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North Carolina high school bomb threat evacuation leads to heat concerns, early dismissal
Students and staff were evacuated to the school's football field outdoors after a bomb threat. Wake County Emergency Medical Service officials said that several patients were being seen due to heat-related illnesses.
Too good to be true? How one top NC high school football recruit keeps his focus sharp
Still a junior, Clayton High School’s Keshawn Stancil has more than a dozen offers from top college football programs, including SEC stalwart Georgia and NC State, of which he’s ‘always been a fan.’
Wakefield High School in Raleigh, Willow Spring High School in Fuquay-Varina dismiss students early due to A/C problems
Wakefield High School in Raleigh and Willow Spring High School in Fuquay-Varina are dismissing students early Thursday due to air conditioning problems. Wakefield High School dismissed students at noon Thursday due to no air conditioning. Willow Spring High School began dismissing students at 11 a.m. Thursday due to no air...
Democrats, education advocates link Morrow to Robinson, describe threat to public schools
Wake County parent Jennifer Slusser worries about candidate Michele Morrow’s push to reject federal funds and ban some books from NC’s public schools. (Photo: Screengrab from live stream of press conference) A coalition of Democratic elected officials, educators, parents and progressive advocates gathered in Raleigh on Thursday to...
Rolesville’s ‘revenge tour’ on pause: Rams fall to Grimsley in HS football showdown
After a resounding victory in Week 1 against perennial Charlotte-area contender Butler, Rolesville struggled against a game Grimsley team looking to make a statement of its own.
Wake County teachers pioneering use of AI in the classroom
When Wake County math teacher Brendan McMonigle needed a fun new way to teach his students rational functions, he didn't print out worksheets with questions such as "What is the X-intercept?"He turned to Chat GPT."I spent a lot of time engineering a prompt that they could put into chat," McMonigle said. "And then it would have a sort of storytelling process with them where through it they learned how to solve math problems."McMonigle along with Spanish instructor Mindy Hope are both teachers at Wake's Crossroads Flex High School."We are a very technology-heavy school," Hope said.They are two of the hundreds...
Game of the Week: Garner defeats Middle Creek 31-24
APEX, N.C. (WNCN) — It sure didn’t take long for us to get our first rain game of the high school football season. The show—and our first Friday Night Blitz Game of the Week—continued on in true rivalry fashion. Garner stunned the Mustangs a year ago...
Duke and UNC named NC’s top colleges in 2024-25 Forbes ranking
Duke ranked No. 20 in the nation, in addition to being the third-highest college in the South. UNC ranked No. 31 in the nation, making it North Carolina's highest-ranking public college, as well as being the fifth-highest college in the South and the nation's sixth-highest public college.
Rolesville men’s soccer takes win over East Wake
Rolesville High School’s 2024 dominance continues, rolling through East Wake on Aug. 28. The Rams downed the Warriors 4-0 for their fifth shutout of the season as their record moves to 8-0. Rolesville led 3-0 heading into the half before adding their final goal in the second. Steven Bojorquez-Perez was responsible for two of the Rams’ goals as he further […] The post Rolesville men’s soccer takes win over East Wake first appeared on Restoration NewsMedia.
Shaw Receives $450,000 National Science Foundation Grant for Smart Tech Privacy Research
RALEIGH—Shaw University has been awarded a $450,000 grant from the prestigious National Science Foundation (NSF) to propel an innovative and groundbreaking project titled “Research Initiation Award: Investigating Disparities Among Smart Technology Privacy Studies.” The generous grant will empower Shaw University to embark on an exhaustive and meticulous evaluation of the current landscape of smart technology privacy studies, delving into potential disparities within this emerging and crucial field.
Watch Grimsley vs. Rolesville live in NC high school football on NFHS Network
A pair of North Carolina Class 4A powerhouses look to score a key Week 2 victory at each other’s expense Friday night as Rolesville plays host to Grimsley. Kickoff is at 7 p.m. Both teams enter the game undefeated, each with an opportunity to make an early statement that will reverberate statewide. The...
Franklin Academy men’s soccer downs NRCA
On Aug. 26, Franklin Academy High School took on North Raleigh Christian Academy (NRCA). Franklin Academy came into the match 2-0-2 following their 4-1 win over Cleveland on the 23rd. The Patriots beat NRCA 2-0 to move to 3-0-2 on the year. This puts them at No. 2 in the Super Six 1A/2A conference, only trailing the 4-0 East Wake […] The post Franklin Academy men’s soccer downs NRCA first appeared on Restoration NewsMedia.
John Hood: Campus peace for everyone
RALEIGH — Now that fall term has begun for most colleges and universities, we’re about to witness one of the most predictable phenomena in modern American politics: for every raucous or violent campus protest that gets significant media attention, Democratic candidates will lose voters. That’s not because the...
Watch to watch for in tonight's Grimsley-Rolesville, Myers Park-Hough, & Gibbons-Mallard Creek games
Before I hit the road to Hough, here are some final thoughts on the biggest three games in North Carolina in week two of play tonight. In Cornelius, there will be a battle of two of the most talented 1-0 teams in the state: No. 18 Myers Park at No. 15 Hough. Close by, No. 16 Cardinal Gibbons is visiting No. 11 Myers Park. Up in Wake County is our HighSchoolOT Game of the Week: No. 7 Grimsley at Rolesville.
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