The playground at Patch Reef Park, to open next summer, will be easier to navigate for kids like Jordan Ogman (foreground below), who has a genetic brain disease. Rendering and photo provided
By Faran Fagen
At the start of 2023, Boca Raton resident
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At the end of the ribbon-cutting event, a group of pre-K students, including Aiden Reinhardt, got to ring a kid-height bell in the parking lot of the Gulf Stream School’s new Delray Beach campus. The K-8 campus in Gulf Stream has a similar bell.
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Samantha Maynes wrote an award-winning news feature highlighting mental health issues that today’s teens face. Photo provided
By Faran Fagen
Samantha Maynes hopes her stories create a safe space for her readers — a space where they feel “they’re n
Angelo Sanders is headed to the School of Music at State University of New York at Fredonia on a full scholarship from Nat King Cole Generation Hope. Photo provided
By Faran Fagen
Music saved his life.
That’s the first thing Angelo Sanders thinks o
By Brian Biggane
St. Andrews Club in Delray Beach will host the South Florida PGA Links Tour on Aug. 18 in an event for junior golfers ages 6 to 18.
The nine-hole event is designed for children who have never had a tournament experience. The field w
By Faran Fagen
Plants, animals, ecosystems — just about any aspect of the environment they can get their little hands on — are discoverable treasures for youngsters who participate in the Nature Detectives program at Gumbo Limbo Nature Center.
The 5-
Samuel Reiter of Ocean Ridge plans to study aviation and business at The Ohio State University. Photo provided
By Faran Fagen
A lot of high schoolers take off with their friends on their 17th birthday, but Samuel Reiter chose to spend eight hours
The CTeen Lounge at the Chabad of Lake Worth provides a safe space for young Jews to gather. Photo provided
By Faran Fagen
The sheer surface of the pingpong table contains a circle with white letters that proclaim, “The Power of Youth.” In the corner
By Faran Fagen
Capture the Flag, a drone competition that pushes student pilots to score points by transforming flag stations to their team colors, took to the air at Florida Atlantic University’s A.D. Henderson school this past winter.
In the inaug
Event founder Susan Berkowitz-Schwartz (center in red) with some of the attendees at a past All People’s Day event at Pompey Park in Delray Beach. Photo provided
By Faran Fagen
When Susan Berkowitz-Schwartz moved to Delray Beach almost two decades ag
Guy Harvey Foundation award winners Kezia Abraham and Ava Detassis.
By Faran Fagen
Her vision was to collect mass amounts of sargassum washing up on beaches before they rotted and use the piles as sustainable material in a not-so-sustainable fashion
By Janis Fontaine
The Friends of the Boca Raton Public Library is like a perpetual motion machine promoting a love for reading.
Friends members sell donated books in their store in the lobby of the Downtown Library and then use the money to promote
By Janis Fontaine
When students return to Unity School in Delray Beach this month, they’ll find a new smile greeting them in the carpool line. It belongs to their new head of school, Genevieve Hoppe.
“I do carpool every morning,” Hoppe said. “The kid
The tween fiction section is part of an upgraded area for young readers made possible by a $25,000 grant. Photo provided
By Janis Fontaine
Three words tweens and teens love? “No adults allowed.”
“It’s important for kids to have their space,” libraria
NOTE: Not all summer camp schedules have been set and some are tentative due to COVID. Please check thecoastalstar.com for additional information as it becomes available. Also, refer to listed websites for missing information such as pricing. If your
By Janis Fontaine
Our community has dozens of options for private school education, with some tuitions topping $40,000 a year. But the schools offer scholarships and financial aid.
Rigorous COVID-19 policies and procedures are in place at all schools
Space of Mind School introduced updated kindergarten and elementary curricula this year. Photo provided
Related Story: How other private schools are coping in face of unpredictable virus
By Janis Fontaine
As their children close in on winter break
Bill Dorton, co-founder of Head Injury Treatment Corp in Delray Beach, speaks to students at St. Joseph’s Episcopal School about sports-related head injuries. Photo provided by Carol Cunningham
By Janis Fontaine
For kids who play sports, back-to-sch
Juliet Baum cuts the ribbon for a Type 1 diabetes research fundraising walk in April in Mizner Park. Photo provided
By Janis Fontaine
Watch out, Washington. Juliet Baum is headed your way.
The 11-year-old Gulf Stream resident was chosen from more th
Sean Duhaney looks at the brain and spine exhibit that is part of Journey Through the Human Brain. Photo provided
By Janis Fontaine
The South Florida Science Center’s new permanent exhibition Journey Through the Human Brain is a 2,500- square-foot
