Saturday, May 13th, 2006 imarked our 5th annual Celebration of Learning.  Keep reading for an overview and pictures.

LIFE Fest 2006 was a LIFE Fest like no other. Held  at Brooker Creek Preserve Environmental Education Center  in Tarpon Springs, LIFE Fest featured  indoor and outdoor display venues; ongoing programs in beautiful classrooms overlooking the surrounding woodland; boardwalk tours of the Preserve; a spectacular 200 seat auditorium where we'll be featuring a variety of authors, educators, and speakers from a wide variety of backgrounds and interests; a room devoted to our popular Information Buffet stocked with a burgeoning array of free materials and information from a diversity of organizations and resources; LIFE Youth Achievement displays; and our biggest Book Swap ever!

With gratitude, we thank our presenters:

• Carrie Page, School Board of Pasco County & Elizabeth Shaunessy, Ph.D. , Gifted Education, University of South Florida: Geocaching in Education, with an optional hike using a GPS
• Learning through Language Immersion, with the Language Playhouse
• Doug Scull, of Hands on Planet Earth: Hands on science

• Phil Camillo, eLearning Specialist, PixLit Productions , Teaching Space Science Using the Internet
 • Christy Bebeau & Carolyn Lang, Algebra Bootcamp for Parents
• Enchanted Walkabouts with John Springer
• Alan Kay, author of the Young Heroes of History series
• Debbie Cohen, author of Reach Your Stars
• Cindy Schurr, eLearning Manager,  Florida Virtual School
• Steve Adams, FL Dept. of Education Director of Charter, Virtual, and Home Education
• E. Rose Sabin, author of A School for Sorcery

And all our contributors to LIFE Fest:

• Lowry Park Zoo
• Busch Gardens
• Ruth Eckerd Hall
• Great Explorations Children's Museum
• Albertsons Community Partners
• St. Petersburg Times, Newspaper in Education
• Avalon Riding Academy
• Barnes & Noble
• PBS TeacherSource

Our Information Buffet table

• Cable in the Classroom
• Lifestyle Family Fitness Centers
• Federal Dept. of Education
• Florida Department of Education
• Florida Geographic Alliance
• US Geological Survey
• Southern Poverty Law Center (Teaching Tolerance)
• Rainforest Alliance
• Standard & Poor's SchoolMatters
• Federal Reserve
• Life Learning Magazine
• Home Education Magazine
• St. John's Water Management District
• Southwest Florida Water Management District
• State Parks
• Hillsborough/Pinellas/Pasco Library systems                         Youth Achievement table