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pply to college, graduate from high school in the

spring, summer break and attend college in the

fall. The timeline is there and the intention is

there, but summer comes and those plans often melt in the

heat that takes over on hot summer days.

“‘Summer melt’ is a national issue with many college-bound

students, especially from low income and first generation

households, failing to bridge the gap between high school and

college,” said Chancellor Madeline Pumariega with the

Division of Florida Colleges.

“Our colleges are now implementing a variety of programs

to identify graduating seniors, connect with them personally

and guiding them during the spring and summer months to

keep them on track to enter classes in the fall.”

‘SummerMelt’In break after high school, college plans often slip awayPAM FORRESTER TLH BLOGGER

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Movies

THE NEED FOR SPEED: A young man(Ansel Elgort) with a high-speed talentbehind the wheel meets the girl (LilyJames) of his dreams but must pull off onelast high-stakes heist for a crime boss (Kev-in Spacey) in the high-octane action flick“Baby Driver.” It’s rated R and opensWednesday at the AMC 20 and Governor’sSquare.

TAKING A GAMBLE: After two suburbanparents (Will Ferrell, Amy Poehler) losetheir daughter’s college fund, they run anillegal casino out of their basement tomake some fast money in the comedy “TheHouse.” It’s rated R and opens Friday atthe AMC 20 and Governor’s Square.

BROTHERS IN CRIME: The former criminalmastermind Gru (voice of Steve Carell) isfired from his job as a secret agent afterfailing to catch a diamond thief and isdrawn back into the bad-guy trade by hiswealthy, villainous brother Dru (voice ofCarell) in the animated family comedy“Despicable Me 3.” It’s rated PG andopens Friday at the AMC 20 and Governor’sSquare.

BUCK UP, COWBOY: An aging, hard-livingcowboy movie star (Sam Elliott) suddenlyreevaluates his life and personal relation-ships after receiving a cancer diagnosis inthe character drama “The Hero.” It’s ratedR and tentatively opens Fridayat Governor’sSquare.

HOLLYWOOD POWER COUPLE: Onetalented storyboard artist and his archivistwife remain behind the scenes while help-ing out such filmmakers as Alfred Hitch-cock, Francis Ford Coppola, Danny Devitoand Mel Brooks when The Tallahassee FilmSociety presents the insider documentary“Harold and Lillian: A Hollywood LoveStory.” It’s not rated and runs Friday,Saturday and Sunday at All Saints Cinema,in the Amtrak station off Railroad Avenue.Visit www.tallahasseefilms.com.

Comedy

LAUGH IT UP: The Comedy Zone clubreturns to Tallahassee when stand-upcomics Darryl Rhoades (“Vampire Dia-ries”) and Luke Schans share the stagestarting at 8 p.m. Thursday at The Junctionat Monroe concert hall, 2011 S. Monroe St.General admission tickets are $10 and $15for reserved seats. The shows will containadult humor. Visitwww.junctionatmonroe.com.

LIMELIGHT EXTRA

THERE’SMUSIC INTHE AIRGet a jump on your

weekend entertainment

plans every Wednesday,

and pick up the Limelight

section on Friday

NEIL COKER AND MARK HINSONDEMOCRAT WRITER AND SENIOR WRITER

ALISON GRIMES/SPECIAL TO THE DEMOCRAT

Ariel (Alexandra Newport) and Ren(Cannon Haworth) discuss his life back inChicago and what it’s like being the newkid in town in Young Actors Theatre’s“Footloose.” The musical finishes its runthis weekend.

See Limelight Extra, Page 2C

For thousands of years, Florida’scoast, wetlands, and estuaries have be-guiled artists. The area’s earliest resi-dents created pottery, boxes, and deco-rative objects adorned with aquaticmotifs.

From John James Audubon who ar-rived in the 1830s to document heronsand pelicans, to our beloved Highway-men who began selling their lush land-scapes on the roadside in the 1950s,those who create find Florida’s uniquewildlife and breathtaking vistas a mo-tivating force.

Danielle Figueroa upholds that ar-tistic tradition. “I’m inspired by Flori-da. It’s my favorite place.”

In her studio, she creates artworksin a variety of mediums and during thesummer, she offers the same opportu-nity to students through themed,week-long camps. The “Deep Blue

Campersdive deepinto artAMANDA KARIOTH THOMPSONCOUNCIL ON CULTURE & ARTS

AMANDA THOMPSON

Campers worked on a variety of mixedmedia art projects.

