PECS students create videos to spur activism Community Education by Beverly Bidney - December 4, 2019December 4, 2019 BRIGHTON — At the beginning of the school year, a group of Pemayetv Emahakv Charter School sixth-graders read some current event articles in class and decided they needed to do whatever they could to change the world. Living in the digital age, it was natural to use a digital platform to
PECS Students of the Month – September 2019 Arts & Entertainment Community Education by The Seminole Tribune - November 5, 2019November 5, 2019 Elementary School Alijah Osceola Janaleigh Bert Maycen Buck Tommie Jackson Claire Randolph Kalliope Puente Tate Matthews Kade Johns Micah Jimmie Kylo Cochran Okalani Collins Hayden Nunez Aurelius Lara Jenna Huff Mattie Platt Daliyah Nunez Khoal Cochran Meleah Billie Joleyne Nunez Gemindia Fudge Etanis Torres Ringo Billie Jaelle Weimann The Seminole Tribune Pemayetv
Seminoles experience a day of college life at FGCU Community Education News Top News Top Story by Beverly Bidney - November 5, 2019November 5, 2019 FORT MYERS — More than 40 Seminole Tribe middle and high school students with a vision for their futures that include college made that dream a reality for a day at Florida Gulf Coast University. FGCU invited the students to get a taste of the post-secondary academic world, attend a few
Natomah Robbins embarks on not-so-horrifying career in special make-up effects Arts & Entertainment Education News Top News Top Story by Beverly Bidney - October 4, 2019October 4, 2019 The foundation to Natomah Robbins’ love of art started to take shape in the fourth grade when she began drawing and painting. Since then, that love hasn’t waned and now she’s determined to make a career of it. Robbins, 21, graduated in January from the Tom Savini’s Special Make-Up Effects Program
PECS Students of the Month – August 2019 Education News Top News Top Story by The Seminole Tribune - October 4, 2019October 4, 2019 PECS Students of the Month for August 2019 (elementary school) Elementary School Ollie Jones Hendrix Osceola Kailin Coleman Aries Serrano Claire Randolph James Law Dylanie Peak Alakai Bert Ameliana Osceola Cassie Pearce Jaiden Fludd Rosalie Jones Stellar King Kulipa Julian Geonnie Ward Logan French Layda Choquette Jayshawn Henderson Waniya Fortner
Tribe’s class of 2032 from Tampa starts the new school year Education News Top News Top Story by The Seminole Tribune - October 4, 2019October 4, 2019 The 2019-20 school year kicked off for four kindergarten Tampa area students on Aug. 12 and Aug. 19. Three of the students attend Lithia Springs Elementary School in Valrico; one attends Brandon Academy in Brandon. Amari Osceola is attending Brandon Academy and is the son of Brian Osceola and the grandson
Soggy weather can’t dampen PECS swim Olympics Community Education News Top News Top Story by Beverly Bidney - October 4, 2019October 4, 2019 BRIGHTON — Late summer showers didn’t stop the action at the Pemayetv Emahakv Charter School swim Olympics Sept. 20. Students came to the Brighton pool prepared to get wet and compete, so water falling from above was no problem for these young athletes. The PECS K-5 swim program aims to get students
Carrisa Colon earns professional certificate from AVEDA Institute Community Education News Top News by The Seminole Tribune - October 4, 2019October 4, 2019 Seminole Tribe of Florida Center for Student Success and Services higher education student Carrisa Colon recently earned a professional certificate as an esthiology full specialist from the AVEDA Institute Tampa Bay. She earned her certificate on Aug. 23 and held a 99% average throughout the program. She plans to open her
PECS students celebrate their grandparents Community Education Top News Top Story by Beverly Bidney - October 3, 2019October 3, 2019 BRIGHTON — Pemayetv Emahakv Charter School students had a “love”-ly lunch Sept. 6 when grandparents, hugs and kisses filled the school cafeteria for Grandparents Day. The menu consisted of fried chicken and all the fixings, but the look of love on young and older faces was the best part of
Dartmouth grad Joseph John passionate about academics, Native issues Community Education News Top News Top Story by Beverly Bidney - October 3, 2019October 3, 2019 When it was time for Joseph John to attend college, his first choice was to go out west to Stanford University in California. When that didn’t pan out, he chose the Ivy League instead and graduated from Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire, in June 2018. One of the reasons he