The minds of children in our society are ultimately the building blocks of our future generations. Manuel Delgado-Ordaz Jr. sought to exhibit that fact when he was selected to help create the new mural for Laureate Park Elementary School. The mural is named Lake Nona Minds and is representative of all the bright and blossoming children of Lake Nona. A highly talented … [Read more...]
Lake Nona: Transforming the Brick and Mortar Retail Experience with Intersection
Lake Nona has just announced a new partnership with the tech company Intersection, an organization that provides wifi, navigation information, and other technology to public spaces for the 3.8 million square foot Lake Nona Town Center. This partnership will seek to “identify opportunities to integrate the physical world of brick and mortar with digital technology to … [Read more...]
Beat the Heat: Nona Ice Cream Challenge
In response to this summer’s offering of smoldering temperatures, we decided some ice cream was in order! The challenge? Uncover some of the area’s best, coldest and most unique ice cream offerings. We quickly realized that when we’re motivated, our favorite delicious treat is very easy to find, and sometimes in the most unexpected places. Our reader’s attention span would … [Read more...]
Record Setter! Lake Nona’s Fruit Ninja Sets World Record on Live TV
Matt Troy Jones, a Lake Nona resident, was recently featured on Gordon Ramsay’s hit Fox television show, The F Word, and set the Guinness World Record for the fastest time of cutting up an entire watermelon: a jaw-dropping 18 seconds!Matt’s story has humble origins, beginning with a simple YouTube video, uploaded for the sake of showing off to his friends and family how quickly … [Read more...]
The Ultimate Nona Bar Crawl
For this month’s installment of the Nona Food Challenge Series, Aaron and Matt divert from food, and shift focus to the local bars. The challenge this time was to partake in as many local “Happy Hours” as possible, all within the span of one day’s worth of happy hours. At first mention, this mission seemed pretty simple, get a few drinks at a few bars. We soon … [Read more...]