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KAP names Citizens of the Year
The Atmore Alumni Chapter of Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity Inc. selected Atmore City Councilman Jerome Webster Sr., and former Baldwin County School Board Member James Williams as their 2017 Citizens of the Year. Achievement in every field of human endeavor and giving service to prioritize promoting the welfare of humanity, encouraging our youth to move forward toward excellence in everything they do, accept and deal with life’s challenges with vigor,…
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…
Robots: More than just games
It was an exciting day in fourth-, fifth- and sixth-grade Project Jubilee / Humanities, as students found out that robots are much more than toys or “workers” on an assembly line. Thanks to Dr. Stephanie Hulon, Instructional Transformation Specialist for Baldwin County Schools, the students were able to Skype with engineers who are involved with AIRBUS. Engineers Tyrone Benjamin and Michael Sutherland both have ties to the Gulf Coast area,…
Perdido students experiment with ramp designs
At Perdido Middle School, students in Ms. Nita Long’s eighth-grade science classes began an activity to teach them about distance vs. time graphs and how to use these graphs to find the average acceleration of an object. Everyone designed a ramp using classroom items such as textbooks and miniature marker boards. Students’ cars were released from the top of the ramps as they then tested various heights to see how…
Committee assignments top priorities
By Congressman Bradley Byrne When I am not casting a vote on the floor of the House of Representatives or visiting with groups in my office, a large percentage of my time in Washington is spent serving on committees. There are currently twenty standing committees in the House, and each member of Congress serves on at least one committee. These committees are where much of the legislative work is actually…