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In an era where youth knowledge and involvement in the political system is vital to the health of our country, students at the Lenoir County Early College High School had the opportunity to vote for their Student Government representation in a way that mirrored the process and rigor of municipal, state and federal elections.
Four students from Lenoir County Early College High School teamed up this past weekend to claim the state championship in the North Carolina Council on Economic Education Personal Finance Challenge and earn a spot in the national competition.
With two preliminary round wins, a team of four rising juniors from Lenoir County Early College High School have earned the right to compete for a spot in the finals of the National Personal Finance Challenge, one of only two teams in the state and 24 in the nation still in the running.
Forty-four seniors who amassed more than $1 million in scholarship money and earned a trove of academic honors during a high school career fractured by hurricanes, floods and the coronavirus pandemic received well-deserved praise for keeping their eye on the prize they were awarded Wednesday night at commencement exercises for Lenoir County Early College High School.
Five students from Lenoir County Early College High School participated with approximately 170 other North Carolina students in the 50th Anniversary of the NC Youth Legislative Assembly (YLA) that convened Friday in Raleigh.
Kate Benson has trained and competed as a dancer for most of her young years, but perhaps no dance she’s done has meant so much as the dance she did after receiving word that she’d won a Goodnight Scholarship to NC State University.
Early College commencement is scheduled for 6 p.m. in Briley Auditorium of the Waller Building on the campus of Lenoir Community College, where the high school is located.
In May 2016, Lindsey Turner and Smikal Patel graduated from Lenoir County Early College High School. Last month – four years later – they graduated from their respective colleges of pharmacy with doctorate degrees, having used their intellect and the “backbone” they developed in high school to shave years off the usual academic timetable and launch them into the careers they’d dreamed of as teenagers.
The promise of the early college concept – that freshmen entering from middle school will, in four or five years, earn not only a high school diploma but also a two-year college degree – has never been more fully realized at Lenoir County Early College High School than by its Class of 2019.
