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Florida’s top nursing schools turn away students amid ongoing nurse shortage
With a recent influx of state money, Central Florida colleges with high-performing nursing programs hired more faculty, built new facilities and expanded their programs to accept additional qualified applicants. Yet it’s still not enough to end a nursing shortage that is predicted to leave Florida with 21,000 unfilled jobs this year and more in the future. A 2021 report from the Florida ...
North Marion senior excels at national conference
This fourth-of-July week will be one that recent North Marion High School graduate Alejandra Zamora is not likely to soon forget. And her memory will not have anything to do with fireworks. Zamora placed 10th in the national “Help Desk” event at the National Leadership Conference for the Future Business Leaders of America held earlier in the week at Orlando, Fla. NM FBLA advisor Kelly Ioane described Help Desk as...
Cambria County students win national STEM competition
NORTHERN CAMBRIA, Pa. (WTAJ) — Four students from Northern Cambria High School have brought home a national championship in a STEM competition. Ace Drumm, Ava Messina, Ben Messina and Drake Weller won the Technology Student Association’s 2024 Solar Sprint Competition. The team was led by two Northern Cambria teachers — Matthew Kline, who teaches technology […]
Five from Jackson Parish participate in National FBLA Competition
Five outstanding students from Jackson Parish enjoyed the experience of a lifetime this past week as they traveled to Orlando, FL, the home of Disneyland and the Magical Kingdom, to participate in the national Future Business Leaders of America (FBLA) Conference. With over 16,000 high school students from all over...
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