If it’s in your nature to enjoy yourself, we humbly suggest you enjoy yourself in our nature – Tampa Electric’s Manatee Viewing Center – this Thursday, March 16. We’re celebrating our 30th season as a showcase of free, fun, environmental education, along with the fact that we’ve welcomed more than 5 million visitors since we opened in 1986. And we’d love to see you there. Below are 10 reasons that…
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Co-founder of a new scholarship, Hilili’s drive pays it forward for USF women
As a financial auditor and certified public accountant, Fadwa Hilili has excelled at TECO, which commits itself to being a learning organization. Now Hilili is helping others follow in her footsteps with a scholarship she co-founded at the University of South Florida – the higher-learning institution that helped her get her foot in the door of a great career. Hilili is one of four USF graduates who established the Forward…
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Environmental and community stewardship for TECO on Arbor Day is a tree(t) for students
If you’re looking to celebrate growth, positive possibilities for the future and branching out in life – if you want to mark Florida’s Arbor Day – a school seems like the best place to be. That’s what Tampa Electric team members had in mind when they visited Buckhorn Elementary in Valrico on Jan. 20, Florida’s Arbor Day for 2017. (National Arbor Day this year is April 28.) With 400 Shumard…
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Higher-learning dreams culminate before the silver screen
Under the stars in a palace of history and fantasy, 51 TECO team members recently came face-to-face with a new reality: that they’ve taken their education and opportunities for the future to exciting new places. To put it another way, to everyone who received their degrees at a ceremony at Tampa Theatre: congratulations, graduates! The 51 team members completed courses at a variety of learning institutions throughout Tampa Bay, including…
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Growing season is every season for TECO and FWC as Suncoast Youth Conservation Center debuts in Apollo Beach
From fantasy not so many years ago to fact today and well into the future, the Florida Conservation and Technology Center (FCTC) is growing in Apollo Beach – and excitement is budding with it. The Suncoast Youth Conservation Center is the first Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC) facility to open to the public at FCTC. The two-story, 6,000-square-foot building will welcome students and educators from throughout the community…
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