Grace Place students in the Digital Journalism class put their education and imaginations to work with the creation of a newsletter. Working from storyboards they created, the students conducted interviews, wrote articles and developed the layout and design of the Grace Place Gazette. Click here to download the full issue of the Grace Place Gazette.
This week, Grace Place has been 'taking care of business' with a variety of fun and educational opportunities for our young people. High school interns Arletys Gomez and Jamie Williams attended a week-long Junior Achievement CEO Academy at the Lutgert School of Business at FGCU and Annissa Williston completed Youth Leadership Collier. Forty of our [...]
IBERIABANK hosted 40 Grace Place middle school summer STEM Camp students for a bank tour on Monday, June 17, 2013. Held at IBERIABANK’s Naples headquarters at 2150 Goodlette Road North, students were exposed to much more than just dollars and cents. Professionals from IBERIABANK shared the fundamentals of how a bank operates, career opportunities available [...]
CONGRATULATIONS! Grace Place Middle School After-School teacher Lisa Hanba was honored by Junior Achievement of Southwest Florida as 2013 Teacher of the Year!
THANK YOU! To THE COMMUNITY SCHOOL OF NAPLES Upper School students from The Community School of Naples hosted Grace Place elementary summer campers during Teen Angel Camp, June 10-13. Classes included math, reading, science, computer, art and physical education, based on daily themes of space, pirates, circus and sports.
It's 'ready, set, go' time for our 10 summer college interns as 142 elementary and middle school summer campers arrive on campus. With a varied background of career studies from business to education, psychology to seminary, this year's interns attend different colleges and universities throughout Florida and as far away as Skidmore College in Up-State [...]
On May 31, our eight graduating interns proudly crossed the stage at Golden Gate High School, earning their diplomas and setting their sights on the exciting world of higher education. We are proud of our graduates and the fact that all of them are scholarship recipients with plans for college or military this fall. (Click [...]
Tom Powers new Director of Student Programs. Tom comes to us from Boston, MA, where he served as director of school-based initiatives for DotWell, a community health care facilitator. At DotWell, Tom developed and coordinated after-school activities for more than 600 youth between the ages of 4 and 20 at two health care centers and [...]
After a long week of training, we are ready for 142 eager summer day campers!