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    Education Foundation awards 56 grants at 11 schools

    Fifty-six Lenoir County Education Foundation mini-grant awards were presented to LCPS teachers at 11 schools. Total value of these 2022 grants: $23, 848. That’s a new record for a grant program that goes back more than two decades. The winning grants were chosen from about 150 applications.Each grade span – elementary, middle and high school – had winners. Pink Hill Elementary led all schools with 18 grant awards. Woodington Middle School teachers won nine grants, the most of any middle school, and North Lenoir paced high schools with five winners.

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    Tech director wins regional honor, in line for state award

    Charles White, the director of media and technology for Lenoir County Public Schools for the past five years, was recently named the 2022-2023 Technology Director of the Year for North Carolina's 13-county Southeast Region. That recognition put White, along with eight other regional honorees, in the running for the state award, to be announced in March.

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    Five LCPS seniors in running for top merit scholarships

    David Phillippe of South Lenoir High School and Derrian Wilson of Kinston High School are semi-finalists for both the Morehead-Cain Scholarship to the University of North Carolina and the Park Scholarship to N.C. State University. Courtney Humphrey of North Lenoir High School is a semi-finalist for the Morehead-Cain and classmate Claire Hollingsworth is a semi-finalist for the Park. Kinston High senior Hadiyah Whitfield is a semi-finalist for the Park.

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