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Dougherty High Celebrates Red Ribbon Week

FVSU Mobile Technology Center Travels To Albany

By ChaNae Bradley, public information specialist
Agricultural Communications Department 

Horace Reid Jr., principal of DoughertyComprehensive High School in Albany, watches his students engage in a technology workshop inside Fort Valley State University’s Mobile Information Technology Center.

More than 100 students from Dougherty Comprehensive High School, and Monroe Comprehensive High School in Albany, participated in technology workshops inside Fort Valley State University’s Mobile Information Technology Center Tuesday and Wednesday.

The center is a high-tech computer classroom housed in a 72-foot semi-trailer. It holds twenty individual training stations and an on-board 35kw generator.

Charlie Grace, FVSU’s Dougherty County extension agent, coordinated the visit with Dougherty County School System officials.
 

“I wanted to expose students in Southwest Georgia to advance technology, while simultaneously introducing them to FVSU programs,” Grace said. Juniors and seniors who participate in the Career Technology and Agriculture Education Program attended the workshop. The program consists of hands-on courses pertaining to areas such as construction, technology and entrepreneurship. It’s designed to prepare students for continuing their education at universities and technical schools.

Yolanda McFerrin, FVSU’s information technology curriculum coordinator, taught an hour and a half workshop to students in groups of twenty. She taught them web design and how to use Microsoft Word.

“The students were very receptive to the workshop, and they asked questions,” McFerrin said. 

Jeremy Lewis, a senior at DCHS, said the detailed information he learned in the technology workshop enhances his present knowledge of technology. “Some of the things she taught I was familiar with, but some [things] can build on my current knowledge,” Lewis said.

Horace Reid Jr., DCHS principal, said FVSU visiting his school is a plus. “We typically send a lot of our graduates to FVSU. Workshops like this expose them to different careers and students need to take advantage of these opportunities,” Reid said.

Charlie Grace (third from the right), Fort Valley State University’s Dougherty County extension agent, Yolanda McFerrin(far left), FVSU’s information technology curriculum coordinator, Horace Reid Jr. (third from the left), Dougherty County Comprehensive High School’s principal, and students posed for a group photo after their technology workshop in FVSU’s Mobile Information Technology Center.

DCHS Quote

.This is the true joy in life-
                that being used for a purpose recognized by yourself
                as a mighty one.
That being a force of nature, instead of a feverish, selfish
                little clod of ailments and grievances
                complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy.
I am of the opinion that my life belongs
                to the whole community
And as long as I live
                it is my privilege to do for it whatever I can.
I want to be thoroughly used up when I die.
                For the harder I work, the more I live.
I rejoice in life for its own sake.
Life is no brief candle to me.
                it is a sort of splendid torch
                I’ve got to hold up for the moment
And I want to make it burn as brightly as possible
                before handling it to future generations.

George Bernard Shaw

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