North County School News, August 22


CARLSBAD

The Academy welcomes a new president

Mark Desjardins was named the next president of the Académie de l’Armée et de la Marine. He was selected after a seven-month executive search to run the academy, a college-preparatory military boarding school for middle and high school boys. He will succeed retired Army Major General Arthur Bartell, president of the academy since 2014 and who announced his retirement plans last summer. For 11 years, Desjardins has been principal of St. John’s School in Houston. During his 33-year teaching career, he also served as a principal for three independent schools in Oklahoma and Texas, including the Texas Military Institute. Desjardins graduated from Bates College in Lewiston, Maine, and went on to obtain a Masters of Education (M.Ed) in Secondary School Administration and a Doctorate in American Educational History, both from the University from Virginia. In 2008, he was Klingenstein Visiting Fellow at Teachers College at Columbia University where he researched and wrote on best practices in educational leadership for independent schools. Visit armyandnavyacademy.org.

NORTH COUNTY

Credit union awards three scholarships to teachers

North Island Credit Union recently awarded grants of $ 500 each to three North County teachers as part of its Spring 2021 Teacher Grants program, helping educators by funding innovative learning opportunities. The Credit Union provided 10 grants to support classroom projects in San Diego County. In North County, the recipients were Steven Aldridge, a teacher at Martin Luther King Jr. Middle School in Oceanside, who will create a Circuit Playground program to teach coding, programming and computers to students in grades 7 through 8th year; Maura Leonard of Diegueño Middle School in Encinitas, who will create a cultural history project through video creation and film editing for her grade 7-8 students; and John Oly Norris of San Dieguito High School Academy in Encinitas, whose grant will purchase materials for his rock and roll socio-political history program for high school students.

Local students graduate

Stanislaus State University, Turlock, CA: Evelyn Suarez from Oceanside, Bachelor of Arts in Psychology, magna cum laude; Alexandria Lewis from Oceanside, Bachelor of Science in Biological Sciences.

DePauw University, Greencastle, Indiana: Carl Ash d’Encinitas, Bachelor of Arts in Neuroscience, summa cum laude.

SEA SIDE

MiraCosta offers vaccine incentive

MiraCosta College is using up to $ 3 million in higher education emergency aid funds to encourage unvaccinated students to get fully vaccinated against COVID-19. Any MiraCosta College student who is enrolled in a Fall 2021 course, receives the COVID-19 vaccination and submits a verification through their SURF student account, is eligible to receive a $ 300 credit to be used in the MiraCosta College bookstore (on campus 1 Barnard Drive or online). Students can come to the Oceanside campus store, or they can order online and can opt for shipping or pickup. To learn more about MiraCosta’s return to campus, how to get vaccinated, and MiraCosta’s COVID-19 response, visit miracosta.edu/COVID.

SAINT-MARC

Palomar College receives Prebys scholarship

The Conrad Prebys Foundation has awarded the Palomar College Foundation a grant of $ 102,431 to purchase a full-body F / X Trauma simulation figure for use in nursing and medical education programs. emergency from Palomar College. The simulator will allow students to experience realistic treatment scenarios and learn critical medical interventions under pressure. They are designed for anatomical fidelity, precise weight and feel, and response to treatment during simulations. “Our students benefit greatly from these collaborative commitments, and this grant will provide even more immersive training, benefiting our first responder programs for years to come,” said Star Rivera-Lacey, Superintendent / President of Palomar College, in a statement. The grant is the largest in the history of the Prebys Foundation, according to CEO Stacy Rungaitis. Prebys, who died in 2016, was a San Diego real estate developer and philanthropist.

Apply by Monday for affordable computers

Computers 2 Kids, San Diego – C2SDK will be at San Marcos Elementary School from 9 a.m. to noon Saturday to distribute affordable desktops and laptops to eligible families. Families must apply by Monday to qualify. Apply at bit.ly/37UiLhF, or call (858) 200-9788.

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