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Yahoo
27-04-2025
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Pictures: Florida Puerto Rican Parade and Festival.
The Florida Puerto Rican Parade and Festival attendees celebrated Puerto Rican culture, heritage, values, and its contributions to the State of Florida on the downtown streets of Orlando, Fla., Saturday, April 26, 2025. (Willie J. Allen Jr./Orlando Sentinel) Performers enjoyed The Florida Puerto Rican Parade and Festival celebrating Puerto Rican culture, heritage, values, and its contributions to the State of Florida on the downtown streets of Orlando, Fla., Saturday, April 26, 2025. (Willie J. Allen Jr./Orlando Sentinel) The Florida Puerto Rican Parade and Festival attendees celebrated Puerto Rican culture, heritage, values, and its contributions to the State of Florida on the downtown streets of Orlando, Fla., Saturday, April 26, 2025. (Willie J. Allen Jr./Orlando Sentinel) Stonewyck Elementary Dance Team members perform during the Florida Puerto Rican Parade and Festival to celebrate the Puerto Rican culture, heritage, values, and its contributions to the State of Florida on the downtown streets of Orlando, Fla., Saturday, April 26, 2025. (Willie J. Allen Jr./Orlando Sentinel) The Florida Puerto Rican Parade and Festival attendees celebrated Puerto Rican culture, heritage, values, and its contributions to the State of Florida on the downtown streets of Orlando, Fla., Saturday, April 26, 2025. (Willie J. Allen Jr./Orlando Sentinel) Colonial High Schools Air Force JROTC students march in the Florida Puerto Rican Parade to promote the Puerto Rican culture, heritage, values and its contributions to the State of Florida. Orlando, Fla., Saturday, April 26, 2025. (Willie J. Allen Jr./Orlando Sentinel) Rep. Anna V. Eskamani marches in the Florida Puerto Rican Parade, Festival in Orlando, Fla., Saturday, April 26, 2025. (Willie J. Allen Jr./Orlando Sentinel) The Florida Puerto Rican Parade and Festival attendees celebrated Puerto Rican culture, heritage, values, and its contributions to the State of Florida on the downtown streets of Orlando, Fla., Saturday, April 26, 2025. (Willie J. Allen Jr./Orlando Sentinel) International Union of Painters and Allied Trades, Orange County Classroom Teachers Association and more union members and supporters marched in the Florida Puerto Rican Parade and Festival celebrating Puerto Rican culture, heritage, values, and its contributions to the State of Florida on the downtown streets of Orlando, Fla., Saturday, April 26, 2025. (Willie J. Allen Jr./Orlando Sentinel) The Florida Puerto Rican Parade and Festival attendees celebrated Puerto Rican culture, heritage, values, and its contributions to the State of Florida on the downtown streets of Orlando, Fla., Saturday, April 26, 2025. (Willie J. Allen Jr./Orlando Sentinel) The Florida Puerto Rican Parade and Festival attendees celebrated Puerto Rican culture, heritage, values, and its contributions to the State of Florida on the downtown streets of Orlando, Fla., Saturday, April 26, 2025. (Willie J. Allen Jr./Orlando Sentinel) Carlos Guillermo Smith marches and uses his voice to promote the Florida Puerto Rican Parade and Festival in Orlando, Fla., Saturday, April 26, 2025. (Willie J. Allen Jr./Orlando Sentinel) The Florida Puerto Rican Parade and Festival attendees celebrated Puerto Rican culture, heritage, values, and its contributions to the State of Florida on the downtown streets of Orlando, Fla., Saturday, April 26, 2025. (Willie J. Allen Jr./Orlando Sentinel) The Florida Puerto Rican Parade and Festival attendees celebrated Puerto Rican culture, heritage, values, and its contributions to the State of Florida on the downtown streets of Orlando, Fla., Saturday, April 26, 2025. (Willie J. Allen Jr./Orlando Sentinel) The Florida Puerto Rican Parade and Festival attendees celebrated Puerto Rican culture, heritage, values, and its contributions to the State of Florida on the downtown streets of Orlando, Fla., Saturday, April 26, 2025. (Willie J. Allen Jr./Orlando Sentinel) The Florida Puerto Rican Parade and Festival attendees celebrated Puerto Rican culture, heritage, values, and its contributions to the State of Florida on the downtown streets of Orlando, Fla., Saturday, April 26, 2025. (Willie J. Allen Jr./Orlando Sentinel) The Florida Puerto Rican Parade and Festival attendees celebrated Puerto Rican culture, heritage, values, and its contributions to the State of Florida on the downtown streets of Orlando, Fla., Saturday, April 26, 2025. (Willie J. Allen Jr./Orlando Sentinel) The Florida Puerto Rican Parade and Festival attendees celebrated Puerto Rican culture, heritage, values, and its contributions to the State of Florida on the downtown streets of Orlando, Fla., Saturday, April 26, 2025. (Willie J. Allen Jr./Orlando Sentinel) Show Caption1 of 19The Florida Puerto Rican Parade and Festival attendees celebrated Puerto Rican culture, heritage, values, and its contributions to the State of Florida on the downtown streets of Orlando, Fla., Saturday, April 26, 2025. (Willie J. Allen Jr./Orlando Sentinel)Expand
Yahoo
25-04-2025
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Meet the Florida Puerto Rican Parade and Festival's scholarship winners
As part of the Florida Puerto Rican Parade and Festival, Channel 9 gives students a helping hand in their academic futures. This year, five students got $2,000 scholarships to advance their studies. They got these awards Thursday night at a parade gala hosted by Channel 9 anchor Kirstin Delgado. Here are this year's recipients: Deiyaliz Adorno is a freshman at Valencia College is studying creative writing and helps to use her words to inspire others. After graduating from Valencia College, she hopes to go to the University of Central Florida. Samuel Peña is graduating this year from St. Lucie West Centennial High School and will be going to barber school before heading to Indian River State College, then the University of Florida. He says he will use his scholarship money to invest in his future by studying business management and barber school. Cristina Villanueva is studying to be a nurse and will use her scholarship to accelerate her courses. She wants to get my certification and get experience as a phlebotomist while doing her nursing courses. She hopes to attend the University of Central Florida after graduating from Valencia College. Giovanna Chenalier is a 29-year-old Navy veteran attending Valencia College. She is waiting to hear back from several schools to see where she goes after graduating from Valencia. In the meantime, she says the scholarship money will help give her some stability while finding out her next move. Adriana Guzman goes to a science, technology, engineering and math school in Osceola County who hopes to get a degree in medicine. After learning about the scholarship with the Florida Puerto Rican Parade and Festival, she was really taken by the application process. She said the environmental impact in Puerto Rico were of particular interest since she's currently taking environmental science knows a lot about the topic. WFTV is the official broadcast partner for the Florida Puerto Rican Parade and Festival. It will be streamed live on air and online at starting at 11 a.m. Saturday. Click here to download our free news, weather and smart TV apps. And click here to stream Channel 9 Eyewitness News live.
