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Veritas Preparatory School is hosting an Open House and special guest speaker on March 13 at St. Paul’s Church, 304 E. Camperdown Way, Greenville. An information session on the school will begin at 7 p.m. At 7:45 p.m. Dr. Christopher Perrin, an expert on classical education, will speak on “Why Classical, Why Greenville, Why Now?” Veritas is a Christian, classical, university-model school opening in the fall of 2013 for K5-fifth grades. For more information, visit veritasgreenville.com or email info@veritasgreenville.com. A meeting will be held March 12 at 5:30 p.m. at Langston Charter Middle School, 1950 Woodruff Road, Greenville, for anyone interested in running for the Langston School Board. Attendees are invited to stay after the meeting for the regularly scheduled board meeting. March 14 will be a Chick-fil-A Spirit Night for Mt. Zion Christian School. Supporters can visit the Woodruff Road location from 5-8 p.m. and tell the cashier they want to support the school. The NEXT Intern Event will be March 12, 6-8:30 p.m., at the NEXT Innovation Center, 411 University Ridge, Greenville. College students in search of internships can utilize this opportunity to discover NEXT, hear from some of the fastest-growing companies in the Upstate, learn about available internships, interview for a specific internship, network with potential employers and peers, and enjoy free food and refreshments. Visit nextupstatesc.org for more information and to apply online. For more information, contact Brenda Laakso at blaakso@nextupstatesc.org or 864-751-4806. St. Joseph’s Catholic School will host Spring Parish Night on March 15. Area students will be admitted to any sporting event on campus that night free of charge with a Catholic parish bulletin; adults $5.00 each. For game times, visit sjcatholicschool.org. Shannon Forest will present “The Wizard of Oz,” a non-musical adaptation by Anne Coulter Martens on March 15-16 at 7 p.m. Tickets are $5 for students, $8 for adults, and $2 for children 6 and under. For tickets, call 864-678-5107 or email bteie@ shannonforest.com. Mauldin High School recently recognized the top 12 ranked students in the junior class who have been named the 2012-2013 Junior Marshals: William Cummings, Nikita Deshpande, Joshua Dunster, Zachary Girvin, Alondra Gutierrez, Christian Monsalve, Andrew Moore, Alexander Phillips, Sarah Shepard, Eric Singleton, Juliana Wallace and Madeline Weih. Olivia Baddley, 18, of Simpsonville and Emma McDaniel, 14, of Inman were named South Carolina’s top youth volunteers of 2013 by the Prudential Spirit of Community Awards, a national program honoring middle level and high school students for outstanding volunteer service. The program also recognized four Distinguished Finalists from South Carolina, including Rachel Bryson, 17, of Lyman. On a recent field trip, Bob Jones Academy fifth-grade classes learned firsthand about South Carolina state history from Gov. Nikki Haley and Reps. Wendy Nanney and Dan Hamilton. They also spent time exploring the S.C. State Museum. The field trip included guided tours of the South Carolina State Museum and the State House. Hamilton and Nanney, both Bob Jones graduates, gave students a glimpse into life at the State House and spent time answering questions. Governor Nikki Haley also took time to talk to the students.
Two students in Spartanburg Community College’s digital design associate degree program received $500 scholarships from The Printing Industry of the Carolinas Foundation. Krysten Steinecke of Inman and Courtney Gay of Pacolet were among six students selected from two-year colleges in South Carolina and North Carolina. Greer Middle College Charter High School students recently attended the 75th Annual South Carolina State Beta Club Convention in Myrtle Beach. For the first time in the school’s history, three students qualified for national competitions to be held in Mobile, Ala., in June 2013. Asa Reini qualified for the science competition, Leighton Higgins qualified for creative writing, and Morgan Palmer qualified for English competition. St. Joseph’s Catholic School’s Anna Marchek placed second in the statewide Junior Beta Club T-shirt Design Competition. St. Joseph’s has now been invited to submit this T-shirt design to the National Convention in Mobile, Ala., in June. Twenty-two SJCS Beta Club members joined 3,800 middle school students from across the state for the annual convention. The fourth-grade students at Augusta Circle Elementary recently hosted a book drive. Throughout the week, students collected new and gently used books to donate to the youth served by Pendleton Place. Parents and students delivered 2,339 books to Pendleton Place. The school is also celebrating 90 years with a fundraiser to purchase new playground equipment and is asking donors to give $90 to the cause. Further information is available at AugustaCirclePTA.com. South Carolina Governor’s School for the Arts and Humanities poetry students Ian Burnette and Anne Shelley Hucks were recognized by the international poetry contest, The Patricia Grodd Poetry Prize for Young Writers. Burnette claimed first prize and Hucks was one of two runners-up selected. The Kenyon Review, an internationally respected literary journal, is the contest sponsor; editor David Baker Burnette annually selects one winner and two runners-up.
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St. Joseph’s Catholic School Love of Giving Club, which provides books, blankets and stuffed animals to children in the hospital, was recently awarded a large donation from Kohl’s Department Store. Members worked one afternoon tying ribbons and tags on the 250 stuffed animals and placing bookmarks in over 600 hardback children’s books. The items were then delivered to Children’s Hospital and Shriner’s Hospital in Greenville. Submit entries to: Community Journals, Our Schools, 148 River Street, Ste. 120, Greenville, SC 29601 or email: community@communityjournals.com
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