Congratulations to the following students for qualifying for the 2024 National Merit Scholarship:
Congratulations to the 2024 Chili Cook-off winners:
Creekside’s senior, Tyler Gunther, placed second in the International Pivotal Essay Contest scored by Global Priorities Institute through Oxford University, winning a $7,000 scholarship.
“The Pivotal Essay Contest is a worldwide competition for high school students interested in creating original ideas about how humanity can protect the long-term future. Tyler Gunther’s essay outlined a hypothetical set of policies governments could put into place in order to better protect the interests of future generations. Tyler spent many hours researching his essay, but mainly drew inspiration from Professor William MacAskill’s 2020 Book, What We Owe The Future.”
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Congratulations to the following students for qualifying as a Semifinalist in the 2024 National Merit Scholarship Competition.
CONGRATULATIONS to Creekside’s Academy of Environmental Sciences students who won the ESRI 2023 Florida GIS StoryMaps competition! This year’s competition topic was Living in the Sunshine State.
Lauren Griffin won FIRST PLACE in the state of Florida for her StoryMap on Forensics in the Sunshine State. Check out her StoryMap here: https://arcg.is/108OP90
Grey Kohl received Second Place with her StoryMap on Habitat Fragmentation: https://arcg.is/00Paif
Honorable Mentions for the state competition include:
The Florida GIS StoryMaps competition is part of a national competition held by ESRI. The Florida Geographic Alliance hosts a state competition annually as part of ESRI initiatives to expand GIS technology applications and skills to youth. Students in the Academy of Environmental Sciences have partnered with ESRI Geographic initiatives for over 14 years and learn geographic information systems and spatial analysis to use in their university studies and future career pathways.
Lauren Griffin will represent her classmates and the Academy of Environmental Sciences at the Central Florida GIS conference held this September as she shares her StoryMap and explorations in GIS with community partners from around the state. CONGRATULATIONS Lauren and all Awardees of the 2023 Florida GIS StoryMap competition!
Qualifying FBLA members attended the State Leadership Conference in Orlando this spring. Congratulations to the following students on their accomplishments:
Harshitha Bandaru and Varshitha Inturi, 5th Place, Introduction to Event PlanningNikhil had four amazing campaign managers: Makaela Kennair, Sahara Butler, Luke Dixon, and Cooper Maurer.
Creekside students were awarded the following awards at the 2023 Northeast Florida ACE Regional Competition:
Creekside was well represented at the Florida History Day competition in Tallahassee. Students who scored either 1st or 2nd in the state in their category will now be advancing to Nationals in Washington DC this summer!
Sabrina LaVopa and Priya Schramm – 1st place for their documentary Extending a Ladder and a Hand: The Life and Legacy of the Daughters of Bilitis
Lily Clarke – 2nd place for her historical paper Standing Firm: How Wangari Maathai’s Ecofeminist Movement Challenged the Roots of Kenya’s Patriarchy
The following students also represented St Johns County at the competition:
During 2018, CMiC, a long-time national ACE sponsor, and the family of the company’s late founder Allen Berg, announced a pledge of $10 million to advance the construction industry in memory of its founder, Allen Berg. The initial grant established the CMiC-Allen Berg Memorial Scholarship Awards, administered through the ACE Mentor Program of America. These scholarships are multi-year awards aimed at talented, deserving ACE high school seniors intending to pursue post-secondary education and training leading to careers in architecture, engineering, construction or the skilled crafts. Each of the 77 ACE affiliates across the country may nominate one student for consideration. This year, Kendall Reckamp of Creekside High School was our Northeast Florida nomination. She was one of 25 winners of a scholarship in the amount of $32,000 to be provided over four years with additional mentoring support during her time in school. As an affiliate, we have had four winners in five years including three from Creekside. Kendall joins past Creekside winners Tarynn Kaelin and Leighanna Goldman.
Congratulations to all of the amazingly magical Miss Creekside 2024 contestants on shining so brightly!
Kennedi Hyatt was named 2nd Runner Up
Bryn Fremont was named 1st Runner Up
Makaela Kennair was crowned Miss Creekside 2024
