Dec 13th, 2012
LAKE WALES – Janie Howard Wilson Elementary will use a $3,000 grant from Progress Energy to help fourth and fifth graders learn more about light and sound.
Progress Energy’s Jerry Miller (left) presented the grant to science resource teacher Molly Garrett and Principal Barbara Jones during a ceremony last month.
Garrett applied for the grant so that she can take 40 students to a Disney Youth Education class called “Energy and Waves Physics 101 Lab.” During the three-hour program, students will go behind the scenes at the Magic Kingdom to learn how Disney uses energy, in the form of light and sound, to create world-class attractions.
LAKE WALES – Lake Wales High’s Special Olympic track and field relay team qualified and participated in the State Summer Games May 17-18 at ESPN Wide World of Sports.
LAKE WALES –– Hillcrest Elementary kindergarten students are celebrating the end of school by reading their own copies of “Change The World Before Bedtime” by Mark Kimball Moulton, Josh Chalmers and Karen Good.
LAKE WALES – Age and experience triumphed over youth and energy when Janie Howard Wilson staff faced fifth graders in the elementary school’s annual spring softball game last week. The adults won the game 22-8.
