Bunnell students release butterflies

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First-grade classes at Bunnell Elementary School have been studying the life cycle of butterflies. The butterflies hatched from their cocoon and the students set them free Friday, March 22.

Thanks to the school’s K-Kids, the butterflies have a garden of their own to live in on campus. Students planted butterfly attracting plants to aid in the first grade’s annual butterfly release.

Flagler County Future Problem Solvers win big
Future Problem Solvers from Flagler County schools competed in the state competition, taking home several first-place wins and invitations to the international competition.

Flagler Palm Coast freshman Savannah Umpenhour was the big winner with four state championship titles and several invitiations to internationals. FPC’s Maeve Dineen won the Future Problem Solving state scholarship.

Other winners from FPC are Megan Suthard, Kaitlin Burns, Liam Dineen, Lauren Perotta, Christina Gerhard, Kirsten Perott, Chloe Kindell, Erin Arsenato, Kyle Mckibben, Ben Jones, Forrest Mason, Sylvia Lujo, Christian Galvis, Agata Sololska, Maria Januska, Miranda Kuleski, Joshua Sanfilippo, Joe Bowes, Rebecca Rawls, Michael Safarty, Adrianna La Forest, Molly Bell, Erin Verdi, Michael Williams, Ryan Mcmeel, Allison Eggert, Melissa Boyles, Ladianna Martin, Nicholas Monsanto, Marisa Gomez,Thais Pagliaricci and Luis Cordero.

Senior teams invited to internationals were FPC Helpers, featuring Hypehub, Jeyda Deniz, Ashli Phillips, Iryna Sklyvka, Daniel Sarmiento, Brandan Eng, Krystene Maceda. The Music In Me, featuring Dineen, Denis Dineen, Carly Esposito and Luis Corder, was also invited.

Belle Terre Elementary School also brought home a first-place win from Nicholas Villa and a third-place team win. Team members were Kate O'Mahoney, Colin Hubbs, Vanessa Sababria and Grace Ledrich.
Other individual winners are Maggie O''Mahoney, Spencer Lee and Christian Diaz.

From Rymfire Elementary School, Haley Olsen took first place, and Daijah Stride took third place.

Project Play-Able and Foster Friends both took first place in their divisions in the Community Problem Solvers competition. Play-Able Team members are Dallas Nickels, Lauren Ward, Emily Orozco, Chase Smith, Christina Lagas, Jennifer Correia and Elise Zitka. Foster Friends team members are Amy Raleigh, Madison Bitner, Brittany Chavez, Alex Perez, Shanyia Mobley and Sarah Main.

ABC and 123, Tech 4U @nd Me took second place. Team members are Baron Pedro, Davor Pavcic, David Wheeler, Gianna LaBarbera, Aniah Roots, Jacob Shoemaker, Angela Jones and BreAnna Roux.

Around town ...
The city of Palm Coast is still accepting applications for its backyard barbecue contest. For an application, visit www.palmcoastgov.com/rocknrib.

Oscar Celico and his truck were featured in David Mamet's "Phil Spector," on HBO Sunday, March 24.