Council Traditional's National Elementary Honor Society (NEHS) sponsored a fundraiser for Camp Rap-A-Hope, one of the three nonprofit organizations that the school has partnered with this year. Camp Rap-A-Hope is an organization that provides a week-long summer camp at Camp Grace in Mobile, Alabama and is open to children between the ages of 7 and 17 who have or have ever had cancer.  The camp is offered at no cost to the campers and their families as cancer treatment has...

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Farm City Poster Contest Winners The Farm-City Committee of Alabama is designed to enhance the link between farm families and urban residents. Each year they have a state wide poster and essay contest to promote a better understanding between rural and urban people. The Alabama Farm-City poster and essay theme for 2012 was "Grown Safely. Extra Tasty." The National Farm-City Council's 2012 focus is on food safety. As farmers increase production and improve...

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Pearl Haskew Elementary School established a chapter of the National Elementary Honor Society (NEHS) and held a ceremony to recognize their most outstanding students March 22, 2013. Theodore High School Principal Ronald Rowell was guest speaker at the event. He encouraged the students to continue their path of academic excellence, make wise choices, and never to give up on their dreams and aspirations. The National Elementary Honor Society (NEHS) is a student organization designed to recognize...

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  Coach Harris’ remarkable football coaching career is highlighted by the amazing turnaround he had at Blount High School. When he arrived at Blount in 1988, the Leopards’ football program had lost more games the previous 10 seasons than any other Class 5A school in the state. Over the next 10 years, Blount became 5A’s winningest team with state championships in 1990, 1992, 1996 and 1997 and runner-up finishes in 1991 and 1995. Harris...

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Congratulations to Vigor High School Junior, Briana Baldwin, she won 2nd place in the Individual Multimedia Category at the Faulkner State Community College 2013 Computer Fair. Vigor was the only high school to represent Mobile County sending 5 students to compete with 11 obsevers. Briana was also part of the Multimedia Team Category. Students from public and private schools in both Baldwin County and Mobile County participated in the competition. Congratulations to Vigor High School sponsors...

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Each year participating students from across the United States, American Samoa, Guam, International Schools and Department of Defense Schools in Europe choose a topic from history that is related to the annual theme, after researching the topic it is presented as an entry.  The presentation of the topic can be done as a paper, exhibit, a performance, a documentary or a website.  Students are first judged on a local level, then the winning entries will advance to the state level and finally...

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The State FCCLA Leadership Conference was held at the Montgomery Performing Arts Centre on Friday, March 15, 2013. Austin Turk, a junior at Baker High School, was elected by her peers across the state to serve on the Alabama State Executive Council for the 2013-2014 school year. According to her teacher, Mrs. Karen Cooper, this is the first time in a long time that Mobile County has had a state officer for FCCLA!!  Austin is looking forward to serving and representing Mobile County and Baker...

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Dawes Intermediate Tech Team participated in the 29th Annual Southeast & Southwest  Regional Technology and Computer Science Fair hosted by Faulkner State College on March 14, 2013.  The following are the members & winners: 5th Grade Tech Team Winners Level II   Programming Individual Garrett Hankins 3rd Programming Individual Dylan Majors HM Programming Group Alexis Arbuckle, Lauren Lindsay, Mattie Bouler...

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Keep Mobile Beautiful sponsored a bead collection contest and the students at Hollinger's Island were happy to participate! The beads were donated to Augusta Evans for their "rebundling and reselling project". Some of the top students from Hollinger's Island are pictured. Top row: Kaytlyn Coulson, Mason Karns, Nicholas Smith, Hayden & Chase Stringer. Bottom row: Stella Baggett and Brian Wiggins

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