Graduation season is here and high school seniors across the Coast will be walking across the stage at the Mississippi Coast Coliseum this week as they receive the diploma that closes one chapter of their lives and opens up the…
Graduation season is here and high school seniors across the Coast will be walking across the stage at the Mississippi Coast Coliseum all week. News 25’s Veronica Bayona is at the Coliseum with more.
Seniors from West Harrison High School walked the halls of their old elementary and middle schools to inspire students. Two hundred seniors took a trip down memory lane, reuniting with former teachers and encouraging students to stay in school and…
D’Iberville High School recognized more than one hundred seniors who are heading to college or joining the military with an academic signing day event. This year’s theme is ‘DHS Rocks.’ It was nothing but a good time. The D’Iberville High…
The Infinity Science Center in Pearlington offers an out of this world experience for its 60,000 annual visitors. This afternoon a new exhibit opened. The Infinity Science Center in Hancock County has been inspiring space enthusiasts since its opening. Thanks…
Mark your calendars for the year 2068. Students and teachers at Pecan Park Elementary in Ocean Springs buried a time capsule this afternoon. Over five hundred students from kindergarten through third grade each took turns pouring dirt on the capsule.…
It was a walk down memory lane for students at Biloxi High this afternoon. Seniors dressed in their caps and gowns and paraded down the halls of North Bay Elementary School. This was the third year of what they hope…
Today, six lucky Chick-Fil-A employees walked out of the fast food restaurant with $2,500. Employees enrolled in school had the chance to apply for the Remarkable Futures Scholarship, an annual scholarship awarded to Chick-Fil-A staff to help sponsor their studies.…
It’s round two tonight for commencement ceremonies at the Coast Coliseum. Tonight more than 1,200 students received their diplomas from Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College. This is the first year graduates of the Collegiate Academy participated in the college’s commencement.…
A Vancleave grandmother is living out a life-long dream all before her 82nd birthday. Eighty-one year-old Barbara Ann Smith will walk across the stage and graduate college in Biloxi tonight. At almost 82-years-old, Vancleave resident Barbara Ann Smith is graduating…
Caps and gowns were present at the Coast Coliseum tonight for Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College’s 2018 commencement ceremony. MGCCC graduated over 125 students in the adult education, MIBEST, and EDGE programs. All of these programs are used for students…
Three Pass Christian sisters, ages nine, 12 and 13, took a school project and in five months have now developed it into a business. “We are excited because when we are older we won’t need to be worried about not…
This morning in Biloxi, students from the gifted program at North Bay Elementary School held an opening ceremony for their brand new garden. Every class has a section in the garden and the students decide what type of produce they’d…
This morning at West Harrison High School, it was a celebration for graduating seniors going on to college with a scholarship or joining the military. The entire student body honored those seniors in a special assembly. As a whole, the…
Today, high school juniors interested in joining the maritime industry were invited to the shipbuilder academy’s open house hosted by Ingalls Shipbuilding. Shipbuilder academy alum Alex Fuller said, “Electrical, pipe, insulation, and there’s just multiple craft opportunities for the shipyard…
Something you don’t see every day is a hot air balloon in South Mississippi, but students at Vancleave Lower Elementary had the chance today to see one in action. Hundreds of students at Vancleave Lower Elementary took learning outside the…
A Long Beach Middle School student is mapping out his future and preparing to represent South Mississippi in the National Geographic Geo Bee. The bee is set to take place in our nation’s capital next month. News 25’s Toni Miles…
Today at Gulfport High School, students got a lesson in cybersecurity and computer technology at the first ever Duck-Con. The 333rd Mad Ducks from Keesler Air Force Base dropped by to speak to students about concepts like coding, password selection,…
During statewide testing today, some Mississippi testing sites experienced intermittent connectivity at some point between 9 a.m. and 10 a.m. Online testing resumed and was fully functionally at approximately 10 a.m. The Mississippi Department of Education (MDE) has provided guidance…
Education opportunities and marine studies are coming to life with the completion of USM’s new marine education center at Cedar Point in Ocean Springs. News 25’s Toni Miles takes us to today’s dedication and ribbon cutting ceremony and show us…
Now is the perfect time to dive into a good book as libraries across America celebrate National Library Week. Since 1958, the goal of the week has been to draw the attention of children away from T.V. and radio and…
One hundred and twenty two students at USM’s Gulf Park campus in Long Beach will be the first of their class to move into the city’s first ever dedicated housing for USM Gulf Park students. Just a few months ago,…
Today in Oceans Springs, a lucky group of kids got to be the first to lay their eyes on the USM Marine Education Center's Science on a sphere system. The education center is the schools answer to losing the J.L…
A building is being converted into a student housing complex near the University of Southern Mississippi Gulf Park Campus. Encompass, a Kentucky-based company, is working with Gulf Coast Student Housing to turn the building in long beach into the friendship…