We are located minutes from the ocean and explore all kinds of water activitites as well as the environment of South Florida. We give girls the opportunity to be involved in their programming. We strongly believe in bulding leaders for tomorrow!
The Wilkes Honors College at Florida Atlantic University's will be holding its 3rd annual Honors Summer Institute July 6 - July 26, 2008. This three-week summer program draws together rising 11th and 12th graders (students entering 11th and 12th grade) with the resources of FAU
COPA students take classes in dance, voice, acting and musical theatre and workshops that feature local and national talent.
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The area where the town now sits was originally named for the Hobe Indian tribe which lived at the mouth of the Loxahatchee River, and whose name is also preserved in the name of nearby Hobe Sound. A mapmaker misunderstood the Spanish spelling "Jobe" of the Indian name "Hobe" and recorded it as "Jove". Subsequent mapmakers further misunderstood this to be the Latin translation of the god Jupiter, and they anglicized the name from Jove to "Jupiter". The Roman god Jupiter is the chief Roman god, husband of Juno, and god of light, of the sky and weather, and of the state and its welfare and its laws. It inspired a neighboring town to name itself "Juno Beach". The most notable landmark is the Jupiter Inlet Lighthouse, completed in 1860. Made of brick, it was painted red in 1910 due to discoloration caused by humidity. Hurricane Jeanne in 2004 sandblasted the paint from the upper portion of the tower, and the tower was repainted using a potassium silicate mineral coating. The lighthouse is often used as the symbol for Jupiter.