Special scholarship awarded
The GFWC Lutz-Land O’ Lakes Woman’s Club announced the addition of a special scholarship award, the 2019 Marilyn Wannamaker Memorial Scholarship, in honor of the past president of the club. Wannamaker also served on the Lutz Volunteer Fire Department Board.
Since 2012, the club has awarded two scholarships annually from the Lutz Volunteer Fireman’s Scholarship Endowment Fund. However, the club found it appropriate to expand the awards to include three Lutz resident students, in view of Mark Fisher’s outstanding resume as husband, dad to four teenage sons, a fulltime firefighter with 14-plus years of service, and a student at St. Petersburg College. Fisher is completing his undergraduate studies in public administration/fire administration.
The woman’s club saluted firefighter Mark Fisher with the Marilyn Wannamaker scholarship, in the amount of $5,000.
This year, the club awarded a record-breaking total of $25,000 in scholarship grants.
In addition to recipient Mark Fisher, monetary awards of $5,000 each also were given to Classical Preparatory School senior Zachary Brown and Sunlake High School senior Jillian Gordy, both of Lutz.
Students receiving a $2,500 award from the woman’s club scholarship fund included:
- Rochelle Brito, of Lutz, Steinbrenner High senior
- Alexa Scalchunes, of Land O’ Lakes, Sunlake High senior
- Ian Michael Spurza, of Lutz, Middleton Magnet High School senior
- Taylor Tarver, of Lutz, Steinbrenner High senior
The GFWC Lutz-Land O’ Lakes Woman’s Club is proud of its decades of commitment to and support of education in the community, and congratulates its 2019 scholarship recipients.
Applications being accepted for teaching prizes
The 2019 Harbor Freight Tools for Schools Prize for Teaching Excellence will award cash prizes totaling $1 million to 18 of America’s best public high school skilled trades teachers or teacher teams and their programs.
According to a release, the prize was started in 2017 by Harbor Freight’s founder, Eric Smidt, to recognize outstanding instruction in the skilled trades in U.S. public high schools and the valuable work of teachers who inspire students to learn a trade that prepares them for life after graduation.
The application process and the prize are designed to give teachers access to ideas and practices through a network of likeminded educators and leaders.
Applicants are asked to review and respond to a series of online expert-led video learning modules.
Deadline to apply for teachers and teacher teams is June 17.
Visit HFTForSchoolsPrize.org.
Turnaround awards
Pasco County Schools recognized 35 middle and high school students with a Turnaround Achievement Award.
These students were honored for “taking control of their learning, and their lives, to get back on-track,” according to Superintendent Kurt Browning, in a statement.
- Dylan Holland-Wright, Achieve Center of Pasco
- Nilda Delgado, Anclote High School
- Zachariah Germann, Bayonet Point Middle
- Fatima Morales, Centennial Middle
- Ken Cobbs, Charles S. Rushe Middle
- Jaheim Ellenwood, Chasco Middle
- Thomas Fatolitis, Crews Lake Middle
- Stewart Garcia, Cypress Creek Middle High
- Gabriella Rios, Cypress Creek Middle High
- Caleb Poston, Dr. John Long Middle
- Dakota Hatch, Fivay High
- Leslie Lara, Gulf High
- David McDaniel, Gulf Middle
- Brodie Haith, Harry Schwettman Education Center
- Heather Seitz, Hudson High
- Brooke Beck, Hudson Middle
- Nicole Schroeder, J.W. Mitchell High
- Stevie McKnight, James Irvin Education Center
- Jacob Cloutier, Land O’ Lakes High
- Ezekiel Gross, Pasco eSchool-Middle
- Matthew Behrle, Pasco eSchool-High
- Benancio Valdez, Pasco High
- C’andre Brown, Pasco Middle
- David Bidigare, Paul R. Smith Middle
- Sigure Oneal, Pine View Middle
- David Jaramillo, R. B. Stewart Middle
- Kaden Winchell, River Ridge High
- Shelby Lopata, River Ridge Middle
- Marissa Ellis, Seven Springs Middle
- Kristian Garza, Sunlake High
- Javionah Davis, Thomas E. Weightman Middle
- Dimytri Gassler, Wendell Krinn Technical High
- Sophie Keller, Wesley Chapel High
- Jackson Francis, Wiregrass Ranch High
- Jack Seymour, Zephyrhills High
Best online college
Pasco-Hernando State College is one of 18 schools in the SR Education Group that was selected as a 2019 best online community college in Florida.
The school ranked 11th on the list, with an annual tuition of $3,155; accreditation from the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Colleges; two online associate degrees, two online bachelor degrees, and five online certificate programs; and campuses in Dade City, Wesley Chapel, Spring Hill, New Port Richey and Brooksville.
The SR Education Group is a leading education research publisher founded in 2004.
To develop the 2019 rankings, SR only considered states with at least three regionally accredited schools offering at least one fully online associate degree.
Each community college on the list received a score based on factors, including retention rate, graduation rate and percentage of online enrollment data from the Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System.
The number of online associate degrees offered was collected from school websites and considered in the ranking score as well.
For information, visit SREducationGroup.org.
