All in Education
HARRISONBURG, VA - Kinston resident, Aliza Matthews, has been named to the president's list at James Madison University for the fall 2019 semester. Students who earn president's list honors must carry at least 12 graded credit hours and earn a GPA of 3.900 or above. Matthews is majoring in dance.
On Wednesday the center hosted free tours for Lenoir County Schools fourth-graders which were made possible by a $1700 sponsorship from Tands, Inc/ Bojangles. The donation covered expenses for student admission and their transportation to the site.
Career Day at Jones Senior High School was on Feb. 13. Students were able to visit each CTE program of focus study in pods.
According to Monster.com there were almost 7,500 manufacturing jobs open in North Carolina this week. Ziprecruiter.com reports that the average salary for advanced manufacturing jobs in North Carolina is $58,000. Lenoir Community College’s new Aerospace & Advanced Manufacturing Center at the NC Global TransPark is preparing local students to enter those jobs.
Lenoir Community College and Aircraft Solutions USA Inc. have recently signed a memorandum of agreement in which LCC will provide education and training for the future employees of Aircraft Solutions USA, Inc. Specifically, the College will leverage its expertise for pre-hire training, apprenticeships, continuing education and workforce development and college degree programs.
A $400,000 grant to KCHC from The Duke Endowment has allowed LCPS to offer expanded in-school dental care for K-8 students who don’t have a dentist, not only increasing the number of visits to elementary and middle schools but, for the first time, creating an easy route to follow-up care.
A threat noticed yesterday on an “Out of Order” sign in a Greene Central High School bathroom is leading to more police presence today on campus.
More than a hundred Lenoir County Public School elementary students launched rockets, cracked codes, analyzed compounds, categorized fossils and competed in other contests that made science the focus of their day during the fourth annual LCPS Elementary Science Olympiad on Monday.
The Lenoir Community College Foundation is excited to display the artistic talents of our community members, Transitional and Career Studies students, and Fine Arts Department students in a special event, For the Love of ART from 7 to 8:30 p.m. February 28 in the LCC Blizzard Atrium and Culinary Center.
Lovit Hines park now hosts HSE classes, formerly known as GED classes, all year long through a partnership between Kinston-Lenoir County Parks and Rec and Lenoir Community College. The two organizations hosted a block party to kick off this incredible educational opportunity.
On a Friday afternoon in early February, biology teacher Leslie Lewis’s Parrott Academy classroom is full of sewing machines, irons, and yards of colorful flannel. A group of dedicated high school students learns how to measure, pin, cut, and seam pillows that will be held and hugged by some very special children.
Lenoir Community College student Thurman Sanders of Kinston says he has loved art since the age of five.
Wayne Community College honored 298 students for outstanding academic achievement in the fall 2019 semester.
A group of Contentnea-Savannah K-8 School students looking for worthy beneficiaries of their fundraising effort last spring found them this month in Saudi Arabia.
The Lenoir County Board of Education, acting on the recommendation of Superintendent Brent Williams, named veteran educator and Lenoir County native Jan Tucker as the new principal of Banks Elementary School on Monday.
Congratulations to the following Southwood Elementary School 2nd 9 weeks 2020 Principal's List and Honor Roll students.
A 2008 North Lenoir High School graduate, Kaitlyn Langston of Kinston, was deciding what her next educational move would be. She discovered that she could take Lenoir Community College classes while attending high school, which led her to taking machining classes.
Congratulations to the following Kinston High School 1st Semester Principal's List and Honor Roll students.
E.B. Frink Middle School science teacher Kristen Davenport will be honored Friday by a statewide association of teachers and administrators as the 2020 Outstanding Young Educator for North Carolina.
