Donation helps include more students
Through the TD Charitable Foundation, TD Bank has donated $15,000 to support the sponsored admission program at The Florida Aquarium for under-served students in the Tampa Bay area. This is the sixth year the aquarium has received the contribution that will once again help children, youth and families who would otherwise face challenges to visit The Florida Aquarium. ‘Educating the next generation about the importance of our marine environment and wildlife is at the core of what we do, and thanks to the TD Charitable Trust, we will be able to inspire more children this coming year,’ Roger Germann, the aquarium’s president and CEO said, in a release.
Manufacturing Day
Pasco County Students participated in the annual Manufacturing Day on Oct. 4 and toured selected businesses where they learned about the manufacturing partner assigned to their field of study.
The Office of Career and Technical Education staff accompanied the students on the tours.
The event highlights the importance of manufacturing in our economy and draws attention to the many high-skilled jobs available.
School programs, such as Manufacturing Day, help to prepare students as our future workforce.
Options Night
Lutz Prep Charter and Learning Gate Community School will host a High School Options Night for seventh- and eighth-grade students Oct. 17 from 4 p.m. to 6 p.m., at Lutz Prep, 17951 U.S. 41 in Lutz.
Parents and students can learn how to make an informed high school decision regarding private, charter, traditional, magnet and IB schools.
For information, email Brian Bethune at .
Catholic scholarship
Saint Leo University again will offer the Catholic Promise Scholarship, which helps to make higher education more accessible to Catholic high school students in Florida.
The scholarship will be offered for undergraduate students for the fall 2020 semester at University Campus in St. Leo.
The scholarship will award students who have attended four years at a Catholic high school, with an annual scholarship of $14,000 toward tuition at the Saint Leo University Campus.
The scholarship is renewable each semester for up to four years, providing up to $56,000 in financial aid by the time the student graduates.
Saint Leo will host a Catholic Promise Instant Admit Day on Oct. 19 from 9 a.m. to 1:30 p.m., in the Greenfelder and Denlinger boardrooms in the Student Community Center, so prospective students and their families can learn more about the scholarship.
A tour of the campus also will be included.
Students should bring transcripts and other documentation in order to be granted admission.
To register, visit SaintLeo.edu/catholic-promise.
For requirements and information, call (352) 588-8238.
Bleachers closed, temporarily
Pasco County Schools engaged a structural engineer to conduct safety inspections of seven high school concrete stadiums.
Two of those schools require temporary closure of bleachers. Locally, Pasco High School visitors’ side bleachers will be closed for maintenance for the rest of the football season, and likely through the end of the school year.
The closure is not expected to affect high school football, cross-country, soccer, track and field, or middle school events at the stadium.
The home bleachers at Pasco High will accommodate both home and visiting team fans.
Local achievements
- Luisa F. Caban, of Land O’ Lakes, received a Bachelor of Science in social psychology from Park University’s Davis-Montham Air Force Base Campus in Arizona.
- Em Ovalle, of Lutz, was named to the Dean’s List for the winter/spring term at Centre College in Danville, Kentucky.
- Hanley Riggs, of Lutz, enrolled at Belmont University in Nashville, Tennessee, and joined other freshmen and transfer students for a Towering Traditions orientation for SERVE, an opportunity to complete community service together throughout the greater Nashville area.
