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N.C. State Extension announced that Anika Parks is completing an extension internship this summer with the Forsyth County Center.
An extension summer intern works with extension personnel to deliver hands-on, educational programs. Job shadowing and mentoring help interns learn about the mission and work of North Carolina Cooperative Extension.
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Historic Körnerâs Folly, 413 S. Main St. in Kernersville presents Plein Air Painting from 9 to 11:30 a.m. June 19. This event is part of the Körnerâs Folly Victorian Parlor Series, a quarterly educational and entertaining program focusing on the culture of the Victorian era, offering participants hands-on experience of life in this time.
Hannah Bovender, 14, speaks about being one of the first in her age group to receive a COVID-19 vaccine.
Ruth Santiago squeezed her eyes shut and looked away as a syringe loaded with the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine plunged into her right arm.
Did it hurt?
âAt first,â Ruth said.
But that millisecond of pain was worth it for the seventh-grader at Philo-Hill Middle School. Her grandparents in Mexico got sick a few days ago, and Ruth is worried that they may have contracted the coronavirus. Helping to keep older folks, such as her grandparents, safe from COVID-19 convinced Ruth to be among the first in the 12-15 age group to get the Pfizer vaccine.
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Georgia Southern engineering faculty, students mentor local high schoolers in annual design competition
April 14, 2021
Wayne Johnson, Ph.D., examines a drone in preparation for the Engineering Design Challenge.
Georgia Southern University engineering students are helping mentor local high school students from Herschel V. Jenkins High School, Calvary Day School, Portal Middle High School and home school students as they design drone attachments as part of this year’s Engineering Design Challenge (EDC) on the Armstrong Campus in Savannah.
The high schoolers have spent months working with their STEM teacher, a practicing engineer, and a Georgia Southern engineering student, to design an excavation tool for the EDC 2021 theme “Eagle Remotely Operated Aerial Recovery 2.0 (ROAR).” When attached to a drone, the tool can be used to collect lunar soil an