472 results returned for search: "education AND " author Jessie Moniz Hardy
Every year the Nicholl scholarship renews my faith in Bermuda’s future. That was the word from Rick Spurling, Chairman of the Nicholl Scholarship.
This year’s recipients of the $25,000 scholarship were Rebecca Heyliger, Troy Anderson, Stephanie Holli...
DATE: Aug 18, 2014
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Chelsi Bannister has taken many happy rides with the family on their three-seater pedal bike. Now she’s hoping it will help take her to medical school.
Miss Bannister’s mother, Deeanda Bannister recently made the tough decision to auction off the unu...
DATE: Jul 23, 2014
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When Kimika Jackson and Taiyana Allen, 15, tell people they want to be mathematicians they often get ‘the look’. The look says ‘why would you want to do that?’.
But Kimika and Taiyana love math and have always excelled at it. Kimika, a Berkeley Insti...
DATE: Jul 10, 2014
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Each child should have a voice in their classroom.
This was the message from visiting education expert Dr Felicia DeHaney. She was in Bermuda as the keynote speaker at the conference Celebrating Our Children’s Brilliance: Cultivating Resilience and t...
DATE: Jul 08, 2014
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This fall, 15 girls in Sierra Leone will have a chance for a better life thanks to a new school that was hatched in Bermuda.
The school Hope Academy is the brainchild of Sierra Leone educator Aliea Martha Kamara, whose daughter, Ngadi, lives in Bermu...
DATE: Jun 30, 2014
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If you hope to turn a green thumb into a career prospect, the deadline for the Bermuda Garden Club scholarship is on Monday.
Although the scholarship might naturally make you think it is only dedicated to future gardeners, it is actually more broad i...
DATE: Jun 27, 2014
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Most people go on their summer vacation to relax; but Mark and Tina Nash have other ideas.
The couple plan to climb Mount Kilimanjaro in Tanzania in August to hopefully raise $10,000 for a girl’s school in Sierra Leone.
The school, Hope Academy, was ...
DATE: Jun 25, 2014
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When CedarBridge Academy student Christopher Pacheco, 14, first met his new reading mentor, Damany Phifer, he was a little nervous.
He was receiving extra reading help in school, but he wasn’t sure if a reading mentor was what he needed.
Eight months...
DATE: Jun 19, 2014
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A near death experience first compelled teacher, artist and fundraiser Nancy Smythe to volunteer at the Adult Education Centre back in the 1980s.
Although she now lives abroad, she is still dedicated to the institution which provides an alternative w...
DATE: Jun 12, 2014
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An upcoming education conference will focus on enhancing resilience in children through education and culture.
The conference is called Celebrating Our Children’s Brilliance: Cultivating Resilience and the Importance of Culture in Child Development a...
DATE: Jun 11, 2014
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