PINE CREST HOSTS U.S. - RUSSIA BILATERAL PRESIDENTIAL COMMISSION’S SWIMMING EXCHANGE
Swimming Sports Visitor Program Brings Delegation
of Russian Youth To Fort Lauderdale Campus
Fort Lauderdale, FL – Pine Crest School and members of Pine Crest School’s Swim Camp will serve as international ambassadors when a group of Russian youth visit the Fort Lauderdale campus for an international swimming exchange July 16-30, 2010.
The U.S. Department of State’s SportsUnited Office is partnering with the U.S. Olympic Committee to host the Russian delegation of 12 boys and seven girls, ages 13-16, four coaches, and one team leader. This Swimming Sports Visitor Program will be carried out under the auspices of the U.S.-Russia Bilateral Presidential Commission’s Education, Culture, Sports and Media Working Group.
Pine Crest School’s premier swimming camp was selected as the venue for the program. The camp is led by USA Swimming National Team coach Jay Fitzgerald. At the camp, Russian participants will learn swimming techniques and participate in cultural activities alongside their American and international counterparts. Participants in the program will also take part in SportsUnited core sessions on disability sport and conflict resolution, and will visit local community organizations.
The Pine Crest Swim Team is a USS year round competitive swim team offering high quality professional coaching and technique instruction for all ages and abilities. The team provides every member an opportunity to improve swimming skills and achieve success at his or her level of ability, from novice to international competitor.
Boca Raton Community High School performs a number from My Fair Lady at the 2010 South Florida Cappies.
Real life high school musical as well as high school drama stars shined at the 8th Annual Cappies Awards Gala on Tuesday, May 18 at the Broward Center for the Performing Arts.
The Critics’ Awards Program, or Cappies for short, recognized high school theater in 39 categories including performers, designers, technicians and critics. This year, students from 24 public, private and charter schools throughout Broward and Palm Beach County received nominations.
Modeled after Broadway's Tony Awards, the gala awards show featured songs and scenes from the top nominated shows.
West Boca Raton high School performs a musical number from Thoroughly Modern Millie as part of the 2010 South Florida Cappies held on May 18, 2010 at the Broward Center for the Performing Arts.
The Critics’ Awards Program, or Cappies for short, recognized high school theater in 39 categories including performers, designers, technicians and critics. This year, students from 24 public, private and charter schools throughout Broward and Palm Beach County received nominations.
Modeled after Broadway's Tony Awards, the gala awards show featured songs and scenes from the top nominated shows.
Program Overture presented by "The Cappies Band" and the opening number "One Cappies Nomination" choreographed by Lori Sessions. Hosts for the evening, Don Walters and Margot Moreland introduced the video presentation "Celebrating 2009-2010 Cappies Shows"
Real life high school musical as well as high school drama stars shined at the 8th Annual Cappies Awards Gala on Tuesday, May 18 at the Broward Center for the Performing Arts.
The Critics’ Awards Program, or Cappies for short, recognized high school theater in 39 categories including performers, designers, technicians and critics. This year, students from 24 public, private and charter schools throughout Broward and Palm Beach County received nominations.
Modeled after Broadway's Tony Awards, the gala awards show featured songs and scenes from the top nominated shows.
"Show People" from Curtains, performed by JP Taravella High School, Abe Fischler (NSU) and Lori Sessions (South Florida Cappies) welcome the audience and 2010 CAPPIES CRITIC COMMENDEES are recognized.
Real life high school musical as well as high school drama stars shined at the 8th Annual Cappies Awards Gala on Tuesday, May 18 at the Broward Center for the Performing Arts.
The Critics’ Awards Program, or Cappies for short, recognized high school theater in 39 categories including performers, designers, technicians and critics. This year, students from 24 public, private and charter schools throughout Broward and Palm Beach County received nominations.
Modeled after Broadway's Tony Awards, the gala awards show featured songs and scenes from the top nominated shows.
Abe Fischler (NSU) and Sharon Brooks (Broward Center for the Performing Arts) recognize the Winning Critics for the Freshman, Sophomore, Junior and Senior classes and Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School performs a scene from "Lend Me A Tenor."
Real life high school musical as well as high school drama stars shined at the 8th Annual Cappies Awards Gala on Tuesday, May 18 at the Broward Center for the Performing Arts.
