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Congresswoman Foxx is the Keynote Speaker at the 1st Yadkin Bots Tournament!

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The classrooms, hallways and cafeterias in all 10 of the Yadkin County North Carolina elementary and middle schools were buzzing the next school day back after the 1st Yadkin Bots Tournament  about how Congresswoman Foxx had lunch with the Yadkin…

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A modest investment in exciting Rural Eastern NC students about STEM pays big dividends

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Warren and Bertie Counties are rural, sparsely populated and economically distressed.  Between the two counties approximately 80% of their public school students are eligible for free or reduced school lunches.  Even as optimistic as my partner Joe Kronner and I…

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Valley Academy 9th Graders Market Their Water Purification Inventions to Prospective Angel Investors

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The project stemmed originally from a science and sociology project where students studied third world countries in dire need of fresh water and then the technology necessary to purify the water they do have.  Teams of students selected countries and…

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