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PVHS Academy Ambassadors take lead at Landrum Middle School Blitz

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The Ponte Vedra High School Academy Ambassadors visited Landrum Middle School in early December to speak with the eighth-grade students about the benefits of joining a High School Academy.   They detailed their classroom learning, internship and certification opportunities as well as the field study experiences.   Many of the students spoke about their favorite memories and […]

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Ponte Vedra Business Academy Student Spotlight: Emmett Hoffman

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The Ponte Vedra High School Academy of International Business provides students with the tools they need to start achieving their business career dreams. PVHS senior Emmett Hoffmann took full advantage of these resources to kickstart his future in finance. Emmett’s path included an intensive summer internship, competition at a state and national level for Future

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PVHS IT Academy Student wins Florida District 5 Congressional App Challenge!

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On Monday, 12/8/25, Congressman John H. Rutherford, presented an award to PVHS Student, Nicolas Vazquez, for winning the Florida District 5 Congressional App Challenge (CAC). The Congressional App Challenge invites middle and high school students to create and submit apps, with specific rules regarding eligibility, submission, and judging criteria. The first year of the challenge was 2016.  Every year since, Congress has challenged students in their districts to create and submit an original app for a chance to win

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Student Spotlight: Patrick Neal – Excelling in Biotechnology, Leadership, and Beyond

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At Ponte Vedra High School, the Biotechnology and Medical Research Academy has a reputation for preparing students to be future leaders in science, healthcare, and technology. Among its standout students, Patrick Neal has built an extraordinary record of achievement—balancing academic excellence, career-focused skills, and leadership across multiple Career and Technical Student Organizations (CTSOs). Patrick is

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PVHS Academy Team Ready for the New Year!

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The PVHS Academy team is excited to welcome students on the first day of school. Michael Costello, IT Academy; Shannon Pickard, Future Educators Academy; Lisa Lankford, International Marketing; Marisa Leonard, Career Academy Program Specialist; Elizabeth Owen, International Business and Marketing; Joshua Krehbiel, International Business.

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PVHS Academies Excel at District Project Innovation Competition

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Project Innovation is a district wide competition that promotes entrepreneurialism and provides students the opportunity to develop a product or idea to solve a problem.  All Career Academies in St. Johns County are invited to participate.  The Ponte Vedra academy teachers did a great job of incorporating this real world competition into their curriculum and

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Ponte Vedra Academy of Information Technology Sophomore Honored

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  The PVHS Academy of Information Technology sophomore, Keegan Powers, was recently recognized with the Award of Excellence from the National Academy of Future Scientists and Technologists. Science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) education plays a critical role in enabling the United States to remain the economic and technological leader of the global marketplace of

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Phillipines Educators tour PVHS Career Academies

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Two School Superintendents and the Chair of the Department of English and Applied Linguistics at De la Salle University in the Phillipines came to the United States for three weeks to learn about the American style of education and teacher training. They traveled to a number of states during that time. On September 22, 2017,

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Three IT Academies tour Citi on 3-30-17

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Sixty students from the IT Academies at Bartram Trail, Creekside and Ponte Vedra toured Citi on March 30, 2017 to learn more about the variety of IT careers they employ.  They heard from programmers, project managers, software testers, etc.  Citi provided lunch to the students and gave them a tour of their Jacksonville facility which

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Ponte Vedra Academy of Information Technology gets with the “Program”

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On Thursday, November 3, 2016, 14 Ponte Vedra High School Academy of Information Technology were invited to a presentation at the offices of Cisco in Jacksonville along with students from Creekside and Bartram Trail. Students were able to interact with other Academy students in our district who were enrolled in similar courses and were presented with information about

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Three I.T. Academies Meet with CISCO Employees

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   On Thursday, November 3, 2016, 48 students from the three Information Technology Academies, sponsored by Citi, shared a field study to CISCO in Jacksonville.  The three schools included Bartram Trail, Creekside and Ponte Vedra.  CISCO designs, installs and connects much of the infrastructure dealing with networking and cybersecurity of computer systems.  They operate in

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