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Governor Asa Hutchinson was the first on Thursday to officially test drive a solar-powered car designed and built by students at LISA Academy North. After buckling up in front of the Capitol, Hutchinson hit the road, chased by a group of cheering students. The team of 10 – eight boys and two girls – spent the 2017-2018 school year designing and building the car. There were pizza nights with the Sherwood mayor and lock-ins at the school with Sherwood Alderman Kenneth Keplinger, who happens to be a car enthusiast with lots of equipment to share. Read More
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In mid-November, a group of students enrolled in North Little Rock High School’s Center of Excellence donned headlamps and set out to look for “earthquake survivors” in the midst of “rubble.” That they were actually in a darkened classroom at school, rather than the scene of a natural disaster, didn’t deter the students’ enthusiasm. For a group of high schoolers interested in becoming first-responders, such games of “let’s pretend” only serve to heighten their interest in careers they might not have otherwise considered. Meanwhile, in a classroom designed to look like a clinic/hospital setting, students tended to their mannequin “patients” and practiced taking one another’s blood pressure. Read More