- April 24, 2024
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Students and teachers in Palm Coast’s newest tech school want to show the School Board what they’re all about, and they’ve decided to do it in a high-tech way: with video.
The kids at Flagler i3 — a new school housed at the Flagler Palm Coast High School campus with a curriculum designed around the ideals of California-based nonprofit New Tech Network — created the short films around the themes trust, respect and responsibility, striving to demonstrate how each is shown at their school, teacher Blake VandeBunte wrote in an email to the Palm Coast Observer.
All of the school’s students, about 90, worked on videos in three and four-person teams. The kids cut together a clip from the strongest three videos to show at the 6 p.m. Tuesday Flagler County School Board meeting.
Part of the idea behind having the kids do a video was to break them into the New Tech method of experiential learning, VandeBunte said.
The New Tech network of schools began after the success of Napa New Technology High School in California, founded in 1996 with a model of project-based, technology-heavy education.
The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation gave the school a $6 million grant in 2001, according to the New Tech Network website, and the Napa New Tech lanched 14 more New Tech Schools over the following three years. Now, there are more than 120 in 18 states and Australia.
Flagler Palm Coast High School roof finished: Total tab $1,350,209.
Two Flagler Palm Coast High School buildings have been re-roofed, a process that cost the districy about $1,350,209.
The school's building 100 was re-roofed for $978,909. The actual cost was almost $250,000 less than the budgeted cost of approximately $1,226,740, and the roof carries a 20-year manufacturer’s warranty from Jacksonville-based architects Akel Logan & Shafer.
The Flagler Palm Coast High School auditorium has also been re-roofed by Akel Logan & Shafer, at a total cost of about $371,300. That total is higher than the initial budget of $364,560 but under the revised budget of $379,560 the school board approved after realizing there was hidden damage to the roof’s decking.
The Flagler County School Board votes on closing out the two roofing projects at its 6 p.m. meeting Tuesday.
