Education briefs: RSS to host community job fair Friday – Salisbury Post

SALISBURY – More than 40 employers are registered to take part within the Rowan-Salisbury Schools Community Job Fair on Friday from 2:30-5 p.m. at Life Church of Salisbury. Earlier within the day, the job fair will probably be open solely to highschool seniors from throughout Rowan-Salisbury Schools. These highschool seniors are planning to go straight into the workforce, are undecided on their put up-secondary plans or are planning to attend a community school. The observe up to the occasion will probably be a profession signing day April 28 for college students who receive employment on the job fair.

“This event will be instrumental in building our workforce talent pipeline in Rowan County,” mentioned Holly Pore, RSS Director of Career and Technical Education. “Rowan County is surely a place where we can live, learn, earn and play; this event is a collaborative effort to positively contribute to the economic mobility of our people and community.”

Rowan Partners for Education, NC Works, Rowan Economic Development Commission, NEXTGEN, and the Rowan Chamber of Commerce are companions within the occasion.

The community portion of the job fair will probably be open from 2:30 to 5 p.m. and Rowan Partners for Education is the occasion sponsor.

SHS challenge prepares college students for the way forward for online game design with assist from Catawba College

SALISBURY — Salisbury High School is utilizing video video games, augmented actuality and digital actuality in English courses with some assist from Catawba College.

SHS college students had been tasked with creating their very own video video games, giving them fingers-on expertise creating and creating the setting, characters and plot. Then, they labored in teams to choose the very best concepts and created the quilt artwork, a gross sales pitch video, sport trailer, storyboard and unique art work for his or her proposed video games.

Using AR, the scholars shared their tasks with the remainder of the varsity, and people college students voted on their favourite tasks. On the ultimate day of the challenge, college students rotated by a number of stations to expertise the way forward for sport design by collaborating in a VR expertise.

The challenge was applied in a number of school rooms that additionally serve distinctive college students (these with Individualized Education Plans) and English Language Learners. In addition to specializing in educational and know-how abilities, it additionally emphasised interpersonal abilities corresponding to creativity, management, teamwork, civility, work ethic, communication and downside-fixing.

“This activity was a way to engage students by appealing to their interests and allowing them to work in cooperative groups to showcase their unique skills, experiences and intelligence,” mentioned SHS Instructional Technology Facilitator Eden Sloop.

Teacher Kelly Goodman mentioned she hopes the challenge will spark an curiosity that leads to careers for the scholars.

“Because we’re training them for jobs that don’t exist yet, we have to be open-minded and let them create because they will be creating the jobs of the future,” she mentioned.

Teams who labored on the profitable tasks gained a visit to Catawba College for an enhanced studying expertise within the Greg and Missie Alcorn Digital Learning Lab. Librarians Earl Givens and Amanda Bosch, and Learning Technology and Systems Specialist Jeff Bostian and Library Instructional Technologist Zach Trivett guided them by fingers-on alternatives with state-of-the-artwork tools. The college students rotated by stations the place the professors supplied a extra in-depth expertise with VR know-how and labored with the opposite slicing-edge applied sciences within the lab.

The college students additionally went on a tour of the faculty’s campus and library.

“We enjoyed hosting SHS students in the Alcorn Digital Learning Lab and working with students in design thinking as they explored 3D printing, laser engraver designing, and explored virtual worlds using the Quest 2 headsets,” Bosch mentioned. “We hope this expertise conjures up them to proceed downside-fixing with a design mindset and artistic considering methods.

We look ahead to persevering with to accomplice with native Okay-12 lecturers so extra college students in our community
might have a lot of these distinctive experiences.”

SHS’s partnership with Catawba College has been years within the making. This challenge continues a collaboration that started throughout the 2018-2019 faculty yr. The unique challenge included a “Shark Tank”fashion gross sales pitch with Catawba school.

Partners In Learning to host particular wants mini convention

Partners in Learning to host particular wants mini convention

SALISBURY – Partners In Learning can have its annual Special Needs Mini-Conference the week of April 11.

PIL has been internet hosting the convention for 15 years and it’s free to take part.

“Spring has always been my favorite time of the year,” PIL Executive Director Norma Honeycutt mentioned. “It’s a time of new life, new beginnings, and coming out of a cold, dark winter. It’s the perfect timing each year to have our special needs mini-conference. Our sessions provide parents with hope, support, new strategies, and inspiration to start new and build on past successes.”

This yr’s theme “belly to bus,” will talk about mind improvement from pre-natal care by the varsity-age years.

