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St. Petersburg High School, 2501 Fifth Ave. N, still has openings for the second session of the Summer Driver Education Camp, from June 12 to June 29. Session one (May 22 to June 8) is full, but names are being taken for a waiting list. All classes start at 7:30 a.m. and end at 1 p.m. The cost is $185, and enrollment is secured by payment to the SPHS bookkeeper. Spaces cannot be reserved over the phone. For information, call Jim Mewha at SPHS at 893-1842.

By Times Staff Writer
Published March 8, 2006

Northside Christian School, 7777 62nd Ave. N, St. Petersburg, will have an open house at 7 p.m. March 16 for prospective kindergarten through Grade 12 students. Classrooms will be open, and tours will be given by administrators and teachers. For information, call the admissions department at 541-7593, ext. 251, or visit the Web site at www.nck12.com

The deadline for submissions to the 2006 Kids Are Authors competition, sponsored by Scholastic Book Fairs, is March 15. The national book-writing contest is open to student writers in grades K-8 who work in teams of three or more to develop, write and illustrate an original book with the guidance of a teacher or educator serving as a project coordinator.

Entries are judged on originality, content, overall appeal to children, quality of artwork, and compatibility of text and illustrations. One grand prize winner will be selected in both the fiction and nonfiction categories, along with 25 honorable mention awards. Winning entries will be published and distributed by Scholastic Book Fairs. For information and entry forms, visit the Web site at www.scholastic.com/kidsareauthors

St. Jude Cathedral School, 600 58th St. N, St. Petersburg, will host an open house from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. March 24. Prospective students and their families are invited to observe classes EC-3 to Grade 8 and meet members of the St. Jude family. For information, call the school at 347-8622, or visit the school's Web site at www.cathedralofstjude.org/school/

St. Petersburg Catholic High School hosted Brain Bowl XXI on Tuesday. Teams of five seventh graders from seven area Catholic grade schools buzzed in to answer questions about geography, science, history and literature. The winning team, St. Paul Catholic School from St. Petersburg, was represented by Devin Dudley, Allie McPhail, Emily DiVito, Ben Brackett and Eric Hendrickson. In second place was St. Jude Cathedral's team of Jo-C Davis, Daniel Joyal, Tatiana Netterfield, Clare Wilkes and Bobby Zeoli. Holy Family took third place with a lineup of Sara Kesneck, Elizabeth Prather, Ryan Rudderham, Melissa Tobin and Jon Walters.

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