Education

Town Creek Elementary’s mascot Swampee, along with Savannah, a K-9 with the BARK program, joined students at the book fair to support Brunswick County’s reading initiative, “Today a Reader-Tomorrow a Leader.”

BOLIVIA—She’s in the first grade and she beat out competition in the second and third grades.

Carleigh Bowling is a 6-year-old first-grade student at Bolivia Elementary School. Her writing has been capturing the attention of her teachers and, more recently, judges across the state.

Late last year, Carleigh was selected by her first-grade teacher JoAnn Tucker to enter a writing submission into an annual writing competition that pits first-grade students against second- and third-grade students.

The Franklin Square Gallery High School Art Show opens on Monday, March 25. Students from three local high schools will display an array of paintings, drawings, prints and photography, as well as three-dimensional constructions. Rusty Hughes, art instructor at Brunswick Community College, will judge their work.

BCC sponsors sustainability symposium March 22
To be up-to-date on current sustainability trends, Brunswick Community College (BCC), through the Green Information and Training Center, has established an annual Sustainability Symposium and Expo. Now in its third year, the event is hosted by BCC’s Economic and Workforce Development in collaboration with the North Carolina Military Business Center at the BCC Leland Center for Economic and Workforce Development. This year’s theme is “Sustainability and the Future of Energy and Water.”