Ripley's is proud to announce this year’s educator appreciation days September 6 thru October 16. This is a free event for educators (teachers, administrators, counselors & support staff), and all guests are ½ off of our regular prices. Just be sure to bring your school I.D. and your current paystub. We can’t wait to see the people that help shape our children’s lives. Ripley’s appreciates Florida’s educators! Submitted by Linda Winthurst.

Ms. Mills class participated in an AIMS activity where they launched rockets…

Stomp rockets is a great hands-on activity that concluded our lessons on Earth and Space. In this lessons the students use the scientific method to hypothesize, conduct the experiment, analyze the results, draw conclusions and report results. They also reflected on how they could have changed or improved the experiment. The discussed and analyzed design aspects, environmental factors and other things that could change the results. In addition to the science aspect students used a real life number line to decipher their results and estimate their final distances based on where their rockets landed and how close or far they were from the positions that were marked. Submitted by Darlene Paul.

Youth Leadership classes from three high schools in Walton County participated in the Florida Farm Bureau Speech Contest held at Freeport High School on 9/7/2016.  Each student presented a 5 minute speech on "What is an Unmanned Aerial System and how can it be used to impact agriculture?"  Freeport High School was represented by Martha Freeman, Wendy McCormick, and Kathryn Dier.  South Walton High School was represented by Greg Garrett, Matt Garrett, and Brynn Touchstone.  Walton High School was represented by LaTayia Gregg, Evan Cowie, and Jacob Alford.  Submitted by Donna Honish with picture provided by Christy English.

Walton Middle School had their Ribbon Cutting ceremony on August 25, 2016.  Left to Right:  Board Member Kim Kirby, Board Member Gail Smith, Board Member William “Bill” Eddins Jr., Superintendent Carlene Anderson, WMS Assistant Principal Scott Hulion, WMS Principal Jason Campbell, Board Chairperson Jason Catalano and Board Member Mark Davis.  Submitted by Laura Smith.