Education Archive

Ailing employees of the Santa Rosa County school district may be able to see a doctor from the comfort of their bed thanks to a new telemedicine app for phone or tablet.

Buses were running an hour behind schedule Monday, Aug. 15, as Navarre students tried to make their way home from the first day of school.

While parents spend hundreds on back to school for their children, Navarre teachers are pitching in just as much of their own cash to supply their students and stock their classrooms.

Haden Bennett didn’t think she would actually be awarded the Air Force Association’s U.S. Space and Rocket Center Camp scholarship when she applied for it earlier this spring.

It was by pure chance that a group of sixth-grade students at Holley Navarre Middle School were given an opportunity to see a Lifeguard helicopter up close and learn more about the exciting career opportunities involved with it.

Gulf Breeze Middle School student Max Meeter loves history. He also loves to perform. Combine the two and what you have is a National History Day contest project good enough to earn a trip to the national contest.

Achievement and recognition were on the agenda last Wednesday night at Navarre High School as the Navy JROTC unit held its annual Awards and Change of Command Ceremony in the gymnasium.

With the new construction academy at Navarre High School available for use this semester, the students in the commercial construction program made the most of a cutting-edge building that provides plenty of space for students to complete the work.

Oh what a night for art programs in the local schools. Educators, students and supporters of the arts gathered in the Gulf Breeze Library Meeting Room the evening of May 3 for a presentation where Gulf Breeze Arts, Inc., awarded a $20,000 grant for art programs and other education efforts in area schools.

Nothing came easy for Navarre’s Navy Junior Reserve Officers Training Corps at the national academic competition April 30 in Annapolis, Md.