See Campers, Page 7C

Parents, to continue a child’s in-tensive math instruction over thelong summer so that they don’t losetheir skills, all you need is a cup. Ameasuring cup, to be exact.

A measuring cup has more poten-tial to teach a myriad of math skillsthan your home computer and, thelast time I looked, is a whole lotcheaper. A couple of important edu-cational principles come into playhere.

One is that hands-on learning, inwhich the child actually manipulatesthings in the physical world, is deep-er and faster than learning the sameskill by looking at a two-dimensionalscreen or book. The act of physicallyinteracting with one’s environment

brings many more senses into playfor the brain to make sense of theworld than simply sitting and staring.

The other important educationalprinciple is that what can be seem-ingly boring skills, such as manipu-lating fractions, for instance, be-comes decidedly un-boring whencoupled with a specific purpose in-stead of being taught in isolation. Theskills are learned quicker, deeper andlast longer.

Enough of educational theory, let’sbake a cake. Or biscuits. Or a casse-role. The cookbook, coupled with ameasuring cup is a math-learninggenerating machine. And it’s fun,which is the third pillar of education-al learning.

We’ll start with fractions. It soonbecomes apparent that 1⁄4 cup of saltis real different than 3⁄4 cup of salt.(Throw out the biscuits, quick.) Thatadding a cup of water when only ahalf cup is asked for has conse-

To teach kids math, getthem to open a cookbook

Bill HoatsonGUEST COLUMNIST

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IT’S THATTOES IN THE GRASS,LAUGHING ALLAFTERNOON,BEST PARENTS EVERKIND OF NEWS.

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more, you’ll always knowwhat’s

happening in andaroundTallahassee.

So grab the kids, head for the door

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S C H O O L & FA M I LY

Margaret Patricia “Patty”DeMilly Wilson, 84, of StTeresa Beach, died peacefully in her sleep on June 23,2017 in her home.Patricia was born May 6, 1933 in

Tallahassee, Florida. She is the daugh-ter of the late Nellie Pichard DeMi-lly and Pros Piere Devere DeMilly. Alifelong resident of Tallahassee, shegraduated from Leon High School in1952, was a member of the Leon HighSchool band where she was a major-ette, and an attendant on the tradition-al May Court. She attended Georgia Baptist Schoolof Nursing in Atlanta, Georgia graduating with herRN in 1955. She worked as a Leon High School nurseand later worked 18 years at Southwestern State Hos-pital in Thomasville, Georgia as a psychiatric nurse.She retired in 2003 to St Teresa Beach where she

grew up spending the summers as a young girl. St Te-resa Beach is a place she dearly loved and she enjoyedher retirement years there.She was predeceased by her daughter Melanie Wil-

son Walker.She is survived by a son, Robert Mack ( Jeannie)

Wilson, Jr. of Oviedo, Florida; a daughter MargaretDeMilly Wilson of Atlanta, Georgia; grandchildren,Megan Walker (Brett) Taylor, Myles Walker (Butch)Rowley, Meryl K Walker, Mitcham Walker, KaleeWilson (Garrett) Mendelson, Emilee Kathryn Wil-son, Rhett McGlamery Wilson, Holt MontgomeryWilson, and great grandchildren, Austin Leigh Tay-lor, Vivian Elizabeth Taylor, Nora Kate Taylor, Walk-er Anne Rowley, and Marley Mays Rowley.She is also survived by a sister, JoNell (Larry) Sager

of Tallahassee, Florida.Funeral service will be held at 11:00am on Fri-

day, June 30, 2017, at Culley’s MeadowWood Funer-al Home located at 1737 Riggins Road, Tallahassee,FL 32308.The Wilson family would like to extend a special

thank you to Michelle Sanders, Deanna Murphy, Bar-bara Butler and other members of Big Bend Hospicefor their excellent care. A very special thank you isalso extended to Denise Cunningham, Patty’s person-al care giver.We are so grateful for their love and com-passion.

Margaret Patricia DeMillyWilson

OBITUARIES

Pumariega adds that in Florida, sixout of 10 public school students comefrom economically disadvantaged back-grounds. Supporting these students intheir transition to college is a vital com-ponent to raising our state’s degree at-tainment rate and giving each student achance for a brighter economic future.

