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• Port Orange Elementary has been named one of the healthiest schools in America. What does that designation mean? For Port Orange – changes to the menu in the school cafeteria, re-focusing PE lessons, and building physical activity into other classes too.
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• Osceola County School Board member Kelvin Soto reflects on the impact of Hurricane Maria on enrollment
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• One in five adults in Central Florida reads at or below fifth grade level. The Adult Literacy league, now in in its 50th year, is on a mission to change that.
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• Students and faculty at UCF have been working on CubeSats for some time. They’re now working with the Interamerican University in Puerto Rico to help aerospace engineering students launch the island’s first satellite.
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• Fifteen students from Rollins College have been picked for the Millennium Fellowship. It’s a leadership program that aims to let students advance United Nations sustainability goals on campus.Rollins College Provost, Dr. Susan Singer and Fellowship student Christina Fuleihan join Intersection to explain what sustainability means to them and how the fellowship works.
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• Democrats and Republicans will pick their candidates for governor on August 28th. The five Democrats in the governor’s race have made public school funding a top priority. The Republicans are concerned with career training.
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• 90.7’s Crystal Chavez talks to ERAU’s Dr. Marc Compere and mechanical engineering senior Rachel Hunt, about Project Haiti, which brings drinking water filtration systems to Haiti.
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• There’s a new study into the resilience of Lake Okeechobee’s toxic algae as it flows from the fresh water lake into the brackish estuaries.
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• Volusia County Schools is looking to hire qualified school counselors, licensed mental health providers, social workers and school psychologists. This comes after the state gave school districts funds to beef up security and to expand mental health resources following the Parkland mass shooting.
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• Technology plays a big role in today’s classrooms with the increased use of social media and augmented reality. Teachers are jumping on twitter to help research classroom projects and students are using virtual reality to experience historical sites or experience online classrooms in a new way. Josh Murdock, an education technology professor at Valencia College, joins us to talk about these classroom transformations and how they bring a new learning experience.
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