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NC-MSEN
Pre-College Program 2009 Major Events
Update
On Jeremy Feaster, a Former UNC Charlette NC-MSEN PCP Senior
A
group of UNC Chapel Hill NC-MSEN Pre-College Program (PCP) students
participated and competed in the
National Science Decathlon Tournament which was held in El Cajon, California
on May 30, 2009. The PCP
National Science Decathlon Team traveled to California on Thursday morning,
May 28th and returned on Sunday,
May 31st. Several PCP students won medals and trophies. Please check
out their press
release (in pdf) and photos
(in pdf).
Update
On Jeremy Feaster, a Former UNC Charlette NC-MSEN PCP Senior
Jeremy Feaster and his classmate, Dusty Watts, were getting ready to
board the plane to London
Jeremy Feaster, a former UNC Charlotte NC-MSEN PCP senior and Harding
University senior, who also is a modern day renaissance man
who have completed a summer internship at UNC Charlotte last year in
hope of providing purify water in Third World countries. Jeremy is
currenlty enrolling in a study abroad program in Paris, France. This
all-expense paid study aboard program is offered to Jeremy by
Georgia Institute of Technology. He will be gone for 11 weeks for the
study aboard program and come back to the United States on August 9,
2009.
He will travel throughout Europe. His itinerary is as follows: England
to Paris, Paris to Germany, Germany to Italy. He will visit several
cities: Rome,
Florence, Vatican City, Prague, and Vienna. He will then travel to Belgian
and from Belgian back to England. He will be studying at Worchester
College
at Oxford University for the last 6 weeks of his visit.
Jeremy
is also a keynote speaker for the incoming Georgia Institute of Technology
freshman class of 2009.
Jeremy
finished his first semester atGeorgia Institute of Technology with a
3.95 GPA and a 4.00 GPA for the second semester of his first year.
Based on the number of credits earned, he will be a raising junior this
fall, which is all within one year of college. He will earn an additional
12 credits while is he is studying in Europe and at Oxford.
NCSU
NC-MSEN Pre-College Program (PCP) Has
Recently Been Published in the Metropolitan Universities Journal!

Two
Decades of Success: North Carolina State University's NC-MSEN Pre-College
Program
Kay Moore and Braska Williams, Jr.
For almost twenty-five years, North Carolina State University has helped
to coordinate a state-wide Mathematics and Science
Education Network Pre-College Program that serves disadvantaged youth
in grades six through twelve. The university-school
partnership includes middle school and high school academic enrichment
in math, science, and communication through Saturday
and summer academies that focus on STEM activities, an annual math/science
statewide competition, and an annual awards program.
The long-term results of the program are impressive: 99 percent of participating
students go on to attend college, students maintain
higher grade point averages and SAT scores than their peers, and two-thirds
of the participants major in STEM or education in college.
You
can also read about the news by clicking http://muj.uc.iupui.edu/abstracts/v19_n4.htm.
It is located third one up from the bottom.
WSSU
NC-MSEN Pre-College Program (PCP) Student Received Scholarship!

Kyhanna Mcall,
a WSSU NC-MSEN PCP senior, received a scholarship given by the Winston-Salem
Urban League in the
amount of $500 or her nursing education at UNCG.
UNCC
NC-MSEN Pre-College Program (PCP) Student Advanced to the National
Scienc Olympiad Competition!

Join us in
congratulating Jerry Cui, an UNCC NC-MSEN PCP student. Jerry won three
events at the State Science Olympiad
Competition. Way to go Jerry! As a result of his wins, Jerry and his
team will be attending the National Science Olympiad Competition.
NC-MSEN
is the Recipient of the 2009 Partnership Award in Science, Mathematics,
and Technology Education!

