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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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