The Critics’ Awards Program, or Cappies for short, recognized high school theater in 39 categories including performers, designers, technicians and critics. This year, students from 24 public, private and charter schools throughout Broward and Palm Beach County received nominations.
Modeled after Broadway's Tony Awards, the gala awards show featured songs and scenes from the top nominated shows.
John Felix and Irene Ager present the awards for Featured Actressand Actor in a Play, Featured Actress and Actor in a Musical and Props & Effects. University School performs "One More Day" from Les Miserables.
Real life high school musical as well as high school drama stars shined at the 8th Annual Cappies Awards Gala on Tuesday, May 18 at the Broward Center for the Performing Arts.
The Critics’ Awards Program, or Cappies for short, recognized high school theater in 39 categories including performers, designers, technicians and critics. This year, students from 24 public, private and charter schools throughout Broward and Palm Beach County received nominations.
Modeled after Broadway's Tony Awards, the gala awards show featured songs and scenes from the top nominated shows.
Iris Acker and Meredith Lasher present the awards for Sound, Female dancer and Male dancer.
A.W. Dreyfoos School of The Arts performs a scenes from "The Last Night at Ballyhoo."
Real life high school musical as well as high school drama stars shined at the 8th Annual Cappies Awards Gala on Tuesday, May 18 at the Broward Center for the Performing Arts.
The Critics’ Awards Program, or Cappies for short, recognized high school theater in 39 categories including performers, designers, technicians and critics. This year, students from 24 public, private and charter schools throughout Broward and Palm Beach County received nominations.
Modeled after Broadway's Tony Awards, the gala awards show featured songs and scenes from the top nominated shows.
Jeff Kiltie and Patty Gardner present awards for Stage Crew, Lighting, and Comic Actor and Actress in a Musical. Pope John Paul II High School performs "Confrontation" from Jekyll and Hyde.
Real life high school musical as well as high school drama stars shined at the 8th Annual Cappies Awards Gala on Tuesday, May 18 at the Broward Center for the Performing Arts.
The Critics’ Awards Program, or Cappies for short, recognized high school theater in 39 categories including performers, designers, technicians and critics. This year, students from 24 public, private and charter schools throughout Broward and Palm Beach County received nominations.
Modeled after Broadway's Tony Awards, the gala awards show featured songs and scenes from the top nominated shows.
School Board Members Stephanie Kraft and Kevin Tynan present awards for Make-up and Comic Actor and Actress in a Musical. Dilliard Center for the Arts performs a scene from Talking Bones.
Real life high school musical as well as high school drama stars shined at the 8th Annual Cappies Awards Gala on Tuesday, May 18 at the Broward Center for the Performing Arts.
The Critics’ Awards Program, or Cappies for short, recognized high school theater in 39 categories including performers, designers, technicians and critics. This year, students from 24 public, private and charter schools throughout Broward and Palm Beach County received nominations.
Modeled after Broadway's Tony Awards, the gala awards show featured songs and scenes from the top nominated shows.
John Lareguerre and Jennifer Jhon (TeenLink South Florida) present awards for Orchestra and Male and Female Vocalist. West Boca Raton High School performs "Forget About The Boy" from Thoroughly Modern Millie.
Real life high school musical as well as high school drama stars shined at the 8th Annual Cappies Awards Gala on Tuesday, May 18 at the Broward Center for the Performing Arts.
The Critics’ Awards Program, or Cappies for short, recognized high school theater in 39 categories including performers, designers, technicians and critics. This year, students from 24 public, private and charter schools throughout Broward and Palm Beach County received nominations.
Modeled after Broadway's Tony Awards, the gala awards show featured songs and scenes from the top nominated shows.
Sun Sentinel's Bill Hirschman and Oline Cogdill present awards for Costumes, Sets and Supporting Actor and Actress in a Play. St. Thomas Aquinas High School performs a scene from Harvey.
Real life high school musical as well as high school drama stars shined at the 8th Annual Cappies Awards Gala on Tuesday, May 18 at the Broward Center for the Performing Arts.
The Critics’ Awards Program, or Cappies for short, recognized high school theater in 39 categories including performers, designers, technicians and critics. This year, students from 24 public, private and charter schools throughout Broward and Palm Beach County received nominations.