Partnership
Award in Science, Mathematics, and Technology Education is a prestigious
award recognizes and honors
North Carolina organizations that have an innovative partnership supporting
science, mathematics and technology (SMT)
education.
Recipient of
Partnership Award engages in the followings:
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Creating deeper understanding
by students or community members of SMT topics
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Promoting active engagement
by students or community members
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Addressing an area
of need or concern in community or state related to SMT
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Being innovative
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Building capacity
in community or across the state
The 2009 Partnership
Award in Science, Mathematics, and Technology Education was presented
to NC-MSEN at the
Celebration of Science, Mathematics, and Technology which was held at
the Embassy Suites Raleigh/Durham Hotel in
Cary, North Carolina on Saturday, April 18, 2009. A video was presented
at the Award Ceremony. Please visit http://ncsmt.org/newsletter.php?action=Detail&id=399&categoryid=3
(click on the combination of NC-MSEN/
UNC CSLD logo in the upper rigth to launch the video). An offical newsletter
can also be found from the given Web link.
Please click here for a
press release (in pdf).
To see all the pictures that were submitted to SMT for video presentation,
please click
this PowerPoint presentation here.
Winston-Salem
State University Is the Host of the Successful 2009 NC MSEN Day

The 2009 MSEN Day was held at Winston-Salem State University in Winston-Salem,
NC on Saturday, April 4, 2009. There were
over seven hundred (700) highly motivated 6th to 12th grade North Carolina
students form nine of our NC-MSEN Pre-College Program (PCP)
sites across the State participated in sixteen different math or science
written test categories and ten hands-on competitions including the
new addition of this year: Robots Maze Competition. The overall 1st
Place trophy went to UNC Charlotte, with NC State University coming
in
second, and Elizabeth City State University finishing third. This year
the gold-metal winner of the Oratorical Contest Middle School division
was
Jaelyn Harvey from Fayetteville State University, and the high school
gold-metal Oratorical Contest winner was Deja Williams from UNC Charlotte.
Hundreds of medals, including gold, silver, and bronze, were distributed
to all other winning teams.
Please click for a press
release (in pdf format) which also contains a list of winners (by
PCP site) of each competition category. Please
click here to
view all the pictures. Please
click here to see a movie containing all pictures and video clips if
you are interested.
Western
Carolina University NC-MSEN Pre-College Program (PCP) Draw a Scientist
Research Project Program

The
NC-MSEN Pre-College Program (PCP) 7th grade science teacher at Western
Carolina University (WCU), Ms. Liddell Shannon, recently
collected data on WCU PCP student perceptions of “scientists”
by having the students at a recent Saturday Academy draw a scientist.
She
then interviewed the students about their drawings and compared these
data to several historical “Draw a Scientist” studies. Ms.
Shannon
recently presented her findings at the Western Carolina University Graduate
School Symposium and placed second in the Educational Research
category. A summary of her findings can be found through this link:
http://precollege.wcu.edu/23043.asp. This important research sheds
light on
the work that NC-MSEN PCP has done and that we have yet to do in changing
student perceptions of who can grow up to become a “scientist”.
Please
join WCU NC-MSEN PCP on congratulating Ms. Shannon and their students
on this recognition!
Great News from UNC Chapel
Hill (UNC CH) NC-MSEN Pre-College Program
CONGRATULATIONS
to the UNC CH NC-MSEN Pre-College Program students for their 1st (high
school) and 3rd Place (middle school)
wins at the East Coast Science Decathlon. They are currently preparing
for their May national competition in California.
NC-MSEN Pre-College Program
Hosted 2009 North Carolina Junior Science and
Humanities Symposium (NC JSHS)

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The 2009 North Carolina Junior Science and Humanities Symposium (NC
JSHS) was held on March 15 and 16 at the
William and Ida Friday Center for Continuing Education in Chapel Hill,
NC. The event was a huge success. To learn more about
National JSHS and NC JSHS, please click http://www.jshs.org/
and http://education.uncc.edu/cmste/ncjshs/index.html
respectively.
To view the pictures that were taken at the event, please click here
for a powerpoint presentation.
Please also click here
for our press
release.
Great
News from UNC Charlotte (UNCC) NC-MSEN Pre-College Program
CONGRATULATIONS
to three UNCC NC-MSEN Pre-College Program students, Bria Lindsey, Cherise
Hardiman and Ciara Gaither. These three
young ladies were recognized at the CIAA High School Day as 4.0 students.
We are very proud of them. Way to go ladies.
A
Great Read for Pre-College Students, Parents And Educators:
Yes You Can - A Book Created to Motivate

