May 19, 2012

New Tampa Issue 03-12, Section: Education

Education

Jim Simon from Suncoast Schools Federal Credit Union, the presenting sponsor for the Instructional Support Employee of the Year award, presents Wharton High teacher Leena Hasbini with her finalist certificate for the award.

Wharton’s Hasbini A Finalist For Support Employee Of The Year!

Published on 27 January 2012 by Ashley Knoblach in Education

On Thursday, February 16, New Tampa’s sole finalist for this year’s Excellence in Education awards will find out if she’ll be crowned Hillsborough County’s Instructional Support Employee of the Year.

Leena Hasbini, who runs the “Success Center” at Paul R. Wharton High, is one of only five finalists for this year's award. The two other categories for this year's educational awards are the Ida S. Baker Diversity Teacher of the Year and Hillsborough County Teacher of the Year, both of which are presented by the Hillsborough Education Foundation (HEF).

Jake Adkins (left) and Ryan Sneed, both 6th graders at IDS-CC, work on an engineering project in the Junkyard Challenge.

Students Transform Trash Into Solutions In IDS-CC Course

Published on 27 January 2012 by Sean Bowes in Education

When does seemingly ordinary garbage such as paper cups, straws, and string become something other than seemingly ordinary junk?

The answer is when middle schoolers at Independent Day School-Corbett Campus (IDS-CC) in North Tampa get their hands on it. The junk is transformed into marvels of classroom engineering. Towers, ramps, bridges and cantilevers, each represent the answer to a real-world engineering problem and are amazingly made from otherwise useless materials.

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