Yahoo
25-04-2025
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UCF helping Puerto Rican students pursue their academic dreams
The last-minute preparations are in, and the annual Florida Puerto Rican Parade and Festival is set to kick off in downtown Orlando Saturday. Through the years, the connection between central Florida and Puerto Rico has grown stronger. That connection was on full display with the University of Central Florida giving a helping hand to students on the island in pursuing their academic dreams. The University of Puerto Rico at Aguadilla has a beautiful campus, where you'll find plenty of sharks, seeing as its mascots are Sharky and Tintorera. But you'll actually find some Knights there as well. This is thanks to the Ronald E. McNair Scholars Program, a federally funded program designed to prepare undergraduate students for doctoral studies, research and other activities. 'They're UCF McNair program students, but at the University of Puerto Rico at Aguadilla,' said Fernando Rivera, director of the UCF Puerto Rico Research Hub McNair was a physicist, astronaut and scholar. His legacy lives on following the Challenger space shuttle's explosion. Now that legacy inspires new generations through education. "They put a program together to increase the number of unserved and unrepresented populations to go into grad school," said Rivera. The program recently spotlighted Nathalie Nieto-Torres from Aguadilla. She's a first-degeneration STEM student and future Ph.D. candidate in molecular biology. She says McNair empowered her to pursue her dreams. There's also Adriana Camacho-Badillo, a junior studying biology who has a passion for research. She says UCF's McNair program has provided unwavering support. The two visited UCF for a conference recently. It was just one of many opportunities the program offers to give students the chance to network and gain new mentors. "The scholars are doing fantastic, getting a lot of summer programs, placement into grad programs," Rivera said. The director of UCF's McNair program recently visited La Universidad Interamericana de Puerto Rico and UPR to share insights on graduate school and summer research with current and future scholars on the island. 'A very neat collaboration and sort of tells you sort of the capacity that the students from Aguadilla do actually have, and sort of the collaborations and that tie between Puerto Rico and Florida," Rivera said. Those students are from Aguadilla, which is the city being featured in this year's Orlando parade. WFTV is the official broadcast partner for the Florida Puerto Rican Parade and Festival. It will be streamed live on air and online at starting at 11 a.m. Saturday. Click here to download our free news, weather and smart TV apps. And click here to stream Channel 9 Eyewitness News live.
Yahoo
24-04-2025
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Florida parade's environmental theme highlights new natural history museum in Puerto Rico
The Florida Puerto Rican Parade and Festival is days away from rolling through downtown Orlando Saturday. This year's parade theme is on renewable energy and the environment - something the Museum of Natural History and Conservation of Puerto Rico knows a lot about. The museum recently opened in Aguadilla, which is the city being honored at this year's Florida parade. It's dedicated to preserving Puerto Rico's natural wonders, as well as its history. Before the museum's creation, any fossils found on the island were taken by museums around the word. 'The museum now in Aguadilla will be able to keep the fossils that we collect in Puerto Rico in Puerto Rico,' said the museum's co-founder, geologist Hernán Santos. The goal is to research geology and paleontology, diving into specimens, sedimentary rocks and marine deposits. It's all part of an effort to not only educate, but create advancements in technology to help save lives in natural disasters, such as landslides. Santos gave an example of instruments that are installed in the ground that alert municipalities when the soil's saturation level gets too high. 'So they saved lives by actually monitoring the amount of rain, amount of water going into the soil,' he said. WFTV is the official broadcast partner for the Florida Puerto Rican Parade and Festival. It will be streamed live on air and online at starting at 11 a.m. Saturday. Click here to download our free news, weather and smart TV apps. And click here to stream Channel 9 Eyewitness News live.
Yahoo
23-04-2025
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Osceola County honors ‘Borinqueneers' war heroes before Florida Puerto Rican Parade
The annual Florida Puerto Rican Parade and Festival will take over the streets of downtown Orlando on Saturday. Channel 9 is the official broadcast partner of the event. Earlier this month, the Osceola County Sheriff's Office honored a group of unsung heroes who served our nation with incredible bravery in the Korean War. The 'Borinqueneers' are members of the 65th Infantry Regiment, a unit comprised primarily of brave men from Puerto Rico. The room was filled with respect, with deputies from the Sheriff's Office, and loved ones all gathered to pay tribute. What the full report in the video above. Click here to download our free news, weather and smart TV apps. And click here to stream Channel 9 Eyewitness News live.