Modeled after Broadway's Tony Awards, the gala awards show featured songs and scenes from the top nominated shows.
Lisa and Chris Kent present awards for Supporting Actor and Actress in a Musical, Ensemble in a Play and Ensemble in a Musical. Boca Raton Community high School perform "Get Me To The Church on Time" from My Fair Lady.
Real life high school musical as well as high school drama stars shined at the 8th Annual Cappies Awards Gala on Tuesday, May 18 at the Broward Center for the Performing Arts.
The Critics’ Awards Program, or Cappies for short, recognized high school theater in 39 categories including performers, designers, technicians and critics. This year, students from 24 public, private and charter schools throughout Broward and Palm Beach County received nominations.
Modeled after Broadway's Tony Awards, the gala awards show featured songs and scenes from the top nominated shows.
Amy London (Carbonell Awards) and Michelle Terl present awards for Lead Actor and Actress in a Play and Lead Actor and Actress in a Musical. South Plantation High School perform a scene from Alice In Wonderland.
Real life high school musical as well as high school drama stars shined at the 8th Annual Cappies Awards Gala on Tuesday, May 18 at the Broward Center for the Performing Arts.
The Critics’ Awards Program, or Cappies for short, recognized high school theater in 39 categories including performers, designers, technicians and critics. This year, students from 24 public, private and charter schools throughout Broward and Palm Beach County received nominations.
Modeled after Broadway's Tony Awards, the gala awards show featured songs and scenes from the top nominated shows.
Avi Hoffman and Laura Turnbull present awards for Song and Creativity. Also Critcs' Team, Play and Musical.
Real life high school musical as well as high school drama stars shined at the 8th Annual Cappies Awards Gala on Tuesday, May 18 at the Broward Center for the Performing Arts.
The Critics’ Awards Program, or Cappies for short, recognized high school theater in 39 categories including performers, designers, technicians and critics. This year, students from 24 public, private and charter schools throughout Broward and Palm Beach County received nominations.
Modeled after Broadway's Tony Awards, the gala awards show featured songs and scenes from the top nominated shows.
Meet Michelle Abbs, an alumni teacher for Teach For America, who has been devoting her career to the program in Miami for the last four years. Currently a 5th Grade teacher at Holmes Elementary school in Liberty City, Abbs partnered with uVu to document her journey by recording her students' activities with a Flip Camera. In this video, Abbs emphasizes the importance of reading. Teach For America is the national corps of outstanding recent college graduates of all academic majors and career interests who commit two years to teach in urban and rural public schools and become leaders in the effort to expand educational opportunity. In the short run, the corps members work relentlessly to ensure that more students growing up today in our country's lowest-income communities are given the educational opportunities they deserve. In the long run, alumni are a powerful force of leaders working from inside education and from every other sector to effect the fundamental changes needed to ensure that all children have an equal chance in life. Teach For America has recently received a grant from the Knight Foundation to close the achievement gap for 25,000 students in the Miami-Dade public schools. Knight Foundation is providing funding for Teach For America Miami-Dade to grow from 95 to 350 teachers per year over five years. This grant will concentrate the newly enlarged TFA corps in the lowest performing feeder-school patterns in the Miami-Dade system, increasing the time spent at each school and thus having the greatest impact on students as they advance through grade levels. As a result of this grant, TFA expects to see increased student achievement each year, including raising reading levels by one and a half years, increasing children’s mastery of more difficult subjects and closing the gap in FCAT scores between low-income and more affluent students.
Greater Miami Chamber of Commerce held their monthly TRUSTEE LUNCHEON on Wednesday, April 7, 2010 at Jungle Island
The afternoon included introductions of the New trustees and announcements of the NOVO Awards -- recognizing nonprofit program innovative excellence.
Bruce Jay Colan, Chairman, Greater Miami Chamber of Commerce, welcomed the attendees.
