began taking Cambridge classes her freshman year, talked about how challenging the classes are
WATCH: Rockledge High School graduate Charity Mugge was recently recognized for having earned the Top in the World Award from Cambridge on her A-Level Thinking Skills exam. She scored the highest grade out of over 525,000 students.
BREVARD COUNTY, FLORIDA – My business/broadcasting partner, Orville Susong, and I recently attended a ceremony at Rockledge High School honoring recent graduate Charity Mugge as she was presented with two academic certificates from principal Burt Clark.
The first certificate was to recognize her achieving the Cambridge Scholar Award with merit. The second, and even more impressive, was to recognize her for having earned the Top in the World Award from Cambridge on her A-Level Thinking Skills exam. That means she had the highest grade out of over 525,000 students!
I asked Charity what goes through her mind when she thinks about grading the highest. She laughed and said, “I just get a kick out of it!”
Charity began taking Cambridge classes her freshman year and talked about how challenging the classes are.
She told me, “The level of curriculum throughout the year definitely challenged me. It wasn’t something that you can just coast through the classes and then study one night before a test. You had to put in your all throughout the year, and actually learn the content, so that when the tests came you knew what was going to be asked of you. It requires a lot of self-motivation and discipline.”
Charity is not only a very smart young lady, but a well-rounded one as well. She is thinking about studying Christian Ministry and Business in college. It doesn’t take long to talk with Charity to see that her faith plays a big part in her life.
She told me, “The last couple of summers I went with Teen Missions International and did mission work around the world with other teenagers.”
Charity is also very involved with her local church. She told me she especially enjoys working with the youth group and with the children’s ministries.
Charity Mugge is going to go a long way in life. She is smart, disciplined, focused, and driven. Rockledge High School is proud of her. I know her parents, Mike and Cindy Mugge, are proud of her. Brevard County is proud of her. She has really put Brevard “on the map!” I can’t wait to see where life takes her!
The Cambridge program at Rockledge High School is a member of the Cambridge International Education group that is a part of the University of Cambridge in England. This program works with schools worldwide to provide an educational experience that shapes student knowledge, understanding, and skills. Cambridge’s goal is to give students the confidence they need to thrive and make a positive impact on our ever-changing world.
Cambridge is over 160 years old and is offered in schools around the world. The program allows students to earn college-level credit while still in high school and prepares students with skills they will need to succeed in higher education.
The Cambridge program at Rockledge High School was started in 2006. Since then, the program has helped almost 1,000 students earn the prestigious AICE Diploma. The AICE Diploma is an international high school diploma that requires students in the Cambridge program to take 7 different college-level courses at RHS and pass their corresponding exams at the end of the year. These exams are college-level exams that are graded by the examiners with Cambridge International Education in England. Students who earn the AICE Diploma are eligible for the highest level of the Bright Futures Scholarship with the completion of 100 community service or paid work hours.
At the end of each school year, the students in the Cambridge program take their AICE exams. After they take their exams, the exams are shipped to England where examiners with Cambridge International Education assess them. Each of the exams is worth a certain number of points (or as the British call them marks), and the goal of each student is accumulating enough points to earn a passing score on the exam. Passing scores on Cambridge exams are a, b, c, d, or e.
After each testing session, Cambridge reviews student scores to determine their Cambridge Scholar Awards. A Cambridge Scholar Award with merit is given to students who earn at least a “B” or higher on at least 3 different Cambridge exams in the same testing session.
Current Brevard County Schools that offer the Cambridge program are Rockledge High School, Eau Gallie High School, Heritage High School and Titusville High School.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR:
Steve Wilson was born in DeRidder, Louisiana and grew up in both New Orleans and Macon, Georgia. He moved to Brevard County in 1984 and retired from local government as the Community Advocate/Assistant to the City Manager with the City of Rockledge in 2018.
Among the awards and accolades Steve has received over the years are 15 + year Rockledge Little League volunteer, Brevard Public School Jefferson Award Recipient, Rockledge High School Raider Booster Award 2001, 2006, City of Rockledge Employee of the Year 2006, Rockledge Kiwanian of the Year 2006-2007, City of Rockledge Quality Public Service Award 2008, 2012, 2017, Rockledge Kiwanis Citizen of the Year 2012-2013, Space Coast Sports Hall of Fame – Sportscasting 2015, Rockledge High School Leadership and Service Award 2016, Central Florida Humanitarian Award 2017, Space Coast Inspiration Award – 2018, Space Coast Sports Hall of Fame – Lifetime Achievement – 2020, Ecofest Achievement Award – 2022, Quality Floridian Award – 2022, presented by U.S. Congressman Bill Posey.
Wilson is especially proud of his chairing two fundraisers in support of pediatric cancer research through the St. Baldrick’s Foundation in honor of Merritt Island resident Julie Spurlock that raised over $25,000.00.
He has been a partner, along with Orville Susong, for the past 24 years with the Friday Night Locker Room, a broadcasting team that covers and reports on a wide variety of local events that are of significance to the residents of the Space Coast and beyond. Their mission is to promote youth sports, support first responders and law enforcement personnel, and showcase community and charitable events that are produced by our nonprofit partners in central Florida.
The Friday Night Locker Room has awarded hundreds of sports achievement plaques to Brevard County student-athletes over the years. They have also awarded more than $18,000 in academic scholarships to Brevard County high school seniors.
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