Facebook, MySpace posts fair game for colleges

From Florida Today:

Students such as (Jennie) Van den Boogaard, one of FLORIDA TODAYs Verge student journalists, are being more cautious about what they post on social networking Web sites such as Facebook and MySpace in fear of giving college advisers or future employers the wrong impression.

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“I think we are definitely cautious of what we put online,” said Kendall Lightly, an 18-year-old senior at Cocoa Beach Jr./Sr. High School. “I mainly use it to keep in touch with friends who have moved away. If it’s something important, I don’t put it online.”

CBHS falls from Newsweek 100

After several years on the Newsweek list of top 100 high schools, CBHS has dropped to number…101.
The list is based solely on the ratio of number of AP, IB and Cambridge tests taken per number of graduating seniors. CBHS is still the highest ranking school in the district.
Newsweek list

Kyla Horn named Presidential Scholar

Florida Today coverage
Earlier this month, U.S. secretary of Education Margaret Spellings announced 139 outstanding high school seniors as the 2008 Presidential Scholars.

This year, one of these students is Cocoa Beach Jr./Sr. High’s Kyla Horn.

Presidential scholars are students who have shown outstanding academic achievement, artistic excellence, leadership, citizenship and service to their schools and communities.

Congratulations, Kyla, on yet another very impressive accomplishment!

Watch the Pink Team live

The CBHS/RHS Robotics team is in Atlanta seeking to repeat their success at the world championships in the Georgia Dome. The event is broadcast live both on NASA-TV (check your cable or satellite listings) and on the web. They are in the Newton division through Saturday morning. Just 12 talented and lucky teams out of the 340 that enter will advance to the Einstein field for the semifinals on Saturday afternoon. Can the Pink Team repeat their finals appearance of last year? Can they bring home the gold this time? Tune in to find out.

FIRST Robotics Championship webcast page

Results from state FPS competition are in

Congratulations to the winners from CBHS!

results from floridatoday.com

Brevard places 3rd in Commissioners Academic Challenge

CBHS students made up half of the state’s 3rd best Division 1 academic team in Saturday’s state tournament held at Disney. Kyla Horn, Tim Barker and Derek Hall joined all star teammates from Eau Gallie, Merritt Island and West Shore high schools to compete against teams from the largest school districts in Florida. Congratulations, Kyla, Tim and Derek!

2008 Commissioners Academic Challenge Results

Mythbuster Imahara chooses Minutemen’s contest entry

CBHS seniors Ryan Julian and Derek Hall had their proposal selected for the Grant Imahara VEXplorer challenge. Congratulations and good luck, boys!

from Press Release:

Revell, marketer of the VEXplorer robotics system, in partnership with Robot magazine, Innovation First and SolidWorks Corporation, is running this first-ever VEXplorer challenge offering contestants the opportunity to demonstrate their robotics creativity as they compete for a $5,000 college scholarship and other prizes. Grant Imahara, Discovery Channel’s Mythbuster known for his robotics skill, and Robot magazine selected 25 robot enthusiasts’ ideas. These contestants, who received free VEXplorer systems, have until June 1st to design, build and videotape their unique VEXplorer robots doing unusual things. Contestants will upload their videos to YouTube for the world to view and for Grant Imahara and Robot magazine to select first, second and third place winners.

Johnson hits 2 home runs in Viera win

from floridatoday.com:
Johnson entered late in the fifth inning and shut out the Hawks the rest of the way. The hard-throwing left-hander yielded two hits, walked one and struck out three in earning a save, and the win for tiring starter Steve Conrod.

Pink Team wins Hawaii Regional

from Honolulu starbulletin.com:

Results of the FIRST (Fostering Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology) Hawaii Regional Robotics Competition:

First Place

» Radford High School (Rambotx)

» Bellarmine College Prep High School of San Jose, Calif. (The Cheesy Poofs)

» Rockledge High, Cocoa Beach High and Viera High Schools of Viera, Fla. (The Pink Team)

Potter and Schultz named to All-Space Coast Soccer Team

florida today coverage

Congratulations Zack and Logan!