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Mr. Hendricks and Mrs. Brown getting the marching band ready for this upcoming football season. 

Meet Ms. Brown

Our new English Teacher! 

Where is your hometown?

Pensacola, Florida 🌊

Where did you attend college and what is your degree in?

University of Central Florida

B.S. Grades 6-12 English Language Arts Education 🎓

How long have you been teaching?

12 years! 🖤

Do you have any hobbies?

Fashion thrifting. 💸

Tell us something about yourself that would surprise us!

I own a live music company (after5.live) and sing with my band at various venues in Central Florida! 🎶

What is on your bucket list?

To travel internationally with my husband and kids.  

Meet Ms. Lee

Our new Music Teacher! 

Where is your hometown?

I grew up in Apopka, and live there again now! 

Where did you attend college and what is your degree in?

I have my Bachelor's in Music Education from UCF. 

How long have you been teaching? 

This will be my 9th year teaching. 

Do you have any hobbies? 

I LOVE to read, and I’ve recently started camping with my family. 

Tell us something about yourself that would surprise us! 

I was captain of my Brain Bowl team in college. 

What is on your bucket list? 

To travel! More beaches, more art, more food, all the things! 

Find My Bus:

Information on how to find your bus can be found here: https://www.ocps.net/cms/one.aspx?portalId=54703&pageId=100434

Back-to-School Resources:

Please review important information about back to school on the OCPS website. Link: https://www.ocps.net/departments/public_relations/back_to_school

Free and Reduced Meal Application:

Laptop Distribution Schedule:

Parking Hangers:

Interested in joining a fall sport?

Varsity Football Schedule:

OHS Athletic Season Passes:

Ocoee High School’s Gabriel Gonzalez has been spending his summer interning with the Orange Observer and West Orange Times. Gonzalez has been writing on topics ranging from mental health to classroom experience.

2017’s Ocoee Alumni Seaman Christina Bianco is an Undesignated sailor aboard USS Chafee, currently operating out of Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. Bianco is part of the world's largest international maritime warfare exercise, Rim of the Pacific. 

Christina's ship, the U.S. Navy Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Chafee (DDG 90), made history being the first to launch and operationally test a Block V Tomahawk cruise missile.

Seniors! Please review the requirements to earn a senior shirt! Shirts will be distributed to eligible students mid-late September. Emails were sent to students needing to register for the SAT and ACT with links. Please contact your counselor if you have any questions.

Ocoee Police Department:

Ocoee alumni AND OHS’s School Resource Officer McPhee (far left) engaging with the community by participating in Cookies and Milk Story Time with a Cop at the West Oaks Library.

New City Hall:

New Ocoee City Hall is almost complete.

Orange County Library System - West Oaks Branch (Ocoee)

West Oaks Library Branch and Genealogy Center

1821 E. Silver Star Road, Ocoee FL 34761

407.835.7323

Sunday: 1 p.m. - 6 p.m.

Monday - Thursday: 10 a.m. - 7 p.m.

Friday - Saturday: 10 a.m. - 6 p.m.

Examples of just a few upcoming August events at the West Oaks Library for students & adults:

In-Person: Design with Canva (Registration Required)

• Free Design Tool: Flyers, Social Media, Presentations & more
• Monday, August 1, 11:30​am
• Bring your design ideas to life with Canva, a free graphic design application. Save time by building on thousands of professional templates to create logos, flyers, social media content and more.

In-Person: Design Graphics Using Photoshop for Ages 13-17 (Registration Required)

• Tuesday, August 2 4:30​pm
• Use the advanced manipulation and blending features of this professional-grade software to design and edit graphics and images.

In-Person: English from Zero (Registration Required)

• Thursday, August 4, 4:30​pm
• English from Zero is a series of vocabulary classes that follow the Oxford Picture Dictionary outline to address fundamental English vocabulary needed for everyday life.

Top 25 fastest growing jobs in Central Florida for 2022-2023: 

Source: Florida Dept. of Economic Opportunity - Access full list

It's Not About Money

We picked this true story as our Knight teachers are returning to campus on Tuesday to begin preparing for the return of students on August 10th. We have an incredible group of educators here at OHS and what drives them is not money, rather a love of teaching and the pride of seeing their students succeed. 

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It is important that our Knights remember that wealth and what it brings is at best fleeting. For example, one hundred years ago in 1923, a small group of the world's wealthiest men gathered at the famous Edgewater Beach Hotel in Chicago, Illinois. At that time, they were a "Who's Who" of wealth and power. They controlled more money than the total amount contained in the United States Treasury. Here's a list of who was there and what eventually happened to them:

Charles Schwab: president of the largest independent steel company — died broke.

Arthur Cutten: greatest of the wheat speculators — died abroad, insolvent.

Richard Witney: president of the New York Stock Exchange — died just after his release from Sing Sing state prison in upstate New York.

Albert Fall: member of a U.S. president's cabinet — was pardoned from prison so that he could die at home.

Jess Livermore: greatest "bear" on Wall Street — took his own life. 

Knights Make it Happen!

Have a great weekend!

Dr. Karcinski, Principal

Ocoee High School

Friday, July 29, 2022

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