Panthers place at EnergyWhiz Olympics

Palm Coast Observer
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The Millennium Panthers take home two second place finishes in a statewide EnergyWhiz Olympics competition, in Cocoa Beach. The team had to create a battery operated car from scratch using a salt container, legos and other parts provided by the program.

They finished second in a race and also won second for best design and build documents. The students who competed were Angela Waszkiewicz, Dillon Flaschner and Sarah Metscher, all from Rachel Neuman's sixth-grade class.

Matanzas DECCA competes at Internationals
Matanzas High School students Steven Lujo and Nigel Woyton recently competed at DECA International Career Development Conference in the School Based Enterprise category under the guidance of their teacher Barbara Tant and her husband Tom Tant.

These students had received gold certification on their manual for The Coffee Spot, that operates at Matanzas High School with help from another student, Devin Sena, allowing them to compete at the International level. The team did not make the finals.

Old Kings K-Kids spread inspiration
The leadership, compassion, and caring of the Old Kings Elementary School’s K-Kids has recently won the group the Presidential Volunteer Award from the United Way. In addition, to raise funds for Relay for Life, K-Kids have been busily creating “Ducky Bags” – useful and clever carrying bags using multiple colors and designs using duct tape. This has become such a hit, that the Kids have been taking custom orders. K-Kids have also been busily decorating luminary bags for the even.

All of these activities been a tremendous source of pride for Kiwanis Faculty Advisor Rita Jones, who has been a Team Captain for Relay for Life for 15 years.

“This is my final year as faculty advisor for the OKES K-Kids since I will be retiring in June,” Jones said. “Our Kids have truly been an inspiration to me and their classmates.”

However, Jones will not be saying good-bye to the K-Kids since she will return during the next school year as mentor for next year’s advisor, Laura Schiller, a fellow third-grade teacher, who has been volunteering with K-Kids for the past two years.

Beta Club sponsored trip to Whispering Meadows
The Belle Terre Elementary School Beta Club sponsored a field trip to Whispering Meadows Therapeutic Ranch for Sandra Oliva’s ESE class from Indian Trials Middle School. Oliva's students have significant cognitive impairments, visual impairments, hearing impairments and physical impairments.
Beta Club took nine of its 6th-grade officers along for the experience.