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Student of the Week: Veda Garg from Stanton College Preparatory School
While maintaining a 4.79 GPA, she joined the post-pandemic task force with the Zuckerberg Institute to voice concerns about the pandemic with big industry leaders. Author: Brooks Baptiste (First Coast News) Published: 7:32 AM EST January 29, 2021 Updated: 7:33 AM EST January 29, 2021
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. From founding the finance and investment club at her school, to playing lacrosse and maintaining a 4. 79 GPA, Veda Garg enjoys staying busy.
She’s a senior at Stanton College Preparatory School, where she is the Multicultural Association s Dance Team leader and the Indian Cultural Society choreographer.
Garg joined the post-pandemic task force with the Zuckerberg Institute last summer, to voice concerns about the pandemic with big industry leaders.
Duval School Board approves outdoor graduation ceremonies
Duval County Public Schools will host outdoor commencement ceremonies for the second consecutive year. The ceremonies will take place on school football fields for class of 2021 graduates. The move provides some certainty during a largely uncertain school year because of the COVID-19 pandemic.
School officials say making the call now gives the district time to prepare for safe, social-distanced ceremonies compared to last school year, when the pandemic prompted mass rescheduling.
When the COVID-19 pandemic originally struck, Duval Schools was forced to close schools in March it would be the last time the class of 2020 would all be on campus together, with events like prom and graduation hanging in the balance for seniors.
Isaiah Rumlin has come to expect calls from the media ahead of Martin Luther King Jr. Day.
As head of the NAACP s Jacksonville branch, he got them again this year because for the third year in a row there will be separate citywide breakfasts to honor the slain civil rights leader where there used to be one. Friday the local NAACP will host the 34th annual Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Community Empowerment Breakfast, while City Hall will have its 34th annual Martin Luther King Jr. Breakfast.
Both will be virtual. A parade follows Monday in downtown Jacksonville.
That s why for the past two years the NAACP decided to have its own breakfast rather than go downtown and shake hands for two hours at the city event, he said. And that s why the group will likely continue to host its own version in the future.
Marine Science Center (at Fletcher High)
Duval Virtual Instructional Academy (at Wolfson High)
Separate contracts will be negotiated for ceremonies at the following schools, which lack campus football stadiums:
Andrew Jackson High
Douglas Anderson School of the Arts
Darnell Cookman School of the Medical Arts
Frank H. Peterson Academies of Technology
It s not immediately clear where ceremonies will be hosted for schools that lack football fields. Last school year, the remaining schools ceremonies took place at TIAA Bank Field.
One welcome change this year versus last year s outdoor ceremonies are the timeframes. I hope the ceremonies are not in the morning because it got very hot, Ribault High School Senior Class President Winston Seabrooks said. I hope the school board considers evening ceremonies instead.