We are looking forward to “Celebrating 85 Years of School Spirit and Family and the 30th Anniversary of Extravaganza” at the Banyan Ball on March 20th. Thanks to the overwhelming response from our school community, we have already sold our maximum capacity of 45 tables for the event. A limited number of single tickets are currently available on a first-come, first-served basis. Please contact Julie Fineberg at jfineberg@oda.edu or (941) 554-3408 for additional seating information.
The February 19, 2010, edition of the Tampa Bay Business Journal profiles Mr. David Mahler for his "tips of the trade" while also highlighting his background and "words to the wise." To view the article, click on the above link.
Congratulations to Vanessa Moody '10 on advancing to Finalist standing in the 2010 National Merit Scholarship Program. This distinction places her in a group of approximately 15,000 students representing less than 1% of high school graduating seniors.
Congratulations to Jamie Onufrak '10 on signing his letter of intent to play football for the University of Alabama at Birmingham; he is the first Out-of-Door player to commit in the school's four-year football history. The 6'3" tight end had 24 catches for 320 yards and four touchdowns in the Thunder's state semifinal run this season. Onufrak and teammate A.J. Strong '10 garnered 1st Team All-State honors in the 2009 year; Andrew McInnis '10 earned 2nd Team All-State.
Congratulations to Brittany Wenger '13 on winning the Sarasota Regional Science, Engineering and Technology Fair and thereby becoming one of two area finalists in the Intel International Science and Engineering Fair. Her computer science category entry is titled "Does Practice Make Perfect? The Role of Training Neural Networks" and seeks to identify the optimal way to train neurons for real-life neural networks.
