This year’s winners for the 6th – 8th grade category are Madison Dowdy, Hunter Harvey, Elizabeth Hoepner, and Alisa Reneau from Lithia, Florida. Kristy Verdi is the project sponsor and social studies teacher at Randall Middle School. This project not only showed collaboration by involving the entire middle school, but also impacted the community. These students created [...]
This year’s winners for the 9th – 12th grade range are Tiara Brooks, Jessica Ireland, Tori Wilson, Michael Himes and Stephanie Walker from Armwood High School in Seffner, Florida. The sponsoring teacher is Tony Pirotta. These students presented an idea for a law, which requested the proper rights be granted to a seemingly invisible population of young [...]
The Martin County Supervisor of Elections, Vicki Davis, included a nice article about Kids Voting Tampa Bay and DoubleClick Democracy in her summer 2011 newsletter. The article mentioned how students from Warfield and Jensen Beach Elementary Schools voted on their favorite book during the Sunshine State Young Readers program. Students from kindergarten to third grade [...]
KVUSA is pleased to announce that Dennis Holt is the August Educator of the Month. Dr. Holt is the Secondary Social Studies Supervisor for the Hillsborough County school district. His leadership and support were instrumental in the success of the DoubleClick Democracy pilot program. The success of the DoubleClick Democracy in the 2008 Presidential Mock [...]
KVUSA is pleased to announce that Paula Lesko is the April Educator of the Month. Mrs. Lesko is the Social Studies Supervisor for the Pasco County School District. She promotes and encourages Pasco County social studies teachers to participate in the Kids Voting Tampa Bay program. Paula organizes candidate forums for high school students. Hundreds [...]
RT @KidsVotingUSA: 10 percent of the electorate turning out to vote was Hispanic in 2012. #vote
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