May Snapshots

BUDDY DAY: More than 135 Immokalee second-graders participated in Guadalupe Center’s 27th annual Buddy Day, a nature-focused field trip on March 8 to Hideaway Beach on Marco Island.

BUDDY DAY: More than 135 Immokalee second-graders participated in Guadalupe Center’s 27th annual Buddy Day, a nature-focused field trip on March 8 to Hideaway Beach on Marco Island. Here, they make crafts.

BUDDY DAY: More than 135 Immokalee second-graders participated in Guadalupe Center’s 27th annual Buddy Day, a nature-focused field trip on March 8 to Hideaway Beach on Marco Island. Here: Jack Darnell and Myan Garza.

BUDDY DAY: More than 135 Immokalee second-graders participated in Guadalupe Center’s 27th annual Buddy Day, a nature-focused field trip on March 8 to Hideaway Beach on Marco Island. Here: Steve Beers, Josie Beers and Jessica Francisco.

MULLET TOSS: Nolan MacNeil, of Cape Coral, throws in the Fingerling Mullet Division for ages 6-10 at the 28th annual Mullet Toss in Matlacha on Saturday, March 16. MacNeil won with a throw of 71 feet, 11 inches.

Volunteer Merry Hovey helps Quincy Patton, 3, put on headphones to test his hearing at Grace Lutheran Preschool in Naples on Friday, April 12, 2019. The Naples Lions Club, with the help of the Naples Nites Lions Club and the Marco Island Lions Club, screens vision and hearing for over 2,000 preschool children annually.

Children's Advocacy Center of Collier County staff, volunteers, and members of the community plant pinwheels in sand at Naples Pier on April 13, 2019. The pinwheel garden was made in an attempt to break the Guinness World Record for the Largest Toy Pinwheel Display in the World and contained 4,435 pinwheels.

MADISEN'S MATCH: Kerry Feirman poses with Casey Crowther and family at the Golisano Children's Hospital Pro Tennis Classic, a Madisen's Match event. Nearly 2,000 people attended March 18 at Suncoast Credit Union Arena in south Fort Myers. The exhibition game raised a record $317,000 for cancer treatment programs in Southwest Florida.

Rabbi Aron Rabin and Jaron Wasserman blow into a bowl to separate out wheat seeds to make Shmurah Matzah during the Model Matzah Bakery at the Chabad Jewish Center of Naples on April 10. Passover begins Friday.

Rosalie Aurensan, 8, left, and Josephine Scott, 9, were among more than 200 people taking part in the ninth annual Scope for Hope 5K Run and 2-Mile Walk in March at Century Link Sports Complex at Hammond Stadium in south Fort Myers. Event proceeds benefit 21st Century C.A.R.E. to used for colorectal cancer education, screening and treatment in Southwest Florida.

ONE-MILLIONTH VISITOR: The Golisano Children’s Museum of Naples, aka C’mon, celebrated its one-millionth visitor on March 30. The Elliott family from Rhode Island received an enthusiastic welcome from C’mon staff and a gift bag with assorted items from the C’mon Store.

Students participated in a youth camp at the STARS Complex in Fort Myers on April 13 with Emmitt Williams, a Fort Myers native who played at Lehigh his freshman year, just finished his freshman season at LSU and declared for the NBA Draft.

TOP YOUNG SCIENTISTS: Florida SouthWestern State College High School student Morgan Barkhurst won first place in physics, senior division, of the State Science and Engineering Fair of Florida STEM Competition.

TOP YOUNG SCIENTISTS: Canterbury School student Luke Long won first place in microbiology, senior division, of the State Science and Engineering Fair of Florida STEM Competition.

TOP YOUNG SCIENTISTS: Fort Myers High School senior Dahlia Dry won second place in the mathematics and computational sciences category in the State Science and Engineering Fair of Florida STEM Competition.

TOP YOUNG SCIENTISTS: Estero High School junior Mark Leone placed second in the earth and environmental sciences category in the State Science and Engineering Fair of Florida STEM Competition.

TOP YOUNG SCIENTISTS: Fort Myers High School senior Cynthia Sheng placed second in the senior cellular/molecular biology and biochemistry category in the State Science and Engineering Fair of Florida STEM Competition.

TOP YOUNG SCIENTISTS: Paul Laurence Dunbar Middle School seventh-grader Elsa Marcet won second place in the junior cellular/molecular biology adn biochemistry category in the State Science and Engineering Fair of Florida STEM Competition.