The Women’s Initiative Nurturing Girls’ Strength (WINGS) Power Lunch on January 31 was a bittersweet one. We had to say goodbye to WINGS chair, Eileen Crawford, as she moves on to a new chapter in her life. Eileen was one of the founders of WINGS back in 2013. Many of the [...]
Miss Nelson is the nicest teacher in the whole school. She never yells, and she gives the easiest assignments. Then one day Miss Nelson is not at school. There is a substitute, Miss Viola Swamp, who immediately lays down the law - no talking, no goofing off in class - and [...]
By Breanne O'Leary On Tuesday, August 27, all 600 5th-8th graders at Celebration K-8 School filed into the gym for WINGS’ (Women’s Initiative Nurturing Girls’ Strength) annual Kickoff Assembly. This year, WINGS was incredibly honored to have Mandy Harvey, a 2017 finalist of America’s Got Talent, speak and perform. Mandy grew [...]
By Cara and Maddi Hewett We had an incredible evening at the July 30th Shawn Mendes concert! When the raffle ticket offer came in through my phone from the Celebration Foundation I immediately took note. No way, I thought, two Shawn Mendes box seat tickets! For one thing, I am a [...]
By Breanne O’Leary I was fortunate enough to attend middle school right before Instagram was created. I am forever grateful that I never had to worry about how many likes my selfie would get. I was already grappling with a typical middle school struggle of losing my group of friends. I [...]
By Eileen Crawford On Friday, April 5th, Celebration Foundation’s Women’s Initiative Nurturing Girls’ Strength (WINGS) at Celebration School K-8 celebrated the conclusion of its fifth year promoting the power of girls and women with a packed Power Breakfast, highlighting how Celebration girls and women have “engineered” their phenomenal futures. Emceed by [...]
By Melanie Hummel On Friday, March 8th, a group from the Celebration Foundation had an exciting opportunity to visit Florida Polytechnic University just west of Celebration off of I-4 in Lakeland. Many people have noticed the avant-garde architecture of the school’s main academic building—designed by famed Spanish architect, Santiago Calatrava— without [...]
On Friday, January 18, a group from the Celebration Foundation had an exciting opportunity to visit BRIDG at NeoCity. BRIDG is a not-for-profit, public-private partnership that is focused on the manufacturing and development of advanced technologies such as microelectronics and smart sensors. It is located at NeoCity, which is off 192 [...]
On Friday, January 25th, the Celebration Foundation’s WINGS (Women’s Initiative Nurturing Girls’ Strength) program held their monthly “Power Lunch” at Celebration K-8, where students in grades 5 through 8 discuss challenges they face every day. This month we addressed how the anonymity of social media can make it easy to be [...]
With sleigh bells jingling and candy canes jangling, a group of merry fifth graders from WINGS at Celebration School sang their way to Town Hall on December 7th to share lunch and holiday cheer with Thriving in Place members. Seniors and students took turns sharing their favorite holiday memories and traditions. [...]
