Pasco Schools honor veterans
Pasco County Schools hosted a district-wide Veterans Day presentation Nov. 11 at the Wesley Chapel Center for the Arts.
Supervisor of Elections Brian Corley joined Pasco County Schools Superintendent Kurt Browning and district students and staff to honor and celebrate veterans.
The program was to encourage students to participate in the Vote in Honor of a Veteran program.
Supervisor of Elections outreach ambassadors also conducted voter registrations at all high schools the same day.
Statewide poetry contest
The Florida State Poets Association is looking for middle and high school students to enter its 25th annual Student Poetry Contest.
The contest offers cash awards in both the junior and senior divisions.
Winning poems will be published in FSPA’s annual anthology and entered in the national Manningham Trust Student Contest.
Poems must be postmarked by Dec. 1.
Requirement and details can be found at FloridaStatePoetsAssociation.org.
Library of Congress offers free interactive e-books
The Library of Congress is offering students a set of free interactive e-books for tablets.
The new Library of Congress Student Discovery Sets bring together historical artifacts and one-of-a-kind documents in a range of topics from history to science to literature.
Interactive tools let students zoom in for close examination, draw to highlight interesting details, and make notes about what they discover.
The first six Student Discovery Sets are available now for iPad, and can be downloaded for free on iBooks. These sets cover the U.S. Constitution, Symbols of the United States, Immigration, the Dust Bowl, the Harlem Renaissance, and Understanding the Cosmos.
For information, visit LOC.gov/teachers/student-discovery-sets/.
