A8 I SEPTEMBER 27,2017
News
BACA teaches
students personal
finance
NASHVILLE, Tenn. - Bethel Assembly Christian
Academy now offers Ramsey Solutions’ Founda
tions in Personal Finance, the premier curriculum
for teaching financial literacy to students.
“We are excited about starting the program m
our school,” said Sharon Jernigan, Principal of
Bethel Assembly Christian Academy. “We have
partnered with our local State Employees Credit
Union who is providing the instructor.”
Personal finance expert Dave Ramsey created
Foundations in Personal Finance, an easy to use,
turn-key high school curriculum that teaches stu
dents the value of saving, spending and giving to
guide them down the path of financial literacy.
More than three million students have completed
a Foundations in Personal Finance class across
the United States.
Foundations in Personal Finance is a turnkey
curriculum that meets standards and benchmarks
in all fifty states and Jump$tart national standards.
More than 10,000 high schools and educational in
stitutions are teaching their students how to bet
ter manage their finances and build wealth so they
can have a solid financial future.
“To graduate from high school you have to know
what an amoeba is, but not how to balance your
checkbook,” said Ramsey. “After years of listen
ing to parents tell me their financial woes on the
radio, it made sense to develop a program that
would teach teenagers how to avoid their parent s
mistakes.”
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WINDSOR - As part of
an ongoing partner
ship between the North
Carolina Biotechnology
Center (NCBC) and Ber
tie Early College High
School, Mark Phillips,
Vice President, State
wide Operations for
NCBC, traveled to Ber
tie Early College High
School on Aug. 23 to
deliver an equipment
donation to Bruce
Boiler, the biotechnol-
; ogy teacher at the early
college.
The equipment in
cluded three P-1000 mi-
cropipetters, a storage
rack for the micropi-
petters and 30 boxes
of disposable tips for
these instruments.
These items will be
used by Boiler’s stu
dents to continue the
operations carried out
in the school’s biotech
nology lab.
The students are
continuing their work
to establish a biotech
nology company. Fal
con Biomanufacturing.
Students working in
this program use re
combinant bacteria to
produce recombinant
protein which, when
optimized, will be sold
to researchers at North
Carolina State Universi
ty and possibly others
in the future.
Through this work,
students gain the skills
and knowledge neces
sary to pursue educa
tions and careers in
Left to right Wanda Dempsey-Jacobs and Bruce Boiler re
ceive a donation from Mark Phillips.
the biology, microbiol
ogy and biotechnology
fields.
Boiler has been
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Pediatrics'
Tele-Stroke
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When you have an emergency, turn to the emergency department at Martin General Hospital with confidence,
• The 30-Mlnute Pledge means we will work diligently to have you initially seen by a medical
professional within 30 minutes of your arrival.
. Neurology Telemedicine uses virtual technology to give physicians 24/7 access to specialists
in stroke and other neurological issues.
• Tele-Psychiatry uses virtual technology to give physicians 24/7 access to specialists in
behavioral health services.
• Tele-Intensivist Critical Care uses virtual technology to give physicians 24/7 access to
specialists in critical care medicine.
These plus specialists in General Surgery, Orthopedics, Obstetrics, and Pediatrics, mean we are at our best when
" Martin General
sociated with the NCBC
for more than 20 years
and has partnered with
them on several proj
ects in the past.
The biotechnology
program at the early
college has benefitted
greatly from this part
nership over the years
through training work
shops attended by
Boiler as well as other
previous equipment
donations.
Phillips has also
showed support of the
program by having at
tended the “2\nnual
Biotechnology Sympo
sium” held at the early
college each spring for
the past five years.
While there, he was
able to share his knowl
edge of biotechnology
careers and education
al and employment op
portunities with our
students as well as ex
perience the work be
ing carried out and pre
sented by them.
Boiler plans to con
tinue to use this rela
tionship to engage with
many contacts within
the biotechnology in
dustry community.
The aim will be to
schedule videoconfer
ences with industry
leaders and profession
als from local indus
tries as well as those
across the state via the
Internet.
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