Palm Coast student medals at SkillsUSA Championships

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Palm Coast resident and Florida School for the Deaf and Blind students Dominick Silverio won a silver medal at won a silver medal the SkillsUSA State Championships for his demonstration of 2D Animation Using Block Coding.

SkillsUSA is a national organization serving high school and college students who are preparing for careers in trade, technical, and skilled service occupations. Its mission is to empower students to become world-class workers, leaders, and responsible citizens.

Old Kings student places in Stock Market Game
Sixth-grade Old Kings elementary School student, Savannah Schultz, won second place in the state for the Stock Market Game – Middle School Division. Playing against 51 other teams, Schultz increased the value of her stock portfolio by over $19,000 in only six months. Math teacher Kathleen Frassrand uses the Stock Market Game to teach her students the value of research and planning, financial literacy, real-world math skills and the economic impact of news and events.

Matanzas Key Club gets colorful
Brothers and graduating seniors Stefano and Angelo Schibeci wanted to end their run as Matanzas High School Key Club president and vice president with a bang. Hosting a color run 5k complete with colorful powder was that bang.

With help of the Kiwanis Club of Flagler County and the Flagler/Palm Coast Kiwanis Club, they flooded the schools with flyers and did their own marketing on social media. They even recorded a spot on WNZF.
They wanted to invite the youth in the community to a local event that would instill a sense of giving back to all participants, as they were contributing to the Kiwanis Eliminate Project. This is an effort in which Key Club International focused its attention on. By raising money with the back boning of events such as this colorful 5K, students are eliminating maternal and neonatal tetanus around the world, a disease that kills roughly 49,000 babies each year.

Scarol, O’Grady and Wilson dominate Multiplication Olympics
After working hard on memorizing multiplication all year, the third-graders at Imagine School Town Center competed in the Multiplication Olympics Friday, May 15. Students competed in three events designed to challenge their automatic recall of the multiplication facts.

“Our second year hosting the Multiplication Olympics in third grade was a great event that really got the kids excited about memorizing their multiplication facts,” said Heather Overton, event organizer. “As a teacher, I can see an improvement in how quickly they know their facts due to this event. My daughter is in third grade this year, and as a parent I watched as she went from sort of knowing her facts to really mastering them in about three weeks as we prepared and practiced for the Multiplication Olympics. The kids really find the event motivating.”

The three top students in each event were awarded a medal. Savannah O’Grady won the overall trophy after competing against all the medalists and the champion from 2014. Other semi-finalists were Micah Wilson and Gaetano Scarol.

Gold medal winners were Madison Long, Scarol, Wilson, Lily Puritis, Josh Posner, Summer Barnes, Trista Rife and Danny Wells.

Silver medal winners were Kameran Gordon, Carl Burger, Jeremiah Donoso, Ciara Glover, Leilana King, Nigel Njok, O’Grady and Xy’Kera Bell.

Bronze winners were Arianna McGlocking, Gabriela Bourke-Cabezas, Nick Groth, Gaetano Scarol, Carl Burger, Nick Groth, Brayden Sanders, Brian Dopp, Jeremiah Donoso and Lily Puritis.