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Posts: 15 | Created on November 10, 2008 | 1
AOIT students from Tallahassee's Godby High School put their IT skills to use in creating a site designed to use a social networking-type interface to stimulate interest in a summer reading book.  Read more here!
Find out how AOHT students in Bremerton, Washington found a tourism opportunity in their local public transit system's ferries by becoming Kitsap Concierges in partnership with the Kitsap Peninsula Visitor and Convention Bureau.  Read more here.
The AOIT Advisory Board partnered with SFUSD's  Career Technical Education Department to provide a day of professional development from industry representatives in various Web 2.0 leaders such as YouTube, Twitter, and MySpace.  Read the whole article here.
Check out the two new Adobe Connect multimedia presentations!

In Academy Development, former NAF associate Sara Dingledy discusses how Academies can build more opportunities for authentic student voice in your classroom and Academy.

Under Advisory Board, Academy Director and NAF Consultant Ann Fields shares an in-depth look at what an effective internship program should look like year-round.
Michael D. O'Neill continues his involvement with Boston's urban youth by becoming the latest member of the Boston School Committee, the board that oversees Boston's public schools.  Read about it here.
Students in the Academy of Hospitality and Tourism (AOHT) at the High School for Enterprise Business and Technology (EBT) in Brooklyn visted the Hague in the Netherlands and learned about the business of tourism abroad.  Read all about it here.
The Waco Tribune-Herald features AJ Moore's Academy of Finance and what it is doing to put the global economic crisis in perspective for high school students.  Read the entire article here.
Read about how the Gateway Academy, a nationwide initiative of the SME Education Foundation, is working with NAF, NACME, and PLW to provide an innovative summer youth program. Click here to read more.
Please take this survey to help NAF understand which courses of the new curriculum are being taught.  Click here to begin.
Lahaina News reports how the AOHT at Lahainaluna High School is working hard to raise money and awareness of their program.  Read more here.
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