PVHS student credits Biotechnology Academy with helping her participate in “the science of the future”.
Academy student, Mary Kate Reynolds was featured in the Ponte Vedra News Line. To read the full article, click this link
PVHS Academy of Biotechnology & Medical Research
2022 HOSA Regional Leadership Conference
The PVHS Academy of Biotechnology and Medical Research participated in the 2022 HOSA Regional Leadership Conference on January 22, 2022. Mary Kate Reynolds and Nicolas Storm, pictured, finished first and third in the Biomedical Laboratory Science category. Both will compete in at the State Leadership conference in Orlando in April along with 21 other …
PVHS Academies Excel at District Project Innovation Competition
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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Breakfast with Biotech
The Breakfast with Biotech Lecture series resumed after a one year COVID19 imposed hiatus. The speakers consisted of senior students who shared their summer internship experiences with the underclass students. Speaking from the SPARK program was Jackson Wolfe and Emma Chirila. Gigi Chaon, Elle DeVault and Zac Janszen discussed their work at Anastasia Mosquito Control. …
Biotechnology Students take 1st Place at the HOSA State Leadership Conference
Members of HOSA Megan Landis and Ella McCarthy prepared an award winning poster detailing the health profession of Neurosurgery. Placing first at the HOSA State Leadership Conference, they will represent Florida at the International conference to be held virtually at the end of June.
Biotechnology students place 3rd at Project Innovation
The biotechnology academy’s team of Gigi Choan, Ellie DeVault, Camryn Hansen, Averie Brannigan, Victoria Cunningham and Rylie Cornwell placed third in the CTE project innovation competition in St John’s County. The team proposed genetically modifying ornamental plants to increase the number of chloroplasts. The goal is to increase photosynthesis and thus reduce carbon in the …
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Biotechnology students place at Sunshine State Science Fair
Aiden Fong, Andrew Kupcha and David VanLue place third at the Sunshine State Science Fair, after placing 1st in the River Regional East fair’s in the Medicine and Health Sciences. Their project tested for Water-soluble antimicrobials compounds in primitive herbal remedies.
Academy of Biotechnology and Medical Research Learn Valuable Lab Skills.
Will Watkins uses new pipet aid to prepare stock antibiotics used in agar selection plates.
PVHS Academy of Biotechnology & Medical Research Students Present at University of Florida
Four students from Ponte Vedra’s Academy of Biotechnology & Medical Research , along with Dr. Kathryn Kehoe, were invited to present their research at The 55th Junior Science, Engineering and Humanities Symposium at the University of Florida on January 28-30th. Additionally, Tim and Courtney were two of only 24 students statewide who were invited to share their …
PV Academy of Biotechnology & Medical Research Goes “Green”
Biotechnology I students headed out for a Field Study to GyoGreens and PV Community Center to hear about Mosquito Control on January 10th. 20 first year students attended and learned about sustainable agriculture in Ponte Vedra Beach. GyoGreens shared its practices of a sustainable farming method which combines traditional aquaculture (raising aquatic animals – fish – in tanks) …
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PONTE VEDRA HIGH SCHOOL ACADEMY STUDENTS ARE ON A ‘WORLD QUEST’
Academic WorldQuest is a Flagship Program of the World Affairs Council network. It is a team game testing competitors’ knowledge of international affairs, geography, history and culture. There are currently more than 40 local competitions held around the country and the winners of these local competitions are invited to compete in the National Academic WorldQuest …
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PVHS Academy of Biotechnology & Medical Research Students get hands on experience in prestigious MAYO Clinic SPARK program
Four Academy of Biotechnology & Medical Research students were selected for the elite SPARK program at Mayo Clinic this year after an extensive selection process. Below is the feature story from First Coast News highlighting the work of PVHS Academy student, Emma Kee. http://www.firstcoastnews.com/news/health/pilot-program-lets-high-school-students-conduct-research-with-mayo-clinic/452927201 The SPARK Research Mentorship Program at Mayo Clinic’s campus …
Phillipines Educators tour PVHS Career Academies
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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PVHS Academy of Biotechnology & Medical Research Visits UF
The Ponte Vedra High School Academy of Biotechnology & Medical Research recently visited the Proteomics Core Facility at The University of Florida in Gainesville. Students were able to apply some of their classroom studies as they learned how researchers identify unknown proteins using mass spectrometry. Later in the day, the Academy students visited the Sid Martin …
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Positively PV : Academy Students show that Character Counts!
Ponte Vedra Academy of Biotechnology & Medical Research junior, Dylan and his brother, Hunter go VIRAL Dylan, a junior in the Academy of Biotechnology & Medical Research, shows that there is more to ‘viral’ than just what is learned in his Academy class! In the video link below, he is interviewed with his brother, Hunter, who …
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Beaches Exchange Club Honors Ponte Vedra Academy Students Once Again!
This month, PVHS Academy students were selected once again for recognition as Students of the Month by the Beaches Exchange Club. Senior Juila Waud, who is a member of the Ponte Vedra Academy of International Business and Marketing, along with Academy of Biotechnology and Medical Research senior, Matt Norton, were the honorees for the month …
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SHARKS IN THE SWAMP!
Eight seniors from the Ponte Vedra High School Academy of Biotechnology and Medical Research presented their research at the 52nd Junior Science, Engineering and Humanities Symposium at the University of Florida on January 25-27. Charis Wang’s project was selected by a panel of researchers, professors and community volunteers from hundreds of applicants for placement in …
Ponte Vedra’s Academy of Biotechnology and Medical Research student honored
St. Johns County’s Sunshine State Scholar shines brightly at Ponte Vedra High!
