The Beacon College Flag Football Club stormed into Stetson University with high hopes of elevating the team’s fortune. Yet, while Navigators soared and elevated their individual play, Team Beacon fell short in its appearance in the American Flag Football League Inaugural Collegiate Tournament at Stetson University’s Rinker Field in DeLand, Fla.
Beacon Business Student Earns Prestigious Military Summer Internship
| Student NewsThe Village People’s heyday was well before Glenn Popovics’ time, but just as their classic disco tune suggests, the United States Navy wanted the Beacon College junior as a new recruit. Sort of. Come May, Popovics, 21, a business management major from West Palm Beach, Fla., will serve his country and beef up his business acumen during a summer internship at the Naval Research Enterprise Internship Program in Orlando.
Aspiring Poets Stretch Beyond Roses are Red in Beacon Poetry Contest
| Arts, Student NewsPoetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words. — Robert Frost Two Beacon College students channeled their inner bard in recently earning the top two spots in the fall semester installment of the school’s annual intramural “Poetry Writing Contest.” Samantha Humphreys won the contest with her poem, “Water.” […]
Beacon Powerlifting Club Show Heavyweight Talent at Competition
| Sports, Student NewsNick Montgomery and Cortavis Watts pose with their medals from the USA Powerlifting Jacksonville Open Championships. Ancient alchemists failed miserably at their quest to transmute base metals to gold. By pumping iron, two members of the Beacon College Powerlifting Club produced gold and silver medals this month at the USA Powerlifting Jacksonville Open Championships. In […]
Trio of Beacon Students Find Earning Info Tech Internships Easy as Dell
| Student News(left to right) Dan O’Neil and and Will Browning of Dell EMC interview Beacon College student Luke Hill for a summer internship position. Three Beacon College students in February earned summer internships with Dell Technologies after emerging from a crowded field of candidates during the tech giant’s second annual recruiting safari to Navigator territory. Dell […]
Beacon Tennis Club Serves up Historic Victory in Delray Beach Tournament
| Sports, Student NewsBeacon Tennis Club pictured left to right: Kyle Close, Inna Noll, Brendan Rowe, Anita Rollins, Lily Bohn, Mandy Katz The Beacon College Tennis Club notched the school’s first intercollegiate win in any sport earlier this month during its first appearance in the Delray Beach Open ‘Tennis on Campus’ Challenge — serving up notice that Navigator […]
Beacon Creative Talent Shines in Local College’s Logo Challenge
| Student NewsWhen Lake-Sumter State College needed a new logo to promote its Kids’ College summer program the school turned its scholastic neighbor. Armed with a broad theme, “Time to Shine 2019,” Beacon College students in Sandy Novak’s fall semester advertising design class took up the gauntlet — with winning results.
Beacon Anthrozoology Students Go ‘Into the Woods’ to Study Reforestation
| Student NewsAs much of the world struggles to stem or rehab manmade environmental missteps, Beacon College anthrozoology students traveled to Central America in early January to witness innovative ways that man is making amends to Mother Nature. Eleven students paid to travel to the Republic of Costa Rica on an expedition meant “to provide anthrozoology students […]
Student Ambassadors Put Beacon’s Best Foot Forward in Collegiate Outreach
| Beacon News, Student NewsStudent ambassadors Kendall Augustine and Lianne Smith assist guests a recent Beacon Salon Speaker Series event. If visitors have questions, they’re the flesh-and-blood Siri. If visitors are lost, they are a compass. If visitors need a welcoming sign, they are the welcome wagon. They are the navigators in blue (and gold), the face of Beacon […]
Beacon Students Test Career Waters at Annual Diversity Job Fair
| Career Development, Featured, Student NewsTen Beacon College students grabbed copies of their resumes and attended the 10th annual Florida Blue, Florida Classic Career Expo & Diversity Job Fair earlier this month. The trek was part of the college’s continuing efforts to bolster job opportunities for graduates with learning disabilities, ADHD, dyslexia, and other learning differences.