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By Erica Thomas, managing editor
CLAY A Clay-Chalkville High School senior will be leaving the nest soon. But his impact in the community will always be felt. As an inspiration to many, Kameron Peterson will go down in Clay history as one of the most challenged and successful athletes to walk the halls of his alma mater.
Peterson has held a steady 4.0-grade point average, he has been consistent on honor roll and he has been inducted into the National Honors Society. Although his academics are more than impressive, it’s his athletic abilities that really make him shine.
During his senior year, Peterson won the 6A State Championship in track for the 4×100 relay, he was named Player of the Week for The Tribune and he was an honorable mention for the 2020 All-Tribune Team.
Family of slain nursing student awards scholarship in honor of graduation she didn’t live to see
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The family of a young woman killed in Birmingham marked what would have been her nursing school Graduation Day by honoring another student.
Destiny Washington, 20, was shot to death Thursday, Dec. 17, 2020 in the parking lot of the student center at University Boulevard and 14th Street South.
Her parents, Randy and Tora Washington, on Friday presented a $500 scholarship to a Tarrant High School student who also plans to study nursing at Lawson State. The award was given to Madison Rodgers at the school’s Awards Day ceremony held Friday evening.
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Watch a group of teens immersed in a popular video game such as Among Us and you will see a textbook definition of successful engagement. Well-designed games ones with clearly stated goals, an emphasis on storytelling, an allowance for productive failure, and an emphasis on supportive teamwork and inclusiveness can point the way to a better classroom environment, too, says University of Alabama at Birmingham s Lauren Rast, Ph.D., an assistant professor in the College of Arts and Sciences Department of Physics.
Rast is a UAB pioneer in a mode of instruction called gameful learning. Faculty in the Department of Physics already have applied gameful learning in their increasingly popular online courses. And in a series of workshops for high school physics teachers inspired by her own work as a computational physicist, Rast has helped teachers share the benefits of gameful learning with teens around Alabama. Her Coding with Physics courses also promote self-efficacy an
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“You Had Me at Hello’’ highlights married couples and the love that binds them. If you would like to be considered for a future “Hello’’ column, or know someone, please send nominations to Erica Wright ewright@birminghamtimes.com. Include the couple’s name, contact number(s) and what makes their love story unique.
KENNETH AND ORLETTA RUSH
Married: June 29, 2002
Met: Spring 1999, at Lee County Youth Center in Opelika, Ala. Orletta was a teacher there, and Kenneth was a Juvenile Probation Officer. Kenneth had nowhere to go but up. “The first time I tried to get a date with her she dissed me,” he said. But “… prayer does work because I could not ever get her off my mind,” he added. “She was even in my dreams . . .During that time I was doing a lot of praying trying to get my life in order and I prayed that the Lord would bring somebody into my life that could keep me motivated, that would support me in my endeavors, ambiti