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ECMS create quilt from book study
Escambia County Middle School’s Enrichment Class read the book Stealing Freedom by Elisa Carbone. The novel study was six weeks long. One of the class projects was to create a quilt that represented the book. Each student recreated scenes from their favorite parts of the book on blank quilt squares. The students pieced the quilt together and had a member of the Atmore community sew the quilt squares together to create…
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CACC hosts Tedder math tourney
The Coastal Alabama Community College Michael Tedder Mathematics Tournament was held on Thursday, January 26, on the Brewton campus. Nine high schools and a total of 192 students participated in the day-long event. Teams competed for trophies and awards on a 35-question exam and 16 “quick answer” cipher questions. Michael Tedder, retired mathematics and physics instructor for the college and the founder of the tournament over 30 years ago, was…
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Nurses pinned
The Woodfin Patterson Auditorium was the setting on December 8 for a Nursing Pinning Ceremony for 13 graduates of the Nursing Program at Jefferson Davis Community College. Graduates represented the Standard Track Nursing Program (RN) and the Career Mobile Track Nursing Program (LPN to RN). Special honorees for the Standard Track were Valedictorian Casey Nolen and Salutatorian Ashley Schlossberg, and for the LPN Career Mobililty Track were Valedictorian Claudette Johnson…
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JDCC releases honors lists
Jefferson Davis Community College has released the President’s and Dean’s lists for Fall Semester 2016. Requirements for inclusion on the President’s list are a semester grade point average of 4.0 and completion of a minimum semester course load of 12 semester credit hours of college-level work. Atmore students named to this list are Madelyn Hope Boatwright, Jerame Heath Conn, Caleb Grant Hochstetler, Pamela Joy Powe, James Bryan Sizemore. Requirements for…
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PCI scholarship open for applications
The Poarch Creek Indian Community Scholarship is now open for applications at The Community Foundation of South Alabama. Created in 2015 with an initial investment of $250,000 and an eventual goal of $1 million, the scholarship fund allows for two scholarships to be awarded annually to one male and one female residing in Alabama or the Panhandle of Florida. The Poarch Creek Indians established the scholarship with a goal of…
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