August 14, 2024
31 Umatilla High Students Earn AICE Diplomas, Qualify For Bright Futures Scholarships
By Kyle Coppola
31 Umatilla High Students Earn AICE Diplomas, Qualify For Bright Futures Scholarships
UMATILLA, Fla. — Umatilla High School is celebrating a significant academic milestone as 31 students have earned their AICE Diplomas, a prestigious accomplishment that qualifies them for 100% Bright Futures Scholarships, valued at $25,500 over four years.
Umatilla High School, with an enrollment of 900 students, is proud to announce the impressive achievements of its students in the Cambridge AICE (Advanced International Certificate of Education) and AP (Advanced Placement) programs for the 2023-2024 school year. Cambridge and AP classes are open access, providing opportunity for all students who are willing to put forth effort towards a more rigorous curriculum and the possibility of college credits. We hold to the ideal that if you can Dream It, and Believe It, then you can Achieve It! The overall pass rate for Cambridge spring exams was 58%, with 465 exams passed by students. In the AP program, the overall pass rate was 46%, with students successfully passing 46 exams. These remarkable accomplishments have led to significant academic and financial benefits for the students and their families.
(AICE Coordinator Ben Nash has been a big reason for the success of the program.)
Through their success of the Cambridge and AP exams, Umatilla High students earned a total of 1,575 college credits, saving an estimated $306,000 in college tuition fees. Additionally, 31 students earned the prestigious AICE Diploma, qualifying them for the Florida Bright Futures Scholarship. This award, valued at $25,500 per student, amounts to a total of $790,500 in scholarship funds for these high-achieving students.
AICE Diploma Recipients:
- Camryn Adkins with Merit
- Rachel Bernson with Merit
- Landon Carpenter
- Sierra Causey
- Melanie Cornish
- Katherine Dominquez-Vasquez
- Logan Finn with Merit
- Kassandra Flynt
- Jacob Frazier
- Tanner Gibson with Merit
- Anna Gonzalez-Segura with Merit
- Christian Heaton
- Alissa Iwanski
- Alyssa Kloes with Merit
- Dani Ladesic
- Brooke Parkinson
- Autumn Patterson with Merit
- Saige Powell
- Caleb Renick with Merit
- Sophia Saladin with Merit
- Isabella Sheckler
- Jamie Stephens with Merit
- Evangeline Street
- Alexa Swavely
- Priscilla Taylor with Merit
- Mittie Thomas-O’Brien
- Sayuri Vazquez-Flores
- Ivan Xu with Merit
- Saige Stepp
- Kassandra Clow with Merit
- Deanna Vaca with Merit
Principal Brent Frazier expressed pride in the students’ hard work and dedication, stating, “Our students have shown exceptional commitment to their studies, and their results speak volumes about the quality of education at Umatilla High School. We are thrilled to see so many of our students earning college credits and securing scholarships through the AICE program.”
(A Umatilla High student gives a presentation to his classmates in a Cambridge AICE class.)
The Cambridge AICE program at Umatilla High School continues to provide students with rigorous academic challenges and opportunities for success. The school looks forward to building on this year’s achievements and supporting future students in their academic endeavors.
For more information about the Cambridge AICE program at Umatilla High School, please contact Benjamin Nash, Cambridge Coordinator.
Kyle Coppola was born in Newton, Massachusetts and received his Bachelor of Fine Arts in Communications from Curry College in 2016. After traveling to Florida on a family vacation, he decided he could not get enough of the warm weather and made the move from snowy Massachusetts to central Florida 8 years ago.
For the last decade Kyle has gained valuable experience in social media content creation, marketing and sales, writing, video production, sports announcing and even broadcasting for local radio stations, such as FM 102.9 in The Villages and FM 91.5 in Massachusetts. Every year he volunteers at The Villages Charter High School as a play-by-play sports announcer for the football games as well as a public address announcer for the basketball games, including the annual Battle at The Villages Tournament.
Outside the office Kyle is a husband and father to two beautiful girls along with their cat. In his spare time he likes to spend time with his family, travel, play golf and swim. He is also a huge sports junkie and even bigger motorsports fan and loves to attend racing events when he can.
