A rose to Lowndes County School District’s Career Technology Center (CTC) for creating a “Big Brothers, Big Sisters” mentorship program designed to help students stay with the center’s programs through graduation. The program was announced during Thursday’s CTC’s “Engineering Night” which also included demonstrations of students’ work in robotics, drones and 3-D printing. While there are currently 30 students enrolled in the STEM program, there are just nine second-year students. The idea is to provide peer mentors to help students, drawing on their own experiences. We know that students are often more receptive to their peers in a learning environment because they can relate to each other in ways other mentorships do not. For many first-year students, the rigor of the CTC program can be daunting, so working with other students who have met the challenges is a source of encouragement. We applaud CTC administrators and faculty for providing this resource to their students.
A rose to Main Street Columbus, volunteers and artists as the 12th annual Downtown Art Walk takes the spotlight today. The event, which runs from 10 a.m. until 1 p.m., will feature the work of more than 25 wonderful local artists, who will display their work on the sidewalk and in downtown stores, allowing attendees to walk, shop, and enjoy many forms of creative expression. The event is held for local artists exclusively as a means of promoting their work in a variety of mediums, including painting in its various forms, sculpture, glasswork, cards, journals, wood and resin art, fine jewelry, books and much more.
In addition to showing off the artistic talent our area has to offer, it also creates exposure for our downtown business. The Art Walk has proven to be a popular event through the years. Today’s event will certainly continue this tradition of celebrating the artists in our community.
A rose to the Mississippi State soccer team, who entered the Top 10 rankings for the first time in program history, an acknowledgment of what has been a magical season. The No. 9 Bulldogs reached the milestone after beating then No. 11 Texas in their SEC-opener to move to 8-1 on the season MSU’s success is built on an almost impenetrable defense, having yielding just two goals in nine contests, both in its lone loss to Wake Forest. All eight wins for the Bulldogs have been shut-outs, which ranks as the second-best shutout percentage in the country this season and goalkeeper Maddy Anderson has a save percentage of .917 on shots faced. The team’s goals-against average per game is 0.22%, the second-best in Division I soccer. The season is still young and many challenges await, but it’s clear by this point that MSU soccer is ascending heights never known by the program. Hail State!
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