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Five high school students from the ÂÒÂ×ÊÓƵ Academy traveled to Seattle this spring for the Society for Applied Anthropology conference where they presented a research poster on how intersections of social location such as race, class, gender and sexuality can produce barriers to and opportunities for college access.

ÂÒÂ×ÊÓƵ senior Tyler West won 3rd place in the educational/instructional category of the student competition in the Broadcast Education Association Festival of Media Arts for a four-part series of videos on the ÂÒÂ×ÊÓƵ Academy’s “Go-4-College” program.

An organization that represents private colleges and universities in North Carolina has awarded ÂÒÂ×ÊÓƵ a grant of $20,000 to fund programs for rising first-year college students in the ÂÒÂ×ÊÓƵ Academy, the Watson Scholarship Program and the Odyssey Scholarship Program.

Laboratory Corporation of America Holdings (LabCorp) has made a major gift to support endowment for the ÂÒÂ×ÊÓƵ Academy, a college-access and academic enrichment program run by ÂÒÂ×ÊÓƵ that encourages Alamance County high school students with significant financial need to earn college degrees and serve their communities.

The Alamance Foundation recently presented a $2,200 gift to the ÂÒÂ×ÊÓƵ Academy to be used to support college visits for more than 75 ÂÒÂ×ÊÓƵ Academy scholars during the summer of 2011.