Education Archive

With tiaras on their heads and lab coats on their shoulders, hundreds of girls got up close with science, technology, engineering, arts and mathematics (STEAM) March 12 during GEEKS Night at Woodlawn Beach Middle School.

Navarre High School’s Mock Trial team scored into the semifinals at this year’s annual meet Feb. 18-20 in Pensacola, taking home fourth place in the regional competition despite still being in its infancy.

Nine lovely young women strutted their stuff in glamorous gowns and showcased their talents March 8 during the 2019 Miss Navarre High School pageant.

Navarre High senior Lauren Crawford joked the experience she and two of her classmates, Kaitlin Indelicato and Matthew Preston, had while in New York City for a choir performance at Carnegie Hall was all cough drops, tea and coffee.

Hundreds of students, young professionals and executives packed the University of West Florida Conference Center and Auditorium Friday, March 1, to hear and learn from prominent female leaders at the 2019 Women in Leadership Conference.

A proposed state constitutional amendment making its way through the Legislature could limit how long school board members can serve, potentially rendering some Santa Rosa board members ineligible to run again.

Mirroring a national trend, there is a growing need for skilled labor in Santa Rosa County and surrounding areas. Hundreds of jobs are expected to be added by 2026.

In a Feb. 4 letter to teachers, Florida Gov. Rick Scott touts his recommendation of historic funding levels in total, state, and per students funding by investing more than $11 billion in state funding, for a total of $20.2 billion for Florida’s public schools.

Holley-Navarre Primary set out to promote literacy throughout the community by taking visitors around the world.  Literacy night brought students and parents to ‘Candy Land around the World,’ complete with gingerbread men, frosted gum drops, lollipops and cupcake decorations. 

Jim Wendel was once asked by former principal Bill Emerson what an ideal building for a construction academy would look like if he could have one on the campus of Navarre High School.