Craig Bouchard, Founder of Shale-Inland, and Dezree’ MacDonough, Miss Naples Teen USA will be the keynote speakers at the From the Heart Teen Fashion Festival, February 9th.
The event is a Bring a Book, Bring a Friend Fun’raiser; books will be collected and proceeds will benefit K is for Kids’ Rising Readers program for Collier County students, with a percentage going towards Barron Collier’s Helping Hands for Prom program. Students may earn community service hours.
Click on poster below to see the student-produced video being aired by Comcast.
Special thanks to
Barron Collier High School and Kelly Wilson, business teacher, for hosting the fashion show again this year and inviting students from all over Southwest Florida to participate;
event co-chairs, Jessica Cederquist, Barron Collier High; Patrick Clawson, Gulf Coast High; Marina Moussa, Florida Gulf Coast University (FGCU);
the inaugural show’s co-chairs and event consultants, Erin Clawson, now at University of Missouri Science and Technology and Ali Martin, now at University of Central Florida;
FGCU interns and college consultants John Maloney and Brigitte Papica;
FGCU college consultants Mauricio Arango, Gavin Vary and Brooke Blythe;
Naomi Rondon, volunteer coordinator, Barron Collier High School;
Garrett Edwards, sports chair, Gulf Coast High;
public relations:
the PR team from Lorenzo Walker Institute of Technology (LWIT) and Technical High, Alondra Toribio, Alexandra Almora, Miriam Romero, and Nini Antunzes;
Brooke Blythe, FGCU; Melissa Cederquist, Florida State University, and Amy Nelson, BCH;
Nick Nolan, emcee and chair, technical committee; Otto Cafaro and Emily Grey, also emcees and technical consultants, BCH;
event photographers Caitlin Vaughan and Abby Tierney, BCH; Gavin Vary, FGCU;
graphic design:
program – Kelly O’Brien, BCH; poster – Rene Pastir, LWIT;
Public Service Announcement (PSA), LWIT:
video editor, Agustin Huambachano; Richard Ponton, LWIT Multimedia Teacher; and all the students at LWIT who helped create and produce the PSAs!
Danielle Verduchi, FGCU.