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Upward Bound is participating in the Summer Food Service Program!Meals will be provided to all eligible children free of charge. To be eligible to receive free meals at a residential or non-residential camp, children must meet the imcone guidelines for reduced price meals in the National School Lunch Program. The income guidelines for reduced price meals by family size are below. Children who are part of households that receive food stamps or benefits under the Food Distribution Program on...
Win A Nexus Tablet at The 2013 NC Gravity Games!Get your wheels tightened and your aerodynamics set because this year’s gravity games are rolling closer every day! We can’t wait to see the cars that will debut on April 13, 2013 at the North Carolina Gravity Games Soapbox Races in Lenoir.Registration is open to the entire state until March 15, 2013. But if you register BY March 1, your team will be entered to win a Google chat with our race experts and a practice run on race day.We’re still...
Date: March 21, 2013Registration information will be available on this website beginning January 21, 2013. The $20.00 registration fee will include breakfast, lunch with Robin Hadley, and break-out sessions focusing on successful college access programing. Attendees will have the opportunity to network with colleagues and share best practices and strategies for increasing the number of students who pursue educational opportunities after graduating from high school.
LENOIR, November 19, 2011 - Donning jackets, hoodies and gloves, more than 200 spectators lined Church Street in downtown Lenoir to support competitors in the first-ever Western North Carolina Gravity Games Soapbox Race. Google and Appalachian State University co-hotsted the event in support of science, technology, engineering and math (known as STEM) programs in North Carolina schools. For the full story, www.news.appstate.edu/2011/11/23/western-north-carolina-gravity-...
By Kaeleigh D’Amico, junior at ACHS (Click for full story)
On Friday, August 26th, 2011, Avery County High School STEM (science, technology, engineering, and math) tenth graders went on a fieldtrip, planned by Sarah Tilson of GEAR UP, to learn about green energy. At their first stop, the Beech Mountain Wind Farms, students learned about wind turbines, including the one that Avery County High School will be getting...