Yes
You Can… is a book about possibility. At its best, it seeks to
motivate, inspire and empower young
people to achieve their goal of going to college. This book will be
helpful to any student, but it will be
especially useful to those students who have what it takes to finish
high school and go to college but who
may be experiencing doubts and negative peer pressure.
Arthur
G. Affleck, MEd, JD is the author of Yes You Can. He is an educator,
attorney, fund raising consultant,
and writer who has spent most of his career in the education arena.
He is also the spouse of Mrs. Dianne Affleck,
UNC Chapel Hill NC-MSEN PCP site coordinator.
To
learn more about the author and the book Yes You Can, as well as where
you can purchase one, please
check out the media kit,
press release (in
pdf) and his Web site.
Provider: Xlibris
Congratulations
to Three
Outstanding UNCC NC-MSEN PCP Students:
Victoria Logan, Nashira Blackmon and Tayulor
McLendon
Victoria
Logan, an UNCC NC-MSEN PCP student and senior at Hardings University
High School, has been selected to serve as
a student staff photographer for the 2009 Presidential Inauguration
in Washington, DC. That is an all expense paid trip.
Way to go Victoria!
Nashira Blackmon, an
UNCC NC-MSEN PCP student and 11th
grade student at Harding University High School, has already been
accepted to Paine College in Augusta, Ga. Way to go Nashira!!!!
Taylor
McLendon, an
UNCC NC-MSEN PCP student, was
accepted into the North Carolina Youth Leadership Council. As a part
of
this council, Taylor will be learning the nuts and bolts of advocacy
work. This will include a three-day training with Advocates for
Youth in Washington DC. They will draw up a strategic plan to influence
state legislators to improve sex education policies and work
with school boards to change local policies. They will work to get
other youth involved throughout the state by using technology to
network the voices of North Carolina youth.
NC-MSEN
Pre-College Program 2008 Major Events
2008
NC-MSEN PCP P.E.R.S.I.S.T. Fall Leadership Program
There
were over 50 people attending the 2008 NC-MSEN PCP P.E.R.S.I.S.T.
Fall Leadership Program at Eastern 4-H Center in Columbia, NC. This
year besides all the
challenging yet fun activities that help our P.E.R.S.I.S.T. Scholars
build leadership, teamwork,
teambuilding, listening, creativity skills, as well as perseverance
ability, we also had our first
P.E.R.S.I.S.T. Idol Talent Show. The entire event was a total success.
From the evaluation
we received after the event, every student indicated that he/she had
not only learned
a lot by participating in all activities but also a wonderful time making
friends and enjoying the
nature. The survey responses were overwhelmingly positive. To take a
visual tour of the
event over the weekend, please click here
to see a PowerPoint slide show (from the top choose
"slide show" and then "view show").
NC-MSEN
PCP Students Participating in The 2008 Seventh Annual NC OPT-ED Alliance
Day
THEME:
“Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics - Investing
Today for
Tomorrow: Laying the Foundation for Future Achievements"
PURPOSE: To create an atmosphere where underrepresented
minority students throughout
the state of North Carolina, in the science, technology, engineering,
and mathematics (STEM)
disciplines can discuss and get excited about their work through student
collaboration,
professional workshops and poster/Oral presentations.
WHO:
Middle and high school students, undergraduate and graduate level students
who are
building careers in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics
(STEM) disciplines.
WHAT:
To recognize and motivate students into the STEM professions.
WHEN:
Friday, September 26, 2008
WHERE:
Greensboro Coliseum, Greensboro, NC
Eight of our nine NC-MSEN Pre-College Program (PCP) sites (ECSU, FSU,
NCSU, UNCC, UNCCH, WCU, WSSU) attended the
Alliance Day and participated in poster and oral presentations. Please
click to see all pictures at the
Alliance Day (in PowerPoint).
Welcome
Mr. Milton Bond as Our New Elizabeth City State University (ECSU)
Pre-College Program Site Coordinator!
Please
click on Mr. Bond's Biography to
learn more about Mr. Bond.
NC-MSEN
Pre-College Program (PCP) Alum's CNN Blurb
An
NC-MSEN PCP alum from NCSU, Tamara Clegg, is currently a graduate school
at Georgia Tech. She recently has a blurb on CNN
about her Kitchen Science Investigators. Please click
to view the video clip.
2008
Summer College in Biotechnology and Life Sciences (SCIBLS) Poster Symposium
and Luncheon
The
2008 NCSU Summer College in Biotechnology and Life Sciences (SCIBLS)
Poster Symposium and Luncheon were held Friday,
August 1, 2008. The closing event was conducted at the McKimmon Center,
Raleigh, NC. The NC-MSEN Pre-College Program had
six rising high school juniors and seniors to participate in the project.
Each student completed a 4-week course and laboratory training that
allowed them to receive three hours of undergraduate credit in one of
the following courses: Introduction to Molecular Biology,
Introduction to Microbiology/Introduction to Biochemistry, and Principles
of Applied Biotechnology. The students' posters were exhibited
at the symposium. Please enjoy some of the pictures taken at the event.





