Jabari Felder wins Best in Show at Excelsior! Academy
     Contributed by Sonia Neale Jabari Felder, a student at Excelsior! Academy, in the eight to nine year old class won Best of Show in the end of the year art show. The art project was Egyptian Profiles. Felder's art teacher is Sonia Marie Wilkins Neale. The show was juried by Rita Ruth Cockrell.
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Richland Two Board champions its own
By John Dixon
      The cafeteria at Windsor Elementary was packed on Tuesday night, April 21, 2008. The Richland Two Board was meeting in an executive session in the library as the cafeteria filled with parents and community members attending the public session of the Board Meeting.
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S.C. 2008 Achievement Scholarship winners
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      Students from the Midlands who won S.C. 2008 Achievement Scholarships are Jackie L. Parnell, Blythewood High School; Geneena G. Donaldson, Columbia High School; Azeezah A. Goodwin, Dutch Fork High School; Alexx E. Niblock, W.J. Keenan High School; Rachael E. Palmer, Ben Lippen School; Alyssa L. Ri...
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National Merit Scholarship winners
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      The National Merit Scholarship winners from the Midlands are Frances E. Ellerbe, Heathwood Hall Episcopal School; Michael C. Levinson and Hannah S. Van Patten, A. C. Flora High School; Graham W. Van Schaik, Spring Valley High School; Christina M. Galardi, Lexington High School; and William P. Moun...
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Richland One's Office of Communications wins awards
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      Richland District One's Office of Communications received three awards and two honorable mentions through the S.C. Chapter of the National School Public Relations Association's 2008 Rewards for Excellence Program. SC/NSPRA's Rewards for Excellence Program recognizes outstanding communications an...
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Eagle Scout transforms courtyard
By Jackie Perrone jacper@juno.com
      The courtyard of Presbyterian Community of Columbia was the setting for the Boy Scout Court of Honor Tuesday evening, April 22, 2008, in which Robert Eleazer Brown was awarded the rank of Eagle Scout. He is the son of David and Karen Brown, and a member of Eastminster Presbyterian Church Troop 10.
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Graham Van Schaik designs programs for underachievers
Contributed by AXA Advisors, LLC
      AXA Advisors, LLC, a leading provider of financial services for consumers and businesses, has chosen Graham Van Schaik, a high school senior attending Spring Valley High School is the South Carolina winner of the 2008 AXA Achievement Scholarship in association with U.S.
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Richland One news
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      A.C. Flora High School junior Nathanael Plumb and senior Chelsea Storey are the recipients of the highly prestigious and competitive Congress- - Bundestag Scholarship, an award program which allows students to study in Germany for a year and to serve as youth ambassadors. Only 250 scholarships are...
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Brockman Elementary School helps the environment
     Brockman Elementary School students decorated more than 300 paper grocery bags that were used by Publix grocery store customers starting on Earth Day.
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