The average income for a studentwith a two-year associate degree is$10,600 more than a high school gradu-ate. That translates into $423,000 moreover the course of a working lifetime.

Gulf Coast State College in PanamaCity is one of several Florida collegesputting financial resources behind theeffort. Last summer, officials hired“navigators” for every public highschool in the three-county area after rea-lizing how many Bay, Gulf and FranklinCounty seniors were not completing thenext step to register for classes, even af-ter they had applied for entrance into thecollege.

In the fall of 2016, six navigatorsfanned out to the nine schools to beginworking with almost 2000 seniors inthose districts.

“We saw where we could mesh seam-lessly within the high schools and com-plement existing advisers and counsel-ors,” said Debbie Mikolajczyk, GulfCoast State College Navigator ProgramManager.

“Gulf Coast Navigators are an addi-tional resource for students to learnabout Florida’s affordable and open ac-cess university transfer degrees, career-oriented programs, and workforce cer-tificates. If they need information abouttransferring to four-year colleges or uni-versities, we are in the schools dissemi-nating information every day during theschool year.”

Like the name implies, navigatorshelp students navigate everything fromregistration forms, financial aid applica-tions, veterans’ resources to careerchoices and course selections. It’s not aone-time connection, as students receiveinvitations to attend information ses-sions throughout the year.

In February, students are encouragedto apply to the college during the “freeapplication week” and get a free colleget-shirt in the process. In late spring, fol-low-up reminders from the president ofGulf Coast State College are mailed outkeeping students focused on the nextsteps available to them.

Mosley High School student SaraClark of Bay County enthusiasticallysupports the Navigator Program.

“My senior year I was almost in tears,overwhelmed with the process of figur-ing out the next step. No one in my family

has ever gone to college so navigatorAmy Lamagdeleine helped me get pre-pared, applying to schools and applyingfor scholarships to help me pay for col-lege. If she hadn’t been there, I probablywouldn’t have been able to go to collegewhen I did.”

Clark admitted it wasn’t always easyto connect with Lamagdeleine.

“The line outside her office was solong, we had to begin signing up in ad-vance. Sometimes it took days to get in tosee her. But it was worth it because shewas such an amazing resource.”

And even though Sara has graduatedfrom high school, the Gulf Coast StateCollege sophomore majoring in occupa-tional therapy continues to seek out hernavigator’s advice as she continuesdown her career path.

That personal connection has provensuccessful at Florida A&M Universitywith students in the spring of their highschool year. Spring Preview last yearwelcomed almost 2000 students to work-shops conducted by the offices of finan-cial aid, admissions, and housing.

Over the last three years, the univer-sity experienced continued growth inparticipants, reflecting the FAMUy’s 30percent increase in admitted freshmenfor fall 2017.

FAMU also offers an Access and Op-portunity Program, which is designedfor underrepresented students whodemonstrate potential to succeed in col-lege with some assistance. The goal is tosupport selected participants throughacademic support, mentorship and lifeskills development to ensure they suc-cessfully navigate the transition into col-lege, graduate and move on to successfulcareers.

Florida State University also engagesstudents before they ever step foot oncampus through social media and “Insta-Innvolvement” encouraging them to vis-it the Nole Central webpage, which pro-vides information about daily activitiesand student organizations. And about400 freshman students are acceptedthrough the Center for Academic Reten-tion and Enhancement, which providestraditionally underrepresented andfirst-generation students with additionalacademic support.

The year-round program includes aseven-week Summer Bridge Program,which allows incoming students to getacclimated to college life on a smallerscale to ease the transition into the fallsemester. CARE students arrive on cam-pus a week before the summer sessionstarts to go through a comprehensiveorientation and then enroll in just a fewsummer classes.

SPECIAL TO THE DEMOCRAT

Navigator Scott Wilkes, ( back row right) tours the Gulf Coast State College campus with students from Rutherford High School.

SPECIAL TO THE DEMOCRAT

Navigator Berkeley Reeves assists new high school graduate Kaitlyn Burger register for fall classes at Gulf Coast State College

Summer MeltContinued from Page 1C

“My senior year I was almost in

tears, overwhelmed with the process

of figuring out the next step.”

SARA CLARK, MOSLEY HIGH SCHOOL STUDENT