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Southern’s Surgery Tech Program achieves milestone
Southern West Virginia Community and Technical College’s Surgical Technology students have achieved what college officials said is an “outstanding milestone” with a 100 percent board passage rate for the fifth consecutive year. Officials said the achievement reflects the students’ dedication and hard work and speaks volumes about...
Cardboard cars designed by Triway Junior High science students give raw eggs a safe trip
Triway Junior High School eighth-grade science students packed their precious cargo carefully for a steep ride down a wooden ramp ending in a cement block. The members of Ann McNeil's and Emily Rolince's science class were serious about their task. The cars they created from cardboard, popsicle sticks, toothpicks, foam...
West Virginia’s eastern panhandle proud of its scholastic Golden Horseshoe award
MARTINSBURG, W.Va. (DC News Now) — The Golden Horseshoe competition, an enduring tradition in West Virginia, has a special winner. St. Joseph School 8th grade, Gabriel Campos, is one of the regional winners. The history quiz bowl competition has been administered since 1931 and is the longest running program of its kind. “[I learned] how […]
New postseason basketball change creates 'Super Regionals’
The upcoming 2024-25 high school basketball season was already going to be a season of change for prep roundball in West Virginia with the WVSSAC's realignment and the implementation of some new sectionals across the state. For Mingo Central High School, the change would have been stark as the Miners'...
West Virginia State University approved for $50 million funding to build new agricultural lab
CHARLESTON, WV (LOOTPRESS) – The West Virginia Legislature has given the green light for a $50 million funding to establish a cutting-edge agricultural laboratory at West Virginia State University (WVSU). This state-of-the-art facility will accommodate laboratory space for both WVSU and the West Virginia Department of Agriculture. Governor Jim Justice first announced this initiative during […]
West Virginia students struggling to figure out how to pay for college in one of the nation’s poorest states could be getting help from the state under a bill heading to Governor
CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — West Virginia students struggling to figure out how to pay for college in one of the nation’s poorest states after the botched rollout of a new federal student aid application could get help under a bill headed to Gov. Jim Justice. State lawmakers approved $83 million for higher education — including […]
Treasurer Moore Announces Student First Technologies Selected as New Hope Scholarship Customer Service Program Manager
CHARLESTON W.Va. (WVDN) – State Treasurer Riley Moore, who serves as Chairman of the Hope Scholarship Board, today announced his Office has selected Student First Technologies to serve as the new Hope Scholarship program manager, which partners with the Office and Board to provide services to the program’s students, participating nonpublic schools and education service […] The post Treasurer Moore Announces Student First Technologies Selected as New Hope Scholarship Customer Service Program Manager appeared first on West Virginia Daily News.
Educators, state lawmaker, discuss higher education in midst of FAFSA crisis
BECKLEY, WV (WVNS) — Delays in federal student aid have left millions of American families wondering how they’ll afford college. One local school superintendent said on Thursday, May 23, 2024, that his district was seeing the effect on students. “It creates a burden on those students, sometimes, and on their families, where they begin to […]
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