Browse past news stories for Toledo Technology Academy in Toledo, OH.

• Students try to streamline oil conversion to biodiesel (The Toledo Blade)
  posted on November 3, 2009 at 11:09:41 am
  By MEGHAN GILBERT-CUNNINGHAM BLADE STAFF WRITER Students at Toledo Technology Academy are creating a machine to automatically turn used cooking oil into biodiesel fuel for a car. The technology to create such fuel exists, but not in an easy-to-use, automatic machine like the one the students designed. "The dream is you can walk up to the processor, hit a button, and 24 to 36 hours later you have ...
• Energy Education comes to Toledo schools (WTVG-TV Toledo)
  posted on September 24, 2009 at 07:46:12 am
  Toledo teachers will be trained at UT to teach their students renewable energy.
• Toledo Technology Academy 'excellent' (FOX Toledo)
  posted on August 26, 2009 at 08:20:38 pm
  Earlier this week, the Ohio Department of Education dubbed five Toledo Public School district  schools excellent. Toledo Technology Academy is on that list.
• Toledo Public Schools retains grade; 5 district schools get ratings of 'excellent' (The Toledo Blade)
  posted on August 26, 2009 at 09:13:01 am
  By MEGHAN GILBERT BLADE STAFF WRITER Start High School is the first traditional Toledo Public Schools high school to get an A on its report card. Start Principal Elizabeth Wray said the school was "on cloud nine" about achieving the excellent rating on the Ohio Department of Education report card released yesterday for the 2008-2009 school year. "I feel ecstatic," she said. "It's a momentous day ...
• Start, Toledo district improve in state report cards (The Toledo Blade)
  posted on August 25, 2009 at 02:13:01 pm
  BLADE STAFF Toledo's Start High School is the first comprehensive high school in the city to reach the excellent rating on the state report cards. Start increased two spots to be rated excellent, an A grade, for the 2008-09 school year, when it was "continuous improvement," a C, the year before. A total of five Toledo Public Schools buildings received the excellent rating - Start, Toledo Early ...
• Toledo Public Schools gets report card (NBC 24 Toledo)
  posted on August 25, 2009 at 02:02:25 pm
  The state says Toledo Public Schools remains in Continuous Improvement, as evaluated by the Ohio Department of Education.
• Oakwood among top 5 high schools in Midwest (Dayton Daily News)
  posted on August 18, 2009 at 01:11:03 pm
  Oakwood among top 5 high schools in Midwest
• 15 scholarships to be given by 50 Men and Women (The Toledo Blade)
  posted on June 12, 2009 at 10:05:25 am
  A Toledo organization is continuing its commitment to minority student scholarships. The 50 Men and Women of Toledo will hold its annual banquet at 7 p.m. tonight at Gladieux Meadows to honor 15 minority students and help them pursue college. The organization has donated more than $1 million during its 30 years of providing scholarships. In times like this, it's even more important to help ...
• Scott H.S. to shift classes to DeVilbiss during repairs (The Toledo Blade)
  posted on June 10, 2009 at 09:50:45 am
  DeVilbiss will again serve as a Toledo high school building when Scott High School students go to class there next year. The former DeVilbiss High School building at 3301 Upton Ave. will be the temporary home for Bulldog students and staff as their historic building in the Old West End is renovated. "It's big enough, has the facilities that a high school needs, and it's going to be available," ...
• 2 Toledo teams will shoot for the moon with robots (The Toledo Blade)
  posted on April 13, 2009 at 09:22:18 am
  Students at Toledo Technology Academy have a pretty cool hobby - creating robots that play sports. Their newest robot, Aries, will go head to head this week with other high school creations, including one from Bedford High School, at the international FIRST Robotics championship in Atlanta. "The thrill of seeing your work go from nothing to something is the best part," said Jonathan Pym, 17, a ...
• Closing, opening Toledo Public Schools is lesson in local passions (The Toledo Blade)
  posted on March 29, 2009 at 08:47:59 am
  At least a half dozen schools will close, a couple new ones will open, and some students will be forced to switch buildings. It's the future of Toledo Public Schools as it reorganizes to "right size" its 55 buildings.
• What model for education? (The Toledo Blade)
  posted on March 20, 2009 at 09:24:35 am
  UNIVERSITY of Toledo President Lloyd Jacobs' decision to nominate a local entrepreneur as interim head of the university's school of education is perplexing for what it says about the focus and direction of the university as a whole. Tom Brady, founder and chief executive officer of Plastic Technologies Inc. in Springfield Township, was named by Gov. Bob Taft to the former Medical University of ...
• University of Toledo proposes trustee as dean (The Toledo Blade)
  posted on March 17, 2009 at 09:26:49 am
  The University of Toledo's plans for its education college took an interesting turn Monday with the consideration of a trustee as interim dean. UT President Lloyd Jacobs sent a letter Monday to Gov. Ted Strickland requesting a leave of absence for UT Trustee Tom Brady to allow him to serve as interim dean of the Judith Herb College of Education. Dr. Jacobs said Mr. Brady, 64, chief executive ...