Tavistock Development Company Still Needs to Approve the School The International School of Science, Technology, and the Arts (ISSTA) has plans to open “the next step in education” with a preparatory school focused on integrating technology with traditional teaching methods for a STEM and Arts education. If approved, the school would be located at the Lake Nona Medical … [Read more...]
Alex Shields Named Fastest Sophomore in the Country
While many high school students in the Nonahood would love their own moniker or even superlative at some point during their high school years, Alex Shields is known nationally as the “fastest sophomore in the country,” with the fastest time in the 110-meter hurdles (14.07 seconds) of any sophomore nationwide. To add to it, he also had the fifth best long jump nationally of all … [Read more...]
Lake Nona High School Coach Joins Jr. Lions Wrestling Program
Many adults who competed in the sport of wrestling during high school or college tend to remember the sport more for the life skills they learned from time spent on the mat than for their competitive record. For Kendrick Ellison, Lake Nona High School’s wrestling coach, the sport was his roadmap to success in life. He came away from his competitive wrestling years with a … [Read more...]