List
of Six NC-MSEN Pre-College Program Students Participating in 2008 SCIBLS:
Affleck,
Barbara (UNCCH)
McCall, Kyhanna (WSSU)
Sanders, Ashlyn (NCSU)
Sanders, Robyn (NCSU)
Scott, Ninecia (NCSU)
Shaw, Briana (WSSU)
First
Annual P.E.R.S.I.S.T. Banquet - Celebrating the Success of P.E.R.S.I.S.T.
Scholars

On Saturday, June 28, 2008, NC-MSEN PCP hosted their First Annual P.E.R.S.I.S.T.
Banquet at The William And Ida Friday Center For
Continuing Education in Chapel Hill, NC. There were approximately 100
guests including P.E.R.S.I.S.T. Scholars, P.E.R.S.I.S.T.
teacher advisors, P.E.R.S.I.S.T. PCP Coordinators, The Burroughs Wellcome
Fund representative, The UNC General Administration,
and NC-MSEN staff. Please click
here for a PowerPoint slide show filled with pictures taken at the Banquet
and a
press release.
Congratulations
To Two of Our East Carolina University (ECU) NC-MSEN Pre-College Program
Students for Earning
Of The 2nd Place in the Junior Solar Sprint (JSS) Competition



Essence
Wagstaff (Wayne County) and Erin Sawyer (Washington County), two of
our ECU NC-MSEN Pre-College
Program students, won the 2nd place in Technical Merit for their Solar
Car in the Junior Solar Sprint (JSS) competition.
NC
A&T State University Plays Host To A Mathematics and Science Competition
For Over 700 Students: MSEN Day 2008
The
2008 MSEN Day was held at The North Carolina A&T State University
in Greensboro, NC on Saturday, April 26, 2008. There were
over seven hundred (700) highly motivated 6th to 12th grade North Carolina
students form nine of our NC-MSEN Pre-College Program
sites across the State participated in sixteen different written tests
and nine hands-on competitions. The overall 1st Place trophy went to
NC State, with Fayetteville State coming in second, and UNC Charlotte
finishing third. This year the gold-metal winner of the Oratorical
Contest Middle School division was Justin Williams from East Carolina
University, and the high school gold-metal Oratorical Contest winner
was Brittaney Baker from ECSU. Hundreds of medals, including gold, silver,
and bronze, were distributed to all other winning teams.
Please click here to view a PowerPoint
presentation containing pictures taken at the event. Please also
click to review a press
release and
a list
of all winners (in pdf format).
Scholarship
Award to NC-MSEN Pre-College Program Graduate– Camille McGirt
We
are pleased to announce that our 2008 recipient of the William Randolph
Hearst Scholarship, which is provided through the
NC Mathematics and Science Education Network Pre-College Program (NC-MSEN
PCP). With the assistance of a committee of
outstanding individuals, Miss Camille Ruth McGirt from UNC Chapel Hill
Pre-College Program site was chosen as this year’s most
qualified candidate because of her exceptional academic achievement,
community service, extra-curricular activities, and NC-MSEN
Pre-College Program participation. We are extremely elated that Miss
McGirt chosen to major in Chemistry at NC State University
with plans of becoming a university professor.
UNC
Charlotte (UNCC) NC-MSEN PCP Student was Selected as a Morehead-Cain
Scholar Congratulations
to Ms. Amber Koonce!
Amber
Koonce, one of the UNCC NC-MSEN PCP students who has been in the UNCC
NC-MSEN PCP since 7th grade, was selected as a Morehead-Cain Scholar!
Amber is the
daughter of Donnie and Masherrill Koonce. She is an 18 year old senior
at Providence
High School in Charlotte, NC where she is the senior class president.
She is also the 2007
Carolinas Carrousel Pageant Princess and a Girl Scout Gold Award winner.
Amber is a National
Achievement Scholar and has been blessed with over $500,000 in scholarship
offers including the
