A $350,000 grant from the National Science Foundation to study autonomous and connected vehicles will help Lakeland’s Florida Polytechnic University become a leading center for research in the development of self-driving vehicles, engineering professor Arman Sargolzaei tells Tampa Bay Business Journal.
NEWS RELEASE: Grant focuses on a large-scale Hardware-in-the-Loop simulation facility.
A Florida Southern College senior majoring in math and accounting and active in intramural sports was found dead in his Lake Hollingsworth apartment. The school’s security chief said there were no signs of foul play and Dalton Beitel of Titusville appears to have died of natural causes.
Florida Polytechnic is making it easy for any student with an innovative idea to connect with its entrepreneurship program, and the software that makes that possible was recognized as a finalist in competition by the Global Consortium of Entrepreneurship Centers.
Florida Southern College is planning to demolish a house at Frank Lloyd Wright Way and Hollingsworth Road to build a two-story middle school as part of the Roberts Academy, a private lab school for children with dyslexia. More
A young Lakeland couple wants to buy the landmark Deen House at Frank Lloyd Wright Way and Success Avenue and turn it into a Montessori-based preschool serving up to 70 students. They answer neighborhood queueing concerns by saying that parents will park behind the house. The Lakeland Planning & Zoning Board considers a conditional use permit allowing the school on Oct. 15.
ALSO IN THE MORNING PAPER: Mister Central Florida, a fund-raiser for Central Florida Speech and Hearing Center, takes place Oct. 17 at 5:30 p.m. | Learn more
Students at all local schools will be able to get help with Federal Student Aid and Florida Bright Futures applications at a free event scheduled for 6 to 7:30 p.m. Oct. 16 at George Jenkins High School. Staff from five local colleges and universities will be there to answer questions | What to bring
In a “What’s Right With Tampa Bay” segment, Kelly Ring looks at tattoo artist Izic Woodall’s project to paint uplifting murals at Medulla Elementary School. We’ve been fans of Kelly since her early reporting days in Tampa, but it seems nobody coached her on how the locals pronounce Medulla.
George Jenkins High School has fielded a hockey team for 18 years, but has never been able to play a home game until Friday. The team is one of several based at the new Lakeland Ice Arena.
The physical education teacher responsible for students involved in a fight in a Blake Academy locker room last week has been put on administrative leave, Bay News 9 reports. The mother of the victim is demanding he be fired and that the boy who attacked her son be expelled. She asked the Polk School Board at its Tuesday night meeting to implement “school policies that align with protecting victims’ rights, not sheltering the accused.”
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