School Board 3.17.16

Updates from schools throughout Sarasota County.

By Observer Staff
| 6:00 a.m. March 17, 2016

Courtesy photo. Chris Mercandetti, Addison Smith, Dana Berkowitz, Ali Goodwin, Stacey Monroe, Samuel Monroe, Alexandra Timmer, Jordan Evens, Gabrielle Levy and Felipe Rojas.

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Eight students receive Andrew Monroe scholarships

The Andrew Monroe Memorial Scholarship 5K awarded a total of $3,500 in scholarships to eight recipients during the Riverview High School Soccer Awards ceremony Feb. 29, at the Riverview High School Performing Arts Auditorium.
Following his death in a 2011 car crash, Monroe’s family set up a scholarship fund in his name to help future RHS soccer athletes attend and complete college.
To qualify, each applicant must submit an essay explaining how they display the traits that defined Monroe.

Courtesy photo. Stephen Covert addresses guests at the Pine View ENCORE Dinner.

Pine View Band Boosters honor McAninchs

Supporters of the Pine View School band attended the ENCORE Dinner March 4, at Heritage Oaks Country Club.
This year’s dinner honored Dr. Si and Shannon McAninch.
The event celebrated band students’ accomplishments:
This year, four students — Michael Gutierrez, Daniel Solowey, Jackson Temple and Jeffrey Thompson — were named to Florida All State Bands, the highest number for any school in Manatee, Sarasota and Charlotte counties.
The school’s jazz band also received a superior rating for the seventh year in a row.

SHS students win Regional Science Fair awards

Four Sarasota High students won awards from major sponsors at the annual Sarasota Regional Science, Engineering and Technology Fair March 8.
Audrey Kilduff won the $1,000 Dart Foundation Award for Medicine & Health for her project, “Effects of Mild Traumatic Brain Injury on the Visual System in Mice.”
The Dart Foundation Inspiration Award of $1,000 went to Hailey Ballard for her project, “Using Zinc Sulfate and Planarian to Test Reaction Times to Light: A Model for Photosensitive Epilepsy.”
Faulhaber Foundation Prizes for the Scientific Exploration of Nature Awards of $1,000 went to Codi Elliot and Teerth Patel for their project, “The Regulation of the Expression of p21 and the Use of Metformin to Kill Small Cell Lung Cancer.”