Kobi Hodge and Adam Kennedy from Nova High School won the adjudicator’s award for the National NFTE World Series of Innovation contest sponsored by Microsoft. Kobi and Adam entered into the Microsoft for Good Challenge which had students design a tablet or smartphone game that helps raise awareness for student or school issues. The game required simple graphics that could be played on a smartphone and be easy to learn by middle to high school students.

Kobi and Adam named their game “Another Day in High School” and put the player in the role of being a student that is put in different scenarios throughout the day. The player is scored on the paths they choose and by the end of the game their future is based on the decisions they have made.

Team Kobi won and splitting a prize of $2,000. An additional $500 went to Nova High School. Kobi and Adam will also receive a Microsoft Office 365 student package.

Way to go Titans!

Cooper City's Fashion Academy Presents: “Gone Hollywood” 

Fashion Mar-keting stu-d e n t s a t Cooper City High School hosted “Gone Ho l lywood” , their annual Fashion Show on February 1 2 t h .

Fashion Application students form committees to cover the numerous responsibilities and tasks that need to be accomplished for a make the successful show. Students handle the merchandising, models, choreography, staging and promotion for the show. The Fashion Es-sential students create

"Trash Bag Dresses" to be displayed on the run-way while Fashion Man-agement students create window displays to pro-mote the show. In order to promote community service students can do-nate a prom dress to Becca’s Closet to receive a free ticket to the show.

Blanche Ely High School Celebrates Engineering Week!

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Adobe Certified Associate Walls of Fame at Fort Lauderdale HS

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BPA Chapters are on Their Way to Nationals

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High School Agri-science Pro-

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Academy of Finance Students get Bloomberg Certified through FIU

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Deerfield Beach HS AOF become a JP Morgan Financial Skills Pilot

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Inside this issue: NFTE World Series of Innovation: Microsoft

for Good Challenge at Nova High School

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Blanche Ely High School Science/ Pre-Engineering program/AOIT Academy cele-brated Engineering Week in February. Broward College, Keiser University, Flori-da International University provided dif-ferent activities for students such as Air-plane Fly Simulation, Game Design demonstration, robotics/ circuit design and construction, radioactive demonstrations and water bottle rockets were launched across the campus football field.

Students started off the event with com-pleting a career interest exploration to help them think about careers that may fit their personality. That activity ended with sen-iors taking the stage to give advice to 9th, 10th and 11th grade students.

Blanche Ely High School Celebrates Engineering Week!

BPA Chapters Are on Their Way to Nationals in California!

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The Business Professionals of America (BPA) chapter at Atlantic Technical College and Technical High School recently returned from the BPA State Leadership Conference in Orlando with 49 mem-bers earning the distinction of qualifying for National Competition in their technical events!

Hallandale High’s Business Professionals of America Chapter also participated in State Competi-tions February 13-15, 2015 in Orlando. The students did well taking home trophies in many catego-ries including Advanced Interview Skills, Presentation Management, Advance Spreadsheet Applica-tions Desktop Publishing, Financial Math and Analysis, just to mention a few.

In addition, members learn many business skills by participating in multiple fund raising events throughout the year to support their members’ attendance at state and national conferences.

Congratulations to all the BPA members in Broward County! Good luck as they now prepare for the BPA National Leadership Conference in Anaheim, California this May!

Since the fall of 2010, Fort Lauderdale High School’s Com-munications Technology stu-dents have achieved hundreds of Adobe industry certifications. Each year, as part of the celebra-tory process, every new Adobe Certified Associate (ACA) is in-vited to place their handprint on the Walls of Fame in the Comm. Tech Lab.

After the finger paint has dried, students write their name, grad-

uation year and exam(s) passed directly on their handprint. Brian Carlton, the instructor, smiled and said “of course” when asked if students enjoy leaving their mark on the school. “Occasionally graduates and stu-dents unable to complete the program because of schedul-ing conflicts, return to visit their handprint and they al-ways reminisce about earning the ACA, how much they learned and what fun the

class was.” Carlton states, “It reminds me how important it is to keep this public record of suc-cess. For many it’s there first and only time they were asked to write their name on a school wall for an honorable purpose.”

Adobe Certified Associate Walls of Fame at Fort Lauderdale HS

High School Agri-science Programs Participate in Tropical Industry Exhibition

AOF students stock market experi-ence and industry certification.

Aria Mootiram from Taravella High School stated, “I thought I knew about stocks and how they work, but that seems to be just the tip of the iceberg. The experts to-day let us in on just how vast the stock market is, and getting Bloomberg certified is a great op-portunity.”

Academy of Finance students from JP Taravella and Stoneman Douglas High Schools travelled to Florida International University to become Bloomberg Certified at the 14 special Bloomberg terminals located in the State Farm Lab. In a two hour training, students learned about the Bloomberg Terminal and how a Bloomberg Certification can benefit them in the future. Students will attend four one hour follow up ses-sions to receive a certificate for com-pletion of the program giving our

Academy of Finance Students become Bloomberg Certified through FIU

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Broward County Public Schools Agri-science Programs at McArthur High, Plantation High, South Plantation High and Western High set up landscape displays at the Tropical Plant Industry Exhibition held January 21-23, 2015 at the Broward County Convention Center in Fort Lauderdale. Broward County Agri-science programs are expanding their partnership with the Florida Nursery Growers and Landscape

Association with high school students creating and design-ing landscape displays with school grown material at the entrance of the Broward County Convention Center. Over 6,000 participants from 42 states and 39 nations viewed the student displays during the annual 3 day Horticulture industry event.

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The Deerfield Beach High School Academy of Finance (AOF) program was se-lected by the President of the National Academy Foundation (NAF), JD Hoye, which oversees our Academy of Finance program to be a part of the JPMorgan Chase Finance Skills Index. Last month Mr. Frank Pizzo sub-mitted a proposal to participate in an exclusive grant to pilot how financial skills could be incorporated into all NAF classes throughout the United States. NAF selected five schools to participate and Deerfield Beach High School was selected as the only school from the State of Florida! Over the next three months this program will be participating in an effort to incorporate these initiatives into the academy. In addition, JP Morgan Chase will be providing a grant to obtain resources to implement these initiatives.

The Academy of Finance (AOF) program at Deerfield Beach High School. hopes to increase the number of finance and accounting honors classes next school year to four classes, plus offer a finance internship, class.

Deerfield Beach High School AOF becomes a JP Morgan Financial Skills Pilot Program

During the first week of March 600 Broward County DECA Students attended the State Ca-reer Development confer-ence in Orlando, Florida. Competing in a variety of business and marketing related competitions, stu-dents role played, tested and presented their cam-paigns in the hopes to win a spot at the Interna-tional Career Develop-ment Conference. The top 6 students from all competition areas will compete at ICDC at the end of April in Orlando, FL. Two hundred of the 10,000 International com-petitors will be from Broward County!

Cooper City High School DECA students who won 3rd Place in

Sports and Entertainment Operations Research Event.

Taravella High School Pro-Start Program

Competes at the State Competition in Orlando, FL.