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2011 calendar features student art, energy messages | | |
CALENDAR CREATIONS: The cover art for the Sarasota County 2011 "Bring it Home, Reduce Your Carbon Footprint" calendar was created by fifth-grade student Anthony Elkhatib of Glenallen Elementary in North Port. Twelve other student drawings with environmental messages are featured inside.
SARASOTA COUNTY - Sarasota County commissioners recently honored 13 artists from public and private elementary schools whose illustrations appear in the 2011 "Bring It Home, Reduce Your Carbon Footprint" calendar. More than 1,500 students entered the annual competition to illustrate ways to encourage the thoughtful and sustainable use of water and energy.
This year's winning entries were created by students at Ashton, Bay Haven, Englewood, Garden, Glenallen, Oak Park, St. Martha, Venice and Wilkinson elementary schools.
Free copies of the calendar are now available at county public libraries and administration facilities. For more information on locations visit SCgov.net or contact the Sarasota County Call Center at 941-861-5000. |
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School Board gets FPL energy rebate for $881,142 | | |
IT PAYS TO BE GREEN: Sarasota County School Board Chairman Frank Kovach, left, and Superintendent of Schools Lori White, right, accept a ceremonial check for $881,194 from Florida Power and Light Company representatives Mel Klein, Terri Britton and Rae Dowling at the Dec. 7 School Board meeting.
The check was a rebate from FPL for the district's reduced use of electricity during 2010. The district saved power by using more efficient air conditioning systems, roofing materials and air-quality monitoring systems.
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Art project celebrates U.S.-Mexico connection | | |
THE ART OF DIPLOMACY: Mayan artist Luis Ku and his wife, Lina, (center) help Englewood Elementary School students Tayler Keim (left) and Valerie Pappalardo clean the tiles in a mosaic the students are preparing to send to Sarasota's Sister City of Merida, Yucatan, Mexico.
ENGLEWOOD - Englewood Elementary School art students received instruction and encouragement from internationally renowned Mayan artist Luis Manuel May Ku when he visited the school Dec. 9. He was there to work with students on a set of mosaics they are preparing to be displayed in the U.S. Consulate in Merida, Mexico, titled The Mosaic Project: Changing the World one Community at a Time/Mosaico de la Comunidad.
Ku is the lead artist on the international project, for which school children in Florida and Mexico are creating sections of an 18-by-40-foot mosaic that will be on permanent display on the outside wall of the consulate. Merida is a sister city of Sarasota and the capital of the state of Yucatan. The United States has maintained a consulate there since 1843. Read more... |
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College financial aid seminars set for high schools | | |
SARASOTA COUNTY - Sarasota County Schools and the University of South Florida Sarasota-Manatee are hosting financial aid seminars at local high schools through February 1. The sessions will provide information about financial aid opportunities for college and other postsecondary education.
Parents and high-school seniors are strongly encouraged to attend one of the sessions, which are scheduled as follows:
6 p.m., Wednesday, Jan. 12, Sarasota High School
6:30 p.m., Wednesday, Jan. 12, North Port High School
7 p.m., Thursday, Jan. 13, Venice High School
6:30 p.m., Wednesday, Jan. 19, Riverview High School
6:30 p.m., Tuesday, Feb. 1, Booker High School
For more information, click here. |
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Teachers certified to teach bike safety to students | | |
SAFETY SPOKESMAN: University of Florida Traffic Bicycle Education Program Director Daniel Connaughton prepares a class of Sarasota County School District teachers for an exercise in avoiding obstacles during a Dec. 3 bicycle safety safety class.
SARASOTA - Twenty-one elementary and middle school teachers from Sarasota County Schools spent a day in early December earning their certification to teach a subject that was new to most of them: pedestrian and bicycle safety education. They were students in an eight-hour course conducted by the University of Florida Traffic and Bicycle Safety Education Program.
The free course, funded by the Florida Department of Transportation's Safety Office, included five hours of classroom work and three hours of outside, on-the-road instruction in safety techniques and riding skills. Read more... |
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