Ralph L. Gazitúa, Marketing & Member Services Group Chairman, Greater Miami Chamber of Commerce, RECOGNIZED THE NEW CHAIRMAN’S CIRCLE OF 100 AND TRUSTEE MEMBERS
NINTH ANNUAL NOVO AWARDS were announced by David Lawrence, President, The Early Childhood Initiative Foundation
Randy Kammer, Vice President, Regulatory Affairs and Public Policy, Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Florida gave the keynote on SOLVING THE HEALTHCARE CRISIS
The New Trustees included:
Dolphin Digital Media
John Moriarty & Associates of Florida, Inc.
Sunrise Sports & Entertainment
NOVO Awards:
FINALISTS: $2 MILLION AND ABOVE IN REVENUE CATEGORY
Big Brothers Big Sisters of Greater Miami, Inc. | School-to-Work
Established in 1958, Big Brothers Big Sisters of Greater Miami is a donor and volunteer organization that provides mentors/role models for at-risk youth from the ages of 5 to 18. It is one of the country’s largest agencies, serving over 5,000 clients each year. The School-to-Work program lifts high school students from the cycle of failure and exposes them to workplace environments by matching them with mentors to help them stay in school and make a successful transition into work. This program has helped raise academic achievement and graduation rates. To date 60 program participants have been hired and 15 will receive post-secondary scholarships.
Community Smiles | Improving Smiles
Community Smiles has been delivering oral health care to the underserved and indigent population since 1946. It is now the largest community-based dental clinic in the state of Florida – providing 5,300 patient visits this past year. To achieve their mission, Community Smiles offers an accredited Dental Residency program for seven full-time dental residents and have 150+ licensed dentists, hygienists and dental assistants volunteer their time, effort and expertise to provide 4,300 hours and $2.4 million in free care each year. The Improving Smiles project allows the organization to increase oral health care access to low-income, uninsured families and children in Miami-Dade. They anticipate providing close to 6,000 patient visits for the uninsured this year.
United HomeCare Services | TeleHealth Monitoring Services
Founded by United Way in 1974, United HomeCare Services provides community-based healthcare solutions to help older and disabled adults live at home independently. TeleHealth Monitoring Services provides hospital-grade wireless remote monitoring devices that take vital sign measurements, as needed or recommended by their physician. This information is then transmitted to a central station nurse who reviews the data, identifies appropriate action, provides at home visits if needed and communicates with the client’s physician or caregiver. This program decreased the number of patients hospitalized by 58 percent and number of days hospitalized by 72 percent.
FINALISTS: UNDER $2 MILLION IN REVENUE CATEGORY
Human Services Coalition | The Prosperity Campaign
Founded in 1995, Human Services Coalition monitors changes in health and human service delivery, provides information and mobilizes public planning and response. The organization’s mission is to empower individuals and communities to create a more just society through engagement, economic fairness and access to vital services. The Prosperity Campaign serves low to moderate-income individuals and families, addressing their financial needs and helping them build a secure financial future. It connects them to existing economic benefits and financial literacy programs that help them improve their standard of living. Since 2002, the program has prepared 12,715 tax returns totaling $13,488,374 in federal returns, which translates to an economic impact of a minimum of $139 million for Miami.
Overtown Youth Center, Inc. | Youth Development Program
In 2003, Overtown Youth Center became the first comprehensive youth crime prevention program established in Miami’s poorest community. It is the first long-term approach to providing children with a personalized, multi-faceted program to help them succeed in school and in life so they can overcome poverty. The program aims to enhance the lives of 275 Overtown students each year from the ages of seven to 25. Their primary goal is to help develop resilient children, who can live in an environment rife with risk factors, but still grow into competent and productive members of society. All students in the program graduate high school and 80 percent of those remain in college or complete their post-secondary vocational education.
PanZOu Project, Inc. | Gang Prevention and Intervention Program
The PanZOu Project, Inc. began in 2004 as a response to an increase in crime among the newly forming and violent Haitian gangs in northeast Miami-Dade County. Together with the police department they have identified up to 28 Haitian gangs in the area. The organization serves nearly 500 of the highest at-risk youths between the ages of 10 and 24 years who are gang involved, multiple offenders with criminal records, have limited education and difficulty securing employment to achieve self-sufficiency. Success is determined by decreasing their risk levels, achieving goals outlined in intervention plans and reducing criminal activity and re-arrests. Eighty-eight percent of the PanZOu clients remain crime free and the target area shows a 22 percent reduction in offenses after two years of the program’s implementation.
