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WOMEN’S HISTORY MONTH SPOTLIGHT: NASA Pioneer Katherine Johnson Was The Girl Who Loved to Count

Being handpicked to be one of three black students to integrate West Virginia’s graduate schools is something that many people would consider one of their life’s most notable moments, but it’s just one of several breakthroughs that have marked Katherine Johnson’s long and remarkable life. Born in White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia, in 1918, her intense curiosity and brilliance with numbers vaulted her ahead several grades in school. By 13, she was attending the high school on the campus of historically black West Virginia State College. At 18, she enrolled in the college itself, where she made quick work of the school’s math curriculum and found a mentor in math professor W. W. Schieffelin Claytor, the third African American to earn a PhD in mathematics. She graduated with highest honors in 1937 and took a job teaching at a black public school in Virginia.   […]

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WATCH: Space Coast Sports Hall of Fame 2016 Inductee Leevan Sands Earned Olympic Medal in Beijing

In the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing, Sands earned his place at the winner’s stand with a bronze medal and also achieved his personal best jump with 17.59 meters, a record that still stands as tops in the Bahamas. By 15, Sands was already on an international team. Schools from throughout the United States were knocking at his parents’ door, wanting their high-jumping son for their own, and Florida Air Academy (Now Florida Prep) was fortunate enough to attract him in his junior year. […]

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Platinum Coast Orchid Society 59th Annual Orchid Show Set May 3-5 at Kiwanis Island Park on Merritt Island

The Platinum Coast Orchid Society will host its 59th annual Orchid Show and Sale May 3-5 at Kiwanis Island Park Gymnasium on Merritt Island. This year’s show “Welcome to the Orchid Jungle” will feature beautiful exhibits from local commercial growers, area orchid societies, and society members. There is free parking and regular admission is $5.  […]