Category: Education

The eighth annual North Carolina Hot Sauce Contest, held Sept. 13 in downtown Oxford, again featured the Culinary Arts department from Vance-Granville Community College. Not only did students from the program serve up their own spicy treats to festival attendees, but students and faculty members also formed the entire team of judges for the second consecutive year. It was up to the program’s two instructors, Chef Ross Ragonese (the program head) and Chef John Boretti, and two students, Randy Wilfong …

Download here:  20140915 Elementary School News   VANCE COUNTY SCHOOLS       ELEMENTARY SCHOOL NEWS   Volume 2 Issue 5                        September 15-19, 2014       The MISSION of Vance County Schools is to be committed to educating all students to prepare them for lifelong learning and productive citizenship.   IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENTS     Early Release Day on Wednesday for staff development in the afternoon. Elementary and high schools dismiss at 12 p.m. and middle schools dismiss at 12:15 …

Download here:  20140915 Weekly School News   VANCE COUNTY SCHOOLS   WEEKLY SCHOOL NEWS   Volume 3, Issue 5 A Publication for Middle and High Schools September 15-19, 2014       The MISSION of Vance County Schools is to be committed to educating all students to prepare them for lifelong learning and productive citizenship.   IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENTS       Interim Progress Reports distributed today (Monday) at high schools, except Early   College High.         Early …

Eaton-Johnson Middle School has announced that the Parent Night, originally scheduled for September 22, has been postponed. A date for the event will be announced later.

Vance-Granville Community College will provide High School Equivalency practice tests at no cost to any local adult on weekdays between Sept. 22 and Oct. 3, 2014, as part of the national GED Testing Service’s “See for Free” program. Students may take the “GED Ready” practice tests at either VGCC’s Main Campus in Vance County; the Franklin County Campus near Louisburg; South Campus, between Butner and Creedmoor; or the Warren County Campus in Warrenton. “If you’ve thought about completing your high …

Keith Shearon of Youngsville has been named to lead the new Mechatronics Engineering Technology program at Vance-Granville Community College. Shearon brings decades of industry experience in manufacturing and electronics to the program and his students. Shearon begins teaching the first two courses offered as part of the two-year Mechatronics degree, “Circuit Analysis” and “Introduction to Automation,” on Sept. 16. The new program is based at VGCC’s South Campus, located between Butner and Creedmoor. The Mechatronics Engineering Technology curriculum provides training …

Eight students at Southern Vance High School have earned certification from the National Center for Construction Education and Research (NCCER). The students include Jan Aldana, Christopher Domigez, Courtney Elliott, Elton Marrow, Shaleyah Mitchell, Saul Santillan, Sheldon Smith and Michael Thomas. The NCCER certification modules are offered through the Career and Technical Education Program course entitled CORE and sustainable construction. The instructor for the course is Ben Arrington. This industry recognized credential requires students to score 70 or higher on modules …

Testing results have been released for schools across the state and it appears that Oxford Preparatory High School has established a comfortable baseline in its initial operating year. The results released by North Carolina DPI for the school year 2013-2014 (http://www.ncpublicschools.org/accountability/reporting/ ) provide concrete evidence that OPHS has already begun to demonstrate its ability to help students meet the high academic expectations required for students who anticipate gaining entry into the college of their choice. In the very first year …

Vance-Granville Community College students, faculty and staff held a 45th anniversary party on Sept. 4, in the student lounge on the college’s Main Campus. The original charter for the college, then known as Vance County Technical Institute, was issued by the State Board of Education on Sept. 4, 1969, following authorization by the N.C. General Assembly earlier that year. As recordings of some of the most popular music of 1969 played in the background, members of the college community enjoyed …

Vance-Granville Community College recently named Dr. Tara Rutledge Hamilton as the new head of the college’s Bioprocess Technology program. Hamilton, who lives in Raleigh, has been a member of the VGCC faculty since 2010 and has taught Bioprocess, Biology and Chemistry courses as well as the BioWork training program. Hamilton earned her undergraduate degree in Biochemistry at Old Dominion University. She later completed a Ph.D. in Biochemistry at the University of Kentucky. Hamilton was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the …

Vance-Granville Community College recently recognized a student for his artwork celebrating the college’s library. The VGCC Library Services Subcommittee, which includes faculty and staff members from across the college, honored Wiley Davis of Henderson, whose original artwork was selected as the winner of the subcommittee’s 2014 National Library Week poster contest. The subcommittee sponsored the contest to celebrate the importance of libraries and to raise awareness among students of the services and resources available to them, according to English instructor …

Southern Vance High School’s Kendra Simmons is a four-year starter on the volleyball team, a captain on the cheerleading squad and a starter on the softball team. She is also tops in her class academically and a volunteer tutor and is this week’s winner of Tom Suitor’s Extra Effort Award. Click here for video:  http://www.highschoolot.com/extra_effort/video/13952469/#/vid13952469

Vance County Board of Education, Henderson, N. C. 27536, September 8, 2014 7:00 p.m. in the Administrative Services Center A G E N D A I. Call to Order II. Moment of Silence * III. Approval of Minutes * IV. Approval of Meeting Agenda V. Recognitions/Announcements A. Principals and Assistant Principals   VI. Comments from the Public (Citizens who would like to address the Board may do so by completing Form BDDH-E, Public Participation at Board Meetings. This request must …

  VANCE COUNTY SCHOOLS       ELEMENTARY SCHOOL NEWS   Volume 2 Issue 3                           September 1-5, 2014       The MISSION of Vance County Schools is to be committed to educating all students to prepare them for lifelong learning and productive citizenship.   IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENTS       Tuesday is the first full day of classes for pre-kindergarten students.     Blackboard Connect training session for principals, some assistant principals and all school data managers at 9:30 a.m. …

The Vance-Granville Community College Library and NC LIVE, North Carolina’s statewide public and academic library consortium, are experimenting with a new eBook project that gives North Carolina library patrons unlimited access to more than 1,200 eBook titles from North Carolina-based publishers. This collection offers a wide range of content, including novels by popular North Carolina authors, poetry, short stories, and non-fiction. The eBooks are available for public use on the BiblioBoard platform by visiting nclive.org/ebooks or by visiting lrc.vgcc.edu and clicking …

Denise B. Gill of Henderson recently retired as manager of the Child Care Center at Vance-Granville Community College’s Main Campus. She had directed the day care center since Sept. 19, 1983. In August, Gill’s colleagues held a reception in her honor, which was attended by numerous VGCC faculty and staff, as well as parents of children who have spent some of their formative years at the center. She reflected on how much has changed in her almost 31 years at …