Each year, Education First (EF) High School Exchange Year matches almost 3,000 international exchange students from around the world with host families across the United States. They come for a calendar school year to experience the American culture by attending high school and becoming part of the family. This year, we have three students right here in Lake Nona as well as … [Read more...]
Make Nona: Teams Compete in Lake Nona for NASA Hackathon
Q: What do these things have in common? A Twitter bot that crowdsources STEM articles to aid in research. A tool that plans energy consumption based on solar output. A scale model of the Earth that predicts natural disasters. An app that allows users to calculate the ROI of a residential or commercial solar array. A lunar habitat that … [Read more...]
The ‘Goat Idea’
Valencia College seems to be forever growing. It seems there are always more students, more buildings being added, and more free food somewhere. In the case of the Lake Nona Campus, there is a surplus of ideas busting out of campus president Michael Longhitano’s head. As leader of the Student Government Association, his job is to better the surroundings for students and … [Read more...]
Underdogs to Alphas: A Girls’ Water Polo Season for the Books
The Lake Nona High School girls’ water polo team has certainly had one of the best seasons in Lake Nona’s history, coming out with an incredible team of dedicated athletes who worked to their full potential to create a dynamic, wellrounded and incredible group of young women in the sport. It wasn’t always like this, however. At the start of the season, the team was faced with … [Read more...]
From High School Dropout to Doctor, UCF Med Student Perseveres
Assisted by his 3-year-old son Jairus, Army Lt. Anthony Hawkins stuck a gold pin on a giant map to mark Madigan Army Medical Center in Tacoma, Wash., where he will begin his emergency medicine residency this summer. The pinning ceremony at the UCF College of Medicine came during National Match Day, when graduating medical students nationwide learned where they will spend the … [Read more...]