With a fantastic team effort and a great partnership with the Parents’ Group, Science Department, and USF-College of Marine Science, Admiral Farragut Academy held a school-wide Earth Day Clean-up at The Clam Bayou Preserve, a 10-acre park in Gulfport.
It is with mixed emotions that we announce the retirement of Mike Nicholson at the end of this year. Mike came to Admiral Farragut Academy in 1979 and has impacted thousands of young people over his teaching, coaching and residential career. The consummate educator who, daily, displayed his love of teaching with enthusiasm and interest. Read more
In our continuing partnership with National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Federal, the Upper School science classes at Admiral Farragut Academy recently participated in the NOAA Federal “Fishermen of the Greater Tampa Bay” Oral History Grant for the second time this year (and the third consecutive year).
Carlos Jr. with Dr. Prager
On Friday, December 9, Mrs. Deitche’s Upper School science classes and 2nd-7th grade Lower School students had a very special visit from marine scientist and author, Dr. Ellen Prager. Read more
Every semester Upper School Science teacher, Sari Deitche, puts together a video of their experience. Please enjoy these videos to experience science at Farragut!
Admiral Farragut Academy was once again happy to participate with the BLUE Ocean Film Festival and Community Outreach Program. The BLUE Ocean Film Festival, a non-profit organization using the power of film, visual arts, entertainment and science to inspire ocean stewardship around the world, had its first year in St. Petersburg, Florida in 2014. The festival alternates between Monaco and St. Petersburg. Read more
The Upper School marine science classes participated in the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Federal “Fishermen of the Greater Tampa Bay” Oral History Grant for the third consecutive year. On Saturday, September 24 at Farragut’s waterfront, 10 marine science students conducted interviews with four area fishermen and gathered information for the benefit of the Voices from the Fisheries Database, which attempts to document the human experience with the marine, coastal, and Great Lakes environments and living marine resources. Read more
Dozens of Kindergarteners…and first-graders and second-graders, in fact the entire student body — Upper and Lower School — spent a portion of their day on September 8 getting muddy planting hundreds of plugs of salt marsh grass in the school’s nursery, which sits just outside of Sari Deitche’s biology classroom. For many, it was the first time hearing about erosion, water quality, and even the word “salt marsh,” as students, both old and young, and from all over the globe, worked together as part of the Tampa Bay Watch Bay Grasses in Classes program. Read more
On the morning of Tuesday, April 26th our 8th grade marine science students explored shark tanks with aquarists at Shedd Aquarium located in Chicago, Illinois. Mrs. Sari Deitche, who is originally from Chicago, enrolled into the Live from Behind the Scenes program so students could hear from Shedd experts, trainers, and veterinarians about their experience taking care of sharks and the aquariums. Each individual has very important roles such as feeding the sharks, documenting how much each shark eats, and even diving into the aquariums (with the sharks) to provide maintenance or collect shark eggs to be added to the nursery. Students had the opportunity to create their own theory for how or where sharks should be tagged for identification.
Here is a video of one of our students asking Shedd experts the question, “What type of training and education do you have to go through to get this job?”
Last week, a little more than 50 students attended a presentation on microplastics by Libby Carnahan from the Florida Sea Grant. The presentation, which was hosted by the Secrets of the Sea Marine Exploration Center, was held in the Roy M. Speer Academic Center. Read more
