OFM_Stars_Dept_0723FINAL_SW.qxp_Stars 6 / 14 / 23 12 : 12 PM Page 1 Each month , Stars features exceptional students , student - athletes , OrlandoFamily educators and all - around boons to the Greater Orlando area . ? KNOWSOMEONE WHO DESERVESSTAR TREATMENT ? Submit your nominees to Karen @ OrlandoFamilyMagazine.com GARBY GILOT Four years ago , this 2006 Edgewater High School graduate joined the Navy , and today , Petty Officer 3rd Class Gilot serves as a damage controlman aboard USS Robert Smalls , a forward - deployed U.S . Navy warship . Gilot serves in Japan as part of the Forward Deployed Naval Forces , which operate with allies and part - ners to preserve a free and open Indo - Pacific region . Service members in this region are part of the U.S . Pacific Fleet , which has the largest area of responsibility in the world . “ Being in the Navy means I am able to rep - National Science Bowl hosted by the U.S . LAKE HIGHLAND PREP resent America Department of Education . Their performance will Middle school students Ajay Sawant , Pranav in a positive way be recognized by the U.S . Department of Mahendran , Sree Shakhamoori and Mohid overseas , ” Gilot says . “ I am very happy to be sta - Education with $ 1,000 in prize money . Hassan recently placed first in the prestigious tioned in Yokosuka , Japan . I was blessed to meet my wife here and we are starting a family soon . ” DR . TARA WILLIAMS The Florida Department of Health in Orange DR . MICHAEL STEPPIE County ( DOH - Orange ) recently honored Dr . Dr . Steppie , the medical director at Associates in Williams as this year’s Alfred L . Bookhardt , M.D . Dermatology , recently served as the volunteer der - Award recipient for her contributions to health matologist for care in Orange County . Established by the Florida the Skin Cancer Department of Health in Orange County in 2015 , Foundation’s the annual Bookhardt Award pays homage to Dr . “ Destination Alfred L . Bookhardt and recognizes an Orange Healthy Skin ” County physician for their dedication and commit - free screening ment to increasing access to health care . Dr . and education Williams is a clinical associate professor of pedi - program in atrics at the University of Central Florida’s College Orlando . The of Medicine . She’s been a practicing general aca - program brings demic pediatrician and breastfeeding medicine free , full body specialist for over a decade . She is passionate skin cancer about training the next generation of pediatricians screenings , to be competent at encouraging , supporting and educational advocating for breastfeeding equity in all clinical materials , sun settings . protection , skin care and give - aways to for the Arts and Blue Star Families in collaboration ORLANDO MUSEUM OF ART people around with the Department of Defense and participating The Orlando Museum of Art recently announced it the country . To museums across America . Free admission is avail - will once again join museums nationwide in the date , the volun - able for those currently serving in the United States Blue Star Museums initiative , a program that pro - teer dermatolo - Military — Air Force , Army , Coast Guard , Marine vides free admission to currently serving U.S . mili - gists have pro - Corps , Navy , and Space Force , members of the tary personnel and their families . The 2023 pro - vided more Reserves , National Guard , U.S . Public Health gram began on Armed Forces Day , May 20 , and than 27,000 free skin cancer screenings and identi - Commissioned Corps , NOAA Commissioned will end on Labor Day , Sept . 4 . Blue Star Museums fied more than 11,000 skin cancers and pre - can - Corps , and up to five family members . is a partnership between the National Endowment cers . 38 ORLANDO FAMILY july 2023 ORLANDOFAMILYMAGAZINE.COM