“The mission of the annual mini-conference is to guarantee that our community thrives, not just survives, through collaboration with families and providers in our community. We strive to ensure that every family and provider is knowledgeable of and connected to programs and resources delivering services from belly to the bus,” Early Intervention Director Cassie Karriker mentioned.

This yr’s classes embrace presenters with numerous backgrounds on early childhood
improvement together with:

• Jamie Guagliano, with Smart Start Rowan, presenting on, “The Importance of Early Care and Education,” at 12:30 p.m. on April 11.

• A panel dialogue with adults with particular wants, facilitated by Karriker at 6 p.m. on April 12.

• Kelsie Hoilen, Partners In Learning’s Board Certified Behavior Analyst, presenting on
“Surviving the Behavioral Challenges in Early Childhood,” at 12:30 p.m, on April 13.

• Paula Yost, psychological well being counselor will talk about, “The Impact of Caregiver’s Mental Health on Children,” at 2 p.m. on April 14.

In earlier years this occasion was held in-particular person, however for the previous years Partners In Learning has held it nearly due to COVID-19. It will probably be digital once more this yr.

Registration is free and open to the general public.

To register, go to epartnersinlearning.org/upcoming-occasions/ or name 704-638-9020. Partners In Learning serves because the mannequin inclusive early instructional heart offering care
to kids 6 weeks by 12-years-previous in Rowan County. The heart cares for greater than
200 kids weekly by its nationally accredited instructional program, and greater than 150n households throughout 16 counties by its scientific applications.

For extra details about the middle, go to epartnersinlearning.org.

University of North Carolina creates scholarships for West Rowan High School seniors

CHAPEL HILL — The University of North Carolina System has introduced the M&J class of 68 scholarships set to award West Rowan High School college students with $2,500 for a level in schooling or nursing inside the UNC system.

Anonymous donors have donated funds to award two college students with this scholarship.

The scholarships are for present highschool seniors graduating this June 2022 from West Rowan High  School in Mt. Ulla, NC and have to be accepted by any of the constituent establishments inside the University of North  Carolina System. The scholarships are for college students who’re North Carolina residents with documented monetary want and eligibility for the Federal Pell Grant Program. The documented monetary want shall be decided by the finished Free Application for Federal Student Aid.

There isn’t any minimal GPA requirement for incoming full-time freshmen recipients. The recipients should proceed to signify schooling and nursing majors with plans to pursue careers in instructing or nursing upon commencement. If a recipient now not represents a nursing or schooling main, they’re now not eligible for the scholarship.  

Awards shall be for one educational yr. Recipients might obtain up to 4 years of scholarships so long as the scholar meets the scholarship standards and is making passable educational progress outlined by the establishment the scholar is attending to graduate inside a complete of 5 educational years. 

Each scholarship award will probably be a minimal of $2,500 per scholar per educational yr, with the likelihood  to improve at a later date. Scholarship funding will probably be instantly despatched to the UNC System University and could also be used for tuition, room and board and course charges. 

Applications are due by April 22.

Applications want to embrace the next supplemental supplies: 

• Resume 

• High School transcripts, official or unofficial.

• An essay which features a brief introduction of the candidate, involvement in highschool , why the candidate chosen the UNC System college they are going to be attending within the fall and why they’ve chosen to pursue a level in schooling or nursing.

• No longer than 500 phrases.

• 12 Times New Roman font.

The scholarship software might be discovered on

For the applying and questions, contact Dr. Bethany Meighen, Vice President for Student Affairs on the UNC System, at bdmeighen@northcarolina.edu.

Rowan County School System’s 2022 Summer Meals web site software deadline approaches

SALISBURY — Site software packets for the Rowan County School System’s 2022 Summer Meals service are due April 15.

Applications are to be turned in to program administrator Meredith Honeycutt.

RSS will probably be serving meals June 6 – July 29. No meals will probably be served July 4 in statement of Independence Day.

For questions, contact Honeycutt at honeycuttml@rss.k12.nc.us.

Interdenominational Ministers Fellowship Treasure Feamster Scholarship deadline approaching

SALISBURY — The deadline to apply for the Interdenominational Ministers Fellowship Treasure Feamster Scholarship closes on April 11.

Scholarships can be found for highschool seniors who’re members of an IMF-affiliated church, no matter their subject of research. Students can speak with their steering workplace or affiliated church for extra data and steps for software or name 704-639-1894 or 704-433-3277.