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Battery Creek aviation students get plane-side, hands-on lesson at airshow
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he futures of techsavvy Battery Creek High students took a leap forward Saturday – by traveling back 75 years in aviation history. The GEICO Skytypers invited 20 students from Battery Creek’s Project Lead the Way program to the tarmac to inspect a squadron of six vintage WWII planes performing at
the 2015 MCAS Beaufort Airshow. Project Lead the Way is a national engineering program that lets high school students earn college credit toward careers in aviation. It exposes teens to critical math, science and engineering skills in demand by local employers like the air station in Beaufort, Boeing in Charleston and Gulfstream in Savannah.
“We’re thrilled that the very same planes that trained the pilots of the Greatest Generation are helping launch the careers of a new generation of pilots, designers and aviation mechanics,” says Commanding Officer and GEICO Skytypers lead pilot Larry Arken. Tony Petrucci teaches
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This past Sunday, Penn Center was delighted to welcome back U.S. Congressman and Penn Center 1862 Circle Member, James E. Clyburn, author of Blessed Experiences: Genuinely Southern, Proudly Black for a talk about his book with attendees and to sign copies afterwards. Blessed Experiences: Genuinely Southern, Proudly Black, is his personal memoir — following his beginnings during the Jim
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