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Ocean Guardian School Grant for Reusable Shopping Bag Project

By |2018-12-21T16:55:54+00:00December 21st, 2018|Categories: Uncategorized|

Ocean Academy is partnered with Stevenson High, California, as NOAA Ocean Guardian Schools, to educate both our communities about the benefits of using reusable shopping bags instead of single-use plastics.

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Ocean Academy creates expressive media as an Adobe Youth Voices School

By |2018-12-21T16:51:57+00:00December 21st, 2018|Categories: Uncategorized|

Adobe Youth Voices and TakingITGlobal nominated Ocean Academy as a grant-recipient and member of the Adobe Youth Voices international community of schools that are encouraging youth to express themselves via creative media projects.

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OA’s “Hire Belize” mobile app wins PwC’s Belize Innovation Challenge

By |2018-12-21T16:39:52+00:00December 21st, 2018|Categories: Uncategorized|

Ocean Academy students earned first place in a fierce competition among 15 high schools to solve youth unemployment (25% among 14-25 year-olds in Belize). OA’s winning solution is “Hire Belize,” a mobile app designed and created by the students to connect youth with potential employers and customers. Judges were able to try out the app prototype [...]

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Il Pellicano Cucina Italiana Culinary Arts Apprenticeship

By |2018-12-21T16:20:46+00:00December 21st, 2018|Categories: Uncategorized|

First-form students loved learning Italian cooking skills (tirimisu!) as well as kitchen safety rules, culinary techniques and front-of-house management.

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Mapping Marine Debris with ArcGIS and Drone Technology

By |2018-12-21T16:08:43+00:00December 21st, 2018|Categories: Uncategorized|

How can Belizean youth educate themselves and others about the problem of marine debris on Caye Caulker and possible solutions, using technology? In the second year of our collaborative community GIS project with Dr. Timothy Hawthorne and Dr. Christy Visaggi of Georgia State University, Ocean Academy students learned the basics of mobile mapping, the power of [...]

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FIRST Global Robotics Olympics in Mexico City 2018!

By |2018-12-20T15:28:15+00:00December 19th, 2018|Categories: Uncategorized|

What did Ocean Academy do during the summer of 2018? We represented Belize at the Olympics in Mexico City. What? Yes! Daniela, a Form III student, and her I.T. teacher Mr. Tzub led Team Belize to the FIRST Global Robotics Olympics August 16-18. The kit arrived in June and students had to build and code a [...]

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Raspberry Pi 3rd Place Winners 2017

By |2018-12-19T20:29:28+00:00December 19th, 2018|Categories: Uncategorized|

Be sure to watch the Caye Caulker Ocean Academy Tech Club on Open Your Eyes! The Club won 3rd place in the 2017 Raspberry Pi Jam competition for their innovative design of a voting booth and tabulator powered by Raspberry Pi and Python programming language. The U.S. Embassy is so proud to fund Ocean Academy’s work [...]

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Graduation 2017

By |2018-12-19T20:27:53+00:00December 19th, 2018|Categories: Uncategorized|

Congratulations to the Class of 2017 of Caye Caulker Ocean Academy!! Valedictorian is Anabelle Requena, Salutatorian is Milvia Reyes and Matthew Sandoval took third place in their graduating class!! Best wishes to all Graduates and Parents/Guardians!

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