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District breaks ground for rebuild of Venice High | | |
VHS FAST-FORWARD: The Venice High School campus as it will appear when the rebuild is completed in 2014.
VENICE - Sarasota County School District officials, Venice City Council members, community members, staff and students celebrated the official beginning of construction for the new Venice High School on Jan. 6.
The centerpiece of the new campus will be a three-story, 198,000-square-foot classroom wing containing 103 classrooms. The new facility also will include an expanded cafeteria, a new administration building, an energy plant, a media center and a 1,000-seat performing arts center. The center is being built in partnership with the city of Venice, which is contributing $7.5 million toward the facility.
The $91-million project will be completed in two phases so classes can continue as construction progresses. The classroom building, cafeteria and energy plant will be built in Phase I. The administration building, gymnasium and performing arts center will be built in Phase II. The entire 361,000-square-foot project is scheduled for completion in 2014. Read more... |
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Students meet 'Three Cups of Tea' author Mortenson | | |
MEETING MR. MORTENSON: Three students from area high schools attended a Jan. 19 news conference with Greg Mortenson, co-author of "Three Cups of Tea." Mortenson, left, visits with Chloe Sweetman of Manatee High, Nora Jones of Riverview High and Nick Swanson of Sarasota High. Photo courtesy Robert Pope Photography and Ringling College Library Assocation.
SARASOTA - Twenty-four students from Sarasota and Manatee County public and private high schools had the chance to hear a message about building schools in Pakistan and Afghanistan and building bridges among cultures from Greg Mortenson, co-author with David Oliver Relin of "Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace: One School at a Time."
Mortenson's Jan. 19 lecture was the first in this year's Town Hall Lecture Series presented by the Ringling College Library Association at the Van Wezel Performing Arts Hall. Free student tickets for all five lectures in the series (Mortenson, columnist George Will, author and Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel and authors Malcom Gladwell & Adam Gopnik) are being provided by the Community Foundation of Sarasota County in partnership with the RCLA.
Some students also get to attend news conferences with the speakers, and two $500 college scholarships will be awarded to seniors whose essays about their experience are selected by the RCLA.
To read a Sarasota Herald-Tribune story about Mortenson's lecture and the students' role in the news conference, click here.
To hear a WUSF radio story on Mortenson, including interviews with the students, click here. |
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School choice applications to be accepted Feb. 1-18 | | |
SARASOTA - Parents who would like their children to attend a Sarasota County public school in 2011-12 other than their districted school are invited to submit a school choice application from Tuesday, Feb. 1, through Friday, Feb. 18.
Since space is always limited and demand may be high at some schools, it is typically not possible to accommodate all school choice requests. As in previous years, school choice approvals will be determined by a random lottery process, rather than on a first-come, first-served basis. Students will be assigned automatically to their districted school (based on the location of their residence) or their current school, unless a school choice application is received.
School choice application forms will be available beginning Tuesday, Feb. 1, at all public schools, at selected daycare facilities, or by calling 927-9000, ext. 32255. Parents will be notified of choice assignments in early April. Read more... |
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Pine View student shines in national math contest | | |
STAR MATHLETE: Pine View junior and "Who Wants to be a Mathematician" national contest finalist Anthony Grebe poses with a three-dimensional model used as a teaching tool in the school's Mathematics Department.
NEW ORLEANS - Anthony Grebe, a junior at Pine View School, won $6,000 in the math game Who Wants to Be a Mathematician, Friday, Jan. 7, at the Joint Mathematics Meetings in New Orleans. Anthony finished in second place among ten contestants.
Anthony plans to use the money for college. He also won a graphing calculator donated by Texas Instruments. Of the $6,000 total, $3,000 will go to Anthony and $3,000 to the math department at Pine View.
The American Mathematical Society organizes the game in different cities nationwide to reward good mathematics students. This was the second national contest of Who Wants to Be a Mathematician. The first-place prize this year went to defending champion Evan O'Dorney of Danville, Calif., who won a total of $10,000.
Who Wants to Be a Mathematician is part of the Joint Mathematics Meetings that was held in New Orleans in January. More than 6,000 mathematicians attended the conference.
To read more about the contest and Anthony Grebe, click here. |
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About Sarasota County Schools
The Education Channel is an educational cable access station available on Comcast 20 in Sarasota County and Verizon FiOs 33 across most of Florida. Launched in October 1999, the channel broadcasts 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. In addition to live broadcasts of Sarasota County School Board meetings and workshops, The Education Channel produces original programs about the district and its public schools and other topics of interest to the community. For more information and a schedule of programs, click here.
Thanks to Sarasota County Schools Construction Services, SchenkelSchultz Architects, Robert Pope Photography and Pine View School for the images used in this issue. |
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