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Celebrating Ten Years with Litter
This year Greene Early College celebrates a ten-year contractual agreement with NC Department of Transportation’s Adopt-A-Highway Program. To celebrate the commitment, over 40 very willing students combed the shoulders and ditches on Middle School Road on Friday September 23 to collect litter.
GECKOS at GEC
Nine members strong and growing, a new club has been formed at Greene Early College. Chemistry & Earth Science teacher Brian Rada, has organized an after-school science club affectionately called GECKOS - the Greene Early College Kids of Science. Meeting once a week, the group participates in hands-on science experiments and projects.
GEC Super Senior chosen Fireman of the Year
Walstonburg Fire Department has named Greene Early College Super Senior Dorien Sutton as Fireman of the Year. Dorien has served with the 64-year-old department since 2018. The 22-member department serves 38 square miles with 3500 residents.
One Hundred Fifty-Five Miles for Mental Health Awareness
Walking 155 miles, sixty-nine Greene Early College students partnered with Lenoir Community College’s “Walk for Mental Health Awareness” on October 7. Using Greene Central’ track, students proudly participated in this worthy acknowledgement of the heath issues caused by mental illnesses.
From Horseshoes to Pumpkin, Really?
Greene Early College senior, Dylan Lee, fashioned the true indication of the approaching Fall season, a pumpkin, in his welding class at Greene Early College, LCC campus.
Continuing a nine-year commitment
Honoring a nine year contractual agreement with NC Department of Transportation’s Adopt-A-Highway Program, sixty Greene Early College students recently combed Middle School Road bagging trash. Under the leadership of English teacher, Natasha Martin, applied in September 2012 to DOT for the 1.2 mile road to be adopted by the school.
This week the students and staff of Greene Early College (GEC) received some good news that made everyone feel a little better. For the past four years, GreatSchools.org has compiled a list of high schools that excel at ensuring students prepare for college, enroll in college, and succeed once they get there. This year, GEC made the list receiving the 2021 GreatSchool’s College Success-Gold award.
GEC’s Pride in Greene award
Sharon King, LCC Liaison for Greene Early College, was chosen by the GEC staff to receive the Pride in Greene Award. The recognition was made at the Greene County School’s Annual End of Year celebration on June 8. Each school in the system is offered the opportunity to recognize one of its staff members that exhibits pride in the students’ education and school mission.
Rediscovering a childhood pastime - playing in the dirt
GEC freshmen in Mrs. Josey Thompson’s earth science class rediscovered a fascination of a childhood pastime: playing in the dirt. As a culminating component of the class, students were challenged to make a difference in the environment. Many students chose projects that ecstatically improved the GEC/LCC campus.
A bit of beauty in a pot
During the virtual learning phase of schools this year, many young people discovered interest in unsuspected places. Such is the case with Andrea Contreras, a senior at Greene Early College as she discovered her passion for flowers. After the reopening of school in April with more students in attendance, she continued her enthusiasm for growing flowers.
From ice buckets to Easter baskets
The newly formed Greene Early College Community Service Club has completed its initial project since the inception of the club in February. The thirty-five-member club, under the leadership of a group of juniors, wanted to reach out to the community and go beyond the brick and mortar of their school. Realizing the isolation effects of the elderly population during the pandemic, the group decided to assemble Easter baskets for the residents of Greendale Forest Rehabilitation Center in Snow Hill.
Greene Early College Phi Theta Kappa spring inductees
Established in 1918 by two-year college presidents and recognized in 1929 by the American Association of Community Colleges, Phi Theta Kappa International Honor Society is the official honor society for two-year colleges.
Rodney McNeill has been the principal of Greene Early College High School for the past seven years. Three years ago, he embarked on an academic journey to pursue his doctoral degree at East Carolina University.
Greene Early College students perform in musical
GEC students, Stacie Hubbard and Reagan Dixon, participated in Kids on Stage’s presentation of the classic fairy tale Beauty and the Beast: