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GREENSBORO, NC - Fifteen high school students recently graduated from North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University's 2002 Summer High School Transportation Institute. The students were recognized at the Summer High School Transportation Institute's Tenth Anniversary celebration on August 2. The students from Greensboro were Shenese Baldwin, Southern Guilford High School; Erica Bouttry, Dudley High School; Kimberly Brown, Smith High School; Luvie Green, Southern Guilford High School; Lydia Harp, Ragsdale High School; Arnitra Harris, Dudley High School; Joy Johnson, Grimsley High School; Shawndra King, Northeast High School; Shoska Manson, Dudley High School; Tyrell Morris, Smith High School; Sirena Redfern, Grimsley High School; and Candace Smith, Southern Guilford High School. Other students were Jonathan Allred, Southeast High School, Pleasant Garden, N.C.; Cathy Pope, Rocky Mount Senior High School, Rocky Mount, N.C.; and Lawrence Wilson, Terry Sanford High School, Fayetteville, N.C. The Summer High School Transportation Institute is a unique, non-residential five-week program designed to create an awareness of the career and academic choices and opportunities existing within the transportation industry. Students participating in the Institute were introduced to theoretical and practical aspects of all forms of transportation. They were exposed to transportation related disciplines such as engineering, economics, marketing, computer science and public policy. The participants received a weekly stipend and took a college level English course, which was tuition-free. Credit received from the course can be "banked" toward future enrollment at A&T. Funding for the Institute is provided by the Federal Highway Administration (through a grant with South Carolina State University), the North Carolina Department of Transportation, the Southeastern Transportation Center, the Urban Transit Institute, The Dow Chemical Company, and the Transportation Institute of A&T's School of Business and Economics. Previous Page |