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The Oglethorpe County School System will receive $37,846.81 during Round 2 of Workforce Preparedness Grant funding, Sara Hughes, the director of Federal Programs, wrote in a release on Monday.
That pushes the total to more than $47,000 that will be awarded to Oglethorpe County schools for the first two rounds of funding.
The money will be used to provide STEM Camp spots to students, transportation to the camp, career exploration software and health care/EMS pathway equipment, Hughes wrote in the release.
In other news:
- Kayden Watkins, a sophomore from Winterville, and Callie Bridges were selected finalists for the Governor’s Honors Program this summer at Georgia Southern. Watkins will study math and Bridges, a sophomore from Lexington, will study agriculture research during the four-week summer program. They are two of 650 finalists out of 4,200 applicants.
- Cassidy Wilson, a senior from Lexington, finished second in Class A Division I of the Personal Essay category at the state literary competition on March 16 in Warner Robins.