$80,000 Morehead-Cain Scholarship. Amber is planning to attend The University
of North Carolina
at Chapel Hill this fall.
There
are a total of seventy-nine high school seniors from across the country
were named
Morehead-Cain Scholars. Out of the 27, there are five from the Charlotte-MecklenbugSchools
students were named. Amber is one of the 5 students.
Morehead-Cain
scholarship pays for all expenses for four years of undergraduate study,
including
four summer enrichment programs and the cost of a laptop computer. The
value of the scholarship is
about $80,000 for each in-state student.
This
year there were more than 1,500 high school seniors were nominated by
their schools or applied
for the Morehead-Cain. The foundation and regional committees chose
140 finalists from those nominees
and interviewed each student in Chapel Hill. Students were selected
by merit and accomplishments, including leadership skills, academic
achievement,
moral character and physical vigor. Financial need is not considered.
Brief
History of Morehead-Cain Scholarship
John
Motley Morehead graduated from UNC-Chapel Hill in 1891 and later founded
Union Carbide Corporation. He created the Morehead
Foundation in 1945. The Morehead Scholarship was established in 1951
as the first non-athletic merit scholarship program in the United States.
In 2007, the Cain Foundation gave a $100 million gift to the Morehead
Foundation to support and expand the scholarship program. The
foundation and scholarship program were then renamed as Morehead-Cain
to honor the Cain investment.
Nearly
3,000 Morehead alumni live and work in the United States and 24 other
countries, including Wachovia Chief Executive Officer
Ken Thompson, North Carolina Attorney General Roy Cooper and award-winning
filmmaker and television producer James Dean.
UNC
Charlotte (UNCC) NC-MSEN PCP and P.E.R.S.I.S.T. Student was Featured
in the Charlotte Observer
"Teen Advocates, Future Politicians"
David
McKee, one of the UNCC NC-MSEN PCP students who also participates in
the
P.E.R.S.I.S.T. Program expressed his interest in becoming a U.S. Senator.
To view his video blog,
please visit http://videos.charlotte.com/vmix_hosted_apps/p/media?id=1763848.
David is the one at
the end of the video.
Congratulations
to Several UNC Charlotte (UNCC) NC-MSEN PCP and P.E.R.S.I.S.T. Students
for Participating
and Winning at the Regional Science Fair
Several UNC Charlotte NC-MSEN PCP and P.E.R.S.I.S.T. students participated
and won in the Regional Science Fair held at UNCC on
February 23, 2008. Amber Roberts, Laura Lee, Avis Hall, and Matthew
Moore, all are UNCC PCP students who participate in the Research
Experience (formerly PREP) for 11th and 12th grade, were placed in the
Regional Science Fair. Amid the four students, both Amber Roberts and
Laura Lee will move onto the INTEL Competition in Atlanta. Amber will
compete individually while Laura will compete with a partner. In addition,
two of UNCC P.E.R.S.I.S.T. students, Brandon Scott and Bobby Lee were
also placed in the Regional Science Fair. All of the students
aforementioned will participate in the State Science Fair on March 15,
2008. Please click the following link to read about their press release.
UNCC
PSP Press Release
UNC
Charlotte NC-MSEN PCP Senior was Featured in the December Issue of The
University City Magazine
Jeremy
Feaster, UNC Charlotte NC-MSEN PCP senior and Harding University senior,
is a
modern day renaissance man who recently completed a summer internship
at UNC Charlotte in hope
of providing purify water in Third World countries. Please click to
read his article in the University
City Magazine (in pdf) as well as the Web
site of Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools.