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The story actually begins with the Oak Hill Community Trust inviting concerned citizens to a meeting about saving the school. OHCT voted in this building to purchase the school, and the charter was written here. Informational meetings took place here, the First School Board met here, students were first registered here...while the school was being restored and CO was granted. (Ironically enough the 7th grade students met here in 1960 while the current school building was being built.
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Last summer (2011), we accomplished opening a school in 4 months when everyone else said we wouldn't do it. We showed that a small group of determined people that care about kids can do anything.
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In 2009 the Volusia School District closed Burns Elementary School, the Oak Hill community K-5 school due to budget cuts, and prepared the 1960 building on 11 acres for demolition. Community outcry, fundraising, personal sacrifice and donations were sufficient to purchase the property and establish a “green” charter school, which opened in August, 2011.
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The
Burns SciTech
story actually begins with the Oak Hill Community Trust
(OHCT)
inviting concerned citizens to a meeting about saving the school. OHCT voted in this
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building to purchase the school, and the charter was written here. Informational meetings took place here, the First School Board met here, students were first registered here...while the school was being restored and CO
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was granted. (Ironically enough the 7th grade students met here in 1960 while the current school building was being built.
Work days - community helped prepare building and grounds for opening in Aug, 2011
Work days - community helped prepare building and grounds for opening in Aug, 2011
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Family Science Night with Museum of Arts & Sciences
Family Science Night with Museum of Arts & Sciences
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Last summer (2011), we accomplished opening a school in 4 months when everyone else said we wouldn't do it. We showed that a small group of determined people that care about kids can do anything.
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In 2009 the Volusia School District closed Burns Elementary School, the Oak Hill community K-5 school due to budget cuts, and prepared the 1960 building on 11 acres for demolition. Community outcry, fundraising, personal sacrifice and donations were sufficient to purchase the property and establish a “green” charter school, which opened in August, 2011.
With caring partners like Home Depot, Green Flamingo Organic Farm, Farm Bureau, Hawes Nursery, Master Gardeners, and local Garden Club, our students in every grade, K-8, were part of vegetable and flower gardens, landscaping the grounds, and planting trees that represented local community leaders of the past.
With caring partners like Home Depot, Green Flamingo Organic Farm, Farm Bureau, Hawes Nursery, Master Gardeners, and local Garden Club, our students in every grade, K-8, were part of vegetable and flower gardens, landscaping the grounds, and planting trees that represented local community leaders of the past.
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The school has received word from the Canaveral Seashore Park, (headquarters at Seminole Rest, located a mile from the school), that together they received a $14,000 grant for intermediate and middle school students to be trained as Junior Rangers, leading a study of native plants that help with shoreline erosion. Students will be planting “seedlings” and making “oyster mats” along the Indian River, also known as the Intercostal Waterway, and Mosquito Lagoon. This summer, teachers will be hired by the Park Service to begin the project in preparation for the August project. The school has recently set up an “adjunct classroom” in the caretaker’s house on the National Park Indian Mounds, and students are permitted to do projects at this site on a weekly basis.
The school has received word from the Canaveral Seashore Park, (headquarters at Seminole Rest, located a mile from the school), that together they received a $14,000 grant for intermediate and middle school students to be trained as Junior Rangers, leading a study of native plants that help with shoreline erosion. Students will be planting “seedlings” and making “oyster mats” along the Indian River, also known as the Intercostal Waterway, and Mosquito Lagoon. This summer, teachers will be hired by the Park Service to begin the project in preparation for the August project. The school has recently set up an “adjunct classroom” in the caretaker’s house on the National Park Indian Mounds, and students are permitted to do projects at this site on a weekly basis.
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For their first year, Burns Sci-Tech has accomplished a great deal, and their goal is to achieve the designation of a “Green School” by the State of Florida by next year. Congratulations and best of luck!
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For their first year, Burns Sci-Tech has accomplished a great deal, and their goal is to achieve the designation of a “Green School” by the State of Florida by next year. Congratulations and best of luck!
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