infants, students take on the responsibly of parenting over an extended period of time. Using advance sensors, infants are programmed to cry when needing attention, and respond to parental care such as feeding, burping, rocking, and changing diapers. Teachers can print a report and the end of the assignment to see how well the students complete their parental assignments!